Organizational development and its impact in job performance: Field research in the Ministry of Education / General Directorate of Vocational Education

Abstract

The research aims to identify the impact of organizational development in its five dimensions, which are (training and developing employees' skills, systems and policies followed, technological methods and tools, organizational structure, analysis of conditions and keeping pace with various environmental variables) on job performance in the General Directorate of Vocational Education. The research problem was represented by asking the question: What is the impact of organizational development in its dimensions on job performance? The study of research variables was chosen due to the novelty and importance of these variables. A main hypothesis was formulated for the research, which stated that there is no statistically significant relationship of influence of organizational development on job performance. The study was conducted in the Ministry of Education / General Directorate of Vocational Education. The research community was represented by the employees of that directorate, numbering (351) employees, and the research sample was (88) employees. As for the means of collecting data, it was done using a questionnaire and personal interviews. The statistical program (SPSS-V.26) was used to analyze the data. The most prominent results reached by the research was the existence of a positive impact of organizational development on job performance in the General Directorate of Vocational Education, and that the most influential dimension of organizational development on job performance is the dimension of training and developing employees' skills. The study recommended providing an appropriate financial budget to carry out the continuous updating of the technological methods used in the directorate in order to ensure the institution’s organizational reconstruction and to bring about major behavioral and technological changes.