Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Seyyed Najmuddin Mousavi ¹
• Faezeh hasanvand ²

¹ Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Economics and Management, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran

² PhD student, Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Management and Economics, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran.

Abstract

The present study aims to phenomenologically analyze the lived experience of managers in managing hybrid teams with regard to the opportunities and challenges in the 12-day war in public and private organizations. This study is descriptive-exploratory in terms of its applied purpose and in terms of the method of data collection, and is a qualitative research type that was conducted using the phenomenological method (i.e., the lived experience of people involved in the phenomenon) and the Dickelman approach. Since the present study is qualitative, the method of data collection in it is in-depth interviews with participants. Accordingly, using the purposive sampling method and based on the principle of theoretical sufficiency, 15 managers of public and private organizations were selected as sample members. In this study, the qualitative content analysis method and Maxqda software were used to examine and analyze the data obtained from the interviews. The research findings show that hybrid management has been a source of pressure and growth for managers at the same time; In a way that, amidst challenges such as digital fatigue, role ambiguity, erosion of collective identity, opportunities for self-regulation, creating structure in the midst of structurelessness, and blockchain for transparency have emerged.

Keywords

• Hybrid management
• hybrid work
• phenomenological analysis
• opportunities and challenges
• 12-day war

Main Subjects

• Human Resource Management