Designing Of Appropriate Pattern for Regional Management in Iran

Based on The Law of Political divisions, the hierarchy of Political divisions is: province, county, district, city, vill and village. Beside that law, National Physical Plan, which prepared by the ministry of Housing and urbanism, divides the country in 10 regions and 85 planning and functional zones. Namely, the region includes one or several counties which their natural, geographical features are the same and they have active mutual relations from economic, social and physical point of view. In present, while province, County and district have their own management authority, the region doesn’t have such position. Current investigation tries to propose a proper model of management for the regions in iran based on recognition and analysis of problems in management of regions in Iran.

The research method is descriptive; Data gathering technique includes questionnaire and library resources; and finally, study population contains experts, regional planning and management erudite, and regional master plan’s documents and reports.

According to this research, the results of documents and questionnaire are as follows: -Studying factors and elements that regulate the management and development of a region. -Investigating the organizational relations between mentioned element and regional organizations involved in management. -Exploring the essential tools for regional management

According to aforementioned items and studies on each entry, we prepared tables, based on SWOT technique. The proposed paradigm for region management has been based on Strategies which were derived from those tables. According to SWOT technique, we do the following phases in sequence: first, required strategies for region management were extracted. Then, excerpted strategies were analyzed. Finally, a proper management pattern for the country and the region has been proposed.