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THE ROLE OF SELF- MANAGEMENT TOWARD PROMOTION OF
ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION AND CREATIVITY IN THE
INDUSTRIAL SECTORS IN JORDAN (STUDY ON MANAGERS IN
THE CATEGORY OF FINE FACTORY AND COMPANY TOURANE
AND ACACIA SANITARY PAPER CONSISTS)
Dr. Tareq Galeb Abu Orabi
Business Administration Department, BAU, Jordan
Dr. Atef Saleh Ahmad Aladwan
Business Administration Department, BAU, Jordan
Dr. Shadi Habis Abu Aloush
MIS Department, IRBID National University, Jordan
Dr. Khaled Adnan Bataineh
Business Administration Department, IRBID National University Jordan
ABSTRACT
This study aimed to reveal the role of self-leadership as a branch of self-management in the
promotion of innovation and creativity among the staff in the category of Fine factory and company
Tourane and Acacia Sanitary Paper consists, and the study followed the methodology of
qualitative. The results revealed that the promotion of self-driving practices, while seeking to build
a business environment that supports innovation and creativity effectively, and we can say that
there is an increasing interest for all modern organization to adapt and encourage of self
management as we are living in trouble environment which force us as managers and leaders in all
level to depend on situational resolution to solve most of our management. This study was
conducted to administrators community in particular to see how the possibility of achieving these
developmental leadership.
Key words: Self Management, Leadership, Innovation, Industrial Sector, Organization
Cite this Article: Dr. Tareq Galeb Abu Orabi, Dr. Atef Saleh Ahmad Aladwan, Dr. Shadi Habis
Abu Aloush, Dr. Khaled Adnan Bataineh. The Role of Self- Management toward Promotion of
Organizational Innovation and Creativity in the Industrial Sectors in Jordan (Study on Managers in
the Category of Fine Factory and Company Tourane and Acacia Sanitary Paper Consists).
International Journal of Management, 7(7), 2016, pp. 442–450.
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The Role of Self- Management Toward Promotion of Organizational Innovation and Creativity in the Industrial
Sectors in Jordan (Study on Managers in the Category of Fine Factory and Company Tourane and Acacia Sanitary
Paper Consists)
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1. INTRODUCTION
In the presence of persistent and successive changes that accompanied the systems and methods shall
prevail in the administrative area within the organizations, including working in the industrial sector
organizations had to be the emergence of modern management concepts interact with those changes and
keep pace with new developments that should be against which efforts are being made and the work
progress down to develop and improve these processes and to ensure the success of administrative work
endpoints (Asabi, and the monastery of 2010) that the world has seen in the sixties and seventies of the last
century, important developments in the field of modern management thought and its applications, which
led to a shift from central to multiple patterns, especially in the industrial and commercial organizations,
decentralization of decision-making freedom and independence and with the participation of interested
parties directly within the development and improvement things and assume its responsibilities.
The mid seventies(Tim, 2001) has cited a variety of reasons that have contributed to the emergence of
the entrance to the self-management, including: lack of time to do all the work, but it cannot do all the
work, and because the main function is the management and not the implementation but it cannot do
everything for subordinates who are more people friction problems, and thus are better able to solve them,
how It could be argued that there is a growing interest among business organizations subject of raising
management efficiency and effectiveness, and in particular the development of human resources through
dedication to work and the involvement of workers in various organizational levels in decision-making and
follow the style of the delegation of authority and the creation of appropriate and creative climate for
achieving the above process.
The number of studies has proven the effectiveness of the application of the concept of self-
management, and the positive results produced by the workers on different organizational levels, and work
to improve the work and to promote creativity in the organization
The organizations aims to achieve their goals of creative by seek to achieve effective institutional
systems by urging members of the organization to make their efforts and motivate their creative skills, but
this requires organization to create the right conditions for its member it in terms of creating a climate of
conducive to creativity, which helps to show creative abilities of workers in general and particular.
self-management should not be seen as an end in itself, but should be considered as a strategy targeted
to achieve the desired goals, first and foremost access to organizational creativity self-administration is not
only generate the employees to have the ability of creativity at the individual level, but it leads to the
achievement of creativity on the organization as a whole.
