Identifying the management barriers for establishing suggestions system: A case study of educational system


Masoud Nouri and Mohammad Ahanchi


Suggestions system is one of the new cooperative management plans, which affects making goo decisions, self-confidence and employees occupational approval. The aim of this research is to survey the barriers for establishment of suggestion system. The proposed study designs and distributes a questionnaire among 195 out of 26550 managers who work for educational system in city of Kermanshah, Iran. The primary purpose of this survey is to learn whether lack of accepting any risk on behalf of management team, conflict of interest in management style, lack of belief on suggestions system in an organization are important barriers of executing suggestions system in an organization or not. The results of Freedman test confirm all seven components of the hypothesis. As a result, lack of accepting risk among management team is number one barrier in having suggestion system followed by existing conflict between management style and suggestions system and lack of management's belief to suggestions system, weakness in education for suggestions system and fear in management disruption because of having suggestions system. The other barriers coming in the last priority in terms of their relative importance include lack of management's support to suggestions system and weakness in management position because of accepting suggestions system.


DOI: j.msl.2012.08.017

Keywords: Cooperation ,Suggestion ,Suggestions system ,

How to cite this paper:

Nouri, M & Ahanchi, M. (2012). Identifying the management barriers for establishing suggestions system: A case study of educational system.Management Science Letters, 2(7), 2281-2286.


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