The role of decentralization for balancing employee performance in governmental universities in Jordan

Abstract: The present study aimed at examining the influence of adopting decentralization within organization and its role in creating a balanced performance through influencing variables of (Organize Workload, Decrease Role Conflict, Decrease Role Ambiguity, Support Leadership and Employee Empowerment). Depending on quantitative approach; researcher distributed (122) questionnaires among associate professors, full professors and assistant professors. The results indicated that among all chosen variables, decentralization had the ability to influence organization performance through organizing the workflow and empowerment which scored R values of 0.548 and 0.444, respectively. This means that decentralization can help in creating a balanced performance through accepting all study hypotheses. The study recommends informing employees and leaders more regarding organizational strategies, aims and mission before going into decentralization to avoid ill-practiced decentralization.

How to cite this paper

 Al-Nawafah, S & Almarshad, M. (2020). The role of decentralization for balancing employee performance in governmental universities in Jordan.Management Science Letters , 10(14), 3217-3224.

Refrences

Ahmad, M. S., & Talib, N. B. A. (2015). Empowering local communities: decentralization, empowerment and community driven development. Quality & Quantity, 49(2), 827-838.
Amundsen, S., & Martinsen, Ø. L. (2014). Empowering leadership: Construct clarification, conceptualization, and validation of a new scale. The leadership quarterly, 25(3), 487-511.
Bashir, S. (2015). Impact of Decentralized Decision Making on Firm’s Performance. Arabian Journal of Business and Management Review, 5(4), 1-5.
Cäker, M., & Siverbo, S. (2014). Strategic alignment in decentralized organizations–The case of Svenska Handelsbank-en. Scandinavian Journal of Management, 30(2), 149-162.
Chakraborty, T., & Mukhopadhyay, I. (2014). ‘Proxy women’or empowered politicians: Democratic decentralization & Panchayati raj institutions (PRIs) in rural India. Journal of Politics and Governance, 3(4), 15-24.
Chohan, U. W. (2017). The decentralized autonomous organization and governance issues. Available at SSRN 3082055.
Crook, R., & Manor, J. (2018). Democratic decentralization. In Making Development Work (pp. 83-104). Routledge.
Farzanegan, M. R., Lessmann, C., & Markwardt, G. (2018). Natural resource rents and internal conflicts: Can decentralization lift the curse?. Economic Systems, 42(2), 186-205.
Foss, N. J., Lyngsie, J., & Zahra, S. A. (2015). Organizational design correlates of entrepreneurship: The roles of decentralization and formalization for opportunity discovery and realization. Strategic Organization, 13(1), 32-60.
Gessler, M., & Ashmawy, I. K. (2016). The effect of political decentralization on school leadership in German vocational schools. Educational management administration & leadership, 44(2), 184-204.
Jentzsch, C. (2016). Decentralized autonomous organization to automate governance. White paper, November.
Khatam, A., & Keshavarzian, A. (2016). Decentralization and Ambiguities of Local Politics in Tehran. Middle East Institute, Govern-ing Megacities in MENA and Asia. http://www. mei. edu/content/map/governing-megacities-mena-and-asia.
Kinemo, S., Ndikumana, E., Kiyabo, H., Shillingi, V., Kwayu, M., & Andrea, P. (2016). Decentralization of Human Resource Man-agement in Tanzanian governmental organizations. Public administration in Tanzania, 8.
Mattingly, D. C. (2016). Elite capture: How decentralization and informal institutions weaken property rights in China. World Poli-tics, 68(3), 383-412.
Modrak, V., Radu, S. M., & Modrak, J. (2014). Metrics in organizational centralization and decentralization. Polish Journal of Man-agement Studies, 10.
Moutinho, J., & Oliveira, F. (2015). Optimizing Maintenance Processes On Customer Site In A Decentralized Organization Based On Multi-Site Teams. International Journal for Quality Research, 9(1).
Novriansa, A., & Riyanto, B. (2016). Role conflict and role ambiguity on local government internal auditors: The determinant and impacts. Journal of Indonesian Economy and Business, 31(1), 63-80.
Pantazoglou, M., Tzortzakis, G., & Delis, A. (2015). Decentralized and energy-efficient workload management in enterprise clouds. IEEE transactions on cloud computing, 4(2), 196-209.
Tarwneh, A. S. (2019). The Impact of Decentralization Dimensions on Subsidiaries Performance. International Review of Manage-ment and Marketing, 9(1), 62.
Verbrugge, B. (2015). Decentralization, institutional ambiguity, and mineral resource conflict in Mindanao, Philippines. World De-velopment, 67, 449-460.
Wu, Y., & Heerink, N. (2016). Foreign direct investment, fiscal decentralization and land conflicts in China. China Economic Re-view, 38, 92-107.
Wynen, J., Verhoest, K., & Rübecksen, K. (2014). Decentralization in public sector organizations: Do organizational autonomy and result control lead to decentralization toward lower hierarchical levels?. Public Performance & Management Review, 37(3), 496-520.