Intrinsic Competencies: A Leverage Tool for The Performance of Learning Organization (Case Study: Wasit University)

Learning organization performance is based on the sharing of experience and knowledge. The methods and adaptability of learners demonstrate its competitive advantage. However, in a fluctuating context marked by successive crises (economic, health), relying on intrinsic competencies is a crucial advantage for learning companies. This study investigated the influence of intrinsic competencies with three dimensions on the performance of the learning organization. This quantitative study used the questionnaire as a quantifiable tool to obtain data. A pre-test and face validation ensured the questionnaire’s validity. The analytical method is used in this study. Path analysis and SEM were applied in this study to test hypotheses. The influence of intrinsic competencies dimensions (Organizational Resources, Human Resources Strategies, Employees Capabilities) on the performance of learning organizations is the most prominent conclusion. The learning organization should adopt a learning and teaching culture where people collaborate and think together to constantly improves to enhance their performance

Leaderships’ Role in Managing Crisis in the Lebanese Health Sector: An Assessment of Influencing Factors

This paper aims to assess the healthcare leadership’s role in crisis management, examine, and investigate the influencing factors. A quantitative analysis approach with a positivism philosophy is adopted. Primary data are collected using a structured questionnaire distributed to a sample of hospital employees in Lebanon. Data analysis used IBM SPSS version 25; whereby descriptive statistics (i.e., frequencies, percentages, means, and standard deviations) and inferential statistics (i.e., factor analysis, multivariable linear regression) were obtained. Results revealed that leaders’ traits and skills like proactivity and communication, gender, hospital location, organization’s culture, and stakeholders’ engagement influence the effectiveness of leaders’ decision-making in a crisis management context. Also, the results confirmed the alternative hypotheses that the explanatory factors have a direct and statistically significant relationship with leaders’ decision-making effectiveness. Outcomes of this research serve as an eye opener to policymakers, health care managers, and stakeholders that a fully integrated effort is a must to mitigate serious crisis consequences

E-Learning and its Influence on Enhancing the University Performance During the Outbreak of the Corona Pandemic

Purpose: This paper aims to determine the influence of e-learning and its dimensions on university performance, taking the University of Basra’s various faculties as a field study.   Theoretical Framework: The study’s hypotheses are divided into one central hypothesis and four sub-hypotheses constructed and grounded on the dimensions of e-learning. Infrastructure, technical support, management, organization, and content were taken as dimensions of the independent variable, and University Performance as the dependent variable.   Design/Methodology/Approach: This paper uses a quantitative method with a deductive approach. One hundred sixty participants responded to a structured questionnaire as part of the study’s descriptive analytical procedure. Data were analyzed using the SPSS program. Statistical analyses were applied to test the research hypotheses and meet the study’s goals.   Findings: Results revealed a positive association linking the application of e-learning dimensions. Universities are motivated to apply e-learning strategies due to their positive influence on leveraging university performance. Infrastructure, technical support, management and organization, and content positively influence university performance.   Research, Practical and Social Implications: This paper highlights the features and dimensions influencing university performance significantly in the Iraqi context. Hence, executives of public and private universities will be able to determine the actions to be adopted to advance and progress the implementation of e-learning and performance.   Originality/Value: The paper’s originality stems from the significance and recency of the addressed topic. This paper is the first empirical research presenting a diagnosis of e-learning dimensions and university performance at Basra University during the outbreak of the corona pandemic. It is an original paper conducted in the Iraqi context

The Effect of Practicing Knowledge Sharing Behaviors on the Quality of Information (An Experimental Study Assessing the Opinions of Faculty Members at Sumer University)

The research objective is to determine the impact of practicing knowledge-sharing behaviors on the quality of information. The descriptive-analytical approach and the questionnaire tool were utilized to collect quantitative data. The questionnaires were distributed to the faculty members at Sumer University. The research used simple random sampling of 150 professors at Sumer University and subjected them to statistical analysis. The questionnaires were distributed via e-mail and social media, the latter were checked and the invalid ones were excluded. Results were analyzed by the statistical program SPSS, V.25. The research reached a set of conclusions, the most significant of those results was: that knowledge sharing behaviors (knowledge transfer, knowledge exchange, knowledge change) have achieved a total average (3.63) with a good degree of appreciation among the faculty members at Sumer university. The quality of information from the perspective of the sample was good since the total weighted arithmetic average was 3.48. Also, the research study confirmed the existence of a correlation and positive cause and effect relationship between knowledge sharing behaviors and quality of information quality. The results confirm that the knowledge change dimension is the most influential in the quality of information from the viewpoint of the faculty members at Sumer University

The Effect of the Blue Ocean Strategy on Realizing the Above-Average Model: An Applied Study at Zain Telecommunications—The Case of Iraq

The current research aims to analyze the effect of the blue ocean strategy on the model of above-average returns for the purpose of realizing superior revenues for Zain Telecommunications. The research involved 60 officials who filled in a questionnaire that was prepared for this purpose. The data were analyzed by employing the correlation coefficient and regression analysis using SPSS v. 24. The research reached some conclusions, the most significant of which were the presence of a significant effect of the blue ocean strategy with its four principles: reduce, raise, eliminate and create in realizing superior returns (above-average) which were translated with its secondary principles: resources, potentials, competitive advantages, attractive industry, preparing and implementing the strategy, and realizing superior returns

Corporate Social Responsibility: A Stakeholders Perspective Applied to the Lebanese Heart Hospital

This research aims to assess Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practice applied to the Heart Hospital, Tripoli, Lebanon. A stakeholders (workers, patients, the local community, and the environment) perspective is considered. The population of the research includes all workers in the target hospital, however the research sample consists of 40 employees. This research is quantitative, descriptive and analytic based on a structured questionnaire designed and distributed to the respondents. The study found that the activities related to CSR were adapted and practiced to different levels. Employees’ responses about the dimensions of CSR were varied. Findings show that the hospital does exercise its social responsibilities towards patients (Mean=3.97), it does exercise its social responsibilities towards the environment (Mean=3.96), it moderately exercises its social responsibilities towards the local community (Mean=3.36), and it weakly exercises its social responsibilities towards its workers (Mean=2.75). Therefore, it is recommended that the hospital administrators must review their CSR strategy to reinstate one of the most critical factors for the success of the institution namely the human assets besides giving more attention to its local community needs

Organizational Commitment in the Nonprofit Organization A Lebanese Investigation

In organizational behavior, it is crucial to analyze the bond an employee forms with the organization to make them stay. Research cites the intricacies of organizational commitment to the sociological setup of the society around it. Nonprofit organizations are continuously formed on the premise of fulfilling a specific community plan for the good of society. The community's needs are determined based on the plan, the effect, and the benefit to the public good. Additionally, considering the future of the organization's plan, there is a need to show the proper formation of strategies to help resolve the issues. Communities suffer from different problems worldwide, and the commitment nonprofit organizations make from a humanitarian point of view shows the need to have more processes to make society better. Different contributions towards society create the commitment since the results are observed and a statistic extrapolated for change. Issues like war, pandemics, social justice and politics are joint problems that many organizations are committed to helping in combating. Accepting the commitment to fight a particular injustice or pandemic requires the will and knowledge to develop the right strategies and mechanisms for executing the issues. The basic structure of nonprofit organizations shows the community needs to handle issues for the long-term view of the process. The research paper analyses the relationship between commitment in nonprofits organizational and the company climate in developed countries. Hence, and upon utilizing Allen and Meyer’s Organizational Commitment Scale, the research paper find out that the prevalent commitment in in the Lebanese non-profit organizations is the affective commitment. &nbsp