Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 Assistant Professor, Department of Business Management, Faculty of Management and Economics, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran
2 Master of Business Administration, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran.
Abstract
The only constant principle in our world today is change, in such a way that change has become a constant element of today's equations. Change and transformation has caused new stimuli in the business world and has made flexibility skills an important necessity. Therefore, the current research was conducted with the aim of recognizing and understanding the cognitive flexibility skills of managers with the FCM method. This research is applied in terms of purpose and it is survey and exploratory research in terms of data collection method. The statistical population of the research consists of experts including industrial and organizational psychologists and managers of knowledge-based companies, whose sample members were selected using the purposeful sampling method and based on the principle of theoretical saturation. The data collection tool is interview in the qualitative part and a questionnaire in the quantitative part. The validity and reliability of the tools have been analyzed using content validity and intra-coder-inter-coder reliability for the interview and content validity and retest reliability for the questionnaire, respectively. In this research, content analysis and coding method was used in qualitative part and fuzzy mapping method (FCM) in quantitative part for data analysis.
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