Presenting the model of the antecedents and consequences of the transfer of managers in urban management

This research was conducted with the aim of identifying the antecedents and consequences of the transfer of city managers in Mashhad Municipality.The approach of this research is inductive and its main strategy is the method of lived experience (phenomenology). The existence of a researched basis and model in this category can definitely help in the development of concepts and examples related to the subject of research in urban management, especially municipalities. The findings of the research, as a concrete example in urban management, can consider the transfer of managers in cities as very vital and effective and introduce it as subject to the correct understanding of senior managers and the existence of a suitable strategy and a logical procedure in the transfer of managers. In this research, by conducting a semi-structured interview (Claizzy method) with 12 city managers and university experts, the materials were implemented and codes were extracted with the help of MAXQDA software. Further, by counting the important titles of antecedents and consequences, they are divided into two groups, positive and negative, and the effective factors of each category are determined and the characteristics of the categories are specified. Finally, based on the findings of the research, a model for the antecedents and consequences of the transfer of managers in urban management has been presented.