Vol: 11, Issue: 3 2021

Page: 235-249

The Impact of Strategic Foresight on Organizational Sustainability: An Analytical Study of the Opinions of a Sample of the Leaders of the Federal Security Agency, The Iraqi Ministry of Interior

Ziad Sami Sajjad, Dr. Hussam Ali Mhaibes

Received Date: 2021-07-24

Accepted Date: 2021-09-07

Published Date: 2021-09-05

The current research insets, to verify the impact of strategic foresight as an independent variable on organizational sustainability at the headquarters of the Ministry’s Agency for Federal Security Affairs in the Iraqi Ministry of Interior, as well as diagnosing the level of its interest in the research variables and its dimensions, to come up with a set of recommendations that contribute to strengthening its practices and adopting these variables, and based on the modernity And keenness to diagnose the relationship of influence between the two variables and its importance to the agency and its employees on the one hand, and society on the other hand, adopted the methodological, descriptive, exploratory research in the completion of its current chapters and discussions, and it was applied at the headquarters of the Ministry’s Agency for (Federal Security) to be the research community for its senior leaders, and the research sample was intentional Stratified, and it included (55) of the leaders of the concerned agency (the director of the agency "the agent", the assistant agent, the director of the directorate, the assistant, the director of the department, the director of the division), and the main research tool (the questionnaire) was distributed to them to survey opinions about the variables investigated, (52) were retrieved. ) including, while the valid ones for statistical analysis were (50) views, and the questionnaire was supplemented with data, observations and limited interviews, while the research used statistical programs (SPSS V.26 - SM ART PLS V.3.3) to analyze the primary data, with the adoption of descriptive and inferential research methods represented in (normal distribution test, exploratory practical analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, validity and reliability test, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, relative difference coefficient, relative importance, correlation coefficient Pearson, the simple linear regression coefficient, the multiple regression coefficient) to test his hypotheses, a number of results, the most prominent of which was the interest of the Ministry of Federal Security Affairs in organizational sustainability, so it worked hard to improve it through strategic foresight in general, and the ability to accurately environmental survey, which contributes to collecting information On its current and past achievements, as well as investing in the ability to integrate in raising the level of commitment, and the strategic choice that complements its strategic insight through analysis of possible future conditions and providing methods for accurately measuring performance in order to achieve its goals and objectives.

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