Volume 4, Issue 4 (12-2021)                   Iranian Journal of Educational Sociology 2021, 4(4): 50-59 | Back to browse issues page


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1- PhD student, Department of Public Administration, Dehaghan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Dehaghan, Iran.
2- Faculty Member, Department of Public Administration, Dehaghan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Dehaghan, Iran.
3- Faculty member, Department of Public Administration, Dehaghan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Dehaghan, Iran.
Abstract:   (1477 Views)
Purpose: Shared leadership is a form of leadership in which all organizational employees have an important role. As a result, the purpose of this research was providing a model for shared leadership in governmental organizations.
Methodology: This study was cross-sectional from type of descriptive-analytical. The research population was managers and deputies of governmental organizations of Isfahan city in 2020 year, which according to the Cochran's formula the sample size estimated 214 people who were selected by cluster random sampling method. The research instrument was a 98-item researcher-made questionnaire whose content validity was confirmed by 10 experts after removing 6 items and its reliability was obtained by Cronbach's alpha method 0.97. After data collected by researcher-made questionnaire were analyzed with using exploratory factor analysis and structural equation modeling in SPSS and Smart PLS software.
Findings: Findings showed that shared leadership in governmental organizations had eight factors of individual, group, environmental, administrative health, administrative corruption, work ethic, political behavior and Islamic management; So that the factor load of all items and the eight mentioned factors was higher than 0.40, the average variance extracted of the eight factors was higher than 0.50 and the Cronbach's alpha reliability and the combined reliability of the eight factors was higher than 0.80. Also, the model of shared leadership in governmental organizations had a good fit and shared leadership had a direct and significant effect on all eight factors (P<0.05).
Conclusion: The results indicated the existence and effective role of eight factors of individual, group, environmental, administrative health, administrative corruption, work ethic, political behavior and Islamic management on shared leadership. Therefore, in order to improve and promote shared leadership in governmental organizations can provide the ground for improving the eight mentioned factors.
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Type of Study: Research Article | Subject: Special
Received: 2021/12/2 | Accepted: 2022/02/14 | Published: 2022/03/16

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