تأثير المهارات القيادية والاجتماعية على العمل التطوعي لدى طلبة جامعة نزوى بسلطنة عمان

Abstract

Voluntary work needs to be the approach of the general social behavior due to its impact in elevating the country. It enables the participants in voluntary works to acquire new skills and develop their current competencies. For this purpose, this current study seeks to explore the impact of leadership and social skills on the voluntary works for the students of Nizwa University at the Sultanate of Oman. To validate the objective of the study, the researcher applied the descriptive correlative approach. The study population consisted of 6805. The researcher distributed 420 questionnaires of a stratified random sample consisting of 357 Bachler’s degree students at Nizwa University. The questionnaire consists of 79 questions distributed over the dimensions and variables of the study. The researcher adopted the Social Interaction Theory, the Role Play Theory, Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and the Values Theory, to study and elaborate the variable of voluntary work. The researcher also applied several theories to elaborate the variable of the leadership skills including Traditional Theory, Trait Theory, Training Theory, Behaviorism Theory and Interactive Theory. In clarifying the variable of social skills, the researcher adopted the Cognitivism Theory and Social Learning Theory as well as utilizing other precedent studies. The Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) software was used to analyze the descriptive data of the study (mathematical averages, standard deviations, frequencies and percentages), and to evaluate the validity and reliability of the data, a Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) was executed in the AMOS software, in addition to using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) to study structural influences between study variables. The findings of the study revealed the existence of direct statistically significant impact between leadership skills, social skills and voluntary work. They also concluded the presence of indirect statistically significant impact between social skills and voluntary work via the leadership skill as a mediator variable. The study provided a recommendation for the necessity to concentrate on elevating leadership and social skills among undergraduate students, which motivates them to participate in more voluntary work, which shall be reflected positively in the community, and to accomplish the desired development of Arab communities.