World Journal of
Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ORGANIZATIONAL AGILITY AND ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE IN SHIRAZ NAMAZI HOSPITAL EMPLOYEES

Manoochehr Soroosh Mehr, *Hossein Hosseini-Fahraji and Somayeh Hessam

ABSTRACT

Background: The Organizational Agility is considered as one of the most important requirements to Respons the collection of internal and external factors and continuous changes. The hospitals should Respons the needs of their customers and patients by more effective, cheaper and faster ways to become successful and improve their performances. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the situation of agility and determination of its relation on the organizational
performance of Shiraz Namazi hospital Employees. Methods: this is an applied & cross-sectional study that was conducted by a descriptive method. In the present study, 120 nurses, official experts and the paraclinic personnel of Namazi hospital participated. They were selected by the classified and random sampling .Also, the size of sample was determined based on the number of each section in the research community. The instruments used in this study were the standard questionnaires of organizational agility and performance. Their validity and reliability were measured again and they were confirmed by the researcher. In order to analyze the data, the descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation coefficient test and SPSS (version 19) were used. Results: the present study indicated that the status of organizational agility in Shiraz Namazi hospital Employees in with the grade of 73.93 is in an intermediate level and the organizational performance with the grade of 95.62 is considered as upper intermediate and in an acceptable level. There was a positive and significant relationship between the organizational agility and organizational performance with the correlation coefficient 0.779(p<0.0001). In addition, there was a positive and significant relation between the four factors of agility including speed (0.689), merit competence (0.689), responsiveness (0.690) and flexibility (0.776) respectively with the organizational performance. All of them had a positive and significant relation with the statistical probability under 0.05 (p<0.0001). Conclusion: with regard to the findings of this study, it was concluded that there was a direct relation between the organizational agility with the performance of the hospitals. Thus, the policy makers and the managers of health sectors in the hospitals should enforce the organizational agility factors of personnel to improve their performance and productivity. Thus, the employment of agile personnel and also the pre and in-service trainings can be so helpful.

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