Information Technology governance using COBIT 5 approach (Ministry of Road and Urban Development)

This study is applied based on objectives and descriptive-survey in terms of data collection. The questionnaire with closed questions, rated from very high to very low by five-point Likert Scale ratings, was applied data collection. The Ministry of Road and Urban Development in Islamic Republic of Iran was considered as the spatial domain of research and the year of 2013 was as the time domain of research. The statistical population in this study covers all managers and employees in the Ministry of Road and Urban Development. In this study, the judgmental sampling, which among the non-probable sampling methods, is utilized, since there is not an available complete list of studied population individuals and the samples are considered based on the researcherʹs vision or a subjective criterion. According to the main result of this study, it is clarified that there is no significant correlation between the variables of rules and regulations with culture and skills, the infrastructure with culture and skills, the information with culture and skills, the culture with structure and processes, the structure with skills, and also between the processes and skills according to the pair-wise comparison of variables. For pair-wise comparison of other variables, it can be concluded that there is a significant correlation between the rules and regulations with infrastructure, information, structure, and processes and the values of this correlation are 0.970, 0.982, 0.979 and 0.983, respectively. There is a significant correlation between the variables of infrastructure with information, structure, and processes and the values of this correlation are 0.966, 0.966 and 0.964, respectively. There is a significant correlation between the information with the structure and processes and the values of this correlation are 0.979 and 0.984, respectively. There is a significant correlation between the culture and skills and the value of this correlation is equal to 0.972. Furthermore, there is correlation between the structure and processes and the value of this correlation is equal to 0.977. Moreover, all research hypotheses, indicating that the rules and regulations, process, organizational structure, organizational culture, information, infrastructure, and skills, as the independent variables, establish the IT Governance in this ministry, are rejected.