Maryam Tehrani; Abar Hassanpoor; Roohallah Noori; Nafiseh Sohaniyan
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Today, employing incompetent and untalented people in high positions of organization and entrusting them with the management of various departments will be serious threats to the survival of public organizations and the basis for the emergence of the phenomenon of dwarfism. This research aims to conceptualize ...
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Today, employing incompetent and untalented people in high positions of organization and entrusting them with the management of various departments will be serious threats to the survival of public organizations and the basis for the emergence of the phenomenon of dwarfism. This research aims to conceptualize dwarfism, identifying and ranking its consequences in public organizations with a meta-synthesis approach. The conceptualization of dwarfism by the method of forming and analyzing the semantic network was carried out in two stages by using key sentences of texts describing dwarfism in 28 selected studies. Identifying and ranking its consequences were done with a meta-synthesis approach. After searching in scientific databases, 74 related studies were extracted, and by examining them, the consequences of dwarfism were identified. Finally, by using the Shannon entropy method, the consequences were weighted and ranked. The results of the analysis of the semantic network of dwarfism indicate that the common phenomenon of dwarfism in today's organizations is rooted in several theories and scientific management concepts such as the petty principle, the similar-to-me effect, the tall poppy syndrome, Distributed incompetence, and political behaviors. The results of the meta-synthesis showed that the reduction of organizational performance, suppression of capable employees, and organizational politicization are the most important factors behind dwarfism. One of the effects of this research is to create motivation in researchers for further investigations of the progress to prevent decay, remove obstacles to individual development, and establish meritocracy in organizations.
Abdorreza Ghanizadeh; Roohallah Noori; Akbar Hassanpoor; Yousef Vakili
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About a decade has passed since the establishment and implementation of the current performance management system of Iranian public sector organizations according to the criteria of the Civil Service Management Act. Nevertheless, this system has not been scientifically and comprehensively pathologized. ...
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About a decade has passed since the establishment and implementation of the current performance management system of Iranian public sector organizations according to the criteria of the Civil Service Management Act. Nevertheless, this system has not been scientifically and comprehensively pathologized. Since the possible failures and shortcomings of the current system will cause deep performance gaps if they are placed together and continue, so the purpose of the present research is the pathology of the mentioned system. First, the literature on performance management (at the organizational level) was studied and the selected sources were reviewed, classified, and thematically analyzed. Then, semi-structured interviews with nineteen performance management experts in public sector organizations were conducted based on the extracted themes. Experts were identified by snowball technique considering scientific, experimental and perceptual conditions. Subsequently, inductive thematic analysis of the interviews data and pathology were performed. In this phase, 500 codes were assigned to the data. Findings of this research include a global theme (the failures of mentioned system), 6 organizing themes (major failures including planning problems, legal and contextual deficiencies, proficiency problems and poor insight, conflict of interest problems, executive and logistical deficiencies, theoretical problems in the current model) and 55 basic themes (minor failures). Considering the variety, multiplicity and scope of the mentioned failures, corrective measures should be taken with the participation of various specialties in the field of management knowledge. Some reforms are possible within this system, while others require improvements in other subsystems of the Iranian administrative system.
Public Administration
daood hosainpoor; Fattah Sharifzadeh; roohallah noori; omid karimian
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The present paper seeks to use the grounded theory to assess the economic policies of the Islamic Parliament. Research method is based on the qualitative method of grounded theory. Depth interviews were conducted with 16 representatives in the Islamic Parliament using snowball sampling. After open, selective, ...
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The present paper seeks to use the grounded theory to assess the economic policies of the Islamic Parliament. Research method is based on the qualitative method of grounded theory. Depth interviews were conducted with 16 representatives in the Islamic Parliament using snowball sampling. After open, selective, and axial coding of collected data, 159 primary concepts, 45 subcategories and 8 main categories were extracted. The final outcome of this study is the design of a 5-dimensional model whose dimensions are categorized into four bases of the ground, input, process components, and products. The findings of this study indicate the domination of the political climate of Iran over the policy climate, the rule of politics over economy, followed by the confrontation of legislative, administrative and executive sectors with institutional, structural and cultural challenges in the policy-making process. Therefore, it is suggested that legislators emphasize national interests by adopting a holistic approach and avoid the involvement of political approaches with the policy-making process. Also, it is necessary to form special committees in the Islamic Parliament in order to align policies with high-level documents.
