Comparative Review of the Performance of Hybrid Managers Compared to Pure Managers in the Public Sector from the Perspective of Professional and Academic Activists

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 PhD. student in Accounting, Bandar Abbas Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bandar Abbas, Iran.

2 Associate Professor, Department of Accounting, Faculty of Social Sciences Branch, East Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

The new public management is to enabling administrators for controlling and running affairs. For getting a management position, one of the important cases is manager specialty and the relation of expertise and organizational post. The aim of this research is to evaluate the comparative performance of hybrid managers compared to pure managers in the public sector from the perspective of professional and academic activists. This study is survey-functional. The study sample includes 15 groups of professional and academic activists that are studied by Delphi technique. This research tool is a questionnaire and to analyze the results after reviewing the normality of data by SPSS software version 22, in the form of two hypotheses, one sample t parametric test and  independent t was used. The results showed that with the viewpoints of all respondents, pure managers and controllers have more controlling and management quality. Also, this was confirmed by the viewpoints of the university instructors. In contrast, from the perspective of professional activists, hybrid managers and controllers have stronger control and management quality.
 

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Governmental Accounting
Volume 4, Issue 1 - Serial Number 7
March 2018
Pages 101-108

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  • Receive Date: 03 May 2017
  • Revise Date: 15 December 2017
  • Accept Date: 22 November 2018

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