Interpretive Structural Modeling of Factors Affecting Organizational Vitality (Case Study: Yazd Gas Company)

Vitality and welfare can be considered as one of the strategic needs for long-term success of the organization. Accordingly, the present study was conducted with the aim of interpretive structural modeling of factors affecting organizational vitality in Yazd Gas Company. Statistical sample in the qualitative section, management experts including university professors, managers and experts of Yazd Province Gas Company are 15 people. This section was done by interviewing experts and three stages of open coding, axial coding and selective coding. Finally, the selected codes were filtered by fuzzy Delphi method. The statistical sample in the quantitative section is 144 official and employed employees of Yazd Province Gas Company. The results of the section showed that the factors affecting organizational vitality include 11 main components and 54 sub-components. Finally, using fuzzy Delphi technique, the consensus of experts on the importance of each factor was calculated. The validation of the identified indicators was confirmed by the consensus of experts and the fuzzy Delphi method. This section was performed by method of interpretive structural modeling. In the interpretivestructural modeling section, a pairwise comparison questionnaire was selected from the selected components in the qualitative section and modeling was performed. The results of interpretive structural modeling showed that managerial and organizational variables are the first and second key and strategic variables, respectively.