Investigating the Relationship between the Organizational Agility and the Components of Resistive Economy in Isfahan’s Department of Education

Abstract

The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between the organizational agility and the components of resistive economy in Isfahan’s department of education. This study’s population includes all administrative staffs of Isfahan’s department of education (865 persons) who served in academic year of 2014-2015. The sample was estimated 298 persons based on Morgan table. The questionnaires were distributed among the administrative staffs of Isfahan’s department of education in six districts of Isfahan City by stratified sampling method that 287 of them were analyzed. The methodology is descriptive-correlation. In this study, the organizational agility inventory with 13 items and the resistive economy inventory with 17 items were used in the form of 5-point Likert scale. The content validity of the questionnaires was confirmed by the management experts. Their structure validity was confirmed by confirmatory factor analysis and their reliabilities was estimated by Cronbach’s Alpha that they were obtained equal to 0.902, 0.936 for the variables of the organizational agility questionnaire and the resistive economy questionnaire, respectively. The results showed that there is a significant relationship between the organizational agility and the components of resistive economy in Isfahan’s department of education.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2016.v7n3s3p279