Document Type : Exploratory
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Assistant Professor, Department of Management, Faculty of Management and Economics, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran.
Abstract
In the mushroom management style, employees are kept in the dark and are only given knowledge and information within the framework of their tasks.. In fact, managers always hoard knowledge and information to protect their own interests and lead employees to isolation. The present study was conducted with the aim of designing a mushroom management style model in government organizations.This research is a mixed research (qualitative-quantitative) in the deductive-inductive paradigm and has an applied objective and a descriptive-survey nature. The statistical population in the qualitative and quantitative parts of the research consists of managers of government organizations and university professors, who were selected as samples using the purposive sampling method and based on the principle of theoretical adequacy. The data collection tool in the qualitative part is a semi-structured interview, the validity and reliability of which were confirmed using content validity and intra-coder and inter-coder reliability, respectively. On the other hand, in the quantitative part of the research, a researcher-made questionnaire (based on data from the qualitative part) was used to collect data, the validity of which was accepted using content validity and test-retest reliability. By analyzing the data using content analysis and software, the indicators of the mushroom management style in government organizations were identified, including maintaining power and status, poor communication system, lack of employee awareness, hoarding of knowledge, feeling of incompetence, increasing employee dependency, poor performance, conflicting behaviors, trickle-down sharing of knowledge, rumor-spreading, reduced motivation, lack of participation, organizational pessimism, authoritarianism, leaving the service, and reduced organizational credibility. Finally, a model of the mushroom management style in government organizations was designed using a structural-interpretive approach. The results show that reduced organizational credibility, organizational pessimism, leaving the service, and poor performance are the achievements of mushroom management in government organizations.
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