Investigation of the Impact of Managerial Roles on Organizational Transparency with an Islamic Approach

This research paper was aimed to investigate the effect of management roles on organizational transparency with an Islamic approach. The present study was descriptive-correlational research that was conducted by survey method. Mintzberg's management roles were initially identified through library studies. Then, based on religious teachings, a role was added to the above fifth roles called "social responsibility". In addition, these roles were tested in a statistical population and the differences between the roles in the two statistical populations (research institutes and manufacturing companies of Kerman province of Iran) were tested. The main tool for collecting information were questionnaires. Structural equation modeling was used to test the hypotheses. SPSS (version 23) and AMOS were used to analyze the data. In conclusion, findings showed that there was a difference between management roles in research and manufacturing companies. It was also concluded that managerial roles have direct effects on organizational transparency in both research institutes and manufacturing companies in Kerman.