2. THE IMPORTANCE OF STUDY
The important of the study discussed by considering that the concept of self-management is a relatively
modern management concepts, and still there is a need to study the various aspects especially in the
General Arab environment and special environment of Jordan, and contribute in the development of
creativity among workers in organizations, including the Jordanian industrial sectors, which enhances the
competitiveness and profitability advantage.
The increasing importance of the study in selected industrial companies of Jordan, as the industrial
sector, Jordan is a leading provider of industrial services, which play an important role in supporting the
development of other economic sectors, and therefore this is an important study as showing through the
results of the role of the application of self-management in promoting the level of organizational
innovation in the Jordanian industrial sectors.
2.1. The Importance of the Study can be summarized in the following Aspects
• According to the results of the current study, based on the industrial sectors of Jordan through detection of
the relationship between the application of self-management in the Jordanian industrial sectors and the level
of organizational creativity in those industrial sectors, thus contributing to the consolidation of the
application of self-management, organizational creativity.
Dr. Tareq Galeb Abu Orabi, Dr. Atef Saleh Ahmad Aladwan, Dr. Shadi Habis Abu Aloush,
Dr. Khaled Adnan Bataineh,
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• The study provides a tool to measure the application of self-management and organizational creativity in the
Jordanian industrial sectors, and can by the relevant assessment of the application of self-management and
organizational creativity in organizations in general and industrial sectors in particular.
• The importance of the study that it provides a theoretical framework enriches the librarian theme of self-
management, and its role in promoting organizational innovation. Which will have an impact in the benefit
of the Arab reader on the one hand, and stimulate other researchers to expand the survey and writing in this
important topic and saturation research and analysis on the other hand, and in all the productive sectors,
especially in the industrial sector?
2.2. Objectives of the Study
• Assess the ability of the entity to encourage creativity through assigning staff some work.
• Assess the ability of the entity to encourage adventure and risk to the employee by allowing him to face the
problems and develop creative solutions to it.
• Assess interest in management of the facility to encourage discussion and dialogue with the employee and
possession of the argument and the ability to creativity.
• Assess the entity's ability to effective coordination between different departments in the factory.
• Do they provide the facility necessary for the employee motivation even offers constructive suggestions for
the administration and sections?
• Assess the proportion of the keenness of the senior management of the plant to review the rules and
procedures of workflow and continuously developed, which leads to stimulate creativity among its
employees.
• Do you give all the powers of the facility staff, allowing the development of work and creativity in it?
• Measuring the extent of job stability, which encourages creativity.
3. PROBLEM OF THE STUDY
The research problem aims to identify the factors and motivations and influences that lead to the
development of organizational creativity through self-management, where we will conduct this study on
the health paper sector.
3.1. Model of study
Independent variable Dependent variable
Self management organizational innovation
Self Management Independent and dependent variable
The variables that will be held by the independent study is the change that is made up of three
dimensions of a creative climate and self-control and decision-making either the dependent variable is the
outlook for Strategic Organizational Creativity.
Self-control
Creative Climate
Decision making
Decentralized
Strategic outlook
The Role of Self- Management Toward Promotion of Organizational Innovation and Creativity in the Industrial
Sectors in Jordan (Study on Managers in the Category of Fine Factory and Company Tourane and Acacia Sanitary
Paper Consists)
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3.2. Study Hypothesis
The study mainly aimed to test the impact of self management (Creative Climate, Self-control, Decision
making, decentralized, on organizational innovation (Strategic outlook).there for, the main hypothesis
H0: There is no impact with statistical significant (α <= 0.05) of management (Creative Climate, Self-
control, Decision making, Decentralized, on organizational innovation (Strategic outlook)
3.3. Previous Studies
By reviewing the researcher studies that looked at the subject of self-management and its role in promoting
organizational innovation in commercial banks shows the scarcity of these studies, so the following are the
major studies.
