The Legal and Legitimate Rooting of the Duties of a Faculty Member while performing the Public Job according to the Regulations in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (University of Tabuk as a Model)

Abstract

This study aimed at shedding light on the duties of a faculty member while performing academic job; due to their real importance for achieving the controls of the public job and the public interest, and because of their clear impact on completing the educational mission and achieving its purpose and the desired educational outcomes in academic and university institutions, the topic will be addressed to the legal and legitimate rooting, tasks and duties of the faculty by addressing some of the job regulations in the official Saudi universities in general, and University of Tabuk in particular. Our research addresses the importance of these regulations, the methods of implementing them and putting them into practice, their importance in organizing the public function within the scope of universities and educational institutions, and the impact of this on the university environment and sustainable development that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia seeks to achieve according to Vision 2030 and in all fields.

By clarifying the practical career path for the academic tasks and duties of a faculty member, the regulations and systems related to the tasks and duties of a faculty member at the University of Tabuk will be addressed as an applied model practiced on the ground that works to codify the main tasks of a faculty member, Which explains the implementation of the necessary supervision and control methods on the academic function to measure the extent of the faculty member’s commitment to the specific career and academic paths according to the regulations in force at the university to achieve the true goal of the optimal learning process..

It is worth saying that these systems and regulations in force in educational institutions, which include the duties and tasks of the faculty member, have the greatest impact on the performance of the faculty member and his necessary job discipline, which supports the entire learning process and achieves its goals.

The descriptive analytical approach was used by studying the work model of faculty members at the University of Tabuk and the extent to which the systems and regulations in force at the university apply to the job and academic tasks the faculty member provides to students. The researcher will study the regulations for the duties and tasks of faculty members at the University of Tabuk during the first semester of the academic year 2023/2024, the study has concluded that the University of Tabuk uses systems and regulations to determine the course of work of the faculty member so that the outputs are consistent with the original vision of the university, this is through activating the systems for the duties of faculty members, and through commitment to the processes of organization, planning, control and management, measuring outputs against goals and measuring the effectiveness of the faculty member’s academic and practical output, in addition to focusing on the proper performance of the faculty member’s work inside the classroom and commitment at the level scientific departments and the educational institution as a whole. This is done through the use of effective indicators that measure the extent of the superiority of the faculty member’s performance and work to develop it, in addition to the subsequent monitoring exercised by the administration over the performance of the faculty member through the methods of annual evaluation of job performance, which measure the extent of discipline in the job behavior of the faculty member in all aspects over a period of time.

In light of the results obtained, it was recommended to intensify awareness about the tasks of the faculty member through the practical guide announced in paper and electronic form that governs the work of the faculty member, in order to achieve the greatest effectiveness in performing the recognized academic tasks, in addition to the recommendation that a special electronic icon is created to clarify all the detailed tasks related to the duties of the faculty member, in addition to integrating them with evaluation forms that explain the mechanism for evaluating the faculty member by the administration and students, according to the applicable laws and regulations.

We find that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has embodied clear rules governing the public job according to the laws and regulations in force in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which concern the public job and job behavior in many matters, where the duty of the employee and faculty member is not limited to performing physical behavior only, but there are valuable ethical rules, must be preserved during public work, which is one of the most important foundations and pillars rooted in the public job and the public good, including preserving the honor and ethics of the public job, which requires focusing on implementing and consolidating functional skills and establishing the necessary value aspects to the public employee, starting with the faculty member in particular, so that he can applying it within the framework of his daily job duties.