The mediation role of organizational resilience in the relationship between organizational myopia and organizational sustainability in higher education

The aim of this study is to develop a structural equation model which tests the structural relationship between organizational myopia, organizational resilience and organizational sustainability according to the opinions of the academicians working at Sakarya University. With this model, the mediation role of organizational resilience in the relationship between organizational myopia and organizational sustainability was discussed. For this reason, this study was designed with relational screening model which is one of the quantitative research methods, and in the study, structural regression model which is one of the structural equation model methods and is one of the approaches to test relational reasons, was used. Therefore, the following hypotheses were tested in the model: Firstly, "H0:Organizational myopia does not directly explain organizational resilience. H1:Organizational myopia directly explains organizational resilience."; secondly, "H0:Organizational myopia does not directly explain organizational sustainability. H1:Organizational myopia directly explains organizational sustainability"; thirdly, "H0:Organizational resilience does not directly explain organizational sustainability. H1:Organizational resilience directly explains organizational sustainability"; fourthly, "H0:Organizational myopia does not directly explain organizational sustainability through organizational resilience. H1:Organizational myopia directly explains organizational sustainability through organizational resilience." In this study, it was aimed to collect data from the higher education organizations which had Turkey Excellence in Sustainability Award. For this purpose, because of the fact that Sakarya University is the only university having the relevant award holistically, 2003 academicians working at Sakarya University constitute the population of this study. 322 academicians selected from this population according to the principles of structural equation model constitute the sample of this study. In order to collect data from this sample, "Organizational Sustainability Scale" developed by the researcher, and also "Organizational Resilience Scale" and "Organizational Myopia Scale" which were adapted to educational organizations by the researcher were used. As the results of the analyzes, it was seen that the data obtained by these measurement tools met the assumptions of the structural equation model in terms of normality, linearity, extreme values, multiple linear connection and sample size, and the established structural equation model was tested. As a result of the structural regression analysis, it was found that the established model had acceptable and excellent compliance values. In addition, it was determined that organizational myopia independent variable directly affected organizational resilience dependent variable, while it both directly and indirectly organizational sustainability dependent variable. It was also seen that organizational resilience independent variable directly affected organizational sustainability dependent variable. In addition, it was observed that organizational myopia and organizational resilience variables had indirect effects on the sub-dimenions of administrative sustainability, economic sustainability, social sustainability, cultural sustainability and environmental sustainability. Considering the effect sizes calculated for each structural equation, it was observed that the organizational myopia independent variable had a large effect on organizational resilience and organizational sustainability, while organizational resilience independent variable had a large effect on organizational sustainability similarly. In addition, it was found that organizational myopia and organizational resilience variables together had a large effect on organizational sustainability variable. Finally, the power of the study was found to be quite high as the result of the power analysis which is done to test the statistical rejection of H0 hypothesis.