The purpose of this study is to examine the degree of organizational agility in the Agriculture Jihad Organization in the city of Shahrekord. A sample with 150 members has been selected by stratified sampling method. The sample size has been determined through Morgan sampling table. In order to collect the research data, a self-administrated questionnaire of organizational agility has been used that has content and face validity. Also reliability of the questionnaire has been examined through Cronbachs’ Alpha coefficient. The Cronbachs’ Alpha coefficient of 0.95 confirmed reliability of the questionnaire. The results of this study indicate that the degree of organizational agility components application in the agriculture jihad organization of Shahrekord is average. Also the results of Amos Graphics show that the shared leadership and identity have the most factor loading and the robust strategy and adaptive organizational design are the second and third components.
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