trategic learning as a mediating variable in the effect of strategic planning on avoiding institutional decline - An exploratory study of a sample of employees in the Najaf Education Directorate

Abstract

Current research aims to identify how to avoid organizational decline by highlighting the complementary relationship between strategic learning and strategic planning. This reflects a change in these organizations' view of strategy as strategy planning as learning. The main concern of administrative thought and strategic management is how institutions survive, and many scientists have addressed this strong adaptation to environmental change.Research is also important by demonstrating how to go beyond the traditional way of understanding strategy-making from strategic planning to strategic learning.In order to survive and not deteriorate, institutions must adapt to their changing environments. Strategic learning is a process through which institutions observe environmental changes and develop the ability to change their strategies for prosperity under new environmental conditions. Institutions often need to be more efficient in strategic learning and have great difficulty observing environmental change, predicting the effects of environmental changes they observe, and disrupting the routines and power structures necessary to adapt to these changes. These difficulties are reflected in institutions' high disappearance rates and organizational mortality.Research has found that a paradigm shift allows us to assume that the characteristics of strategy-making are similar to learning rather than planning, but learning can occur during the process of planning this way of thinking, so strategic planning is not a strategic development process.