A study on the cultural challenges facing Iranian organizations

Abstract

One of the Iran’s most important issues in recent years has been management, which developments and shortcomings were pointed out by the compassionate and hardworking authorities in their speeches and public/private meetings. Undoubtedly, each country’s development and improvement majorly owes to the success gained by its management. In fact, it owes to what management pays attention to and gives rewards for it. The strongest cultural index is often organizational. There is a positive correlation between desired values of organizational culture and employees’ behavior. Therefore, governmental organizations can promote their employers performance by promoting organizational culture components such as impulsiveness and competition spirit, maturity, encourage employers to be creative, risk takers, and organizing employees’ activities around group working. This is a descriptive-analytic study which examines organizational culture and management challenges. The result of the study revealed that organizational culture examination acts as a data gathering tool and enable managers to 1) compare and contrast effective groups and departments, 2) prioritize issues and 3) identify employers’ perceptions and expectations in order to overcome challenges and gaps in the current situation. So, desired organizational culture has a significant impact of institutionalizing cooperative management system in organizations. Present study examines basic Iranian organization managers’ damages and challenges. It also, provides strategies to confront these. At the end, some suggestions are given to support organization culture and remove management challenges.