Organisational flexibility and possibilities for its assessment

Abstract

Overall changing environment requests changes in organisation management, one of them being organisational flexibility.

The aim of the paper is to characterise organisational flexibility and the advantages for its application, and to discuss different ways of its assessment.

Materials and methods are content analysis, logical-constructive methods and analysis of survey results performed by the author.

Main results – there are both advantages and disadvantages of organisational flexibility, however, in case it is properly applied advantages may be more. Different methods may be used for assessing organisational flexibility, none of them being superior over others.

Conclusions – basing on the survey results the author concludes that there are still ways for increasing flexibility in most of the Latvian organisations.