Presenting a Model of Organizational Culture in the Public Sector of Iran using Grounded Theory

Culture plays a significant role in organizations. When members of an organization become accustomed to organizational culture, they perceive the organization's events in a similar way. The main purpose of this study is to present a model of organizational culture in the public sector of Iran using grounded theory.

The research method is applied in terms of purpose. The statistical population of this research (qualitative approach) consists of 15 experts and elites in the field of management (Social Security Organization, Tehran Municipality, and Welfare Organization) in Tehran. The sampling method is a semi-structured individual interview using the snowball technique. The Data were analyzed in the framework of Corbin and Strauss's grounded theory process.

Model of organizational culture in the public sector was able to bring new theoretical insights that were recognized as effective in organizational culture with the help of indicators such as sufficient causal conditions of organizational culture in government departments, contexts of organizational culture in government departments, intervening components regarding organizational culture in government departments, effective strategies on organizational culture in government departments and organizational culture consequences of Iranian governments.

The results show that the high status of human resources, creativity, and individual innovation as well as strengthening the sense of responsibility instead of a sense of duty are among the benefits of organizational culture reform on organizational human resources and increase organizational learning, organizational competitiveness, organizational integration as well as organizational adaptability are other consequences that this cultural change will have on all government organizations.