Organizational sustainability through exploring its dimensions from the perspective of employees of the youth and sports directorate in Kirkuk

Organizational sustainability aims to build a sustainable organizational infrastructure that enhances a culture of sustainability, ensuring sustainable performance at both the employee and institutional levels. The dimensions of organizational sustainability include strategic, economic, environmental, social, and behavioral sustainability. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the significance of sustainability, affecting economic, social, and environmental aspects, and emphasizing the need for more sustainable economic, social, and environmental models. Sustainability involves the ability to meet current needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. It encompasses activities that contribute to achieving a sustainable balance in financial, strategic, product, program, and other dimensions over the short, medium, and long term. Sustainability also includes innovation and creativity to support long-term sustainability, making institutions more efficient through additional improvements in processes and outcomes, and encouraging long-term responsible and reliable engagement in all business activities. Following a review of the literature, the concepts were defined, the model was built, and hypotheses were formulated based on the dimensions of organizational sustainability. Given the nature of the research and its objectives, the descriptive-analytical approach was used. A questionnaire was designed to collect data from the Directorate of Youth and Sports in Kirkuk, targeting a population of 300 employees. The measurement tools were developed using a comprehensive census approach. One hundred questionnaires were distributed, of which 83 were returned. After excluding two invalid responses, 81 valid questionnaires were analyzed. These were distributed through Google Forms and printed paper forms. Several methods were employed to ensure validity and reliability, including expert evaluations and Cronbach's alpha. Additionally, factor analysis, simple correlation, and structural equation modeling (SEM) using SPSS version 26 were applied. The results revealed a strong and positive correlation and impact among the dimensions of organizational sustainability. The study concludes that there is a weakness in adopting financial sustainability. The results indicated that the institution needs to improve its performance in the area of financial sustainability, as this dimension recorded the lowest average among the four dimensions. This suggests the necessity of allocating more financial resources to support sustainability activities.