Scrutinization of the relationship between organizational agility and the application of Information and Communication Technology in the Education Organization of Shirvan Township in the year 2015
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https://doi.org/10.24200/jmas.vol3iss03pp31-36Abstract
Purpose of the present research is to scrutinize the relationship between organizational agility and the application of information and communication technology. The present research is an applied descriptive and survey research of correlational type. Methodology: The statistical universe of this research involves the whole staff of the education organization of Shirvan Township in the year 2015 who are one hundred individuals and due to the diminutiveness of the statistical universe the complete enumeration method has been used. To collect data the questionnaire of organizational agility of Sharifi and Zhang and the Information Technology survey Questionnaire of Rahmani were used. Results: Validity of the questionnaire was calculated by 0.8365 by means of Cronbach’s Alpha coefficient for the Questionnaire of Information and Communication Technology and the validity of the Organizational Agility Questionnaire by 0.8076 which are indicative of the high validity of the questionnaire. To analyze the collected data descriptive statistical methods (frequency distribution, percentage and mean) and inferential statistics (Pearson correlation coefficient) besides making use of SPSS software package, 19th version. Conclusion: Results indicate that there is a meaningful relationship between the application of information and communication technology and the organizational agility with a correlation coefficient of 0.746 and its level of significance equals zero which is less than 0.01. Thus, the existence of a meaningful relationship between the information and communication technology and the organizational agility with %99 certainty has been approved.References
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