Organizational Structure for Administrative Organization  in Islamic City Council by Grounded Theory

KargarShouroki, Hedayat; Fallah, Ahamdali; Sarrami, Samane; Paknezhad, Fateme

doi:10.30473/ipom.2020.54533.4171

Document Type : Exploratory

Authors

¹ Ph.D, Department of Management, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran.

² MSc, Department of Public Management, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran.

³ MSc, Department of Industrial Engineering, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran.

⁴ MSc, Department of Public Management, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran

https://doi.org/10.30473/ipom.2020.54533.4171

Abstract

Islamic council is one of the basic and influential pillars of the urban management system in Iran, which have serious responsibilities. It can be accepted that the full realization of these expectations and missions requires the existence of several contexts, among which, the existence of an active and efficient administrative organization is considered one of the most basic requirements. This study has tried to design a suitable organizational structure for the establishment of this administrative organization for the Islamic City Council. To implement the present study, which is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive in terms of method and is considered as a case study, the qualitative approach and research strategy of "Grounded Theory" has been used; In addition, tools such as researcher-made forms, questionnaires, interviews and checklists were used to collect data. The validity and reliability of the questionnaire and interview questions have been confirmed by experts. The data required for conducting the present qualitative and descriptive research were collected from four sources (including study of legal documents; interview with informants; study of similar organizations and work study). The analysis of data was done with manual coding technique and based on these analyzes, while drawing a process map, a model of a suitable organizational chart was designed for the administrative organization of the Islamic Council of the city, which includes 68 organizational positions and most of it is in the form of a matrix structure and its other components are executable in functional structure. The findings of this study show that Islamic city council needs a kind of matrix structure in its administrative organization for achieving its goals and performing the missions.

Keywords

20.1001.1.2322522.1400.9.0.9.9

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Volume 9, Issue 2 - Serial Number 34
April 2021
Pages 11-30

Organizational Structure for Administrative Organization in Islamic City Council by Grounded Theory

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Volume 9, Issue 2 - Serial Number 34April 2021Pages 11-30

Volume 9, Issue 2 - Serial Number 34
April 2021
Pages 11-30