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Studies on strategic decision effectiveness have received less attention in Saudi Arabia. Its importance in the smooth management of organization can never be overemphasized. More so, the findings by these few researchers have been inconsistent. There is the need to embark on this study to explore further the position of the strategic decision effectiveness in combination with constructs such as decision importance, decision motives, decision uncertainty and resistance to change. Attribution theory describes the behavior of individual in a group and is the focal point of the study. Individuals at work do not like changes, hence, the idea to explore effect of resistance to change in the relationship between decision importance and strategic decision effectiveness which was never explored prior to this study. The objective of the study is two folds: First is to determine the relationship between decision importance and second is to explore the mediating role resistance to change in an organization could play in the relationship between decision importance and the strategic decision effectiveness study. To achieve these objectives, two hypotheses and two research questions were formulated. Structured questionnaire was used in a five-point Likert Scale. The respondent comprised to 200 hundred senior administrator and academic staff that partake in decision of public universities in the KSA. The finding indicates positive and significant relationship between the construct under study. The result also indicates that resistance to change mediate in the relationship between the decision importance and the strategic decision effectiveness.
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