The Study of the Effect of Organizational Intelligence on Strategic Thinking of Social Welfare Organization Employess in Yazd Province

Purpose of this research is investigating the relationship between organizational intelligence and dimensions of strategic thinking among employees of sofical welfare organization in Yazd province. This is a descriptive-correlation study and organizational intelligence was considered as independent variable and strategic thinking as dependent variable. Statistical population of this research includes all 1500 employess of social welfare organization and sample size was determined using Cochrane formula as 310. Two organizational intelligence questionnaires Albrecht questionnaire and researcher-constructed questionnaire of strategic thinking were used to gather data. Reliability of the questionnaires with Cronbach alpha was 0.87 and 0.86, respectively. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used in order to analyze data and SPSS 16 software, Pearson correlation coefficient test and regression analysis were used for data analysis. Main research hypothesis i.e. the relationship between organizational intelligence and strategic thinking was confirmed and there was a relationship between organizational intelligence and creative, critical, system and prospective thinking but there was no relationship between organizational intelligence and value-focused thinking.