The role of core capabilities in promoting institutional creativity

An analytical study of the opinions of a sample of faculty members in (selected) universities and institutes in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

Abstract

   The main purpose of the current research is to know the role of intrinsic capabilities in promoting institutional creativity in a sample of universities and institutes in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

    The current research problem refers to the lack of institutional creativity in the researched educational institutions. In order to solve this problem, the researchers proposed paying attention to the core capabilities in its two dimensions: organizational learning and technological capabilities. And then study it within one framework and according to a sequential approach to reach a comprehensive and clear vision of the implications of why educational institutions should pay increased attention to core abilities.

    As the research sample represents the opinions of a sample of faculty members in a sample of universities and institutes in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, the electronic questionnaire was distributed via Google Forms as the main tool for collecting data for the research sample, and (107) questionnaires valid for analysis were retrieved as a random sample. For the purpose of statistical analysis and treatment, the research relies on a set of statistical methods, including (frequencies, percentage, mean, standard deviation, correlation coefficient, simple linear regression coefficient, multiple linear regression), depending on the outputs of the statistical software (SPSS V.25). The researchers adopted the descriptive analytical approach to describe the variables and analyze the collected data.

   The research reached a set of conclusions, the most important of which was that organizational learning affects the promotion of institutional creativity, as well as technological capabilities affect the promotion of institutional creativity, as it indicates the proof of the first and second hypotheses of the research, and based on that, a set of proposals related to the need to increase the awareness and interest of educational institutions was indicated. In general, the educational institutions studied in particular with the contents of the core capabilities to take a prominent and distinguished position among other contemporary methods and mechanisms as an appropriate opportunity to adopt creative work methods, and to develop distinct plans so as to put them in a good position independently to improve their performance and then outperform their competitors.