Readiness of Saudi civil services agencies to identify and develop future leaders

Abstract

The study aims to identify the readiness of Saudi civil Services agencies to identify and develop Future leaders from the point of view of the supervising mangers in those agencies. The study was conducted on 175 supervising managers who attended training courses at the Institute of Public Administration in 2019. The study found that the level of readiness of civil Services agencies to identify and develop future leaders in general is weak in the five study dimensions: attention to selecting leaders and training, evaluation of job performance, promotion requirements, and job descriptions. Where most supervising managers believe that government agencies do not meet the requirements and follow the important steps to identify and develop leaders. The study also found that the levels of readiness to discover future leadership are similar in all government agencies. Based on the results, the study presented a number of recommendations; the most important of which are: the need to enact a regulation of discovering and developing future leaders in government agencies.