Challenges of social participation in organizations

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Document Type : Research Article

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Educational Management, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran.

10.22059/jomc.2025.383209.1008713

Abstract

Purpose:The increase of people's participation in institutional and organizational mechanisms has become a popular trend in public administration, but what is left unsaid in this trend is the challenges of people's participation, in which they seek to impose their interests by putting pressure on the organization's members. The purpose of the present research was to explore the teachers' experience of exerting parental pressure to impose their interests on teachers in public schools.

Research method: To achieve this purpose, a qualitative approach and interpretive phenomenology were used. The research participants were all teachers in public schools in Semnan who had experienced pressure from the parents. By using purposeful snowball sampling and relying on theoretical data saturation, 16 of them were selected as sample. A semi-structured interview was used to collect data.

Findings: The findings of the research showed that parents use the tactics of creating tension and conflict, using threats, networking, temporary alliances, and promoting false news and rumors to pursue their interests.

Conclusion:These findings implicitly indicated that people's pressure in organizational mechanisms is non-institutional in that they exert pressure on organization members in an unorganized and chaotic manner. The weakness of civil institutions on the one hand and the dominant narrative of the printing industry, which always presents a narrative far from the tension of organizations on the other hand, has caused to ignore the challenges of participation research and public policy issues.

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Organizational Culture Management

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Available Online from 05 March 2025

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