Identification of Factors Affecting the Strategic Thinking in Organizations Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences and Health Services, Tehran- A Case Study

Mohammad Reza Yavarzadeh¹ Yashar Salamzadeh² Fereshte Ebrahimi³

Abstract :
The complexity of management of organizations, encourage managers to long term strategic planning to address the internal and external issues. Environmental monitoring, strategic thinking, strategic decision making and planning are the requirements of Strategic planning. Identification of different aspects of strategic thinking in the organization provides a clear understanding of strategic planning for managers. This study is to identify factors affecting the strategic thinking of managers and experts in the School of Medical Sciences and Health Services in shahid Beheshti University. The study is based on the Descriptive-survey method. 250 employee and managers of the faculty of Medical Sciences and Health Services of Shahid Behshti University are the statistical population of the survey. The sample size of the study estimated as 148 people using Cochran s sample size formula. The study used the random sampling methods. A standard questionnaire based on Goldman model used for data collecting. 40 questions in 5 point Likert scale were used. The reliability of questionnaire estimated as 0.89 using Cronbach s alpha coefficient. Moreover, in order to data analyze, the correlation test with SPSS22 software was used. The research hypothesis is to review the importance and impact of every identified factors of strategic thinking in organization. According to the analysis of this study, there is a meaningful and positive relation between education and conceptual thinking. It means that the level of conceptual thinking and foresight increases alongside with the level of education. There is also a negative and meaningful relation between aging and foresight, which means that the level of foresight decreases by aging. Considering the significance and the determining role of strategic thinking within an organization, results also show that from among factors in this study, clever thinking was the most important factor followed by foresight, systematic thinking and conceptual thinking next in rank
Keywords : Systemic thinking ، Strategic planning, Strategic thinking, Organizational factors

زبان مقاله : انگلیسی
محور مقاله : مدیریت
محل انتشار : دومین کنفرانس بین المللی مدیریت و علوم انسانی
آدرس وب سایت کنفرانس : 2icmhconf.com
ارسال کننده : فرشته ابراهیمی
کد IOI مقاله : XYZH-ZAFFH
لینک مستقیم مقاله : https://isnac.ir/XYZH-ZAFFH