Explaining an Organizational Agility Development Model

Subject Areas : Business Strategy

Mohammadvali Rashidi ¹ , Moslem Cherabin ² , Ahmad Akbari ³ , Ali Maghool ⁴

1 - Department of Educational Management, Neyshabur Branch, Islamic Azad University, Neyshabur, Iran
2 - Department of Educational Management, Neyshabur Branch, Islamic Azad University, Neyshabur, Iran
3 - Department of Educational Management, Neyshabur Branch, Islamic Azad University, Neyshabur, Iran
4 - Department of Educational Management, Neyshabur Branch, Islamic Azad University, Neyshabur, Iran

Received: 2018-12-26 Accepted : 2019-02-16 Published : 2019-04-01

Keywords: Organizational Factors, Human Factors, Technological Factors, Organizational Agility, Strategic Factors,

Abstract :

Nowadays, organizational agility is a subject that its study has a significant impact on the growth and improvement of organizations. The present research is carried out in order to design and explain an organizational agility development model for the North Khorasan province's organization of education. Present research in terms of purpose is applied and in terms of methodology is descriptive-exploratory. According to the theoretical hypotheses explained in the research, organizational, strategic, human, and technological factors were identified in this research as the factors explaining the organizational agility development model for the North Khorasan province's organization of education. In order to explain the research model, a standard questionnaire, developed by Sharifi and Zhang (2001), was used. The Cochran formula was used to determine the sample size and the sampling method was stratified random sampling. To analyze data, descriptive and inferential statistics methods were used so that in the inferential part, confirmatory and exploratory factor analysis tests using SPSS and LISREL were used. The results obtained from the statistical analysis at the descriptive level demonstrated that average of organizational agility, human, organizational and strategic factors are greater than the average level and average of technological factors is at the average level. At the inferential level, which used confirmatory factor analysis, the results indicated that organizational, human, strategic, and technological factors are influential on the organizational agility development. Thus, this study develops an organizational agility model based on the aforementioned factors