Designing a Role Model for Ministers with Meta-synthesis

Role is a behavior that is expected from people according to their position. Importance of ministers' roles isn't concealed to anyone. Ministers -at the top of politics and management- are managers of large organizations called ministries whose smallest decisions can have great effects; Therefore, lack of their role model, not only prevents them from optimal performance and puts them in a lot of ambiguities and conflicts, but also slows the progress of organizations; Therefore, this study addressed ministers and concentrated on designing a role model for them. Then, since review and concluding past studies findings is an important step in drawing up a comprehensive picture of them, the study concentrated on its meta-synthesis; So, in first step, gained 131 references about the subject, through a deep search in literature, which in a three-stage refinement reduced to 50 related references; which after refining, analyzing and summarizing their themes, resulted in 27 concepts and 7 categories as follows: public relations role, policy role, political role, executive role, parliamentary role, party and constituency representational role and international role. The findings were then validated by Delphi method; which finally party and constituency representational role and its concepts were deleted. The validation shows the last role and its concepts are not applicatory in Iran.