%0 Journal Article
%T A study on the relationship between employee mental health and agility strategic readiness: A case study of Esfahan hospitals in Iran
%A Hassan Ghodrati
%A Zahra Zargarzadeh
%J Management Science Letters
%D 2013
%I Growing Science
%X This study investigates whether enhancing organizational agility and mental health of staff could increase strategic readiness for crises or not. In this study, descriptive statistics is used to present demographic data of the research, and P-Test is employed for analyzing the data. In addition, to examine research hypotheses, correlation coefficients and descriptive statistics are implemented. Finally, to rank the variables and indicators of the research, Friedman test and for comparison of indicators and components of the research, nonparametric Kruskal-Wallis test are used. The proposed study designs a questionnaire and The questionnaire and distributes it among some nurses in obstetrics and anesthesiology department and among supervisors. Cronbach's alpha is also employed for determining the reliability in this study. The results indicate that working conditions as well as employees¡¯ mental health are in good conditions, the employees with higher levels of mental health have higher readiness to deal with potential crises, and the relationship between agility of hospitals and their strategic readiness for dealing with crises is confirmed.
%K Strategic Readiness
%K Organizational Agility
%K Mental Health
%K Crisis Management
%U http://www.growingscience.com/msl/Vol3/msl_2013_82.pdf