%0 Journal Article
%T Studying Executive Barriers on Rationalizing the Size of Iranian Government
%A Mohammad Hussein Rahmati
%A Sayyed Mojtaba Hosseini Fard
%A Reza Delavari
%J Iranian Journal of Management Studies
%D 2012
%I University of Tehran
%X To rationalize the size of government, Act on adjusting a part of government s financial rules is approved and the government is obliged to assign a part of its activities through (1) services by nonpublic sector, (2) partnership with nonpublic sector, and (3) assigning the management to nonpublic sector. There are many barriers in executing this law. The present study derived from a field study tries to provide a report on the performance of various organs in Qom province on executing this law and identifies the executive barriers and provides practical proposals to remove them.Overall, seventeen organs in Qom are subjected to this law of which five organs are selected as our sample. In this respect, different documents were studied, ten interviews were conducted and one hundred and four executive barriers and forty seven operational proposals including twenty three barriers and eleven proposals in organization and structure area, sixteen barriers and five proposals in administrative technology and working processes area, thirty two barriers and twelve proposals in human resources area, twenty one barriers and eight proposals in laws and regulations area and twelve barriers and eleven proposals in management area have been analyzed and summarized regarding their contents.
%K The 4th development plan Act
%K The Act on adjusting a part of government s financial regulations
%K Privatization
%K Size rationalization
%K Governance
%K Incumbency
%U http://ijms.ir/pg/06/IJMS05107.pdf