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Organizational agility in health organizations: the role of visionary leadership

2020; Association of Food Technology, Turkey; Volume: 7; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.17261/pressacademia.2020.1184

2146-7943

Elif Ozeroglu, Yeşim Koçyiğit,

Organizational Strategy and Culture

Purpose-The aim of this study is to determine the effect of visioner leadership on organizational agility in hospitals.Methodology-In order to measure the research variables, surveys on visioner leadership and organizational agility were used and the staff who have been working in hospitals in Beylikdüzü region replied to survey questions.199 proper forms of surveys were gained.Simple and multiple regression analyses were done to determine the effect of visionary leadership on organizational agility and the effects of sub dimensions of visionary leadership on the sub dimensions of organizational agility.Findings-According to the statistical results of the research, visionary leadership behaviors meaningfully affect the organizational agility, and there are also that being open to changes and action oriented which are sub-dimentions of visionary leadership affect the competency dimension of the organizational agility; the action oriented affects both the competency and the speed dimensions of the organizational agility; portrait of the future which is a sub-dimension of the visioner leadership affects the the responsiveness sub-dimension of organizational agility. Conclusion-The results of the study emphasize the importance of visioner leadership to gain the organizational agility abilities such as responsiveness, competency and speed.