Qualitative study of the development and change of organizational culture and identification of its leverage points with the approach to reforming work ethic (Case study: Government agencies of Golestan Province)
Subject Areas :
Journal of Iranian Social Development Studies
Mojtaba Ranjbar
1
,
Akbar Etebarian Khorasgani
2
,
Mehraban Hadi Peikani
3
1 - Ph.D. student, Department of Government Management- Human Resources, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran
2 - Associate Professor, Department of Management, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran
3 - Assistant Professer, Department of Management, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran
Received: 2017-11-24
Accepted : 2017-11-24
Published : 2017-08-23
Keywords:
development,
organizational culture,
Work Ethic,
governmental organizations,
Golestan Province,
Abstract :
The purpose of this study is to identify the leverage points of its organizational culture with an approach of reforming the work ethics and designing its development model and its transformation into governmental organizations of Golestan province. The type of research is qualitative and research method is grounded theory. The statistical population of the study consists of 17 experts of governmental organizations in Golestan province. The data are gathered using interviews and information required for research. The findings are carried out in three stages: 1. open coding, 2. Axial coding, 3.Selective coding. The finding show that 73 concepts are extracted from the interviews and divided into 7 main categories around the work ethics. The result of the research show that the first category, the strategic approach to the reform of work ethics, (0.600), the second category, the management of the values of the organization (0.446); the third category, the management of the change (0.505); the fourth category, The transformational leadership (0.729); the fifth category the sponsoring staff (0.618); the sixth category, The knowledge and information management (0.730); and the seventh category, the proportional organization (0.664), each one has the highest and the least coefficient of path toward the consequences of reforming work ethics.
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