واقع إدارة الأزمات في الأقسام الأكاديمية بجامعة تبوك بالمملكة العربية السعودية

Abstract EN

This research aims to reveal the reality of crisis management in the stages of (discovering the early warning signs of the crisis, readiness and prevention, control of damages, activity recovery, and learning) in the academic departments of the University of Tabuk, Saudi Arabia, from the faculty members' viewpoint.

The paper also strives to reveal the statistically significant differences among the averages of the responses of the members of the study sample on the reality of crisis management in its various stages in the academic departments of the University of Tabuk according to the variables of (gender - specialization – kind of programs offered by the department).

The paper used the surveying descriptive approach, and the questionnaire was used as a tool to collect data and was applied to a sample of 238 faculty members in the main campus of the University of Tabuk.

The results showed that the reality of crisis management in the academic departments of the University of Tabuk in the stages as a whole from the faculty members' point of view had a medium degree.

The results also showed that there were no statistically significant differences at the level of ( 0.05≥ α) among the averages of the responses of the members of the sample in all the stages of crisis management except for the activity recovery stage due to the variables of (gender and kind of programs offered by the department).

Besides, the results showed that there were statistically significant differences at the level (0.05≥ α) in the reality of crisis management in all stages and in the stages as a whole due to the variable of the specialization of the department for the privilege of faculty members in the academic departments whose area of specialty is practical.

The research recommends the necessity of establishing a unit for crisis management in each college at the University of Tabuk.

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