Managers' coaching success; challenges and barriers

Present study aims at identifying managers' coaching success in petrochemical industry. To this end, to identify challenges and barriers of managers' coaching success, a combined methodology is utilized. In qualitative section and by using content analysis through literature review and theories, a 40-item questionnaire was extracted and to test it, the third order factor analysis method with Partial Least Squares (PLS) approach was used. Research population consists of 167 managers, deputies and heads of petrochemical industry of whom 116 were selected by using Cochran formula and simple random sampling technique while SMARTPLS software was used to analyze data. The third order factor analysis findings indicate that weakness of communication skills and problem solution, weakness in feedback representing skill, improper managerial style, not devising realistic goals and obligation to them, coach's improper behavior and attitude, coachee's tendency to commanding style, distrust to coaches, lack of coachee's motivation, improper organizational culture and lack of awareness, structural weakness and lack of senior managers' support, HR management improper supportive systems and lack of supports by national culture can be considered as barriers of managers' coaching success in petrochemical industries. Additionally, the findings indicate that coach related barriers (0.91), intra-organizational barriers (0.81), inter-organizational barriers (0.68) and coachee's related barrier (0.55) have the highest and lowest impacts on manager's coaching success respectively. The final result is that tested model for manager's coaching success enjoys proper validity and reliability and can be used in petrochemical industry.