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 Volume 12, Issue 6 (June 2025), Pages: 234-244

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 Original Research Paper

The impact of technical skills on the efficiency of administrative performance: Evidence from Saudi Arabia

 Author(s): 

 Bader Abdulaziz Almarshad 1, Ebrahim Mohammed Al-Matari 2, *

 Affiliation(s):

  1Executive Master of Business Administration Program, College of Business, Jouf University, Sakakah, Saudi Arabia
  2Department of Accounting, College of Business, Jouf University, Sakakah, Saudi Arabia

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 * Corresponding Author. 

   Corresponding author's ORCID profile:  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9247-2766

 Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2025.06.023

 Abstract

This study aims to investigate how technical skills affect the efficiency of administrative performance among workers in Saudi Arabia. To achieve this, a descriptive-analytical method will be used to examine the relationship between the independent variable (technical skills) and the dependent variable (administrative performance efficiency). The research sample includes workers from various sectors in Saudi Arabia. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) and statistical software were used to analyze the relationship between technical skills and administrative performance efficiency. The results show that Programs of Educational Organizations (PEO) have the most significant positive impact on the Efficiency of Management Performance (EMP), followed by Programs and Systems (PS) and Electronic Configuration (EC). However, Support and Development (SD) does not have a significant effect on EMP. The study also discusses several practical implications, which are further explained in the conclusion.

 © 2025 The Authors. Published by IASE.

 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords

 Technical skills, Administrative performance, Structural equation modeling, Educational organizations, Efficiency improvement

 Article history

 Received 25 November 2024, Received in revised form 28 March 2025, Accepted 4 June 2025

 Acknowledgment

The authors would like to thank the Deanship of Graduate Studies and Scientific Research at Jouf University for funding and supporting this research through the initiative of DGSR Graduate Studies Research Support (GSR) at Jouf University, Saudi Arabia. 

 Compliance with ethical standards

 Ethical considerations

This study was conducted in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and national research committees. Informed consent was obtained from all participants. Participation was voluntary, and confidentiality of responses was maintained. No personally identifiable information was collected.

 Conflict of interest: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

 Citation:

 Almarshad BA and Al-Matari EM (2025). The impact of technical skills on the efficiency of administrative performance: Evidence from Saudi Arabia. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 12(6): 234-244

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