http://www.iaeme.com/IJM/index.asp 1 editor@iaeme.com International Journal of Management (IJM) Volume 8, Issue 2, March – April 2017, pp.01–09, Article ID: IJM_08_02_001 Available online at http://www.iaeme.com/ijm/issues.asp?JType=IJM&VType=8&IType=2 Journal Impact Factor (2016): 8.1920 (Calculated by GISI) www.jifactor.com ISSN Print: 0976-6502 and ISSN Online: 0976-6510 © IAEME Publication THE IMPACT OF MANAGEMENT BEHAVIORAL FACTORS ON STUDY PERIOD - A FIELD STUDY AT JORDANIAN PRIVATE COMMUNITY COLLAGES Dr. Tareq Galeb Abu Orabi Assistance Professor, Business Administration Department, Al-Balqa Applied University, Jordan Dr. Atef Saleh Aladwan Associate Professor, Business Administration Department, Al-Balqa Applied University, Jordan Dr. Feras Sulieman Alshalbee Associate Professor, MIS Department, Al-Balqa Applied University, Jordan Dr. Aboud Saleh Ahmad Fellow, The World Islamic Sciences & Education University (Wise) Jordan ABSTRACT Jordan is one of the most Arab countries who have developed his higher education since it was founded as a kingdom, one of the aims of that development was to fulfill its local labor market, and Arab gulf countries with skillful workers in their labor markets. The vocation education in Jordan was one of the first educations to be interested with Private sector established community colleges since the eighth decade of the preceding century under the superintendence off Al-Balqa University. The legislations and regulation taken by the Higher Ministry of Education and Al-Balqa University affected community colleges. This study aimed to explore the impact of the factors played by those colleges (management behavior, college status, and staff behavior) to overcome their lack of students by lengthening the period of the student in the college. 211 students were taken randomly from 3 private community colleges; the valid retained questionnaires were 51 ones. The questionnaire was developed to cover all factors played in the colleges, used 5 levels of Likert scale. This study found a significant impact of the teacher's behavior on the period length of students in the colleges, where the impact of college status was significantly impact on that period.