Mental Patterns about Outsourcing of Organizational Activities of Public Organizations Using Q Method

The purpose of outsourcing is productivity and it is accomplished through assigning tasks to out of the organization. There are different factors including the perspective of the managers which would effect the success of the outsourcing. To be aware of the perspective of the managers who are related to outsourcing would facilitate the whole process.The purpose of this study was to identify managers, view in outsourcing organizational activities of organizations in the Ahwaz city by examining the mentalities of the participants. The research method is applied in terms of the purpose and the method of data collection, which is used in the methodology of Q. The participants of the study included 11 managers of public organizations in Ahwaz, who had direct relevance to the research. The discourse space of the present study was gathered from a variety of sources. After evaluating and summarizing the discourse space by the expert, 32 sentences were selected as examples of phrases Q. After collecting the data from Q sorting, this information was analyzed by Q factor analysis. The results showed that four distinct mental patterns can be identified among managers of government organizations regarding the outsourcing of organizational activities, which accounts for ./72 of the total variance explained. These four mental patterns were named with titles “utilitarianism", "organizational agility", "empowerment and competitiveness, respectively.