Organizations have faced significant changes since the beginning of the twenty-first century; these unpredictable changes, as well as today's competitive world, require organizations to have different competitive features such as resilience and agility, which are closely interrelated concepts with knowledge management and help organizations adapt quickly to environmental shifts and affect their performance survival. Aim: The present study aimed to explore the possibility of knowledge management as a predictor of organizational resilience and agility as reported by studied nursing staff. Research Design: An exploratory descriptive design was utilized. Setting: In-patient medical, surgical, and intensive care units were all included in the study at Benha University Hospital. Subjects: A simple random sample of 366 nursing staff were composed of 3 supervisors, 43 head nurses, and 320 staff nurses who had at least a one-year experience in the study setting, approved their participation in the study in the previously mentioned units, and who are available at the time of data collection. Tools for data collection: Three tools were used: Knowledge Management Questionnaire, Organizational Resilience Questionnaire, and Organizational Agility Questionnaire. The results revealed a moderate level of knowledge management (65.8 percent ). In addition, nursing staff reported moderate levels of organizational resilience and agility (54.1 percent and 60.4 percent, respectively), and a highly positive statistically significant correlation between total knowledge management and total levels of organizational resilience and agility (p-value.01).Conclusion: The study concluded that knowledge management was a highly significant predictor of organizational resilience and agility. Recommendations: According to the findings of the current study, hospital administrators should support or adapt organizational culture in order to enable the successful implementation of knowledge management technologies and practices, as well as lead organizational efforts to change organizational culture in order to maintain organizational resilience and agility |
