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Examining Managers' and Employees' attitude to Implementation the partnership system in the Municipality

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Author Affiliations

  • 1Abade Branch, Islamic Azad University, Abade, IRAN
  • 2 Engineering Research Institute of Entrepreneurship of ShakhesPajouh, University of Isfahan, Isfahan 8174673441, IRAN
  • 3 UPC, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona Tech, SPAIN
  • 4 Zahedshahr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Zahedshahr, IRAN

Res. J. Recent Sci., Volume 3, Issue (8), Pages 1-7, August,2 (2014)

Abstract

The employees’ participation system is a complicated management system which emphasizes on implementation of public creativity and innovations, working meticulousness, and volunteer effort in order to right advance, optimizing affairs, and realizing employees’ participation in decision makings. Regarding the importance of employees’ participation in the organization’s decision makings and necessity of examining the organization’s conditions and infrastructures to realize the partnership system, the present paper aims to examine conditions needed to implement the employees’ partnership system in the municipality. To do so, the, Municipality is considered as the statistical population, two types of questionnaires are designed for managers and staffs separately. The questionnaires are distributed among managers and employees and then they are analyzed using the statistical methods. Among the five factors effective for implementation of employees partnership system in the Municipality, three factors employees’ involvement in decision making, improvement of employees communication, and trust building feeling in employees, are concluded as the most important and effective factors (above the average level) by both groups of managers and staffs. In addition, both groups realize the two factors reforming the organizational structure and the suggestions system as effective as less than the average level.

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