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The current study sought to test a basic assumption, which is the possibility of the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs applying the strategic development model for its human resources. The study adopted the descriptive approach and the case study method, and the study population was the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The study used the checklist as a tool for collecting data and information, in addition to personal interviews and field visits in the ministry’s departments. Review records and documents. The study reached a number of conclusions, including the following: There is a clear weakness in the Ministry in managing employee training, due to the Ministry’s reliance on traditional methods in this field, and the failure to update training curricula and methods, such as the absence of proper planning for the training subject, and the absence of a system for identifying training needs. In addition to the Ministry’s heavy reliance on courses as well as external training provided by other parties. The study recommended a set of recommendations, including the following: The Ministry established a department under the name Human Resources Development, linked to the office of the Minister, or the Administrative Undersecretary, which undertakes all tasks related to human resources development, with the need for this department to work in this field, and for it to adopt a strategic development model for human resources. In addition to the need to fill the gap in a number of basic systems, such as the performance management system, the job description system, and the career path management and development system, by assigning the Human Resources Management Department and the Human Resources Development Department to accomplish this, considering it an important and urgent matter.

The study aimed to investigate the management of youth scientific talent projects at the Iraqi Ministry of Youth and Sports, how knowledge produced from these projects is discovered, and to provide recommendations from professionals in the field of gifted education in Iraq, as well as participants in youth scientific talent projects. The study used a descriptive-analytical approach, in which the content of documents and evidence related to the study objectives was analyzed, and a survey was conducted on a research community of (366) participants in scientific talent programs at the Ministry of Youth and Sports, in addition to experts and consultants in relevant institutions. The results showed that there are a number of young people who believe they are talented in the scientific field, with a percentage of (56%). Of these, (39.6%) received support through programs and activities of scientific talent projects, but still need more support in this field. The results also revealed that the factors that contribute to the development of scientific talent, only (46%) indicated that family support is the first and most important priority, while (26%) identified government support, (19%) school support, and (10%) community support. The study recommended increasing government support for young gifted people, through the adoption of a comprehensive national strategy that includes all relevant institutions, to provide quality care for gifted people.

The subject of this research concentrated on studying two main variables in the work of all Iraqi governmental ministries which are the organizational structure and the administrative oversight. These variables may influence the practicing of the administrative and financial work effectively. Subsequently this will decrease the capability of achieving the targets. Knowledge about the role of the organizational structure and achieving the harmony between their dimensions with the variables will be a good preoperative step towards success. This research aims to analyze the nature of the existing relationship between the organizational structure and the administrative oversight, to be able to determine the scope of how does this affect the efficiency of the organizational structure through practicing an affected oversight by the Ministry of Environment which will provide an adequate atmosphere. To understand the nature of the relationship between the understudying variables, the organizational structure is based on an interpretation variable within four dimensions, which are, the centralization, formalities complication, and specialty. Also the administrative oversight is responsive to variables like, standards, design, choice, and training. It is noteworthy to mention that the importance of this subject emerges from the limitations of studying the organizational structure and the administrative oversight, because this administrative job interferes the work of all Iraqi departments, despite the importance of the dimensions and what they represented as good methods to achieve success of the direct and indirect oversight work which will lead to the financial and administrative anti corruption and leads to understand the nature of the relationship between the design of organizational structure and the practicing of the administrative oversight to come up with forms that respond to the administrative oversight as far as Ministry of Environment is concerned. This research is based on the Iraqi ministry of environment. The specimen of the research included 50 individuals at the level of workers that contain the department managers, the section in charge, and the other employees. The questionnaire was the main way to collect the information that the research has based on, plus records, in actual interviews, and personal interviews. The research included sums of intellectual questions that specify the problems of the research then determine its goals and its importance to form their thesis. Many statistical methods have been used for dealing with the required information so this leads to many conclusions. The most important one was the organizational structure of the Ministry of the Environment was characterized generally by the mechanism which was far away from the membership actions; which leads to get away from the structure that includes (centralization, formalities, complication and specialty) these were highly used so they formed an obstacle in practicing the effective administrative oversight which creates status of distrust among the employees. Also the long-term procedures will complicate their steps besides organizational and administrative problems. This research ended with many recommendations; the most important ones are the necessity of adapting the process of the delegation of power that tends to decentralized, because it will create motivating environment among employees to make them feel that they are important by practicing the power and making decisions totally or partially also considering the decentralized an appropriate method to train them taking responsibility successfully and motivate them to occupy important jobs in the future. The present situation requires the organized working so the workers will take responsibility that will be an important mission to achieve success in the practicing of the administrative oversight according to the velocity of the procedures that the administrative and the financial work require reaching to create a motivated atmosphere full of trust for accurate performance.

A study was conducted for the purpose of evaluating the positive and negative activities for the private sector in national seed industry in Iraq, by evaluating these seed factory on the basis of production and storage capacities , the basis of infrastructure and evaluating their performance on seed quality by evaluating the results of post-consignment examination after purification. The results showed that there is a positive role for these companies in increasing storage and production capacities and distributing them to most provinces, as they contributed to increasing storage and production capacities, but they did not fully exploit the financial capabilities of private sector companies, rather relied on service contracts only. At the qualitative level, we find that most of these seed companies have focused on the quantitative aspect, not the quality of seeds, as it is noted that many consignments fail to comply with the specifications approved by the Ministry of Agriculture, in addition to the absence of competition between these companies as they relied on providing service contracts only (seed purification service not as seed supplying contracts).

