The Survey of relationship between organizational intelligence with Performance indicators of selected hospitals in Mashhad University of Medical Sciences-2012

one of new and unique tools for survival of organizations among their competitors having comprehensive knowledge of all the environmental factors affecting the organization, means organizational intelligence, that with its measurement Strengths and weaknesses of the organization are identified and can affect the performance of organization and in this way, they help to organization in the measurement and evaluating progress in achieving its goals. This descriptive analytical study was performed in 12 general hospitals affiliated to Mashhad University of Medical Sciences in 2012. Study samples were 375 employees who were selected through stratified sampling method. The study Tool of data accumulation was Albrecht organizational intelligence standard questionnaire and checklist of hospital performance indicators that was determined by the Ministry of Health. To determine score organizational intelligence was used the five-point Likert scale. Data were analyzed by SPSS v.16 using Statistical tests and Pearson correlation coefficient (P=0/05). we found that there was a significant positive relationship between hospitals’ organizational intelligence and all the performance indicators of the exception of “Bed occupancy ratio”, “Ratio of surgeries to operation beds” (P<0.05), and organizational intelligence had the highest correlation with indicators of Bed Turnover Interval (r = 0.739) and the average length of patient stay (0.691). it seems that attention and planning to strengthen and increase organizational intelligence can be effective in improving the performance of hospitals.