Abstract
The current study aimed to identify the reality of the organizational effectiveness of department heads in Jordanian private universities from the point of view of faculty members. The study sample consisted of (345) faculty members in Jordanian private universities, and the descriptive survey method was used, and a questionnaire was used to collect data. After the objectives came in the first rank with an arithmetic average of (3.48) with a moderate degree, followed by the second rank after the competitive values with an arithmetic average of (3.46) with a moderate degree, and internal operations dimension came in the third rank with an arithmetic mean (3.40) with a medium degree, and the stakeholders dimension came in the fourth rank with an arithmetic average ( 3.38) with a moderate degree, and employing resources dimension , it ranked fifth, with an arithmetic mean of (3.30), with a moderate degree. The current study recommended developing the skills of department heads to improve their organizational effectiveness and directing future research to search for problems facing department heads in universities, and making a proposed model for developing the organizational effectiveness of department heads in universities.
Keywords :organizational effectiveness, head of the department