The Relationship between Staff Professional Development by Succession and the Mediating Role of Organizational Learning: The Approach of Administrative System Transformation Policies

One of the important aspects of reforming the administrative system of human resources, improving human resources spirit, developing knowledge, skills, and abilities is to put into practice clause 5 of the general administrative policies issued by the supreme leader. This study aimed to analyze the relationship between staff professional development by succession and the achievement of clause 5 of the general policies of administrative system or the mediating role of organizational learning in the expediency council. The research method is quantitative and descriptive-survey. This study can be considered practical. The population is all the 250 staff in the expediency council from which 152 were randomly selected. The research tools are organizational learning questionnaires designed by Ricardo et al. (2007), staff professional development designed by Kalahan and Davilla (2004), and succession desgned by Kim (2016), the validity of which was confirmed based on the face and content validity approaches, and the reliability was calculated by Cronbach alpha at 0.7. The data was fed into SPSS and Smart PLS, and the structural equation model was done at two descriptive and interpretational levels. The findings indicated that the professional development has 0.79 significant relationship with organizational learning, and the latter has 0.63 significant relationship with succession. Also, the professional development has 0.27 significant relationship with succession in the expediency council.