Content Analysis of the Research of the Journal Of Public Organizations Management

This article reviews the research of the Journal of Public Organizations Management from a methodological perspective. In terms of purpose, this research is applied and in terms of method, it is qualitative and based on content analysis. The statistical population of this research is all articles in the Journal of public organizations management that were conducted and published from 2012 to 2020. Sampling was done on the basis of the census method. In this study, 262 articles were reviewed based on 9 indicators. In order to confirm the validity, each of the indicators was matched with the other articles and in each case, the differences were reviewed and re-examined. To evaluate the reliability, 13 articles were given to academic experts and their results and classifications were compared with the analyzes performed. The results showed that most of the articles were published by professors and students with a degree in public management. The central themes of most articles have been organizational behavior, management of public organizations, systems and methods, and human resource management in the public sector. Also, based on the research results, most studies have been applied with a qualitative approach. The method analysis of most of the articles was a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods and the majority of data collection was done through questionnaires.