Designing a Pattern of Culture of Organizational Aversion to Responsibility in Iran's Administrative System

Zarei, Mohammad Amin; Razmjou, Maryam

doi:10.30473/ipom.2024.71400.4984

Document Type : Survey

Authors

¹ Assistant Professor, Research Department, Allameh Tabataba’i University (RA), Tehran, Iran.

² Ph.D., Research Group, Andishkademasael, Tehran, Iran.

https://doi.org/10.30473/ipom.2024.71400.4984

Abstract

This research has been carried out with the aim of designing a culture model of organizational responsibility avoidance in Iran's administrative system. The strategy of this research is qualitative and based on grounded theory. The statistical population of the research is executive managers and expert professors in the field of public administration and human resource management. In this research, targeted and snowball sampling was used to select the sample, which was achieved based on the saturation rule by conducting 19 interviews. Data were analyzed using Strauss and Corbin (1990) coding method and MAXQDA 2020 software. According to the research findings, in this research there are a total of 79 concepts in the form of 17 sub-categories and 6 main categories, including lack of feedback, inappropriate targeting and lack of planning (causal conditions), work avoidance, job loafing and organizational apathy (phenomenon). central), monotony of work and occupation, cultural anomie and incorrect assessment of talent and individual performance (strategies/actions), insufficient attention to organizational socialization and inappropriate system of encouragement and punishment (intervening conditions), non-institutionalization of Islamic work culture and ethics, lack of support from the organization From the employees and the atmosphere of uncertainty and indecisiveness (background conditions) and the weakening of cooperation and organizational cohesion, the weakness in developing coordination and integration tools in the administrative system and the weakening of accountability and learning in the administrative system (consequences) have been obtained. Therefore, the findings of the present research can create a suitable insight in relation to the emergence of the phenomenon of the organizational culture of evasion of responsibility and provide the context to prevent it for the planners and policy makers of the administrative system.

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Volume 12, Vol 4 , Series 48 - Serial Number 48
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Designing a Pattern of Culture of Organizational Aversion to Responsibility in Iran's Administrative System

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Volume 12, Vol 4 , Series 48 - Serial Number 48October 2024Pages 1-18

Volume 12, Vol 4 , Series 48 - Serial Number 48
October 2024
Pages 1-18