Affective Factors on Performance enhance in the Public Sector Organizations of Iran

The management researches emphasize the importance of role contingency factors in organizational enhance performance in public and private sectors enterprises. However, there have been done very few empirical and theoretical studies in the field of affective factors on the organizational performance in the public sector in Iran. This paper is trying to fill this gap using both theoretical and empirical approaches.A literature review and interviews were used to identify twenty one key contingency factors that have influenced the organizational performance. A quantitative research method based on factor analysis and path analysis was design to investigate how these factors influence the organizational performance and the relationship between the contingency factors and the organizational performance were established in a structural model based on four theoretical propositions. In this model, organizational development is determined as the first main factor that has influence on organizational performance in public sector of Iran. Public value, organizational learning and quality management are determined as the other affective factors. Public value appears to be a necessary condition for enhancing organizational performance in the public sector in Iran. Organizational learning seems to lead to the development of performance. The quality management seems to be an affective factor in relation to organizational performance. The theoretical propositions provide useful knowledge of defining a methodology and managerial tool to enhance organizational performance in the public sector.