Examination of the Effect of Work Design on Organizational Intelligence

Organizational intelligence is one of the components that should be possessed by the present era managers, in order to manage their subordinate organizations, by obtaining a deep knowledge. So, finding fields to improve staff motivation in order to fortify OI is an undeniable necessity. One of these fields is work design. The aim of this study is examination of the effect of job characteristics on OI in ministry of industry, mine and trade in Alborz province. The main means for collecting data included 2 standard questionnaires of the organizational intelligence by Albercht and job characteristics by Hackman and Oldham. Analyzing data has done by SPSS and in two levels: descriptive and inferential statistic. Results of the regression model showed that the variables of job characteristics has meaningful and positive effect on OI and also the role of growth need strength as moderate variable, in relation between work design and OI was confirmed.