The Effects of City Council Decisions on Financial Resources Management in Tehran Municipality

Abstract

The aim of the present study is to explore the effect of decisions made by city council on financial resources management in Tehran's municipality that for this purpose 200 of the managers, deputies and employees in the department of accounting and funds of Tehran's municipality have been selected with the use of simple random sampling method and have completed the research questionnaire. Content validity of this questionnaire has been confirmed by three of the experts and professors in this field and its reliability also has been confirmed with the use of Cronbach's alpha test. In the end, for analyzing the collected from research questionnaire and considering normality of data, two variable linear regression and Friedman's tests have been used. Obtained results from these tests indicates that decisions of city council and all its dimensions including technical, financial and civil decisions have a positive and significant effect (p<0.01) on financial resources management of Tehran's municipality. Results also indicate that among the dimensions of city council's decision, dimension of civil decisions has the highest effect on financial resources management.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n6s2p542