Designing and explaining the agile leadership style model in knowledge-based organizations: A mixed approach

The aim of this study was to design and explain an agile leadership style model using an interpretive structural approach.

This research is based on mixed research and qualitatively and quantitatively in the deductive-inductive paradigm, which is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive in terms of nature and method. The statistical population of the research in the qualitative and quantitative part consists of 30 senior and middle managers of knowledge-based companies in Lorestan province who have been selected based on purposive sampling method. In the qualitative section, semi-structured interviews were used to collect data, the validity and reliability of which were confirmed using CVR and Kapai-Cohen test. The data collection tool in the quantitative part is a questionnaire which validity and reliability were examined using content validity

The research results show the indicators and components of agile leadership style in knowledge-based companies. Thus, the research findings include the identification of 22 agile leadership style indicators at five levels (first, second, third, fourth and fifth) and are described in the final model.

The operation of knowledge-based companies in a change-rich environment that requires rapid response and appropriate adaptation to these changes requires the presence of agile leaders with unparalleled flexibility and environmental awareness and the ability to make rational and effective decisions in a complex environment. Stable and rapidly changing knowledge-based organizations can bring these organizations to the shore of success by going through dramatic changes and transformations.