البحث الإداري و التنظيمي الأردني : دراسة منهجية تقييمية

Abstract EN

This evaluative methodological study aims at identifying the features of Jordanian management and organization research and its key components.

It also aims at identifying the scope of the achievement of its objectives based on comprehensive survey of relevant published research in accredited journals issued by related Jordanian formal universities.

The study is conducted on (175) papers.

The study reveals that Jordanian management and organization research is mainly characterized by being: formal, unilateral, traditional and imbalanced.

That is, it builds on one epistemic framework, has similar analytical style, employs one method of collecting data, considers organizations and institutions as closed systems, emphasizes particular sectors rather than the others, non comparative, non accumulative, not following up contemporary epistemic and methodological developments and a noticeable proportion of its research does not comply with the agreed upon criteria of conducting research.

The interpretation of these features is based on three pivot: Research context, the researcher and the administration of its publication and evaluation with their varied components.

Such as absence of an incubating research environment as a component of the first pivots; the impatient researchers and their non thorough attitudes and styles towards formulating research basic elements as a component of the second pivot, and approving practices not complying with standard research writing as a component of the third pivot.

Among the research recommendations are the following: The call for adopting the principle of multiple research epistemology and methodology; complying with ethical and critical dimensions in conducting research; providing the supportive environment for conducting research; employing in-depth interviews and analysis of documents' content in collecting data; reviewing previous research in a synthetic and inductive manner and re-applying this study on published and non published Jordanian management and organization research in other sources not included in this study.