A Model for Selecting the Managers of Public Enterprises Considering Paragraphs 3 and 4 of the General Policies of the Administrative System

One of the main aspects of reforming the administrative system and improving the management is to select qualified managers based on practical and unambiguous criteria which is emphasized in paragraphs 3 and 4 of the general policies of the administrative system by the supreme leader. Accordingly, it is imperative to consider the effective criteria of qualification, whether they are political or nonpolitical. In fact, research findings suggest that the political criteria result in the negligence of the qualified managers. So, this study aims to analyze the role, effect, and influence of the political criteria in selecting the managers through the case study of the national oil company of Iran in order to ease the process of applying the general policies of the administrative system. The study attempts to suggest a model to show the relationship among the criteria based on the literature. The research approach is quantitative, of a practical type through a descriptive-survey method. After prioritizing the criteria and suggesting the interpretive structural model by 12 experts in the field, the findings showed the general policies of development in the oil industry in general, and the socio-cultural and economic factors in particular, are the most effective criteria and intra- and extra-organizational interventions. Using MicMac analysis, we measured the effectiveness of the political factors, based on which the political factors were grouped as the relational variables. Finally, the limitations and suggestions for further study were provided.