Thesis (DBA) - Cyprus International University. Institute of Graduate Studies and Research Business Administration Department

Includes bibliography (sheets 194-206)

ABSTRACT Since 1992, KRG - Iraq has been established to governing the northern region of Iraq, with small number of employees and moderate governmental administration structure. Later and with passing of time this situation changed, especially after 2004, as new central Iraqi government great budget provide for KRI, that drags with itself recruitment of hundreds thousands of officials. Then, in 2014, political conflicts occurred between central government of Iraq and KRG-Iraq and together with terrorist organization of ISIS war and crude oil price depression makes KRG-Iraq not be able to pay full monthly employee's salary in its exact amount and date. This research tries to introduce a guideline for government rightsizing through using of different administrative regulations of; Reduced work week and paid less, Part time employee, Job sharing, Early retirement, Voluntary redundancy, Transfer of employees, Job Rotation, Attrition, Freezing and stopping non-essential recruitment, Layoff, Dismissal, Job Descriptions that may cover by rightsizing process. A quantitative research methodology has been chose to analyze a sample of governmental high officers' opinion through questionnaire approach to know how these 9 independent variables effects rightsizing as dependent variable. A questionnaire form created after making case study interview and checking both validity and reliability, eleven hypotheses were been estimated. Data analyzed after checking the reliability through frequency, correlation (Bivariate analyses method) and regression, the results show high significant correlation of all eleven administration regulations with the possibility of rightsizing implementation for KRG - Iraq's employees.