Modeling the Effect of Agility on Organizational and Social Sustainability Mediated by Organizational Culture (Case Study: Young Principals and Deputies of Public Schools in Babol)

Subject Areas : Sociological Studies of Youth

Mehdi Biglari Firooz ¹ , Babak Hosseinzadeh ² , Vahid Fallah ³

1 - Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Educational Sciences, Sari Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sari, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Babol Branch, Islamic Azad University, Babol, Iran
3 - Assistant Professor of Educational Sciences, Sari Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sari, Iran

Received: 2021-03-13 Accepted : 2021-03-13 Published : 2021-02-01

Keywords: Organizational Culture, Agility, Organizational sustainability,

Abstract :

The Purpose of this study was to model the effect of agility on organizational and social sustainability by mediating organizational Culture in young principals and deputies of high school and the descriptive research method was correlational based on the structural equations. The statistical population of the present study includes all young principals and deputies of public high schools in Babol city with 375 people in 125 schools. The validity of the instrument structure was confirmed and their reliability was calculated using Cronbach's alpha coefficient test and computational reliability which was statistically confirmed. Structural equations with SPSS 18 and AMOS23 software were used to analyze the data. Findings show that the variables of agility and organizational Culture have a significant direct effect on organizational and social sustainability and the indirect effect of agility on organizational and social sustainability mediates organizational Culture. The results of this study emphasized the need for the role of organizational agility and Culture on organizational and social sustainability.

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