Identifying, leveling and prioritizing factors related to the diversity management model in Iran's public organizations
Subject Areas :
Industrial Management
Parmis Pakrooh
1
(PhD student of public Management , Department of Management, Sanandaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sanandaj, Iran.)
Esmail Ghaderi
2
(Assistant Professor , Department of Public Management, Saghez Branch, Islamic Azad University, Saghez, Iran, Correspondence Officer.)
Mahmoud Rahmani
3
(Assistant Professor, Department of Management , Sanandaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sanandaj, Iran.)
Received: 2022-11-22
Accepted : 2023-02-05
Published : 2023-07-23
Keywords:
Diversity Management,
Thematic analysis,
Diversity,
Public Organizations,
Abstract :
ThThe purpose of the current research is to identify, stratify and prioritize the factors related to the diversity management model in Iran's government organizations. This research has a mixed approach (qualitative and quantitative) which is developmental-applied in terms of purpose and survey in terms of nature and method. The means of collecting information were referring to documents, interviewing experts and questionnaires, and the validity and reliability of interviews and questionnaires were confirmed with a high percentage. The statistical population of this research includes 22 university professors and senior managers of government organizations who were selected by purposeful sampling; In this research, in the qualitative part, in order to extract and analyze the codes related to interviews with experts from the NVIVO software version 11, and in order to stratify and examine the relationship between the themes of the Interpretive Structural Equations (ISM) technique, Micmac and Dimtel analysis were used, and EXCEL software was used. 2019 and SPSS version 23 was used. The results of the open coding of the collected qualitative data lead to 101 primary codes, 26 basic themes and 10 organizing themes. Also, the results show that the diversity management model in government organizations includes four levels. The most influential themes were, in order of practical management policies, attention to social judgment and organization quality management, and strategic targeting was the most influential theme.
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Assarian, M., & Yazdani, H. R. (2018). Investigating the Effectiveness of Business Strategic Orientation on Organizational Performance Considering the Intervening Role of Knowledge Management. Journal of Business, 10(4), 835-854.
Beham, B., Straub, C., & Joachim, S. (2012). Managing diversity in organizations. ZfB –SPECIAL, 82(5), 1–2.
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Field, M. (2010). Management of diversity in the organization (Mohammad Shafiqzadeh, Trans.). Tehran: Sepanir Oil and Gas Engineering Company.
Ghanbari, S., & Sharifi, M. (2019). Providing a framework for managing the diversity of human resources in the broadcasting organization. Scientific quarterly of interdisciplinary studies of communication and media, 9(3), 11-39.
Ghasempour Ganji, F. (2019). Explaining the workforce diversity management model with a strategic approach to human resource management in Iran's leading private companies, [Doctoral thesis, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Faculty of Administrative and Economic Sciences, Iran].
Hunt, V., Layton, D., & Prince, S. (2015). Diversity matters. McKinsey & Company, 1(1), 15-29.
Inegbedion, H., Sunday, E., Asaleye, A., Lawal, A., & Adebanji, A. (2020). Managing diversity for organizational efficiency. Sage Open, 10(1), 2158244019900173.
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Riccucci, N. M. (2021). Managing diversity in public sector workforces. Routledge.
Sepehri, P. (2018). Diversity management in international organizations. Publication of Industrial Management Organization, 1st edition.
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Urbancová, H., Hudáková, M., & Fajčíková, A. (2020). Diversity management as a tool of sustainability of competitive advantage. Sustainability, 12(12), 5020.
Yadav, S., & Lenka, U. (2022). Uncovering the intellectual structure of diversity management research: a bibliometric analysis (1990–2019), 4(12), 1990–2019, Personnel Review.
Yousefi, A., Kavosi, Zahra., & Nikmanesh, P. (2016). Examining managers' perceptions of the dimensions of diversity in crisis management in educational hospitals in Shiraz. Journal of Health-Oriented Research, 3(3), 236-227.
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Zolfaqarian, M., & Latifi, M. (2010). Foundation data theorizing with Nvivo8. Tehran: Imam Sadegh University.
