Vol: 11, Issue: 3 2021

Page: 27-45

The Role of Foresight in Discovering and Exploiting Social Opportunities: Analytical Research at the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs

Dr. Ali Mawat Al-Sudani, Rafid Jabbar Ajel Al-Haddad

Received Date: 2021-06-07

Accepted Date: 2021-06-25

Published Date: 2021-07-07

The research aims to study the extent of the impact of foresight as an independent variable in discovering and exploiting social opportunities in small and medium-sized enterprises as an analytical research in the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs. Through field coexistence in this ministry, the research problem became clear with questions, the most important of which were: What is the size of the gap for the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs to adopt foresight and social opportunities and know the extent of its commitment and interest in them, and then clarify the form of the link or not between foresight and social opportunities, and indicate the size of the impact of foresight On the social opportunities in the organization in question (Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs), and for the purpose of achieving the objectives of this research, a hypothesis was prepared that determines the nature of the relationship between the independent and respondent variable, and for the purpose of identifying the nature of the relationship between the variables, the research adopted a set of main hypotheses. For the purpose of testing the research hypotheses, the research was applied to an intentional sample of officials of three formations associated with the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, and to obtain the necessary information through a questionnaire form prepared for this purpose, distributed to a sample of (265) members representing general managers, department officials and people and their assistants in The research organization reached a set of conclusions, the most important of which was: There is a role for foresight in enhancing the organization's ability to discover and exploit social opportunities. While the research concluded with a set of recommendations related to its variables, the most important of which are: intensifying the effort by adopting and adhering to foresight to be one of the core capabilities that characterize the leaders of the organization in question to direct and support the social role they play by discovering and exploiting social opportunities to serve the Iraqi society, and other recommendations related to future studies.

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