Abstract:
The study aimed to identify the effect of the core values in the application of strategic
management, in light of the presence of institutional empowerment as a mediating variable, in
civil society institutions operating in Jordan. The study relied on the descriptive and analytical
approach to achieve the objectives of the study, test its hypotheses, and answer its questions. The
questionnaire was adopted as a tool for collecting primary data from the respondents. The study
population consists of civil society institutions operating in Jordan, the number of which is
(4800) associations affiliated with the Ministry of Social Development and has a license to carry
out their work. Civil society institutions that have local and foreign funding and have strategic
plans were selected. The number of (528) associations, and due to the difficulty of access and the
cost of communicating with this number of these associations, the size of the target sample was
determined by (223) associations selected by the simple random sample method, that is, (42.2%)
of the associations that meet the previous conditions. The analysis unit consisted of upper and
middle administrations in civil society organizations operating in Jordan, who fall into the
following job titles: Director, Assistant Director, Head of Department and Supervisor, and the
number of distributed questionnaires reached (446), while the number of questionnaires valid for
analysis reached (388). The study concluded with a set of results, the most important of which
are: The level of core values, implementation of the strategy, and institutional empowerment in
civil society institutions operating in Jordan has reached the highest score on the (Likert) fivepoint scale. The existence of a statistically significant effect of the core values in the
implementation of the strategy, and in the same context the existence of a statistically significant
effect of the core values of institutional empowerment, the existence of a statistically significant
effect of institutional empowerment in the application of the strategy, as well as the existence of
a statistically significant effect of the core values in the application of the strategy in the presence
of institutional empowerment variable Mediator.
The study recommended that civil society institutions operating in Jordan should continue to pay
attention to consolidating the core values, the requirements for implementing the strategy, and
adopting an institutional empowerment approach to enhance the participation of workers to
achieve continuity and growth.
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