Mintage Journal of Pharmaceutical and Medical Sciences (ISSN: 2320-3315)

Author(s): GALEH ESMAEILI NASAB, ABBAS GHAVAM, IRAVAN MASOUDI ASL

Introduction: Today organizations have given more significance to perception, adaptability and managing the surrounding environment changes and have proceeded in acquiring and utilizing up-to-date knowledge and information for improving operation and providing more optimal services and products for clients. Such organizations require utilizing a new style of management called knowledge management. In present space, agility means effective reaction to changing and unpredictable environment and using these changes as opportunities for the organizational progress. The present study aims at investigating the relation between knowledge management and agility of Kohkilouye city healthcare system. Methodology: This study is descriptive and of correlation type. The study tool is constituted from questionnaires of Newman and Conrad knowledge management (2000) and organizational agility of Nikpour and Saljegheh (2010). The statistical population of the study includes all healthcare system official personnel that 123 persons were selected as sample with simple random method. The validity was confirmed by researchers and the reliability was calculated by Cronbach's Alpha test. Statistical analysis was performed with the aid of SPSS software. Results: the results showed that there is a significant relation between organizational agility (responding, competence, speed and flexibility) with knowledge management (P<0.05). Also, the results showed that there is a significant relation between organizational agility components (responding, competence, speed and flexibility) and knowledge management components (knowledge preservation and maintenance, knowledge transfer, knowledge creation and knowledge application) (P<0.05).Conclusion: agility components are able to predict knowledge management among Kohkilouye healthcare system personnel.