Impact of Strategic Planning on Organizational Effectiveness with Mediating Role of Organizational Flexibility

This work was performed to investigate the effect of strategic planning on the organizational effectiveness via mediation of organizational flexibility by providing a model of the Youth and Sports Ministry and Sports Federations.
This research work was descriptive and a correlation analysis based on the structural equation model. The research population was composed of all the senior managers, middle and operational, employed in the Ministry of Youth and Sports and Sports Federations in 2016 .Due to the small number of participants, the number of the sample were considered equal to the number of population statistics. A total of 60 questionnaires were distributed, and a total of 46 questionnaires were received. The questionnaire-revised strategic planning and organizational flexibility Yazdan-panah and Soltani (2016), and the 20-item Hesou organizational effectiveness (2002) were used, the reliabilities of which were confirmed by Cronbach's alpha .The descriptive and inferential statistics and the structural equation model were used.
The results obtained show that the structural equation modeling, strategic planning, organizational flexibility, and organizational flexibility have positive and significant effects on the organizational effectiveness, and a flexibility mediating role on the relationship between strategic planning and effectiveness. Among the variables involved, organizational flexibility, flexibility, technology, and research had significant impacts on the organizational effectiveness. However, the variables educational flexibility, structural flexibility, and financial flexibility had the greatest impacts on the organizational effectiveness.
In order to achieve these objectives, the program should be used to strengthen the educational flexibility, structural flexibility, and financial flexibility in sports organizations to strengthen the effectiveness of strategic plans.