Study (Neman and hook 2013), entitled "Self-management relations and administrative creativity
among teachers of Physical Education in Special Education School". This study to identify the extent of
the practice of physical education teachers (self-management in their work, and innovation management in
the practice of special education) and the disclosure of the relationship between the degree of physical
education teachers for self-management
Study (aggression and Solomon 2012) and address (intellectual capital and its role in achieving
Organizational creativity - a field study in the Jordanian insurance companies). The study aimed to identify
the intellectual capital and its role in achieving the creativity Organizational and verify the existence of
correlation spirits and the relationship of moral effect, linking the intellectual capital of the three Benazir
(individual, group, organization) and indicate the relative importance of variables intellectual capital in
terms of impact on creativity Organizational .The study population of managers in senior and executive
management levels.
Study (Hudhali.2010), entitled "the practice of self-management and its relationship with the principals
of administrative creativity and aid schools in the secondary phase of Mecca from their perspective. The
study aimed to identify the degree of self-management and its relationship with the principals of
administrative creativity and aid schools in the secondary phase of Mecca from their perspective.
Study (Shalabi and BainHamdan, 2009) entitled "The impact of information technology in creativity -
Electricity Generating Company Antrzah- Case Study. This study aimed to identify the impact of the use
of information technology in creativity Organizational, in Jordan's Central Electricity generating electricity
company in order to determine the level of creativity Organizational in this company, in order to make
recommendations and suggestions as possible to help boost innovation and enhance the role of information
technology in this company based on results of the study hypotheses. To achieve the objectives of the
study were questionnaire design.
Empirical Study on Jordanian Public Shareholding industrial companies. This study aimed to get to
know the reality of the use of information technology in industrial companies and their impact on
organizational innovation, so as to determine the level of organizational innovation in these companies, the
researcher concluded the following results: There is a positive relationship between information
technology and organizational creativity. There is also a positive relationship between technologies.
Study kings 2002 titled after empowerment strategy in promoting creativity Organizational: analytical
study of the University of Mosul. "The study aimed to propose a mechanism that provides an analytical
framework is based on a combination of factors and dimensions that create an organizational environment
that can accommodate up a strategy for empowerment can be counted proposed principal means to
promote innovation Organizational, that this framework will help the field respondent. Creativity and
innovation in the context of team work: and evaluation in the self-management calls and quality control
circles of Amber s.c branch
Notes by reviewing previous studies that there are studies that proved the existence of the impact of the
application of self-management to enhance the level of organizational creativity in organizations, such as
Dr. Tareq Galeb Abu Orabi, Dr. Atef Saleh Ahmad Aladwan, Dr. Shadi Habis Abu Aloush,
Dr. Khaled Adnan Bataineh,
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the study of (al-Numan, and hook 0.2013) and study (Rashid), as demonstrated by a study (Tai and
compassionate, 2011) having the effect of self-management in serious work.
4. METHODOLOGY OF THE STUDY
It has been relying on the descriptive and analytical approach in the preparation of this study, and also
relied on two main sources of data needed for this study and information gathering, and in the following
manner:
1. Secondary Sources: desktop-based survey of the literature and Administrative Studies.
2. Primary sources: where the researchers designed a questionnaire to collect data from the study sample
individuals,
The study includes of managers and supervision and head department and division chief and the three
levels of decision makers in the category of Fine factory and company Tourane and Acacia Sanitary Paper
consists. The study tested the hypothesis: No effect de statistically significant at the significance level (a>
= 0.05 for the role of self-management (creative climate, self-control, decision-making, decentralization of
administration) in promoting organizational innovation in sector of the paper industry.
5. FINDING OF THE STUDY
The below table 1 and figure shown the result and analysis of the study. As we can observe the impact of
the characteristic of respondents.
Table 1 Impact of the characteristic of respondents
Characteristic Categories Recurrence rate
Social diversity Male
Female
54
12
81,8
18,2
Sum 66 100
Age
30 years and below
31_40years
41_50 year
More than 50 years
15
17
15
19
22,7
25,8
22,7
28,8
Sum 66 100
Marital status
Single
Married
18
48
27,3
72,7
Sum 66 100
qualification
bachelors or below
Higher diploma
Master
Doctor
55
4
_
7
83,3
6,1
_
10,6
Sum 66 100
Administrative level
Manager
Deputy manager
Manager of the department
14
21
7
21,2
31,8
10,6