Effective individual and organizational elements on managers ambidextrous

Organizations can use ambidexterity as a response to market needs, competitive environment, and demand changes; moreover, ambidexterity has an important role in competitiveness of a firm; yet to date, there is limited research on factors influencing ambidextrous behavior. In this article, a related, but somewhat different work has been done; which is a combination and an extent of previous researches on barely analyzed individual ambidexterity. This article presents associated hypotheses of the effects of individual and organizational factors found in the literature on managers ambidextrous behavior. We have tested our hypotheses on managers of different hierarchical levels.The findings indicate that there are positive and significant relationships between manager s decision-making authority and managers ambidextrous behavior whereas there are negative and significant relationships between formalization of tasks and managers ambidextrous behavior. The findings also show a positive relationship between participation of cross-functional interfaces and its connectedness to other organization members with managers’ ambidextrous behavior. Our findings also show that there are positive relationships between prior work experience and behavioral competency profile and managers’ ambidextrous behavior. Furthermore, it has been reported that a positive interaction between individual prior work and competency profile affects managers’ ambidextrous behavior.

کلیدواژه ها:

ambidexterity ، managers ambidextrous behavior ، coordination mechanisms ، prior work experience ، competency profile