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Strategic Intelligence and its Role in Supporting Job Merit
Corresponding Author(s) : Thawra Abed Kareem
American Journal of Economics and Business Management,
Vol. 8 No. 2 (2025): February
Abstract
This study intends to examine the contribution that strategic intelligence has towards the determination of job merit in the organizational setting based on the specified sample. The sample size constituted 110 individuals. With a view to attaining the objective of the study, two main hypotheses were formulated to be tested through a series of statistical tools like weighted mean, standard deviation, relative importance, correlation coefficient and regression equation. After analyzing the data collected by the questionnaire form that was designed according to the scales of the strategic intelligence construct (Akhgar & Yates, 2013) and the scale of the job merit variable (Al-Shennawi et al., 2021), the study has reached several conclusions, the most outstanding of which is that the research sample has a clear concept about the major and minor studies and that the increase in the impact of strategic intelligence within the working environment has clear implications for finding supportive behaviors of job merit indicators, including the utilization of all available opportunities and resources and giving full support by the management after determining the strong sides and weak sides in the work environment. The study ended with many suggestions; the most important is how much the organizations need to gather all their potentials in creating a vision of the future and organized thoughts for all requirements of work, supported by providing everything that will raise the motivation of workers and bring them to be included in decisions and work as well to forecast the future.
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Al-Baroudi, Manal Ahmed (2019). Future Foresight Science, Arab Group for Training and Publishing, Cairo
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Akhgar, Babak Yates,Simeon (2013) Strategic Intelligence Directorate: National Security Imperatives and Information and Communications Technology.Elservier,usa.2013.
Alhamadi, M. S. (2020). Impact of Strategic Intelligence on the sustainable competitive advantage of Industries Qatar. Global Journal of Management and Business Research
Qasim Suad Harb .(2011) . The Impact of Strategic Intelligence on Decision Making: An Applied Study on Managers
in UNRWA's Gaza Regional Office ”Unpublished Master Thesis, Islamic University,Gaza.
Qadrawi, Faiq Mishal, Al-Alusi, Wafaa Muhammad Fakhri, The Role of Strategic Foresight in Achieving Organizational Excellence According to the Perspective of Strategic Resilience, Kirkuk University Journal of Administrative and Economic Sciences, Volume 8 , Issue 1 , 2018, pp. 212-213
Maulidan, J. A., Azis, N., & Ibrahim, R. (2020). Mediated Effect Job Satisfaction on the Relationships between Compensation, Organizational Culture, and Meritocracy on Employee Performance. Mostafapour, M., Samiee, R., Mostaghimi, M., & Cheraghali, M.(2021). Studying the Relationship Between Meritocracy and Administrative System Health in Government Organizations: By Explaining the Mediating Role of Mackenzie Model. Journal of Critical Reviews, 8(1), 415-428.
Hliwa, M., & Johansson, M. (2014). The discourse of meritocracy contested/reproduced: Foreign women academics in UK business schools. Organization, 21(6), 821-843.
Schleu, J. E., & Hüffmeier, J. (2021). Simply the best? A systematic literature review on the predictive validity of employee performance for leader performance. Human Resource Management Review, 31(2), 100777.
Geromichalos, A., & Kospentaris, I. (2022). The unintended consequences of meritocratic government hiring. European Economic Review, 144, 104093.
Sundell, A. (2014). Are formal civil service examinations the most meritocratic way to recruit civil servants? Not in all countries. Public Administration, 92(2), 440-457.
Kuipers, N. P. (2022). Meritocracy Reconsidered: The Politics of Civil Service Recruitment. University of California, Berkeley.
Taylor, S. (2006). Acquaintance, meritocracy and critical realism: Researching recruitment and selection processes in smaller and growing organizations. Human Resource Management Review, 16(4), 478-489.
Mostafapour, M., Samiee, R., Mostaghimi, M., & Cheraghali, M. (2021). Studying the Relationship Between Meritocracy and Administrative System Health in Government Organizations: By Explaining the Mediating Role of Mackenzie Model. Journal of Critical Reviews, 8(1), 415-428.
Sealy, R. (2010). Changing perceptions of meritocracy in senior women's careers. Gender in Management: An International Journal, 25(3), 184-197
Klonschinski, A. (2019). Review of Thomas Mulligan's Justice and the Meritocratic State. New York, NY: Routledge, 2018, 225 pp. Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 12(2), 97-110
He, Y., & Makarchev, N. (2019). Neither Fair nor Efficient, but More Elitist: Meritocracy in Chinese Petroleum Firms’ Graduate Recruitment and Selection. Journal of Contemporary China, 28(116), 308-325
Simister, J. (2011). Elitism and meritocracy in UK universities: the UK needs investment in its labour force. Higher Education Quarterly, 65(2), 113-144.
