The Impact Of Organizational Structure on the Effectiveness of Strategic Management "An Field study on the port Governmental Company of Tartous"

This research aims to study the effect of the organizational structure of the three dimensions(complexity, official, central) on the effectiveness of strategic management at the General Company of Tartous Port, To achieve this goal, a questionnaire was developed to achieve this goal, where the questionnaire was distributed to the research sample of managers (at all levels), The researcher used the descriptive approachin data collection, it was relying on statistical analysis program (spss.20) in its analysis. The researcher found many results such: There is a positive relationship between independent variables ( complexity, official, and central in structure) of the dependent variable (effectiveness of strategic management), the value of the correlation coefficient between independent variables and dependent variable 82% , and coefficient of determination 67%, considering the port is a government company with a large volume and subject to the laws, regulation, and strict instruction. And works in a stable environment . The researcher recommended the need to redesign the organizational structure of the general company of Tartous port to suit the application of strategic management effectively, in addition the promotion of vertical and horizontal organization and informal communications as reflected positively on the workers, and thus the effectiveness of the organization.

Determinants of Financial Structure Decision: Evidence from Syria Companies subject to the supervision of Syrian Commission on Financial Markets and Securities (2007 -2011)

This study aimed to determine the requirements and constraints of the application of knowledge management at Tishreen University. The study area was a set of employees in the central administration of Tishreen University. The researcher used the questionnaire as a tool to collect data, where 160 questionnaires were recovered from a total of 200 distributed. The result of this study found an urgent requirement for the application of knowledge management is the organizational culture, organizational structure and information technology, in addition to a number of direct obstacles, including: lack of clarity of the concept of knowledge management at most of the studied sample, and failure to allocate sufficient funding to be applied at Tishreen University.