The Advantage of Being an Agile Organization in the Pandemic Crisis

Abstract

Individuals and organizations have been trying to adapt to the extraordinary conditions of the pandemic period caused by the Coronavirus epidemic since the last quarter of 2019. During this period in which the pandemic changed the world, rapid and radical changes occurred in social and economic environments. Agility was among the trends that increased its popularity in this period in which many other trends that gained momentum with the effect of Industry 4.0 maintained their speed. In particular, organizational agility has become one of the most frequently mentioned management concepts. Organizational agility is regarded as an innovative and dynamic management model adopted by contemporary organizations to achieve superiority by performing better under conditions of instability and uncertainty. This article intends to introduce the concept of organizational agility and highlight the importance of its adoption by companies to ensure sustainability in pandemic conditions. In this context, the strategic importance of agility concept, agile working and agile organizational structure for companies was tried to be explained. This study, which seeks to answer the question “what benefits do the agile organizational structure and agile working model provide to companies during the COVID-19 pandemic?” in general, highlights the interaction between organizational agility and firm performance, and also emphasizes the privilege of having a successful agile organization in unstable and indistinct environmental conditions.