The Agility of Organization and its Influencing Factors in Medical Sciences University of Shahroud

Agility of health care organizations has an important role in providing timely and meeting customer needs. This study was conducted to determine the factors affecting the agility Shahroud University of Medical Sciences. In this cross-sectional study in 2014, 153 staff was randomly selected and was given a web questionnaire with 100 questions. The data were analyzed by software's such as Smart PLS and SPSS18. 79 (51.6%) of the samples were female. 57 (37.3%) had less than 10 years of work experience. A significant difference between all measures of accountability, speed, competence, flexibility and agility in categories of gender, age, work experience and education were observed (P≥ 0.05). A significant difference was observed between established criteria (P=0.002), realized speed (P=0.002), established flexibility (P=0.002) and realized agility (P= 0.009) in different levels of organization. Also for people with different job subgroups significant difference in realized speed (P=0.031), competence established (P=0.018), realized flexibility (P=0.043), realized agility (P=0.016), respectively. In the final model, three factors of competency, accountability and speed influenced the agility. Factors including competency, responsiveness and speed were effective in agility of Shahroud University of Medical Sciences and consequently lead to an improvement in its agility.