Developing a model of factors affecting the financial competence of managers in production companies affiliated to agricultural cooperatives

Nowadays, the training of competent managers has become one of the most key concepts in the field of management, and according to many academic and industrial experts, it can be one of the main approaches to the success of organizations and, beyond that, different industries of a country in national and transnational contexts. The purpose of the current research is to develop a model of financial competence of managers in production companies affiliated to agricultural cooperatives. The current research was applied in terms of its purpose and in terms of the method of data collection, it was field-library. This research was conducted as a qualitative research with a data base theory approach. The data was collected through semi-structured interviews with 16 experts and financial managers in producing companies affiliated to agricultural cooperatives using the purposeful snowball sampling method. After performing three stages of open, central and selective coding and analyzing the data by MaxQuda software, 268 primary codes, 49 components and 17 categories were extracted, and finally by determining the causal conditions (inherent and acquired skills), background conditions ( individual and organizational background), intervening conditions (intra-organizational, extra-organizational, technical, legal and public), central category (managers' financial competence), strategies (strategic skills, organizational strategy and new strategy) and consequences (intra-organizational and extra-organizational consequences) financial competence model Managers were presented. It is suggested to create a platform to raise the skills of financial managers in organizations, to provide the basis for training competent managers and consequently improve the organization's performance.