Explanation of the Relationship between Manager’s Attitudes and Principles of Urban Management Based on Nahj al-Balagheh

During the last decade, although the knowledge of urban management in Iran has been considered and appeared as an academic discipline, it seems that the emergence of its positive effects in implementation has faced challenges and played no impressive role in improving the system. Therefore, some researchers have sought to solve the fundamental contests, especially the gap between theory and practice in the use of cultural and religious principles, and have reviewed it from the viewpoint of authoritative Islamic resources. One of the most vital issues in this area is the combination and bond between the characteristics of the manager and management, which in many cases has been premeditated but in exact has been less talked. The main purpose of this study is to make an impressive framework for an indigenous and religious approach to interdisciplinary knowledge of urban management. In this article, an attempt has been made to extract and explain the role and relationship between manager’s attitudes and principles of urban management in the form of an integrated outline from the view of Nahj al-Balagheh, which is one of the most admitted Islamic texts. The research method is qualitative and the content analysis method is used. From Imam Ali’s point of view, government (synonymous with management) needs to have basic grounds which are justice, judgment, security, unity, livelihood, and education; And the ruler (synonymous with the manager) society should have the qualities that are internalized in him through self-improvement in order to strengthen honesty, democracy, humility, truthfulness, consultation, collectivism, democracy, tolerance and rationality. According to the association between the obtained traits and principles, it is conceivable to define an appropriate schema for a managerial position to achieve the best results consistent with the objectives.