Evaluation of lack of managerial integrity factors of Ahvaz city

Abstract

In recent years, the complexities of urbanization in Iran and discussion about issues such as sustainable urban development, human development, strengthening the city economy, emphasis on social justice, environmental protection, etc., have increasingly confronted the issue of urban management with complex and systematic issues. In the present study, with objective of evaluating the factors of lacking integration of urban management at policy and decision-making level in a sample of Ahwaz was identified by quantitative method. The design of this research is descriptive and quantitative and will be analyzed in two levels of descriptive and inferential. Findings of the study, which consist of opinions of 400 people from three groups of citizens, private sector and public sector managers in Ahwaz (including municipality, Ahwaz city council and some governmental organizations such as Road and Urban Organization, Housing Foundation And ...) show that after studying similar works, field study and surveying experts, components of urban management's lack of integrity have been determined such as organizational multiplicity, levels of authority and infrastructure, rules and regulations, and dependent variable is integrated urban management approach. After determining variables and analyzing responses of respondents using statistical software SPSS 22, regression and statistical analysis was performed. The purpose of this model is to find out the significance of nonintegrity factors in areas level and also the importance of components on overall average. For advanced analysis and prediction of change in the dependent variable, in the case of change in independent variables, the ENTER method of regression is used in which all independent variables are entered into model simultaneously and effects of all independent variables are examined on dependent variable.