Formulating the strategy of prevention and control of crisis in Ministry of Education in Tehran

Abstract

Organizational crisis provides conditions that cause the routine activities to face temporary or pretty permanent pauses. Crisis consists of the situation that interacts with the discipline of main system or final part and distracts its stability. There are different factors in the occurrence of organizational crisis that considering them can help avoiding such crisis. The crisis in the organizations is more because of the internal environment insufficiency and the lack of managerial success for facing or causing crisis and their prevention, identification of the factors causing crisis is significant in the first step and accordingly, the formulation of the related strategies, decision making and its implementation in the organization. Since most of the problems of Ministry of education and crisis are inter-organizational, and up to now there is no initial pattern for identification of the factors and defensive strategies within this organization, the goal of this research is to identify the general indicators of prevention from causing the crisis to formulate the technical strategies in Ministry of Education. This survey research is based on simple-random sampling. The total population were 180 workers, managers and the specialists of central staff of Ministry of Education, among whom, 120 individuals were selected based on Cochran formula. The prevention indicators and crisis control have been prioritized via AHP method. The results of the research indicated that the situation of this organization is located in defensive zone. Finally, some recommendations were declared regarding this approach.