JOURNAL OF IRANIAN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION STUDIES
Year:2021 | Volume:4 | Issue:2|Papers Count:9

The most important instrument of governments for governance is public policy. The better the quality of the policies, the better the quality of national governance. Anyway, the governments do not always succeed in establishing well-qualified and timely policies. Accordingly, as “ bad decision, indecision, and delayed decision” threatens the country; Adoption of bad public policies, lack of necessary public policies, and delays in adopting appropriate public policies threaten the quality of governance as a cornerstone of governance. In this issue I want to talk about bad policies, lack of necessary policies and delayed policies and their effects.

The purpose of this study is to design a comprehensive model for measuring organizational schizophrenia in the Overseas Office of the Radio and Television of Iran. For this purpose, the mixed method approach-exploratory, from quantitative to qualitative-has been used. Based on the literature review of existing studies, 140 indicators of organizational schizophrenia were identified and accordingly, the Delphi questionnaire was developed and implemented in two rounds. Then, the indicators with appropriate mean was classified and validated by exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. In the final step, by compiling the organizational schizophrenia scale, the employees in Overseas Office of the Radio and Television Organization were evaluated. The statistical population in the Delphi analysis section included 30 university professors in the field of management and psychology, psychiatrists and managers and high-ranking employees of the IRIB, and in the quantitative section, 160 managers and employees of the Overseas Office of the IRIB. Judgment sampling method was used in documentary analysis and Delphi analysis. Moreover, stratified sampling was used in the factor analysis and evaluation of the target community in Press TV, iFilm, and Hispan TV networks. Data were analyzed by SPSS and AMOS software. Findings showed that 91 indicators, proposed for organizational schizophrenia, have a favorable average and the agreement between experts and specialists participating in the Delphi process about these indicators was 78% in terms of relevance and 73% in terms of necessity. The results of exploratory factor analysis showed that 91 indicators of organizational schizophrenia scale can be reduced to 11 fundamental factors that explain 75. 744% of the changes and variance of schizophrenia scale which includes schizophrenic organizational behavior, emotional-psychological component, interactive, technical, behavior Individual, institutional, path and goals, socio-spatial, negative mood and ethics, leadership, communication and organizational cooperation. Moreover, Structural equation modeling showed that the 11-component scale of organizational schizophrenia has an acceptable confirmatory fit and validity.

Governance models express the foundation, approach, method and tools of governing the society in line to the specified goals. Accordingly, each government, based on the accepted value system, have its own governance model. The present study seeks to provide an indigenous model of governance appropriate to the system of the Islamic Republic of Iran, a model which could coined as jihadi governance according to Ayatollah Khamenei's thinking. In order to unveiling the model of Mujahidaneh governance, the researchers first identifies and categorizes the main and secondary themes by referring to the research source, Ayatollah Khamenei's speeches, employing thematic analysis methodology and then, In the validation stage of the research results, multiple methods such as constant comparison and external audit have been used. It should be noted that the external audit procedures in the form of fuzzy Delphi method has been referred to experts and their comments have been taken. The results of the research in the form of a model for Mujahidaneh governance in the form of 147 basic themes, 10 organizing themes, and two global themes of jihadi government, jihadi policies, as well as a trust-based relation between the components of the governance model including private sector, NGOs, military, etc., presented. This model is based on the cooperative and mutual cooperation between all components.

The crisis management process in Iran has had many fluctuations. One of the challenges in this regard is to achieve an effective crisis management system and its successful implementation. A review on the experience of dealing with natural disasters in Iran shows that different governments have focused their efforts on coping and reconstruction in the crisis management cycle, while social participation to reduce crises in the form of community-based crisis management is a new and growing approaches that can control or minimize the damages caused by unforeseen events. Therefore, this study was conducted aiming at identifying the dimensions, components and indicators of community-based crisis management with a meta-synthesis approach. The research is applied in terms of purpose and is considered a in terms of the nature of the data and the method is a qualitative research using a meta-synthesis approach that explores new issues and metaphors by combining different literatures. Therefore, the data obtained from the systematic review of related studies in the last two decades in crisis management with a community-based approach, totally 106 sources, were selected for analysis and the research conceptual framework was designed with 3 dimensions, 11 components, and 54 indicators. The final indices were prioritized using Shannon Entropy Method. The results showed the indices of the role of people, participation of NGOs, public education, empathy, cooperation and intimacy, mass media in education, reflection of real needs of the people by the mass media during the crisis, employment of the local people in the reconstruction process, the role of mass media after the crisis, raising public awareness, encouraging people participation, honesty and transparency of the media, commitment, and social network are the most important factors respectively. Therefore, developing a spirit of cooperation and motivating participation among the people is one of the best ways to reduce vulnerability to natural disasters.

