The mediating role of in-service training in relationship between organizational agility and readiness for organizational change from the perspective of physical education teachers

Subject Areas : Human Resources Excellence

Nima Shahidi ¹ , omid safari ²

1 - Department of Educational Management, ,Noorabad Mamasani Branch, Islamic Azad University, Noorabad Mamasani, Iran
2 - azad university

Received: 2022-01-10 Accepted : 2022-09-16 Published : 2022-02-20

Keywords: teacher, Organizational Agility, Organizational Change, In-service training,

Abstract :

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between organizational agility and readiness for organizational change with the mediating role of in-service training from the perspective of physical education teachers in Mamasani. descriptive-correlational method used for this purpose. The statistical population in this study was 53 physical education teachers in Mamasani city and all of them were studied.research instruments were Shams(2013) in-service training questionnaire, Chiva et al. (2007) readiness for organizational change and Felto et al. (2011) organizational agility of were used. The content validity of all three questionnaires was confirmed by experts and their reliability was determined by calculating Cronbach's alpha for three questionnaires, respectively 0.756, 0.843 and 0.909. Pearson correlation and path analysis tests were used to test the research hypotheses. The results of Pearson correlation test showed that there was a significant relationship between organizational agility, in-service training and readiness for organizational change. The results of path analysis showed that in-service training has a mediating role in the relationship between organizational agility and readiness for organizational change from the perspective of physical education teachers in Mamasani.