Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Assistant Professor of Sports Management Department of Farhangian University

2 Master in Sport Management, Payame Noor University

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between organizational learning and knowledge management with organizational agility in sport Boards of West Azarbaijan province. The statistical population of the study consisted of 600 managers and staff of sport Boards of West Azarbayejan province. Based on Morgan's table, 234 peoples were randomly selected for research sample. In order to achieve the research goals, The organizational learning questionnaire of Gomez et al. 2005, Knowledge Management questionnaire of Lawson 2003, and organizational agility questionnaire Hasan Jarfi, 2013 were used.. The validity of all three questionnaires was confirmed by 15 experts and their reliability in the preliminary study with 30 subjects and with Cronbach's alpha was 0.91, 0.84 and 0.92, respectively. In order to analyze the data, descriptive and inferential statistical methods such as mean, standard deviation, Kolmogorov-Smirnov, single variable regression were used with SPSS20 software. The results of the research showed that there is a significant positive correlation between organizational learning and knowledge management with organizational agility. Also, organizational learning and knowledge management of West Azarbaijan Sport Boards can predict 67% of the organizational agility of West Azarbaijan Sport Boards.

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