Public Values Governance: The Value Basis of Public Management Behavior

The present study seeks to identify and explain the public values that underlie decision-making and actions in public and governmental organizations. The formation of the research problem has been based on the concern that the general direction of the actions and decisions of government organizations should be. How should these actions and decisions be measured and evaluated? Also, what is the basis for allocating resources, measuring the consequences of services, measuring the performance of the administrative system?

To do this, 67 relevant policy documents (laws, regulations, guidelines, etc.) have been reviewed. The methodology used in this research is qualitative and in order to analyze these documents, the thematic analysis method has been used.

After counting, reviewing and analyzing valid policy documents, finally 398 descriptive codes, 38 basic themes, 7 organizing themes and a global theme have been counted and the framework of public values has been presented accordingly.

The organized themes are: public management behavior in the field of economics, public management behavior in the field of ecology, public management behavior in the field of culture, public management behavior in the field of politics and security, public management behavior in the social field, public management behavior in In the field of health, public management behavior in the field of citizenship is enumerated.