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        1 - Structural and behavioral barriers of participative management in public libraries of Mazandaran Province
        hasan siamian Masoumeh Latifi Hossein Mehdizadeh
        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 societ More
        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. Manuscript profile