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The Relationship Between Organizational Structure and Organizational Intelligence in Teaching Hospitals of Arak University of Medical Sciences

Year: 2013
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Background: Organizational intelligence increases access to knowledge in organizations, can create competitive advantage in order to improve efficiency and effectiveness in organization. But that are affected by the structural dimensions of centralization, formalization, complexity (which reflects the characteristics of the internal organizations). This study aimed to investigate the relationship between organizational structure and organizational intelligence in Arak medical university affiliated teaching hospitals. Materials and Methods: In this cross-sectional study, the research community was consisted of official staff that had high school diploma and working in hospitals which all of them were included in this study. Tool for data collection was Robbins organizational structure questionnaire and also Alberkht organizational intelligence questionnaire. Data was analyzed by running SPSS 16. Results: The results were show a significant correlation between the organizational structure and intelligence in teaching hospital (r=-0.612 and p=0.001). The relationship between the complexity and organizational intelligence was not significant (r=0.157 and p=0.53), but in two other dimensions of organizational structures (degree of formalization and centralization) with organizational intelligence significant relationship was obtained (r=- 0.693and p=0.001 and r=0.711and p=0.001 respectively). Conclusion: Based on our findings, teaching hospitals can review current situation about organizational structural dimensions particularly through decreasing centralization and formalization to provide necessary field for developing and implementation of organizational intelligence.
Language: English
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2788526596
FWCI: 1.669
Cites: 16
Cited by: 4
Related to: 10