Workers Attitudes in the Municipalities and Provinces towards the Decentralized and Regional Project in Jordan

Abstract

The present study aimed to identify the attitudes of workers in local Jordanian public departments as a project towards decentralization of territories of its municipalities in Jordan, The study sample consist of (228) managers, and employees of different ranks whom are working in municipalities and local governmental departments, in order to answer the study questions and hypotheses, the researcher developed questionnaires to measure main variables of the study. Some statistical techniques were used for testing the hypotheses and answering the study questions. The present study revealed the following findings:

1. There is statistically significant correlation between decentralization advantages and environmental factors.
2. There are no statistically significant impact of investigators attitudes toward advantages and disadvantages of decentralization according to demographic factors.
3. There is statistically significant impact of scientific qualification attitudes toward decentralization disadvantages.
4. There is statistically significant impact of investigators attitudes toward decentralization disadvantages and advantages.

Keywords: decentralization, attitudes, territories, project in Jordan, environmental factors Participation, political factors, social factors, financial, Developmental planning Factors, organizational factors.