Personnel' attitudes in the educational organizations toward governance norms in countryside Sharkia and Sohag governorates, Egypt

The research aimed to measure the attitudes of employees in educational organizations towards governance standards in the countryside of Sharkia and Sohag governorates, and this goal was achieved through: (1) Determine the standards of governance for educational organizations, (2) measuring the respondents’ attitudes towards governance standards, (3) Determine the level of respondents’ attitudes towards implementing Governance within their organizations, (4) Determine the correlation between the level of the respondents' trends and their independent variables. The research was conducted on a sample of workers in the countryside of Sharkia and Sohag governorates, amounting to 200 respondents. The Zagazig and Minya Al-Qamh centers were selected in Sharkia Governorate, Sohag and Gerga centers were selected in Sohag Governorate, the two largest villages were selected from each center, and an organization was selected from each village. Data were collected by interview using a questionnaire form, and data were collected during the months of June, July and August 2021 by personal interview. Frequencies, percentages, and figures were used to display the data, and the weighted average and (Seberman) correlation coefficient was used to analyze the relationship between the respondents' level of attitude and independent variables, and this was done using the statistical software for social sciences (SPSS). The most important results:
-         The low level of tendency towards governance standards in the two governorates’ countryside, especially: accountability (70.0%), transparency (62.5%), reliance on the rule of law (60.5%), and responsiveness and consensus around community interests (57.5 %).
-         The respondents' attitude level was moderate in efficiency and effectiveness (55.5%), equality (58.5%), and participation (46.5%).
-         The criteria can be arranged in descending order: efficiency and effectiveness (1.69%), participation (1.65%), equality (1.60%), responsiveness and consensus around the interests of society (1.46%) and based on the rule of law (1.43%), transparency (1.62%), and accountability (1.35%).
-         There is a correlation between the respondents’ attitude towards applying governance standards and the studied independent variables such as: leadership level, job satisfaction, openness to the outside world, and level of ambition at levels 0.05, 0.01.