Assessing Aspects of Organizational Agility (Case Study: Sport and Youth General Office of Khuzestan Province)

Today’s world is an organizational world and change¡ transformation¡ development and improvement are the largest properties of organizations and institutions in today''s competitive field. So¡ the aim of this study was to assess and evaluate the aspects of organizational agility in Sport and Youth general office of Khuzestan province. The statistical population included all of the employees of Sport and Youth general office of Khuzestan province (N=130). The sample was considered equal to the population through census sampling method. Spiders (2007) standard questionnaire was used to collect data. The reliability was calculated 0.82 by Cronbach''s alpha. The KMO value of this questionnaire was equal to 67%. For data analysis¡ descriptive and inferential statistics (one-sample t test¡ Cronbach’s alpha coefficient¡ Kolmogorov-Smirnov test) were used. The significance level was considered as 0.05. The results showed that Sport and Youth general office in Khuzestan province enjoyed desirable agility in the aspects of flexibility and competence but not in the aspects of quickness and accountability. According these results¡ it is suggested that this office should employ agility in its organizational structure so that it can appropriately respond to the demands and needs of individuals.