Abstract

The continuation of organizations in performing their activities depends on their ability to quickly confront the surrounding crises and adapt to the changes taking place in the external environment, as the health sector in Iraq in general and in Salah al-Din Governorate in particular suffers from many health crises. As soon as a crisis ends, another crisis comes, and the slowness in addressing health crises turns them into a disaster that may topple organizations, which makes it imperative for organizations to search for ways to speed up confronting those crises, among which was strategic improvisation. The role played by strategic improvisation in crisis management through its three stages (pre-crisis management stage, crisis management stage, post-crisis management stage) in the health organizations covered by the survey. For the purpose of achieving the goal of the study and answering its questions, the descriptive analytical approach was used, and the study population was represented by all managers working in health organizations in Salah al-Din Governorate, whose number is (318), from whom a non-random sample (intentionally) was selected by (120) individuals, to whom the questionnaire was distributed. (115) questionnaires were retrieved from them, and (115) questionnaires were valid for analysis, with a percentage of (96%), and their opinions were surveyed through the use of the five-point Likert scale, and after data collection and processing statistically through statistical tools (honesty coefficient, Cronbach's Alpha coefficient, KMO test and Determina matrix, skew coefficient, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, relative importance, coefficient of variation, Pearson correlation coefficient, regression coefficient β, t-value, F-value, coefficient of determination R2, adjusted R2, Dorbin-Watson test ), the program (SPSS Ver.22) was used, and the research came out with a set of conclusions, the most important of which were: the possibility of encircling and resolving the crises facing the health organizations surveyed, before, during and after their occurrence. By adopting the method of strategic improvisation, to a degree exceeding half, and as shown by the results of the statistical analysis, and based on the results of the study, a set of recommendations were formulated, the most important of which is to increase the interest of the health organizations surveyed, in Salah al-Din Governorate, in the two variables (strategic improvisation and crisis management). In order to reduce health crises.