Intellectual Skills for Human Resources and their Reflection on Strategic Performance

Abstract

The research aims to analyze the nature of correlations and influence between the intellectual skills of human resources and strategic performance, as the intellectual skills of human resources constitute the primary engine for the implementation of all duties and operations carried out by the organization, and as a result of sharp changes in the environment in which it operates, it is necessary for this organization to determine the most important indicators Financial and non-financial that must be adopted in achieving strategic performance to ensure its survival and continued operation. The field research problem was represented by a decrease in the perceptive awareness of the importance of employing the intellectual skills of the human resources working with it in achieving the indicators of strategic financial and non-financial performance, so the importance of research emerges in an attempt to provide treatments to it, and to achieve the goals of the research by clarifying the relationship between the main and sub-researched variables. The two descriptive, analytical descriptive approaches were adopted in the application of the research, as the questionnaire was used as a data collection tool, which was prepared using a number of ready-made measures according to the Likert five-year scale, and subjected to the standards of honesty and consistency, and was distributed to a sample consisting of (101) department managers and division officials in ( 5) Directorates of the Iraqi Ministry of Education. For processing and analyzing the research data, SPSS-V23 & Excel was used as the most important statistical tools used in the analysis: (agreement ratio, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, difference coefficient, Spearman correlation coefficient, and simple linear regression). The statistical methods produced a set of results that confirmed the existence of a moral correlation between the intellectual skills of human resources and strategic performance, as it appeared that there was a moral effect of intellectual skills for human resources in strategic performance, and within the framework of interpreting and discussing the results. A set of conclusions were presented, the most important of which is that the intellectual skills of human resources is the most important resources for defining and building strategic financial and non-financial performance indicators in light of the contemporary dynamic environment, which necessitates increasing attention to developing intellectual skills by examining the experiences of developed countries and trying to benefit from them and apply them in the Iraqi environment in the best possible way.