Relationship Innovation with Organizational Agility among Employees : Case Study : Islamic Azad University of Khorasgan ( Isfahan )

Abstract

The aim of the present study to assess the relationship between organizational agility with innovation among staff of the Islamic Azad University of khorasgan branch (Isfahan) in the year 2010-2011, which was performed by descriptive method, was a kind of Correlations. Statistical Society, Islamic Azad University, khorasgan Branch staff to number of 323 people who were 175 people with simple random sampling proportional to size of the selection. Data in this study, two standard questionnaire dorabji and lamli (1998 Organization innovation in the atmosphere) and enterprise agility aspaidzr (2007) validity of both specialists and experts with the questionnaire on desirable sustainability report was both a questionnaire using the cronbach's Alpha for the atmosphere of innovation in an organization questionnaire 0.943 organizational agility questionnaire was 0.945. In the analysis of the information for this study, two levels of descriptive statistics (mean, frequency, percentage, and LSD) and inferential statistics (Pearson, variance analysis). The results showed that between innovation and its dimensions (participation, freedom, trust, time, fun idea, and conflict, supporting the idea, talk and take risks) with organizational agility at the level of p≤0.001, there is a significant relation. As well as the results of the regression analysis step by step showed that support for the idea, participation, discussion of risks is the best predictor of organizational agility. Meanwhile, between scores of innovation according to gender, age and education, there is no significant difference, but between scores of innovation based on experience is a significant, and also between the scores according to the degree of skill, there is a significant difference, but between the agility scores by gender, age and experience the meaning.