Analyzing the Existing Thinking Status among the Employees of Tehran Province Education Organization Based on the Comprehensive Strategic Thinking Model

Nowadays, organizations need a process for an accurate and reasonable decision-making as well as appropriate perception and understanding of the related issues and events in order to develop their employees perceptions and understandings. This approach is called Strategic Thinking. Thus, this research aims to analyze the existing thinking status among the employees of Tehran Province Education Organization based upon the Comprehensive Strategic Thinking Model which is a model in alliance with the conditions and features of Iran. The research has been carried out by the survey method using a research-made questionnaire. The statistical population contains all the employees of the aforesaid Education Organization which have been chosen randomly. For this reason, 19 hypotheses were defined and the findings revealed that the proportion of the existing thinking model among the employees of the Education Organization on the basis of the Comprehensive Strategic Thinking Model was higher than the average extent; meanwhile, the meaningful difference among the employees was only observed on age from the variables of gender, marital status, age, work experience, and academic level. In addition, the importance rate of the components in comparison with their related performance level together with the gap between these two indices were analyzed and it was observed that there were the most and the least gap in the components entitled Future Vision and Analysis Power respectively.