Document Type : Research Paper
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Associate Professor in Sport Management,, University of Isfahan, Isfahan. Iran.
Abstract
Introduction: This study aimed to examine the influence of organizational intelligence on organizational inertia among the staff members of the Iranian Ministry of Sports and Adolescence, with the mediating role of job self-efficacy, change management, and organizational trust.
Methods: This research was descriptive (correlational), and the population included all staff members of the Ministry of Sports and Adolescence in the year 2022, (N=772). The participants of the study were determined 260 with employing the Kerjesy and Morgan's method (1970), which are selected through stratified random sampling from different deputies of the ministry. The instruments employed in this study included five questionnaires: Organizational Intelligence (Albrecht, 2003), Job Self-Efficacy (Betz, Klein, and Taylor, 1996), Change Management (Mohammad Yari,1380), Organizational Trust (Zalabak, Ellis, and Winograd, 2000), and Organizational Inertia (Hagg, 2014). The data were analyzed using structural equation modeling.
Results: The results of the study indicated that Organizational Intelligence, Job Self-efficacy, and Organizational Trust had a significant direct effect on Change Management in the staff members of the Ministry of Sports and Adolescence, with regression weights of .61, .56, and .49, respectively. Job Self-efficacy, Change Management, and Organizational Trust also had a significant direct effect on reducing Organizational Inertia in the relevant Ministry's staff members, with regression weights of .34, .68, and .29, respectively.
Conclusion: Based on the results, it is recommended to senior officials in Iranian Ministry of Sports and Adolescence to strive towards the Organizational Inertia in that ministry based on the concepts and factors discovered in this research.
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