التمكين Empowerment بوصفه مدخلا لتعزيز السلوك الإبداعي للعاملين بالمكتبات الجامعية : دراسة تطبيقية في المكتبة العلمية المركزية لجامعة الإسكندرية

Abstract EN

This paper aimed to identify the influence of "empowerment" dimensions on enhancing employees' creativity.

The Central Library of Alexandria University which plays a great role in Egyptian higher education community was researched as an example.

The research work was conducted through analysis of the influence of the empowerment with its dimensions as independent variables on creativity with its dimensions as dependent variables.

The paper aimed also to identify level of innovative behavior for the library staff, and to determine how far empowerment can be applied.

The research used the Analytical Descriptive approach, as well as case study, using a questionnaire tool, and applying a three- level Likert scale for the answers.

For analysis, the researcher used: Arithmattic Mean, Pearson correlation coefficient, and linear Regression Analysis.

The study showed the following results: High level of both empowerment and creativity of Library employess, with a strong significance level link between empowerment and innovative behaviour dimensions.

The study recommended that Central library has to keep supporting and maintaingg the high level dimensions of empowerment and innovative behaviour of its employees.

Meanwhile, library should re-consider some aspects of its applied empowerment policy for the remedy of the existing weakness in some empowerment dimensions.

It is also highly recommended that library staff and leaders enroll in training and workshops that stress the importance of empowement and how it enfluences employee creativity.

Keywords: Managerial empowerment Creativity, Creativity Management.

Empowerment-Administrative Creativity.

Innovative Behaviour.

Central Library of University.