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1 PhD. Student, Department of Educational Management, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran. moradi@put.ac.ir

2 Associate Professor, Department of Educational Management, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran. Corresponding Author. hosseinpour6@yahoo.com

3 Professor, Department of Educational Management, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran, & Department of Educational Management, Shahid Chamran University, Ahvaz, Iran. Mehralizadeh_y@scu.ac.ir

Abstract

This applied research was carried out to identify the primary and secondary components affecting organizational agility in the University of Petroleum Industry, PUT. In the qualitative section, by reviewing the researches and using a designed questionnaire, 13 hypotheses affecting the organizational agility of the PUT were evaluated. The statistical population includes 229 experts working in Ahvaz, Abadan, Tehran, and Mahmoudabad colleges. According to the results, out of 42 identified sub-components, 39 components and 13 main hypotheses were confirmed. The results show that the principal practical organizational agility components followed are organizational agility, human resource value creation, organizational leadership, strategic agility of managers, ICT management, training and empowerment of faculty and staff, establishing knowledge management, strengthening university infrastructure, and university culture. It should be noted that SMART PLS software and the partial squares technique were used to test the hypotheses.

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