The Requirements of Quality of Higher Education and its Impact on the Achievement of Organizational Excellence

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to highlight the relationship between the requirements of quality of higher education and the organizational excellence of a sample of faculties of the universities of Baghdad and Al-Nahrain. The research sought to achieve a set of objectives, the most important of which are: To recognize the nature of the requirements of quality of higher education, to demonstrate and diagnose quality requirements, Influential relations between the requirements of quality of higher education and organizational excellence. The current research started from a problem expressed by several questions, namely: (What is the nature and level of some quality requirements in the investigated universities? What is the level of recognition of the dimensions of organizational excellence by the sample members in the investigated universities?) Does quality lead to achieving organizational excellence in the investigated universities? The correlation between higher education quality requirements and organizational excellence? Is there an impact between the requirements of quality of higher education and organizational excellence?). Based on this problem and objectives, and to clarify the relationship between the variables of research, we formulated two hypotheses, which were separated by five sub-hypotheses. The questionnaire was selected as a tool for data collection and analysis, as well as personal interviews on the practical side of the research. A sample of 88 members of the departments and teaching staff at the faculties of engineering and law at the universities of Baghdad and Nahrin were selected. The research found a number of conclusions, the most important of which were: All the correlation relations for the quality of higher education and organizational excellence were strong and significant, and the relations of influence were all significant. Which indicates the role of the quality of higher education in influencing the achievement of organizational excellence of universities.