Investigating the Situation of New Leadership Functions in Government Organizations of West Azerbaijan Province and Presenting an Appropriate Model for Developing the Current Situation

The main purpose of this study is to investigate the status of new leadership functions in government organizations in West Azerbaijan province and to provide an appropriate model for the development of the existing situation in those organizations. The present research is applied in terms of purpose and in terms of the nature of the subject and method, it is a mixed descriptive (quantitative-qualitative) research. This research has been done in two parts, quantitative and qualitative. The statistical population of this research is in the quantitative research section, managers, heads and specialized experts in government organizations of West Azerbaijan province; In the field of qualitative research, he is the director of government organizations, elites and university professors in West Azerbaijan province. To collect research data, in the quantitative research section, a researcher-made questionnaire based on the theoretical framework of "Sanjay Saxena and Pour Nima Avasti" was used and in the qualitative research section, open-ended questions were used through semi-structured interviews and focus group interviews. Descriptive and inferential statistics have been used to analyze the research data in the quantitative research section. In this framework, Kolmogorov-Smirnov was used to test the normality of the data distribution of the population, and one-sample t-test, t-student test, linear regression test, structural equation analysis, and confirmatory factor analysis were used to test the hypotheses. SPSS and AMOS software have been used in all calculations and tests. In the qualitative research section, open coding tables, conceptualization, thematicization, and variable (theme) construction have been used to design and present the main research models. According to the results of this research in the quantitative research section, government organizations of West Azerbaijan province use new leadership functions to a lesser extent than the average. In other words, the current situation of new leadership functions in government organizations of West Azerbaijan province is less than average; Based on the results of qualitative research, a model for developing the current status of new leadership functions in government organizations was presented. In the proposed model for government organizations, there are 14 main themes (main variable) and 39 sub-themes.