Document Type : Original Article
Authors
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1. Ph.D. Candidate in public administration, Faculty of Management and Accounting, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran
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2. Associate Prof., Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Management and Accounting, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran
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Associate Prof., Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Management and Accounting, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
The country's administrative system always faces many problems and cannot deal with them quickly. Therefore, it is necessary to know the nature of the problems in the administrative system to provide the best management and governance method. The current research aims to identify and prioritize the wicked problems in Iran's administrative system. The current research uses a mixed approach based on the developmental-applicative goal. Thematic analysis strategy was used in the qualitative part of the research. For this purpose, 11 documents from upstream and library documents were studied in order to collect data. The professors confirmed the reliability calculation in this section using the Holstein coefficient, which is equal to 0.9, and its validity. MAXQDA software was used to analyze the data in this section. In the quantitative part of the research, which considers the prioritization of wicked problems in the administrative system, the multi-criteria decision-making model (VIKOR) was used. This section selected 15 scientific and executive experts in administrative systems by targeted sampling. They answered the questionnaire to determine the options' points and the criteria's importance. The reliability of the questionnaire is 0.83, which was calculated using Cronbach's alpha, and its validity was also confirmed. As a result, the data in this section was analyzed using the software (EXCEL). The findings showed that the problems in Iran's administrative system include politicization, evaluation and monitoring, administrative bureaucracy, human resource management issues, conflict of interest, administrative accountability and transparency, administrative justice, productivity management, administrative intelligence, innovation, and Administrative culture and the problem of budgeting, among which the problems of "politicization," "conflict of interests," "human resource management," "budgeting" and "administrative accountability and transparency" are respectively considered as the wicked problems of Iran's administrative system were introduced. As a result, knowing the nature of problems in the administrative system by officials and managers can help them formulate new governance methods according to the type of problems.
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