The process of selecting and appointing managers in various organizations, both public and private, is always considered a challenge. Various issues such as technological changes, social pressures, inefficiency and lack of productivity have caused organizations to always be under pressure to use the most effective human resource management procedures to select competent managers. The main goal of the current research was the ideal model for the appointment of cultural managers in Shiraz based on meritocracy. This research is a hybrid or mixed research in terms of the purpose and nature of the research, in terms of the library environment, in terms of the developmental and practical purpose, in terms of the cross-sectional data collection time, in terms of the descriptive-survey research implementation method, and of correlational and causal type. The community and the statistical sample in the qualitative section, all the organizational experts of Shiraz city who had the experience of selecting and appointing managers, 18 people were selected with a targeted method. The population and statistical sample in the quantitative part of the research are all the cultural workers of Shiraz city in 1402. 300 employees were selected by available sampling method. In order to collect data and information in this research, library and field methods were used at the same time, and questionnaire tools were used in the field method. Fuzzy Delphi method and MAXQDA software were used to analyze the qualitative data of the research, and Structural Equation Modeling and LISREL software were used to analyze the quantitative data. The Delphi process took place in two stages, and at the end of this stage; Consensus was reached and meritocracy including the dimensions of managerial duties, managerial roles and managerial skills as well as the appointment of managers including the dimensions of the existing status of the appointment system and the desired situation in order to establish an effective appointment system were approved by the research experts. Comparison of the average factors affecting meritocracy showed that the highest average belongs to the factor of informational roles and the lowest average belongs to leadership duties. Also, the comparison of the average factors affecting the appointment of managers showed that the highest average belongs to the factor of how to reach the desired options and the lowest average belongs to behavioral and attitudinal requirements. According to the results, among the factors affecting the appointment of managers, the optimal situation in order to establish an effective appointment system, such as operational measures and behavioral and attitudinal requirements, from the respondents' point of view, is more important than the current state of the appointment system. Also, among the factors affecting meritocracy, skills are more important than other factors from the perspective of the respondents. Also, the results of the path coefficient showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between meritocracy and the appointment of managers.
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General Received: 2024/04/20 | Accepted: 2023/09/1 | Published: 2023/09/1