Study of the Relationship between National Culture and Senior Public Manager's Pay System in I.R.Iran, Turkey, and Malaysia

Document Type : Research Article

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1 Ph.D. in Public Administration and Lecturer at Islamic Azad University, Tehran North Branch

2 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Management and Accounting, College of Farabi, University of Tehran

Abstract

This study focused on senior public managers’ salary system, not their compensation system. The senior public manager’s pay system in the context of the culture is realizable. One of the research objectives is that in order to design a pay system, we should realize the cultural dimensions of the country, also recognize the relations of those dimensions on pay variables. Obviously, designing senior public managers’ pay system in any country can be meaningful in the context of that country`s culture, and any system out of that context could result in different problems and eccentric inequality. In this research, we used a qualitative comparative multiple case study method to examine pay variables such as total pay, variable pay, and the ratio of the highest level senior managers’ pay to the lowest level employees in I.R.Iran, Turkey, and Malaysia. Then using “meta-analysis” or “evidence synthesis”, such as combining information from qualitative studies, we examined the relations of Hofstede’s six cultural dimensions on pay variables of those three countries. Findings of the other research projects have been analyzed based on such a methodology. The results of this research indicate that cultural dimensions have a relationship with pay variables of I.R.Iran, Turkey and, Malaysia.

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Organizational Culture Management
Volume 16, Issue 3
October 2018
Pages 545-567

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