Document Type : Research Paper
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Abstract
The efforts of governments and organization to stay active at internal, regional and international scenes of competition and making use of affective management to fulfill the needs of customers, resulted in a new school of thought, i.e., New Public Management (NPM. NPM itself led to two different categories of issues at micro level (including downsizing, reengineering and continuous improvement) and macro level (good government and governance).
Following these changes, the issue of downsizing the public sector
through privatization, merging of different organizations and conglomeration of activities, became so popular in Iran.
The current research trying to test the following goals:
1. Goals of the charter of Management and Planning Organization including:
• Better accomplishment of the missions
• Decreasing the parallel duties
• Increasing the capability of employees
2. Goals expected of downsizing and merge of organizations including:
• cost reduction
• decreasing the number of employees
For the test of group I goals questionnaire and for the test of group 2 goals documents have been used.
By including 265 employees (from the society of 675) and 71
managers (out of 182), and through statistical methods of chi square and pearson correlation coefficient the group I goals have been tested. For the second group, the documents have been investigated.
The findings of the research revealed that the rate of ace nplishment of the first group of goals from employees and managers point of view was at average and less than average level, and two other goals ( cost and employee reduction) have not been achieved (as they were planned).
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