The effect of strategic learning on organizational performance with mediating role of strategic agility (A case study: The departments of sport and youth in cities of Hamedan and Kermanshah)

The aim of present study is to investigate the affect of strategic learning upon organizational operation considering the moderator role of strategic agility in the department of sport and youth. The present study is a descriptive-survey that is purposefully applied. Statistical population comprises all the experts, staff and the managers of Hamadan's and Kermanshah's departments of sport and youth (N=410), from them, 202 persons are chosen as the samples by volume proportioned Random Stratified Sampling method. Data collection tools were Teasing standard questionnaire (2011), Somer strategic agility questionnaire (2011), Heresy and Gold Smith organizational operation questionnaire (2003). The face validity of the questionnaires was verified by 10 experts and professors of sports management and the construct validity was verified by using a confirmatory factor analysis. Pattern of organizational equation and path analysis using LISREL8/8 software was applied to analyze the data. The results of organizational equation represent that the most effectiveness devoted to the relation between strategic learning and strategic agility of the staff. Strategic learning also had a partly high affect on the organizational operation, strategic agility had an affect of on organizational operation. Also, strategic learning via strategic agility has a significant effect on the organizational operation. It is suggested that the managers of different levels of sport and youth departments, by supplying precise strategic schedule and new data collection to develop strategic learning, increase the velocity of reactions toward environmental changes of organization and also increase strategic agility for their staff.