Public Management
Zahra Mohammadzadeh; Alireza Amini
Volume 5, Issue 2 , April 2017, , Pages 31-42
Abstract
"Implicit Followership Theories" is a developing issue in organizational behavior which is considered as the linkage between followership and cognition issues. Exploration and the typology of follower's perspectives and views about different dimensions of their role as a follower, which are known as ...
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"Implicit Followership Theories" is a developing issue in organizational behavior which is considered as the linkage between followership and cognition issues. Exploration and the typology of follower's perspectives and views about different dimensions of their role as a follower, which are known as follower's "implicit followership theories" is the purpose of present paper. For this purpose, using purposeful sampling method, 14 employees of 14 large organizations from different industries in Mashhad were selected. To obtain the required data, semi-structured interviews were conducted until theoretical saturation was reached. Reliability of findings was also confirmed. The resulting data was analyzed using "conventional content analysis". A total of 589 codes were located in 17 items of implicit theories. Items consisted five factors of the positive features(prototypes) of followership role. Identified prototypes included "Constructive perception of work", "Job competencies", "Mighty arm of leader", "Moral virtues" and "Initiation" which present a more comprehensive perspective on followership.
Public Management
Alireza Amini; Seyyed Mohammad Moghimi
Volume 5, Issue 1 , January 2017, , Pages 13-32
Abstract
This paper aims to make metaphor for personnel behavior of Iranian public organizations by qualitative method. In this order, two studies were constructed. In the first study, we surveyed people experiences from organizational life and behavior according phenomenology strategy. 43 people from middle ...
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This paper aims to make metaphor for personnel behavior of Iranian public organizations by qualitative method. In this order, two studies were constructed. In the first study, we surveyed people experiences from organizational life and behavior according phenomenology strategy. 43 people from middle managers of public organization were selected by snowball sampling method and Semi-structured interviews were performed to reach theoretical saturation. Texts of the interviews performed were categorized and encoded in units of thought and they were finally classified in theme classes according to making descriptive metaphor. In the second study, in order to explore nature of experiential behavioral metaphor and its positive and negative main impact and particularly result validity of first study, we used Delphi technique from 7 experts included faculty members of university. The research findings explain the behavioral metaphor in the form of five behaviors: cognitive behavioral, political behavior, structural behavior, social behavior and adaptive behavior.
