Examining the indices and the factors affecting agility of hospitals
Case study Shahid Rejaei Hospital
Keywords:
agility, hospitals, Shahid Rejaei HospitalAbstract
In the everchanging world of today, the proper management and administration of the challenges faced by the organizations is of the key goals aiming to successfully deal with continuous, dynamic, and unpredictable environmental changes. Thus, an organization is known as agile that can have such management. The purpose of the study was to examine the indices and factors affecting the agility of hospitals in Shahid Rejaei Hospital. The study was exploratory-mixed carried out qualitatively (interview) and quantitatively (correlation), which was applied in terms of purpose, and survey method was used for data collection. Regarding this, Shahid Rejaei Hospital was selected as the population. SPSS and EXCEL software was used for statistical calculations. The results, in an applied way, formed other part of the paper by using various methods of descriptive and inferential statistics as analytical tables that tests the hypotheses. Finally, some suggestions and solutions were presented in form of summary and conclusion of the paper according to the results of statistical tests.
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