Vol: 11, Issue: 3 2021

Page: 250-262

The Extent of the Strategic Flexibility in the Iraqi Ministry of Health: Analytical Research in the Center of the Ministry

Ruaa Abdel Moeen Hassan Al-Khateeb, Prof. Dr. Muhammad Yassin Rahim Al-Hashmawi

The research aims to indicate the extent of the availability of strategic flexibility in its dimensions (competitive flexibility, productive flexibility, market flexibility), what is the extent of the organization's ability to adapt and respond quickly to the changing dynamic environmental conditions surrounding it?? With the need for the organization to maintain its competitive ability in performing its work with a high quality of creativity and innovation and to achieve the highest stages of benefiting from the new ideas proposed to produce distinguished products and services for its customers, to obtain high revenues and profits, if the Ministry of Health was chosen - the center of the ministry, specifically the administrative, financial and legal department to represent Community of research and application of the practical aspect. The sample included (general managers, assistant general managers, department managers, divisional officials, unit officials and employees) a random sample in the surveyed ministry. The research community was (180) employees and the research sample was (120) employees. The questionnaire was distributed to (125) and (120) were received, valid for statistical analysis. The research problem was the weak strategic flexibility of the middle management in the researched ministry. The researcher relied on the descriptive and analytical approach in completing the research. Used a questionnaire key tool, as well as field visits and personal interviews, conducting and compiling a lot of data through the actual Ministry of the surveyed diagnosis of fact, was used a set of statistical descriptive methods (arithmetic mean, the relative importance, standard deviation, and coefficient of variation) was used software (SPSS) for primary data analysis. The researcher reached a set of conclusions, the most prominent of which was that there is a lack of interest in the required form in the strategic flexibility variable and its dimensions (market flexibility, productive flexibility, competitive flexibility) in the Ministry of Health, where the interest in them was moderate in general and detail. As a result of the apparent weakness in the correct and modern administrative thought of most of the senior and middle leaders in the Ministry of Health as a result of non-administrative medical specialization.