Examination the impact of organizational culture on organizational agility in Ahvaz NISOC
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Examination the impact of organizational culture on organizational agility in Ahvaz NISOC
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Since environmental changes have affected many aspects of organizations, they must dynamically adapt to environmental changes using appropriate changes so that they can survive. Changing culture is a unique solution. This change should be taught to everybody in the shortest possible time. Accordingly, one way of agility organization is properly shaping the organizational culture. The main objective of this study is to examine the effect of organizational culture on the organizational agility. The statistical population consists of experts and supervisors in Ahavaz National Iranian South Oil Company (NISOC). The research is applied in terms of objective, and descriptive in terms of the data collection method, and causal in terms of relation between variables, and is specifically based on structural equation modeling. In order to measure the research variables, a questionnaire and statistical analysis methods with SPSS.18 and LISREL.8.5 were used. Results of the questionnaire analysis indicated that the organizational culture (and its dimensions) has a significant positive impact on organizational agility.
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