A CONCEPTUAL EXPLORATION OF FACTORS AFFECTING AGILITY IN ORGANIZATIONS

Organizational agility is a concept that has emerged recently in the international business industry. The purpose of this paper is to help leaders and managers to implement agility in their organizations and create greater awareness of adapting frameworks towards achieving better results. Organizational agility represents a new concept in the business field that has not been well examined by existing literature. Previously, organizations were confident and resistant to change. However, with the new emerging technologies and open markets, due to the era of globalization, organizations need to be more flexible, timely, effective and able to change with the dynamics to survive. Organizational agility often plays a dominant role as one of the major factors influencing the survival of firms in the market. This paper shall add to the knowledge of Organizational Agility and the adoption of innovation and the change of culture towards achieving excellence. This study was conducted using a cross sectional research design and entailed the use of quantitative techniques of data collection. The contribution of this research will be of interest to both academics and business practitioners.