THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STRATEGIC THOUGHT AND COMPETITIVENESS IN EDUCATION ORGANIZATION

Abstract

The main purpose of the current research is to survey the relationship between the strategic thought and competitiveness of the organization of the Mazandaran province. The research was carried out by the descriptive (correlative) method. The statistical society of the research includes the entire offices of education organization in the Mazandaran province, numbering 33 offices. 16 offices were selected by the matching method (on the basis of the precedent (past record), rate of the employees, and stability of the management, and in the second level, 178 individuals of the employees of the selected offices were chosen to respond to the questionnaires based on the Morgan's table. The tools used in this research included two questionnaires of: A- Strategic thought with five dimensions of (the systemic mental models, concentration on the objective, intelligent opportunism, timely thought, creation and test of the hypotheses.) and B- Competitiveness of the organization. The collected data were analyzed using the multiple regression analysis tests and the Pearson's correlation coefficient. The Findings obtained from the research showed that there exists a positive and significant relationship between the strategic thought and competitiveness of education organization, and the variables of the timely thought and intelligent opportunism, as the most effective predictor variables, predict the changes of the competitiveness of the organization at the rate of 70.1 and 58.99 respectively.