The research aimed to identifying the relationship between the creative thinking
strategies and enhancing the competitive advantage in Tishreen university. By identifying
the extent of the impact of each dimensions of creative thinking strategies a
nd the methods
used to implement these strategies on the human resource characteristic and distinctive
competencies. The researcher relied on the Deductive Approach and on the descriptive
approach as a general method. She has distributed the questionnaire to 350 people, they are
members of the teaching staff and the heads of section, who work in Tishreen university.
This study has concluded to several results, the most important one was that there were
significant relationship between creative thinking strategies and enhancing the competitive
advantages. But this relationship is weak, because of the weakness of training programs,
especially in the field of creative thinking. The researcher reviewed many important results
at the end of this research, and also presented several proposals and recommendations, and
the most important of it was: the need of the university to conduct training courses for their
employees, especially for development creative thinking skills, and definite their
employees to the important of using creative thinking strategies in their work, in order to
develop their skills and knowledge as the reflect on the develop of their performance, and
enhance the competitive advantages.
The study aimed at uncovering the effect of the use of brainstorming strategy in the
improving the decision-making skills of the fourth grade students through their answers to
a test that measures the decision-making skill in the social studies. It
also aims to know the
differences between the middle grades, the students who learned according to the
brainstorming strategy and the pupils Who were taught according to the usual method.
Accordingly, a semi-experimental approach was adopted.
Abrainstorming strategy was designed for a unit of the fourth grade social studies
book, and a test was designed to measure decision- (10) phrases, each of which included a
problem to be decided on, and the educational program was applied to a sample of the
fourth grade students in the first class of basic education (103) students and students in the
school of martyr Yasser Kasu in the city of Jblah, The study shows that there is a
statistically significant difference between the average scores of the students of the two
groups (experimental and control) in the post-implementation and deferred to test the skill
of decision making, and this difference is in the interest of the students of the experimental
group.
The study suggested that the brainstorming strategy should be applied in the teaching of
the new curriculum, and studies should be carried out to reveal the impact of this strategy
on the development of different thinking skills and in most subjects.
