The college of physical education and sports sciences for women held a seminar entitled “A causal model for the outstanding institutional performance as an alternative of organizational change and as an intermediary for administrative development and academic leadership of the councils of the colleges of physical education and sports sciences in Iraq” that was given by the doctoral student Duaa Zuhair Turki. The aim of this event is to demonstrate the concept of outstanding institutional performance as an intellectual pattern and administrative philosophy based on a method related to how to reach at tangible results for any institution and who to organize a budget satisfying the needs of all parties, whether its members or society as a whole within the framework of a culture of learning, creativity and continuous improvement.
The seminar addressed that the organizational change represents the movement of the administration to face the new situations and rearrange things so that to benefit from the factors of positive change and to avoid or reduce that of a negative change, i.e. how to use the best methods economically and effectively to serve the desired goals, stressing that the administrative development is a long-term plan to develop an integrated system in the organization for the purpose of improving its performance and renewing its practices, depending on the cooperative effort of personnel of all parties in work environment, including external parties. The participants concluded that the distributed academic leadership is a joint process that contributes in enhancing individual and collective capabilities of employees to accomplish the work effectively by distributing all duties and functions among all team members within the organization.