One of the stages of the public policy-making process is the implementation stage, in which policy is implemented in practice. Numerous researches in different types in this field in Iran have been conductedee, but there is no general understanding of what functions these researches have focused on, what is their methodology, and what is the gap of these studies. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to answer these questions. For this purpose, 98 research articles indexed in three valid Iranian databases were reviewed using scoping review methodology. Findings showed that the highest number of articles has been published in the last 5 years. Also, the largest number of articles, i. e. 22 was done in the field of economic policies. Policies such as cyber had a very small share, totally 2 articles. In addition, a significant number of articles have been conducted with the aim of designing an implementation model (26 articles) and barriers to policy implementation (23 articles). The majority of studies have been conducted at the national level (71%) and international perspective and comparative approaches have not received much attention. Also, most of the research was employed qualitative methodology (40 articles) and review methodologies had a small share (13 articles). Finally, based on the existing gaps, suggestions for future research are proposed. As the results, the findings indicate that there are several gaps including, theoretical, like combining cognitive and behavioral sciences with implementation, methodological, such as systematic reviews and critical methodology, and subject area gaps, like cyber policy, in the reviewed articles.

Executive coaching, as a one of the new ways of developing and fostering managers, basically focuses on behavior change, self-awareness, learning, and ultimately job excellence. Although this new approach has achieved increasing acceptance worldwide, its potential has not been fully achieved as expected by leading organizations. Especially, Iranian organizations have shown no interest in executive coaching and consequently there is no evidence on this topic in Iranian organizations. Accordingly, this paper, using qualitative research design, semi-structured interviewing with 18 experts, and applying thematic analysis method in MAXQDA software, explores the dimensions and factors of executive coaching in National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC). The research findings show that 21 factors of executive coaching can be conceptualized and categorized in five dimensions: manager characteristics, coach characteristics, organizational characteristics, relationship quality, and coaching practices. Also, the Implications of the research for managers, coaches and organizations are presented at the end.

Various economic, social, and environmental crises, as well as the new phenomenon of the rapid spread of the deadly disease, Coronavirus, in the world have increased the need to pay attention to smart cities. The purpose of this study is to identify the dimensions and components of the smart city based on the assumptions of new public service and to explain the current state of operationalizing the smart city, and its obstacles in Bandar Abbas. This research is applied and conducted using a mixed-method research methodology in two qualitative and quantitative stages. In the first stage, employing the content analysis methodology, a model for smart city in Bandar Abbas Municipality was designed according to the theory of new public service. In the second stage, using SPSS software for analyzing the questionnaires distributed, the smart status of Bandar Abbas was evaluated. The findings of the qualitative stage show that the realization of a smart city requires the creation of ICT infrastructure, participation of human and social capital, integrated urban management as well as urban management based on the assumptions of the New Public Service. Analysis of data at the quantitative stage indicates that the city of Bandar Abbas is in an unfavorable situation in all technical, human, and institutional aspects of a smart city. Moreover, the lack of human and institutional infrastructures, above the other factors, creates obstacles and limitation in the path of smartening the city of Bandar Abbas.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of administrative systems on the process of political development in Iran and Asian countries i. e. Iran, Turkey, and South Korea. The common feature of these countries was authoritarian modernization. In the process of political development, various factors play role; Including administrative systems that are based on political systems. An efficient administrative bureaucracy facilitates the ability and capacity of governments to step on the path of development. In this research, descriptive-survey methodology and comparative studies were used. The data collection tool was a questionnaire and the sample size was 30 people. Its validity was confirmed by experts and Cronbach's alpha test was used to confirm its reliability. Data analysis was performed using structural equation modeling and Smart PLS software. The research findings showed that countries can develop based on the ability to turn the capabilities of their administrative systems into political capacities. Countries could be able to develop that can increase the stability, participation and accountability of their political system and build an efficient, powerful and legitimate administrative system. The results showed that South Korea is in a better position than other Asian countries in the study.