The Role of Organizational Ambidexterity in Achieving Strategic Agility
An Analytical Study of the Opinions of General Managers in the Office of Ministries of the Kurdistan Regional Government, Iraq
Abstract
The research aims at clarifying the role played by organizational ambidexterity in achieving strategic agility. In order to achieve the objective of research, a questionnaire prepared and distributed in the surveyed organizations to the sample of (85) general manager (10) questionnaire of them were not retrieved. After mentioning to the theoretical approach and description of sample, the data obtained were tabulated and then analyzed using the statistical method by means the SPSS package. the simple correlation coefficient and simple linear regression models were extracted. The results revealed that ther was statistical significance relationships between the dimensions of Organizational Ambidexterity and the strategic agility, this demonstrates the extent to the Ministries achieve the strategic agility through the adaptation of Organizational Ambidexterity. In the light of the results, the research concluded that the continuation in investing in highly levels of Organizational Ambidexterity of the general manager of the Ministries through providing an appropriate working environment concerning the financial, human, information, technology, working systems and the updated mechanisms supported by the organizational culture will encourage creative thinking leading to excellence
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