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Educ Strategy Med Sci 2014, 7(1): 25-31 Back to browse issues page
Application Level of Organizational Agility Indices at Universities
Bagheri Kerachi A. 1, Abbaspour A.2 , Aghazade A.3 , Rahimian H.2 , Mehregan M.R.4
1- Administration & Educational Planning Department, Psychology & Education Faculty, Allameh Tabatabaei University, Tehran, Iran , bagherikerachi@gmail.com
2- Administration & Educational Planning Department, Psychology & Education Faculty, Allameh Tabatabaei University, Tehran, Iran
3- Education & Training Department, Psychology & Education Faculty, Allameh Tabatabaei University, Tehran, Iran
4- Management Department, Management Faculty, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran
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Aims: Higher education system and universities require some forms of agility. The aim of this research was to determine the usage of the organizational agility components in universities, based on the 5 components of agility ‘motivations’, ‘capabilities’, ‘facilitators’, ‘barriers’ and ‘consequences’.

Methods: This descriptive survey study was performed by the faculty members of the state universities of Fars province, and 310 persons were selected, using proportion stratified sampling method. Data collecting was done using 116 question researcher-made questionnaire of measuring the application of agility in universities. One sample T and One-way ANOVA tests were used for data analyzing.

Results: There was no significant difference between the view points of the faculty members about the measure of the usage of the organization agility components, according to their sex but according to the academic rank, teaching experience and kind of the university of the faculty members and organizational position of the persons, it had statistically significant difference.

Conclusion: Level of the usage of the organization agility components in Fars province state universities is less than the average level.

Keywords: Organizational Agility, University, Agility Components
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Article Type: Original Research | Subject: Health
Received: 2013/02/6 | Accepted: 2013/05/12 | Published: 2014/03/18


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