Cultural Characteristics That Support Agility At Organizations

The term of culture has Latin origin “cultura” that means cultivation. It is generally used to define civilization. New and contemporary management approaches are gaining importance in organizations. Those developments and changing approaches lead businesses and make them more competitive. They can also be seen as products and results that increase competition in business. Digitalization, agility and agile organizations are very popular terms in today’s workplace. Although those terms are mostly studied at software and IT literature, agility can also be seen as a characteristic of an organizational culture. Organizational culture is composed of organizational characteristics. Agility can be seen as being able to understand, act and move quickly in business. In addition to that definition, agility is standing up quickly after a failure. Competition brings success and it sometimes brings failure. Organizations should be ready for a competition by strengthening their agile characteristics.They should also adapt agility as a characteristic of their culture. In this article, literature on agile organizational culture is reviewed and generally accepted cultural traits of agile organizations are specified