سSaeed Alamshahi; Mohsen Farhadinejad; Seyed Abbas Ebrahimi
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Considering the wide consequences of ineffective decisions made by public sector managers that lead to waste of resources, waste of opportunities and reduced public trust in the government, the present study aims to identify the causes of this phenomenon and determine the importance of each of these ...
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Considering the wide consequences of ineffective decisions made by public sector managers that lead to waste of resources, waste of opportunities and reduced public trust in the government, the present study aims to identify the causes of this phenomenon and determine the importance of each of these factors. In the qualitative part, through interviews with 20 government managers of Golestan province, using targeted sampling at the basic, intermediate and higher levels, key factors were identified and using the content analysis method and Maxqda software, the data set was organized in 27 criteria and in 3 categories. In order to ensure the accuracy of the coding, the result of the content analysis was sent to some participants and corrective comments were applied. In the quantitative phase, in order to rank the factors, hierarchical analysis method and pairwise comparison questionnaire with the participation of 45 people were used. The data obtained from the questionnaires were analyzed by Expert choice software. Findings indicate that factors related to the decision-making process (0.473), organizational factors (0.355) and factors related to the decision-makers (0.173), respectively, play the most important role in making ineffective decisions from the perspective of participants. Based on the research findings, it can be said that due to the fact that changing the personal characteristics of managers is very difficult and less important among the factors, government organizations can focus on improving the decision-making process and controlling organizational factors influencing decisions, significantly improve the quality of public sector decisions.
mohsen farhadinejad; Mohsen Eynali; hooshmand Bagheri garbollagh
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Mum effect is the situation when a person decides to withhold important information for certain reasons. The main identity of the Mum Effect is the greater reluctance of the individual to give bad news about his desire to give good news and thus to be silent. The main purpose of the present research ...
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Mum effect is the situation when a person decides to withhold important information for certain reasons. The main identity of the Mum Effect is the greater reluctance of the individual to give bad news about his desire to give good news and thus to be silent. The main purpose of the present research is to influence Hofstede culture dimensions on the employee performance and organizational communication given the impact of Mum Effect. The statistical population of this study is employees of governmental organizations in Semnan. According to Morgan table, a sample of 285 people was selected. Data gathering tool was a standard questionnaire (Hofstede, 1994; Ramingwong & Snansieng, 2013; Yildirim, 2014 and Koopmans et al., 2012). Structural equations’ modeling was used to analyze research data with Smart-PLS software. The results showed that power distance index, individualism, masculinity, uncertainty avoidance and long-term orientation have a positive and significant effect on the Mum Effect. Other findings of the research have a negative effect on the Mum Effect on employee performance with β (-0/488) and organizational communication with β (-0/514). What distinguishes this study from the studies of the dimensions of Hofstede''''s culture is that the present study emphasizes the role of the variable of Mum Effect that was neglected in previous research.
Public Management
mohsen farhadinejad; Sakineh Jafari
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The aim of the present study was to identify the causes of organizational disclosure and the reasons of unwillingness to disclose in governmental organizations that was done via sequential-explanatory mixed mode method. Participants in the qualitative part were managers and employees in public sectors ...
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The aim of the present study was to identify the causes of organizational disclosure and the reasons of unwillingness to disclose in governmental organizations that was done via sequential-explanatory mixed mode method. Participants in the qualitative part were managers and employees in public sectors among whom 75 people were selected as participants through purposeful sampling method. The statistical population of the quantitative sector included employees in governmental organizations in Semnan and 157 people were selected as samples through simple random sampling method. Analyzing the data in qualitative sector led to the identification of 32 basic themes in the context of employees’ disclosing reasons that were arranged in six organizer themes (health-centered approach, benefit-seeking approach, justice-seeking approach, ethics-oriented approach, task-oriented approach, and violent approach), and 26 basic themes about unwillingness to disclose were identified which divided into four organizer themes based on semantic similarity (organization-related factors, discloser- related factors, exposure related factors, violent-related factors). The results of the quantitative analysis show that justice-seeking, ethics-oriented, health-centered, benefit-seeking, task-oriented and violent approaches were the most important reasons for the decision to disclose respectively, and exposure related factors, organization-related factors, violent-related factors and discloser- related factors were the most important causes of being silent against observing inappropriate behaviors, respectively. The ranking of items related to the causes of disclosure indicates that the prevention of repetition of violation and feeling of injustice to oneself and sense of responsibility are considered as the most important causes of disclosure and disappointment of executive guarantee in case of disclosure of violation, high influence of the offender and lack of organizational support for exposing are considered as the main reasons for being silent against violation.
