The Relationship between the Use of Information Technology and the Structural Aspects of the Bushehr Municipality

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relation between the application of information technology with the structural aspects including organizational formalization, centralization in management decisions, professionalism and organizational height in Municipality Bushehr. The study was descriptive and correlational. The study population consists of all managers and workers of municipal departments in Bushehr that is somehow associated with IT systems that are over 157 persons. In the study sample size is equal to statistically population. In other words, the census method was used and 124 questionnaires were collected and processed for statistical analysis. Instrument used in this study was a questionnaire that is designed in two parts. A questionnaire is designed by researcher to collect information about the current status of implementation of IT systems in the study and B Questionnaire was used to assess the aspects of structural organization and the Robbins standard questionnaire of organizational structure is used here.Data analysis was performed in the both level of descriptive and illative and the findings showed that there is a significant relationship between information technology systems application and organizational formalization and professionalism. Also there is a significant inverse relationship between information technology systems application and centralization in management decisions, professionalism and organizational height.