Identification and prioritization of improvement plans with using organizational empowerment strategy: a Mix research

The present research seeks to identify and prioritize improvement plans through organizational empowerment approach in Hormozgan Public organizations. Research in terms of purpose is developmental and applied, based on a hybrid method of exploratory type. In the first stage, the qualitative method is used and the research field is formed by the Hormozgan Public organizations. According to the adequacy of sampling and theoretical saturation, 23 experts were selected through targeted sampling and snowball and participated in the research. Data were collected by semi-structured interview and Theme Analysis method was used to analyze the data. In the qualitative section, a model was developed to identify organizational improvement plans in Hormozgan province's public organizations. Accordingly, 15 improvement plans were identified as a model implemented by a Public organization in Hormozgan province. In the second stage, with emphasis on quantitative method, the data were collected by a researcher-made questionnaire from the supervisory board of the organization, which includes 52 senior managers, deputies, middle managers, heads and supervisors of the units. To measure the indexes and prioritize the plans were used respectively AHP and TOPSIS techniques in the fuzzy environment. The results show that among the extracted improvement plans, the plan "Establishment of Knowledge Management System" is considered as the most important plans for implementation. Plans for the “development of the system of offers”, “strategic plan revision”, “customer relationship management system deployment”, and “the design of a comprehensive staff incentive system....