Background and aim: Nowadays performance management is used to make organizational agility and improve organizational architecture. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of organizational architecture on performance management with the mediating role of organizational agility of physical education departments of country's medical science universities.
Methods: The method is a descriptive-survey research and operational and applied in terms of purpose. The statistics of this study included all senior managers and staff of physical education departments in medical universities throughout Iran, selected as a statistical sample for a total of 216. Data collection tools were organizational architecture questionnaire, Baldrige performance standard questionnaire and Sharifi organizational agility questionnaire. In order to analyze the research findings, path analysis and structural equations and SPSS 20 were used.
Results: It showed that organizational architecture and its dimensions have a significant effect on performance management with the mediating role of organizational agility of physical education departments in medical universities of the country. The magnitude of the effect of the mediating variable using VAF was 0.228 and according to the magnitude of the direct effect of the independent variable on the dependent which was equal to 0.799, it can be said that the magnitude of the direct effect is greater than the indirect effect.
Conclusion: In modern performance management, the aims of staffs and the purposes of the organization should be aligned and by creating coordination and providing the necessary guidance by supervisors, people feel more belonging to the organization and make the organization more agile by organizational changes.
