Aligning Organizational Elements in the Light of Strategic Reference Points and its Relationship with Organizational Performance

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Different approaches are presented regarding how to react to the changing world. All these approaches are me meaningful if cover the alignment principle in the organization as a fundamental and more important principle. Surveys and research on the successful organizations are indicative of considering alignment as a determinant axis in the organization. This article is the result of a research on the key role of alignment in enhancing organizational performance. In this research, organizational performance is measured based on secondary data of Martyr Rajaee Model. By the way, theory of Strategic Reference Points (SRP) was used to measure alignment among four organizational elements including organizational strategy, culture, structure, and human resource strategy. First, the results of findings show a high alignment among above mentioned elements. Second, a positive correlation was found between alignment and organizational performance.

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