Designing and explaining the appropriate model of human resource agility in government organizations of the Islamic Republic of Iran: A case study of the Ministry of Interior

Authors

1 PhD Student in Public Administration, Human Resources, Islamic Azad University, Qeshm International Branch

2 Faculty member, Department of Educational Management, bandar abbas Branch, Islamic Azad University, bandar abbas, Iran.

3 Faculty member, Department of Management, Qeshm Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qeshm, Iran

Abstract

In government organizations, empowerment and agility of employees has become one of the most important concerns of government managers over the past decade or two. Therefore, in this study, the researcher has studied the design and explanation of the appropriate model of human resource agility in government organizations of the Islamic Republic of Iran: a study of the Ministry of Interior. The present study is qualitative-quantitative and is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-survey in terms of data collection. Also, the findings of the present study have been done in the qualitative part according to the interviews with 32 experts and in the quantitative part by distributing questionnaires among 141 employees of the Ministry of Interior. Data analysis was performed in the qualitative part using Delphi analysis and in the quantitative part using structural equation modeling. The process of data analysis and statistical tests was performed through two softwares, SPSS and PLS. The results obtained from the qualitative section identified a wave of 7 dimensions and 35 indicators in the form of agility model in the Ministry of Interior and the results of the quantitative section show that organizational flexibility in both behavioral and skill dimensions has a significant effect on organizational agility. Also, operational flexibility does not have a significant effect on organizational agility.

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