Proposing a Framework for the Identification of Internal Components of Self –Management of the Employees (Case Study: Employees of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology)

This paper is the report of a research aimed at designing a model for internal components of employees' self-management on the basis of mixed methodology through descriptive-exploratory approach. The statistical population of the qualitative phase included experts from the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology in the field of human capital management and for the quantitative phase, it includes all employees of the ministry. In the qualitative section, the sample was selected through targeted judgment method including 20 people, and in the quantitative section, random stratified method was used resulting in the selection of 205 people. In the first stage, the data were collected by semi-structured interviews with experts, and in the second stage, through a 41-item questionnaire whose validity was confirmed by face-to-face method, and whose reliability was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha (0.897). The qualitative data analysis was carried out using content analysis method, and the quantitative data were analyzed using confirmatory factor analysis method in Amos 21 software. The results revealed that the employees' internal self-management consisted of two perspectives of behavioral and cognitive components. Furthermore, from among the cognitive components, self-motivation (with a factor load of 0.970) was the highest, and self-improvement (with a factor load of 0.929) was the lowest. With regard to the behavioral components of self-management, self-control (with a factor load of 0.970) supported the most, and self-care (with a factor load of 0.663) posed the least support for their related measurement model.