Abstract
This study aimed to examine the impact of the administrative empowerment on the employees' performance management process at Jadara University. To achieve the objectives of the study, the researcher developed a questionnaire that was distributed to all employees in three managerial levels (high, middle, and low) totaling (56) male and female employees; there were (53) recovered questionnaires which were valid for statistical analysis, a descriptive statistical methods, correlation coefficient, and simple regression were used to answer the questions of the study, and test its hypotheses. The study concluded that the level of practicing the administrative empowerment, and the process of performance management of employees at Jadara University was moderate and it also found that there were a significant impact for the administrative empowerment on the employees' performance management process in its dimensions represented in: (setting expectations of the employees’ performance, supervising progress in the employees’ performance, assessing of employees’ performance, providing of feedback for employees, and setting of plans to develop the performance of the employees); the study set a number of recommendations, most notably are: increasing care in the level of empowerment granted to the employees by managers at Jadara University and pay more attention to the process of performance management of employees.