Assessment of Strategic Thinking among Iran Glass Industry Managers

The present research was conducted with the aim of measuring glass industry managers' strategic thinking with the help of Goldman model. In doing so, a questionnaire was developed to measure variables, in that the first part consists of general questions and the second part consisted of technical questions based on Likert scale. Having confirmed the reliability of the questionnaire with a 83% Cronbach's alpha coefficient and the validity of the measurement instrument by the faculty members of Department of Management and Economy among a sample consisting of 80 individuals by means of Morgan's table and random sampling method consisting of managers working in a national food glass utensil making industry, the questionnaires were distributed. The present research is an applied research by purpose, and it is a survey-type research as to how descriptive data are collected. For the analysis of the findings, the research hypotheses, Student's t-distribution test and Friedman; the result of the research findings indicate that the status of strategic thinking implementation remains at an undesirable level across the managers of the industry from the viewpoint if the respondents, according to Goldman model. However, the values of components were intelligent opportunism, forward-thinking, conceptual thinking, and system thinking, respectively (the software was used was SPSS version 18).

Keywords:

strategic thinking , Goldman's model , systems thinking , conceptual thinking , forward-thinking , intelligent opportunism