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نویسنده English
Among the sensitive aspects of management functions are decision-making, communication, organization, and guidance. To efficiently fulfill these functions, management utilizes the decision-making process in the form of the decision-making role. Herbert Simon, a researcher who has conducted extensive research in the field of decision-making, believes that management and decision-making are synonymous and equivalent terms. In other words, a manager is known by their decisions. In fact, decision-making is the essence of management and the full mirror of a manager's abilities and capabilities. On the other hand, tracing the reasons for the success and failure of organizations leads to the decisions made by their managers. Hence, Newman considers the quality of management to be a function of the quality of decision-making and claims that decision-making alone is the most important role of a manager; because the quality of plans and programs, the effectiveness and efficiency of strategies, and the quality of results obtained from their implementation are all functions of the quality of decisions made by the manager. The axis, pillar, and main center of management functions is "decision-making." This category is considered a vital and important matter for management, organizations, and systems. The broader the scope and domain of decision-making and the vaster its horizon, the greater the importance and sensitivity of that decision will be. Strategic decisions possess such characteristics. Instances of such strategic decisions can be observed in the decision-making of Imam Khamenei; because His Eminence's decisions are fully manifested and influential in both domestic and foreign environments. Given the importance and sensitivity of these decisions within the realm of the cultural, social, political, and economic system of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the existence of a research gap in this field, it is appropriate to undertake scientific study and research concerning them in order to understand and explain these strategic decisions. One of the strategic decisions of the Supreme Leader is addressing free-thinking panels. Based on the statements of the Supreme Leader among university professors and scientific elites regarding the establishment of free intellectual, epistemological, and political thinking panels in seminaries and universities, the characteristics of these panels are as follows:
It is student-oriented (several students go and critique each other's words, debate each other; among the things that must be done in various social, political, and scientific issues is giving the field to the student to express their views / Ayatollah Khamenei).
It has not existed until now and is not meant to be current common debates (you bring into existence the political free thought panel, the epistemological free thought panel right in this University of Tehran, right in this Sharif University, and this Amirkabir University / Ayatollah Khamenei).
It is non-specialized, or better to say, not necessarily specialized (out of the three instances the Leader pointed out, two of them were industrial universities; meaning epistemological and political free thinking panels in the industrial university).
It prevents the dragging of intellectual issues into public environments (if specialized issues, intellectual issues, and challenging issues are raised in specific environments, free-thinking environments, and free intellectual environments, certainly fewer casualties/damages will occur / Ayatollah Khamenei).
Overall, it creates a rational atmosphere and logical discussion and causes the truth to become clear (the truth will reveal itself there; truth is not revealed in such a way that someone launches a criticism. In such a way, the truth is not properly understood). For this very reason, in this research, to the best of the researcher's ability, an attempt is made to explain one of the strategic decisions of Imam Khamenei in the cultural sphere as a case study (free-thinking panels). In other words, this research aims to explain and, if possible, present a model of one of the strategic decisions of the top management of the system which, by paying attention to the selection of a proper methodology (the best decision), leads to achieving the basic and supreme goals of the system in the cultural sphere.
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