Abstract:
The study aimed to identify the degree of administrative empowerment and its relationship to the job commitment of the principals of public schools in Bethlehem province from their point of view. The study adopted the descriptive link curriculum, and the sample was selected in a random manner and the sample size (81) of the principals of public schools in Bethlehem province out of (135) principals, to whom the questionnaire was applied, was applied to them on two measures of data collection: the administrative empowerment measure and the measure of functional commitment.
The results of the study showed that the degree of administrative empowerment practice among the principals of public schools in Bethlehem province was moderate, with an average calculation of 3.50)) and a percentage (70.0), and a high degree of job commitment, in the calculation average of4.36) ) and a percentage (87.2). The results of the study also showed that there were no statistically significant differences in the average degree of administrative empowerment practice among principals of public schools depending on the variablesof ( sex, scientific qualification and years of experience). The results also indicated that there were no statistically significant differences in the averages of the practice of functional commitment to different: (sex, scientific qualification, years of experience). The results also indicated a positive statistically significant correlation at the level of significance (α≤.05) between the degree of administrative empowerment and the degree of job commitment in public schools in the Directorate of Education in Bethlehem Governorate in Palestine, where Pearson's correlation coefficient was valued (.420), and the relationship was positively dismissive.
