Pandemi Krizinde Çevik Organizasyon Olmanın Üstünlüğü

Year 2021, Volume: 4 Issue: 2, 123 - 141, 30.09.2021

Mehmet Biçer

Abstract

Bireyler ve kuruluşlar 2019’un son çeyreğinden buyana koronavirüs salgınının sebep olduğu pandemi döneminin olağandışı koşullarına uyum sağlamaya çalışmaktadır. Pandeminin dünyayı değiştirdiği bu süreçte sosyal ve ekonomik çevrelerde hızlı ve köklü değişimler yaşandı. Endüstri 4.0’ın da etkisiyle ivme kazanan birçok trendin hızlarını koruduğu bu dönemde çeviklik de popülaritesini arttıran trendler arasında yer aldı. Özelikle örgütsel çeviklik, adından en çok bahsedilen yönetim kavramlarından biri oldu. Örgütsel çeviklik, istikrarsızlık ve belirsizlik koşullarında daha iyi performans göstererek üstünlük avantajı elde etmek için çağdaş kuruluşlar tarafından benimsenen yenilikçi ve dinamik bir yönetim modeli olarak kabul edilmektedir. Bu makale örgütsel çeviklik kavramını tanıtma ve pandemi koşullarında sürdürülebilirliği sağlamak için şirketler tarafından benimsenmesinin önemine dikkat çekmek niyetindedir. Bu bağlamda şirketler için çeviklik kavramının, çevik çalışmanın ve çevik organizasyon yapısının stratejik önemi anlatılmaya çalışılmıştır. Genel olarak, COVID-19 salgını sürecinde çevik organizasyon yapısı ve çevik çalışma modeli şirketlere ne gibi faydalar sağlamaktadır? sorusuna cevap arayan bu çalışma, örgütsel çeviklik ve firma performansı arasındaki etkileşimi işaret ederek değişken ve belirsiz çevre koşullarında başarılı çevik organizasyona sahip olmanın ayrıcalığını da vurgulamaktadır.

Keywords

Çevik, Örgütsel Çeviklik, Salgın Krizi, COVID-19.

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.

Keywords

Agile, Organizational Agility, Pandemic Crisis, COVID-19.

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