The research aims to demonstrate the role of electronic transformation in reducing waste and corruption in the public sector. A group of Arab countries has been used as a sample for research for 2022. The analytical curriculum was used to arrive at the required results. Research has reached the most important conclusion that, as a global average, it is difficult to reduce waste and corruption because of the difficulty of disseminating electronic transformation in all the world\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s countries. The most important recommendation was to raise awareness through promotional campaigns of the importance of using electronic transformation to reduce the phenomenon of corruption.

This study aims to assess the impact of penal text in improving the performance of irrigation works and reducing violations. The penal text includes the application of legal and procedural penalties on individuals who violate laws and regulations related to irrigation works. The study reveals positive results, indicating that penal text contributes to deterring violators and promoting greater compliance with laws and regulations regarding irrigation works. The evaluation also highlights that penal text helps reduce instances of violations in irrigation works and enhances their efficiency and sustainability. It is crucial to provide necessary support and awareness to farmers and the public regarding penal text and its significance in protecting water resources and preserving the aquatic environment. This study emphasizes the importance of developing and implementing effective penal texts to achieve sustainable development goals and safeguard water resources.

If the law governs the behavior of individuals in their relations with each other, then this is not sufficient. Rather, it must govern their relations with the government bodies and institutions within the State. The decision-makers in these institutions are only individuals like others. They are not infallible from error and arbitrariness, and they may be motivated by the authority they enjoy entrusted to them to achieve The common good leads to robbing and assaulting the rights of others and abusing them. Therefore, there must be effective means that prevent and prevent the administration from arbitrarily using its powers entrusted to it, and that it does not deviate from the meaning of the public interest and the spirit of the law by transferring the employee unlawfully. There must be a regulator or legal means that makes it easier for the plaintiff and the judge to uncover this abuse, whether this was directly or indirectly, especially since many countries adopted a new approach to this, as they no longer relied on the contested decision as a means of proving arbitrariness. This was expanded by resorting to the case file and the evidence surrounding the decision, in addition to the subsequent circumstances and conditions and contemporary decision-making to prove arbitrariness, and the use of authority in order to prevent the loss of the principle of legality in the duties of administration and to facilitate the burden of proof on the plaintiff.

Because of the new stage of Iraq، Entitlements and aspirations towards completion of construction and reconstruction، the aspirations towards achieving luxury services, this research aims to identify the role played by effective strategic vision in achieving, completing and implementing strategic projects through available capabilities and to improve development performance of organization under study and reflect its success in achieving aspirations and horizons. Research problem discussed through a set of questions, the most important of which is nature of relationship between future strategic vision and implementation of strategic projects, whether it is possible to produce a strategic vision that achieves integration of implementation of strategic projects, as well as studying dimensions of the independent variable, process of strategic vision, and dependent variable, Implementation of strategic projects, and determining relationship between them، and adoption been made. Using a case study approach and a sample consisting of 40 employees of Public Municipalities Department who have expertise and experience in developing plans and implementing projects relying on the statistical analysis program SPSS V.23 to test research hypotheses and reach a set of conclusions, the most important of which is that the relationship between research variables has an impact and a strong connection between its dimensions, individually and together, also recommended a set of recommendations, including the need for researched organization to pay attention to achieving strategic integration in implementing projects within the comprehensive strategic vision; paying attention to public policy team in researched organization; and developing units concerned with future strategic studies.

Today\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s world witnesses the spread of huge companies, which own capitals, technological abilities, and great scientific capacities that use modern administration. Therefore, the financial indicators of the Public Company for Agricultural Supplies must be studied in order to examine the strengths and weaknesses. The research emerges from a problem represented by the few amount of financial expenditures allocated by the agencies of the State to the Ministry of Agriculture and the company, which was negatively reflected on the availability of the agricultural product requirements in a way that suits the demands and the size of the agricultural sector. The research comes up with the following results. The company achieved net profits for most of the study period and reached its largest value in 2017 approximating (282.13) billion Iraqi dinars, but it recorded a deficit of about (10.58-) billion Iraqi dinars in 2015. Commercial activities represented the greatest part of the company\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s total incomes during the study period. The rate of change was positive for most of the study years in spite of fluctuation of gross profit margin standard values. This indicates the efficiency of the company\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s leadership of resources employment in general except for 2015. In addition, despite fluctuation, the values of return on assets criterion indicate the efficiency of the company\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s leadership of investing the assets, except for 2015. The total assets dealt with by the company are variable assets represented by agricultural requirements. The values of stock turnover ratio and the average duration of holding inventory indicated a decrease in the efficiency of the company’s optimal management for its inventory during the whole study years that followed 2000 especially in the period from (2011-2016) where a sequential downward decline is recorded on the values of the two standards. Moreover, a decrease in the efficiency of the company’s managing of its fixed assets and total assets is also recorded in all the years under study after 2000. The research concluded that it is necessary to increase the financial expenses allocated to the company by the concerned authorities to practice its role, which is commensurate with the size and requirements of the development of agricultural sector.

This research focused on if the Agricultural Bank relied on balancing programs and performance instead of balancing the items in its statement of approval (spending allocations), this would lead to the governance of the bank’s decisions and the achievement of the principles of transparency and accountability for the bank’s activity, and the completion of the bank’s governance guide in accordance with the institutional governance manual issued by The Central Bank of Iraq is the cornerstone of this, as the adoption of program and performance budgets and the presence of an objective and thoughtful governance guide lead to the advancement of the bank’s reality and keeping pace with the rapid environmental developments surrounding it, whether local, regional or international. In light of this, it was achieved to prove the research hypothesis that the decisions of The Agricultural Bank will be rational and built on objective and sound foundations.