Recognition of Challenges for Implementing Tadbir Plan in Elementary Schools: A Grounded Theory Approach

This research seeks to recognize Challenges of Tadbir Plan currently executed in elementary schools.
This is a qualitative research using grounded theory approach. The population of the study comprises experts in educational management, curriculum planning, and specialists of elementary schools in Iran who are familiar with Tadbir Plan. The participants were selected through purposive criterion-based sampling. The data were collected through semi-structured interviews. Open, axial, and selective coding were used for data analysis. The validity and reliability were measured using Lincoln and Guba criteria.
The results suggested 25 central concepts and eight selected items, which were organized in a paradigmatic model including poor plan orientation and self-assessment in schools as central items and the causal conditions (lack of cooperation and participation of agents of the plan, poor management in schools, directive-orientation and quantity-orientation education), contextual factors (lack of supportive atmosphere, poor teamwork culture, poor technological structures, centralized educational structure), facilitative intervention conditions (personal characteristics, organizational characteristics, and legal requirements), restrictive intervention conditions (intra-organizational and inter-organizational obstacles), and strategies (improving the organizational culture and school atmosphere, changing attitudes of policymakers regarding personal development of principals, teachers, and decentralization).
Paying attention to the Tadbir plan and its basis provides the professional growth of managers. In the implementation of plans such as Tadbir, attention should be paid to the local approaches of schools. Collaborative approaches should be used in the implementation of the Tadbir plan in schools; Selection of specialized and trained managers for schools should be considered and required; more attention should be paid to the approaches of succession and mentoring in the training of school administrators.