The Modeling Reduction of Resistance of Managers of Government Organizations in Implementation of Administrative Transformation Programs

Subject Areas : Management

allahyar tanhaei ¹ , touraj mojeibi ² , Aryan Gholipor ³ , masoud ahmadi ⁴

1 - PhD student in public administration, Sari Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sari, Iran
2 - Associate Professor, Department of Public Administration, Firuzkoh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Firozkoh, Iran.
3 - Professor, Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Management, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
4 - Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration, Sari Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sari, Iran.

Received: 2023-11-18 Accepted : 2024-01-28 Published : 2024-01-18

Keywords: organizational change, resistance to changing managers, administrative transformation program.,

Abstract :

The present research aimed to design a model for the resistance of managers in governmental organizations to implementing administrative reform programs. The research method was based on mixed exploratory research (qualitative-quantitative). The statistical population in the qualitative section consisted of managers of executive agencies, consultants of executive agencies, university professors in the field of public management, higher education centers, experts and specialists in the subject of research, and in the quantitative section, employees of management levels, consultants and experts of nine selected organizations in the provinces of Mazandaran, Golestan, Tehran, and Ilam in the summer of 2022, with a total of 1126 participants. In the qualitative section, using the snowball sampling method to reach theoretical saturation with 16 experts, in-depth interviews were conducted, and in the quantitative section, a researcher-made questionnaire with 127 items was distributed among 286 participants using relative stratified sampling. To determine the validity and reliability in the qualitative stage, necessary examinations were carried out, including acceptability (expert review) and confirmability (expert review again). In the quantitative stage, the validity of the questionnaires was confirmed by three methods: formal, content (CVR and CVI range for items between 0.6 to 1 and 0.85 to 1), and structure (convergent validity range between 0.552 to 0.751 and discriminant validity greater than the correlation of the structure with other structures). Reliability was estimated and confirmed by three methods: factor loading coefficient of items (greater than 0.4), Cronbach's alpha of components (between 0.760 to 0.888),