Abstract:
Teleworking is one of the new methods applied in most developed countries to increase organizational flexibility, reduce costs and improve performance. However, the implementation of teleworking is not so successful in Iran. Therfore, the objective of the present study is to identify the factors causing failure in implementation of teleworking. The study is carried out in the governmental agencies in Iran. The study is qualitative. The data was collected through interview and was then analyzed using Coding Method. The findings indicated that 15 concepts in 5 categories prevent the successful implementation of teleworking in government agencies in Iran. Finally, based on the findings, suggestions and recommendations were made for the mangers responsible for telwroking.
Machine summary:
The findings indicated that 15 concepts in 5 categories prevent the successful implementation of teleworking in government agencies in Iran.
Keywords: Teleworking, Failure, Factors, Qualitative Approach, Open Coding Introduction: Unpredictable changes in the environment of organizations make managers find new ways for organizational flexibility and better performance.
However, this research approach is qualitative, and it attempts to find factors causing failure in implementation of the teleworking in the governmental organizations in Iran.
Fathian and Jahani (2011) conducted research in Iranian Government Organizations to identify the barriers of teleworking.
34 Dr. Reza Najafbagy, Dr. Naser Mirsepasi, Gholamreza Kashani {مراجعه شود به فایل جدول الحاقی} {مراجعه شود به فایل جدول الحاقی} Findings The findings show that information and communication technology infrastructure, secure network, organizational culture, underlying factors associated with job and employee characteristics, lack of excellent management support in the organization, weakness in the work process are the reasons for the failure in teleworking.
{مراجعه شود به فایل جدول الحاقی} Based on the obtained results information and communication technology infrastructure and secure network is the most important among the factors causing failure in teleworking in the government agencies in Iran.
The results of the study indicated that 15 concepts in 5 categories prevent the successful implementation of teleworking in government agencies in Iran.
Information and communication technology infrastructure and secure network, organizational culture, underlying factors associated with job and employee characteristics, lack of excellent management support in the organization and weakness of working processes and working procedures are the reasons for the failure in teleworking in the Iranian governmental agencies.