Using combinational method DEMATEL and ANP with the fuzzy approach to prioritization of learning organization criteria in Iranian schools

This article seeks to provide a flexible structure for the learning organization tailored to the conditions of Iranian schools. Using this structure, schools, as an educational organization, facilitate innovation and effectiveness in the face of an ever-changing environment. Also, teaching human values and principles of education help students become people who live in a healthy and civilized way in a world rich in future technologies.

This paper uses multi-criteria decision-making methods and fuzzy techniques such as fuzzy Delphi and DEMATEL and ANP techniques to provide an executive and operational framework in school learning organizations.

The results show the structures of the learning organization, the skills of the learning organization, and the technologies of the learning organization as the main criteria of the learning organization in Iranian schools, respectively. Also, reinforcing leadership sub-criteria, knowledge management technology, personal abilities, and subjective models with the nature of cause play a crucial role in forming learning organizations in schools.

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 Researchers have identified the way for Iran to achieve the economic goals envisaged in the Iran Vision 2025 document, the transformation of Iranian organizations into learning organizations. However, the study of databases such as Irandak, scientific information of Jihad Daneshgahi, and the citation database of sciences of the Islamic world shows that limited efforts have been made in this direction, especially in schools in Iran. Without focusing on why and what the learning organization is, this article, using the dimensions and criteria introduced for the learning organization, points out how to provide a flexible structure for the learning organization appropriate to the conditions of Iranian schools.