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<p>Empowering work teams is one of the most critical methods adopted in designing organizations to achieve the effectiveness of administrative decisions. The current study seeks a consistent theoretical framework for empowering work teams and speeding decision-making. It also aims to test the relationship between them in higher education institutions. The study sought to test the relationship applied based on an independent variable represented in empowering work teams with its dimensions: task design, leadership styles, organizational culture, information and communication, and a dependent variable represented in decision-making speed with its dimensions: response time, processing time, and execution time for a sample of university lecturers of the Faculty of Economic, Commercial, and Management Sciences at the at the University of Djelfa - Algeria. A questionnaire was designed to collect data from the study sample of 72 university lecturers, and the data was processed and analyzed statistically. The study reached a set of results. There was a significant effect of empowering leadership style, organizational culture, information and communication on the speed of decision-making among lecturers of the Faculty of Economic, Commercial, and Management Sciences at the University of Djelfa - Algeria. There were statistically significant differences in the sample responses concerning the axis speed of decision-making due to the job title variable. Also, the research study recommends working with the dimensions of the organization’s internal environment from the perspective of empowerment to make decisions that are compatible with time requirements.</p>
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Empowering work teams is one of the most critical methods adopted in designing organizations to achieve the effectiveness of administrative decisions. The current study seeks a consistent theoretical framework for empowering work teams and speeding decision-making. It also aims to test the relationship between them in higher education institutions. The study sought to test the relationship applied based on an independent variable represented in empowering work teams with its dimensions: task design, leadership styles, organizational culture, information and communication, and a dependent variable represented in decision-making speed with its dimensions: response time, processing time, and execution time for a sample of university lecturers of the Faculty of Economic, Commercial, and Management Sciences at the at the University of Djelfa - Algeria. A questionnaire was designed to collect data from the study sample of 72 university lecturers, and the data was processed and analyzed statistically. The study reached a set of results. There was a significant effect of empowering leadership style, organizational culture, information and communication on the speed of decision-making among lecturers of the Faculty of Economic, Commercial, and Management Sciences at the University of Djelfa - Algeria. There were statistically significant differences in the sample responses concerning the axis speed of decision-making due to the job title variable. Also, the research study recommends working with the dimensions of the organization’s internal environment from the perspective of empowerment to make decisions that are compatible with time requirements.

Empowering Work Teams as a Mechanism to Increase the Speed of Administrative Decision-Making

Management Dynamics in the Knowledge Economy

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Empowering work teams is one of the most critical methods adopted in designing organizations to achieve the effectiveness of administrative decisions. The...

Empowering Work Teams as a Mechanism to Increase the Speed of Administrative Decision-Making

Publié en ligne: 29 juin 2024

Pages: 145 - 165

Reçu: 20 sept. 2023

Accepté: 16 mars 2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mdke-2024-0010

Mots clés
empowerment, empowering work teams, decision-making, speed of decision-making, university lecturer

© 2024 Mokhtar Rabhi et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Empowering Work Teams as a Mechanism to Increase the Speed of Administrative Decision-Making

Publié en ligne: 29 juin 2024

Pages: 145 - 165

Reçu: 20 sept. 2023

Accepté: 16 mars 2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mdke-2024-0010

Mots clésempowerment, empowering work teams, decision-making, speed of decision-making, university lecturer

© 2024 Mokhtar Rabhi et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Mots clés
empowerment, empowering work teams, decision-making, speed of decision-making, university lecturer