Strategic Alignment and its Impact on Achieving Organizational Prestige / Study Exploratory for the Opinions of A Sample of Leaders Senior in the Ministry of Health / Iraq

Abstract

The study aims to find the relationship and influence between the strategic alignment with its apparent dimensions in achieving the organizational prestige, the study problem was identified by many questions centered on the nature of the correlation and influence relationships between the study variables, for this purpose, a hypothetical model was developed that expresses two main hypotheses, from which several sub-hypotheses are branched ,the importance of the study lies in drawing the attention of decision makers in the Ministry of Health to the importance of the study’s variables (strategic alignment, organizational prestige) which are expected to benefit from improving its performance through the different points of view of these two variables, a number of objectives were formulated in the light of the study’s questions, including testing the correlation relationship between strategic alignment and organizational prestige, to diagnose the reality of applying strategic alignment as a modern approach that enables the Ministry of Health, the study sample, to rely on it to achieve organizational prestige. The study relied on five dimensions of the independent variable, strategic alignment, which are (communication, governance, partnership, infrastructure, and Skills), as for the dependent variable, the organizational prestige, its dimensions are (organizational identity, organizational reputation, and outward outlook for the organization), the method used in the study is the descriptive analytical method, and a questionnaire was designed to collect the necessary data, an elite group of medical staff was selected, represented by the following (General Manager, Assistant General Manager, Department Manager, Division Manager), as an intentional non-random sample, in their capacity as the departments responsible for managing the strategies, and their number is (139) people from the study community, the study used two ready-made statistical programs (SPSS.v.25) and (AMOS.v.25) to extract the results, the study relied on a set of descriptive statistics methods (Normal distribution, percentages, mean, standard deviation, coefficient of variation, and relative importance)