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2014 Vol. 4 (S3), pp. 1378-1389/Mehran and Samadi
Research Article
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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ORGANIZATIONAL INTELLIGENCE
AND ORGANIZATIONAL AGILITY IN AGRICULTURE
ORGANIZATION OF HAMEDAN
*Armaghan Mehran
1
and Abbas Samadi
2
1
1
Department of Humanities, College of Management, Hamedan Science and Research Branch, Islamic
Azad University, Hamedan, Iran
2
Department of Economics and Social Science, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan Branch, Hamedan, Iran
*Author for Correspondence
ABSTRACT
This study measured organizational intelligence and investigated the correlation between organizational
agility in the Agriculture Organization of the Hamadan city. This study is a correlation and the population
consists of 95 experts will be in Hamadan city Agriculture, among them 73 subjects were selected by
random sampling method. Data collected from the organizational agility and organizational intelligence
questionnaires with good reliability and validity were used. The results showed a significant positive
correlation between intelligence and agility of organization, Also, the intelligence aspects of common
destiny, desire for change, unity and agreement, morale, application of knowledge and performance of
pressure and strategic vision was positive and significant relationship with organizational agility.
Keywords: Organizational Intelligence, Strategic Vision, Common Destiny, Desire for Change, Unity and
Agreement, Morale, Application of Knowledge, Performance of Pressure, Organizational Agility
INTRODUCTION
As in the human’s world and in human’s full of turbulence life those people will be successful and
efficient that have a high intelligence, obviously in organizational world also the same will be truth. This
issue will become significant when we accept that, in today’s organization in addition to huge and
creative resource of intelligent humans, intelligent machineries also play an effective role in
organization’s processes. Therefore the organizational intelligence in today’s complicated organizations
will be the resultant and combination of b oth human’s active intelligence and machine synthetic
intelligence, that managers without doubt have no other way unless using these two intelligent currents
for animating and enhancing the efficiency of their organizations (Hayati, 2006).
Today, several organizations and companies face an increasing, stable and uncertain competition that has
intensified because of technological innovations; change in market environments and ever, changing
needs of customers. This critical situation resulted in main modifications in organization’s strategic
perspective, business priorities and revision of traditional and even relatively contemporary models. In a
word one can say that previous approaches and solutions have lost their capability and ability to confront
with organizational and external environment challenges, or would.
Rather substitute with new approaches and points of view. Therefore one the ways to respond these
changing and organizational revolution factors is agility. For organizations, societies and even individuals
which plan for their future it seems necessary and vital to know changes essence and importance of
future’s traction. But unfortunately in researches it is less given attention to organization’s spiritual
capitals such as organizational intelligence and agility compared to other issues.
Stating the Issue
In animated environments, organizations face a series of undesired problems and unpredicted situations
that individual’s facing with them is difficult, but exploiting interactive models among members,
technologies, culture and processes of an organization could encounter difficult circumstances very well.
Vik and Roberts have called these interactive models, the collection of an organization’s intellects,
meaning that complicated works in an organization are not done by an individual, but interaction between
technologies, skills and individuals assist an organization to perform it’s great tasks. Subjective profile of