Zaeimeh Nematolahi

Current researches around the axis of strategic management indicate that strategy formulation cannot be the main concern or problem of organizations. Rather, what has become a problem is the lack of alignment between different departments of the organization and the organization's strategies. This research tries to provide a model for creating strategic alignment of employees with the interpretive structural modeling approach. The tool of this research was a researcher-made questionnaire that was given to experts (11 university professors and managers and employees of Bushehr gas company). To check the validity of the research tool, content validity was used and the reliability of the tool was calculated with Cohen's kappa index, which was reported as 0.65. In order to conduct the research, first by reviewing the literature, the desired factors were extracted, and then by forming a focus group of university professors and managers of Bushehr Gas Company, eight final factors were selected, which were finally selected using interpretive structural modeling at three levels. The results of the research showed that factors such as the maturity of the organization's culture, employees' perception of the organization's goals, employees' participation in strategy formulation, appropriate reward system and transparency of the organization's mission statement, have the greatest impact on the strategic alignment of employees. Therefore, managers are advised not to ignore the great impact of these five factors if they want to align employees with the organization's strategies.