دور التحفيز كمتغير وسيط في العلاقة بين متغيري الابتكار والحكومة الذكية من أجل تمكين موظفي مؤسسة الإمارات للتعليم المدرسي

The study aimed to find out the role of motivation as a mediating variable in the relationship between the variables of innovation and smart government practices of
administrative empowerment for educational institution employees in the Emirates, which represented the variables and the researcher adopted them as a field of study by measuring the degree of influence of innovative skills and smart government application and the role of motivation in the relationship between them. The researcher followed the descriptive analytical method to achieve the purpose and objectives of the study and test its hypotheses, using a questionnaire designed as the main tool for collecting data in this study. The study population was determined by the human resources at the Emirates Education Foundation. The responding sample was drawn from the sampling units in the three school branches of the Emirates Education Foundation (zone director, deputy director of scope, head of the department of school principals and their deputies, and administrators at the Emirates Education Foundation, such as an academic advisor, a psychologist, and administrators in Emirates Education Foundation schools, numbering 2,750 individuals. The researcher used advanced statistical methods for analysis. Statistical software packages (SPSS) to obtain descriptive analyses to classify them into complete groups, and structural modeling software (Smart - PLS) to analyze the data and indicate the path of relationships and their interpretation between external, internal, and mediating variables and the amount of influence in the standard and structural model. The practical results of the study concluded that the study hypotheses had strong statistical significance with acceptable values. The objectives of the study were achieved, the most important of which is the finding that innovation is directly and fundamentally linked to the presence of motivation as a mediating variable to empowering the employees of the Emirates Foundation for School Education in the United Arab Emirates, and innovation affects the presence of motivation as a mediating variable. Empowering employees leads to improving the empowerment ability of Emirates School Education Foundation employees. The study concluded with a set of recommendations, the most important of which is the need to pay attention to applying the administrative empowerment curriculum at the Emirates Foundation for School Education in its four dimensions (freedom of choice, the meaning of work, self-efficacy, and influence in decision-making), and consolidating the concept of smart
transformation at the Emirates Foundation for School Education in a way that works on administrative empowerment and contributes to Employees perform their work easily and conveniently, and look at motivation strategies from a comprehensive perspective that achieves the desired integration, interaction and connection with the empowerment strategy of the Emirates School Education Foundation. This will contribute to solving the problems referred to in this study, including the weakness of administrative empowerment among employees in the surveyed community in the United Arab Emirates.