The Relationship Between Organizational Commitment and Strategic Position an Exploratory Study in Iraqi Telecom Companies

Abstract

The current research aims to study how organizational commitment with its dimensions (emotional commitment, continuous commitment, and normative commitment) and related with strategic position dimensions (vision, social capital, and learning). In achieving the strategic position under discussion in a sample of telecommunications companies (Zain, Asia Cell and Korek) in Baghdad, the research relied on the questionnaire as a measure of the research variables, and the relationship between them was tested, the sample included (150) of the administrative leaders of the companies under study (Director, head of a division, a division official, an employee) and some statistical methods were used using the program (SPSS v.25). A direct relate of organizational commitment with strategic position of telecommunications companies in a competitive environment, and the most prominent finding of the research was the need for the management of the companies under discussion to pay attention to organizational commitment and its dimensions among leaders, and to increase the desire of workers to belong to their companies to achieve competitive advantages and thus acquire companies strategic position.