Structural and behavioral barriers of participative management in public libraries of Mazandaran Province

Subject Areas : Journal of Knowledge Studies

hasan  siamian ¹ (Faculty member of Mazandaran Medical Sciences University.)
Masoumeh  Latifi ² (Master degree of Library & Information Sciences.)
Hossein  Mehdizadeh ³ (Master degree of Library & Information Sciences. Mazandaran Foundartion of Public Libraries.)

Received: 2010-12-28 Accepted : 2012-01-02 Published : 2011-11-22

Keywords: participatory management, management barriers, library structural barriers, library behavioral barriers,

Abstract :

AbstractObjective: The present study was performed to determine the attitudes of Mazandaran Provincepublic librarians towards the structural and behavior barriers of participative management.Methodology: In this study, the data was collected by questionnaire. The society was all of theMazandaran province public librarians. Kruskal–Wallis test and Mann–Whitney U test wereused for of the hypothesis and Wallis and Friedman tests was used for answering the questions.Findings: The present study indicates that there is significant relationship between the attitudesof the public librarians towards the participative management, considering the sex, experiences,organizational position level of education and study field. Also Friedman test showed that lack ofofficial ranking in accordance with the mean level of 4.92 as the first priority and as a mainstructural barrier in executing the participative management in the public libraries, and use ofwrong procedures and wrong individual instructions with mean level of 4.82 as the first priorityand as one of the main behavior barrier in performing the participative management.Conclusion: The present study considers special attention to the public librarians and the resultsof the survey could help the managers, and library administrators and the librarians in successfulperforming of the participative management and releasing the barriers.

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