تسرب القيادات الإدارية النسائية من المناصب القيادية في الجامعة السعودية : الأسباب و الحلول

Abstract EN

The study aims at identifying the reasons of women leaders’ turnover from leadership positions at Saudi Universities.

The study examines the means of women’ nominations to leadership positions, reasons of their acceptance to nominations, challenges resulting to their turnover, determination of the extent of contribution of women leaders to these challenges, and finally the suggestions for minimizing their turnover.

To achieve the goals of the study, the researcher uses the descriptive analysis methodology by distributing a survey on a purposive sample of women leaders who left the position or do not want to continue working during the period 2010-2014 at King Saud University and Alimam Mohammed Ben Saud Islamic University.

The participants were 67 women leaders from 95 The main results are as flollwes : 1- 60 % of participants are nominated to the positions by appointment.

2-67 % accepted the nomination because they have a vision of improvement they would like to achieve.

3-The main reasons of leaving their positions are respectively as follows : organizational, cultural, relational, and personal reasons.

4- The women leaders increase the challenges they face by inflexibility in regulations application, seeking men leaders on decision making, complicating work procedures, and weak demands for authorities.

5- Some recommendations were suggested to reduce the turnover of women leaders from their position.