The Impact of Implementing Serving Leadership by King Faisal University’s Scientific Departments Heads on Organizational Cynicism from The Faculty Members Viewpoint.

This study aimed to clarify the effect of applying serving leadership by academic departments’ heads at King Faisal University as an independent variable on organizational Cynicism as a dependent variable from the university faculty members point of view. The primary data was collected using field survey electronic questionnaire was applied to a sample of 325 individuals, excluding five incomplete questionnaires. This study was built based on four basic assumptions and a set of sub-assumptions. Both descriptive and analytical approaches were relied on in analyzing the study data. The study has reached several findings. The most notable ones are the presence of statistically significant differences in the attitudes of King Faisal University faculty members towards serving leadership implementation by department heads, which was attributed to the type and number of experience years. It also reveals the presence of statistically significant differences attributable to the academic degree. Furthermore, statistically significant differences attributable to the nature of specialization were found in some dimensions of serving leadership. There are statistically significant differences in the attitudes of faculty members at King Faisal University towards the phenomenon of organizational Cynicism attributable to the scientific degree, while there are statistically significant differences attributable to the number of years of experience in some dimensions of organizational Cynicism in addition to a statistically significant relationship between the application of heads of scientific departments to the dimensions of serving leadership and organizational Cynicism from the viewpoint of the university's faculty. The study also found that serving leadership fundamentally influences the level of university's faculty organizational Cynicism.