Organizational Red Tapes and their Reflections on Entrepreneurial Orientation: an Exploratory Study of a Sample of Employees in Some Organizations in the Province of Ninewah

Abstract

Organizations adopt a number of procedures and instructions in their field of activities in order to aid their resources development   and energies to serve their entrepreneurial orientations. This calls for preparing a range of mechanisms to mitigate the strictness and complexity of procedures. The ambiguity and severe  complexity  of procedures means acknowledging the loss in energy and this in turn  impedes the hopes while in the same time weakens the  enthusiasm in these organizations and an impedes the possibility to achieve continues innovation, thereby losing opportunities to the level of surrender to the risks and  assuming them to be unconquered obstacles.

Therefore the researchers sought to frame the problem of their study by asking the following question: are organizational red tapes with their complex form, a confounding factor towards the entrepreneurial orientation process in the investigated organizations?

The study adopted a questionnaire form as the main tool to collect data on the phenomenon under  study .The researchers utilized a number of statistical tools  including (ratios, frequencies. mean, standard deviation, correlation and regression).

The main conclusion of the study was expounding a correlation and impact between organizational red tapes and entrepreneurial orientation at the level of the investigated organizations' sample. The study also provided a number of recommendations