The Role of Institutional Capacity in Enhancing Organizational Effectiveness: An Exploratory Study of Selected Tourism Education Institutions in Iraq

Abstract

The researcher aims through the current research to verify the relationship between organizational strength and its impact as an independent variable in increasing the effectiveness of tourism institutions in tourism education institutions in Iraq، and to try to reach a set of recommendations that contribute to enhancing the practice and adoption of the two variables in the current study، based on the importance of the subject to the research community and its fundamental impact on their activities and services، and based on the descriptive analytical approach followed in this research، including the research community that included (deans، assistants، heads of departments and workers in the researched institutions)، as the researcher distributed (82) questionnaires، in addition to field interviews as tools to enhance the research، and the research relied on the statistical program (SPSS V.25، AMOS V.25) with the adoption of descriptive statistics and inference methods (linearity test، normal distribution test، confirmatory factor analysis، structural modeling،arithmetic mean، percentages، standard deviation، relative importance، coefficient of variation، Pearson correlation coefficient، simple regression coefficient، path analysis، and Sobel test) to test the hypotheses. The study highlighted its conclusions، which demonstrated the validity of the hypotheses representing the direct impact of organizational power on increasing the effectiveness of tourism education institutions in Iraq.