Chua, V. (2011). Social networks and labour market outcomes in a meritocracy. Social networks, 33(1), 1-11.
Brierley, S. (2021). Combining patronage and merit in public sector recruitment. The Journal of Politics, 83(1), 182-197
Teo, T. A. (2019). Perceptions of meritocracy in Singapore: Inconsistencies, contestations and biases. Asian Studies Review, 43(2), 184-205.
Olavarría-Gambi, M., & Dockendorff, A. (2016). Implementing meritocracy in senior public administration: The dilemma for Chilean politicians. Public Organization Review, 16(4), 561-582
Smith, M. L., & Matěj?, P. (2012). Two decades of value change: The crystallization of meritocratic and egalitarian beliefs in the Czech Republic. Social Justice Research, 25, 421-439.
Riad, Taha Kamel,(2009), The Job Worthiness Model: Measurement, Policy Planning, and Tool Use. PhD thesis submitted to the Faculty of Commerce, Suez Canal University.
Ngai, P. (2019). Online social networking andtransnational-competencedevelopment among international students from Japan. Journal of International Students, 9(2), 432-459.
Welter PhD, M. E. (2021). Without a Map: An Examination of District Leadership During the COVID-19 Crisis.
Hamdan, Khaled Mohammed (2019). Strategy and Strategic Planning A Contemporary Approach, Al-Yazouri Scientific Publishing and Distribution, Jordan
Saleh, Ahmed Ali et al. (2010). Management with Intelligence, Strategic and Social Excellence Approach for Organizations, Wael Publishing House, Amman, Jordan.
Vlok, D. (2004). An assessment of the knowledge processing environment in an organisation: a case study (Doctoral dissertation, Rhodes University).
Gil-Gomez, H.,Guerola-Navarro, V.,Oltra-Badenes, R., &Lozano-Quilis, J. A. (2020). Customer relationship management: digital transformation and sustainable business model innovation. Economic research- Ekonomska istraživanja, 33(1), 2733-2750.
Giuri, P., Munari, F., Scandura, A., & Toschi, L. (2019). The strategic orientation of universities in knowledge transfer activities. In Technological Forecasting and Social Change.
Godet Michel & Philippe( 2011 ). La prospective stratégique: pour les enterprises et les territories, published by Dunod
Haines, Systems G (2007). Strategic and Systems Thinking: the winning formula, Systems thinking, press .
Hans Hedin( 2005). Introduction to Strategic Intelligence ,Global Intelligence Aluance
Kirilov, I. S. (2019). Strategic Intelligence Strategies for Improving Performance in the Nonprofit Sector (Doctoral dissertation, Walden University).
Kori, B. W., M. A. Muathe, S., & Maina, S. M. (2020). Financial and nonfinancial measures in evaluating performance: The role of strategic intelligence in the context of commercial banks in Kenya. International Business Research, 13(10), 130.
Kuosa ,T(2016). Difference approaches of pattern management and Strategic intelligence, Technological Forevasting and social change.
Liebowitz, J, (2023). Strategic Intelligence Business Intelligence Competitive ,United States of America, Auerbach Publications
Liebowitz, J. (2019). Strategic intelligence: Business intelligence, competitive intelligence, and Knowledge Management. CRC Press.
Maccoby Dowell ( 2009). strategic intelligence: hand book for partitioners ,managers , and users, scarecrow, press.
Maccoby, M. (2015). Strategic intelligence: Conceptual tools for leading change. Oxford University Press, USA, 1988.
Pellissier, R., & Kruger, J. P. (2011). A study of strategic intelligence as a strategic management tool in thelong-term insurance industry in South Africa. European Business Review
Pratono, A. H. (2016). Strategic orientation and information technological turbulence. Business Process Management Journal, 22(2), 368–382.
Sedalia, Isfenti et all( 2021). The impact of strategic intelligence on enter preneurial Behavior and organizational development, 3rd international conference on Businessand management Research,Atlantis press,volume 2021.
Zakaria Muttlak (2020).The Impact of Strategic Intelligence on Strategic Flexibility in Bank , Aletihapin Jordan ,an International Journal of Management isra university , Jordan.