Requirements to activate administrative technology in strategic planning in the Ministry of Education in the Sultanate of Oman

The study aimed to identify the reality of requirements for activating administrative technology in the strategic planning in Ministry of Education in the Sultanate of Oman from the point of view of its employees, and to reveal the degree of difference in their employment in strategic planning in light of the gender variable, job title, and workplace. The study also sought to identify requirements for activating administrative technology in strategic planning, and the descriptive method has been relied upon through designing a questionnaire consisting 33 phrases, distributed in four areas: diagnosing the current situation (strategic analysis), formulating the strategy, implementing the strategy, and following up and evaluation. The study sample consisted of 112 employees in the Ministry of Education, and the results of the study showed that the reality of activating administrative technology in strategic planning in the Ministry of Education in the Sultanate of Oman came with an average degree of activation in the tool as a whole and its four fields according to the responses of the members of the study sample. There are also no statistically significant differences at the level of 0.05 between the averages of responses of the study sample to the reality of activating of administrative technology in the strategic planning of the Ministry of Education in the four fields, and the tool as whole is attributed to the variable of the workplace. There are differences of statistical function attributable to the gender variable in strategy formulation that are for the benefit of males and the tool as a whole, and to the job title variable for the general manager and his assistants in the tool as a whole, and all areas except the follow-up and evaluation area in which the indication has come to benefit of a general manager and his assistants, and a department head. The study presented several suggested measures for the most important requirements for activating administrative technology in strategic planning in the Ministry of Education in Sultanate of Oman