The Role of Learning Culture and Knowledge Management in the Organizational Agility

Organizational agility (OA) is known as a powerful competitive tool that is able to work in highly uncertain and changeable environment. As employees and their knowledge and skills are main capital of any organization, then it is expected that knowledge workers have most important role in establishing OA. In addition, providing appropriate context for knowledge workers’ activity is very determining in creating an OA. One of these key contextual factors is Organizational learning culture (OLC).Importance and Dual nature of organizational culture has attracted researchers’ attention toward identifying cultural factors that effect on OA. Therefore, the objective of this article is to investigate the mediating role of knowledge management (KM) in relationship between OC and organizational agility (OA). Bahman Khodro Company was selected as Target population. Questionnaire was the survey instrument and for testing hypothesis, structural equation modeling was used. The result showed that OC has significant positive effect on KM and OA. However, the effect of KM on OA was non-significant when controlling for OC. This article adds new knowledge to the OA literature and emphasize on key role of consistency in improving OC and forming OA.