Designing a Functional Systems Model of Value-based Organizations

The purpose of this study is to present a model for formulating organizational systems. For this research, a value-based, military organization was selected and studied using qualitative Content Analysis Method. At the first step, the characteristics of desirable systems were determined from the perspective of the senior executives of the organization. Next, 12 professional and academic experts were selected and interviewed using judgmental and snowball sampling. They were asked to describe the basics of system design based on their characteristics. Interviews were analyzed based on qualitative Content Analysis Method. Finally, 173 codes, 12 categories, and 3 themes were extracted which altogether form the ecosystem of systems. Based on the research findings, the interaction and synergy between the three environmental, formalistic, and thematic dimensions of the systems, which extracted as three main themes, improve the systems’ functionality and add value to them.