Reza Andam; Alis khachian; Morteza Asgari
Volume 3, Issue 2 , March 2015, Pages 7-20
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Continuous changes at educational area are considered as an important challenge for managers. Change management is one of the important subjects in management science. The aim of present research is to study effective factors on change management at physical education faculty that was done in qualitative ...
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Continuous changes at educational area are considered as an important challenge for managers. Change management is one of the important subjects in management science. The aim of present research is to study effective factors on change management at physical education faculty that was done in qualitative method. Statistical universe included managers and members of scientific mission in physical education faculty of public universities. Among them, 13 people were selected by snowball method. The tool for gathering data was semi-structured interview. To analyze interviews' contents, conventional content analysis was used. After analyzing contents, extracted codes were classified in different main concept so that 21 extracted concepts were categorized in three main themes including intra-organization environment, extra-organization environment and change process. Validity and reliability of the research were confirmed in four dimensions of trustability, shiftability, dependability and conformability. Three main extracted themes were known as effective factors on change management at physical education faculties. According to the results, managers should plan appropriately for making change to react changes properly.
Maryam Karimi; Samereh Shajaee
Volume 3, Issue 2 , March 2015, Pages 21-40
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In recent years, researchers have discovered the importance of organizational voice in improving managerial decisions and also, the impact of paternalistic leadership on organizational voice. The aim of present research is to study the relationship between paternalistic leadership and organizational ...
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In recent years, researchers have discovered the importance of organizational voice in improving managerial decisions and also, the impact of paternalistic leadership on organizational voice. The aim of present research is to study the relationship between paternalistic leadership and organizational voice emphasizing on the moderate role of knowledge sharing of employees at branches of Saderat Bank in Golestan Province. Research method is descriptive, correlation survey one and statistical universe included all employees at branches of Saderat Bank that were about 600 ones. Statistical sample were calculated about 234 people proportionate to the number of the universe using Kerjesi and Morgan table by classified random sampling. Research data has been gathered through field and library method. The main means for gathering data was standard questionnaire. Validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by Cronbach's Alpha. In addition, to analyze data, structural equations modeling by PLS software has been used. Results showed that factors of benevolent leadership and ethical leadership have positive and significant impact on organizational voice but authoritarian leadership has no impact on organizational voice. Also, knowledge sharing does not moderate the impact of authoritarian leadership and benevolent leadership on organizational voice but it has the moderator role in impact of ethical leadership on organizational voice.
Reza Taghvaee; Karamollah Daneshfard
Volume 3, Issue 2 , March 2015, Pages 41-57
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present research has been accomplished to present an infra-structural model of human resource management proportional to teleworking in the country's public organizations. It is an applied research in terms of purpose and considering data gathering method, it is a descriptive one and in correlation type ...
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present research has been accomplished to present an infra-structural model of human resource management proportional to teleworking in the country's public organizations. It is an applied research in terms of purpose and considering data gathering method, it is a descriptive one and in correlation type and has been done in survey method. Present research is a kind of exploratory mixed research plans. Therefore, the first part of research has been done with no hypothesis. At the first phase, statistical universe of the research contains 20 of expert and elite people in management area including experienced managers of administrative system and management professors familiar to teleworking subject that were selected through snowball sampling method. Thematic analysis was used to analyze and coding interviews by MAXQDA2 software. After achieving the model, in quantitative part, five hypotheses were defined and to test them, a questionnaire was designed and distributed among responsible experts, line managers of ministry of cooperatives, labor and social welfare and also presidency human capital and management development department. Using structural equations modeling, the relationship between elements was studied. The results show that all hypotheses were confirmed and there is a significant and positive relationship between culture, technology and strategy. Thus, it is suggested to managers and in-charge people to take an action for strengthening necessary infrastructures for each elements regarding basic content and extracted codes of present study and in addition, future researchers can extend the test domain of teleworking human resource management infrastructural model in terms of subject and position in other organizations choosing strategic approach
Ahmadreza Ghasemi; Mohammad Hosein Maleki; Asef Karimi
Volume 3, Issue 2 , March 2015, Pages 58-75
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In recent years, cultural management has been considered as an appealing topic by organizational researchers. In other words, cultural capital involves development of constructive and permanent relationship among countries, nations and businesses. Present research aims to determine priorities of extra-organizational ...
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In recent years, cultural management has been considered as an appealing topic by organizational researchers. In other words, cultural capital involves development of constructive and permanent relationship among countries, nations and businesses. Present research aims to determine priorities of extra-organizational development based on cultural cluster analysis. For this purpose, hierarchy analysis process and hierarchy clustering tools have been utilized. Research data has been gathered through polling from professors of Tehran university management faculty with hierarchical analysis process and also secondary data related to value dimensions is prepared from club studies. Results indicated that cultural values of power distance, performalism and group (family) collectivism have the highest importance in cluster determination. In addition, on the contrary of results of former studies, clustering results was confirmatory to cultural convergence among Iran, Turkey and Morocco. Although, from a long time ago, cultural values are supposed to be factors in fortifying and developing relationships between governments, nations and businesses, In international relations other impressive factors should be considered such as political factors, economical factors, technology factors and …
Mohammad Ali Sarlak; Mohammad Hosein Moghaddasan
Volume 3, Issue 2 , March 2015, Pages 76-90
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In present paper, storytelling organization model has been evaluated in electricity industry. The research is an applied research and 14 hypotheses have been studied in this respect. Managers and experts of Tavanir Company (specialized holding company responsible for management of generation, transmission ...
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In present paper, storytelling organization model has been evaluated in electricity industry. The research is an applied research and 14 hypotheses have been studied in this respect. Managers and experts of Tavanir Company (specialized holding company responsible for management of generation, transmission and distribution of electric power in Iran) were selected as statistical universe; the universe has a total population of 183 and statistical sample included 150 people selected by random sampling method and using Morgan table. In present research, the tool for gathering data was questionnaire that was designed and credit scored by using determined factors in storytelling organization model. The questionnaire was in the form of five-likert spectrum and its reliability was calculated as 0.83 by Cronbach's Alpha. Testing hypotheses specified that among 14 available relationship, 13 of them are significant statistically and one remain relationship is not significant at 95% confidence level (the second hypothesis: relationship between structure and culture and organizational relationships). In this manner, the examined model for storytelling organization (operational model) is presented. The results emphasized that to implement storytelling organization model in electricity industry, structure and culture should be charged to fortify their relationship with organizational relationship and values. In the research, factor analysis test, path analysis test and structural equations test and regression test have been utilized by SPSS and Lisrel software. At the end, some recommendations are offered based on the results.
Fereydoon Ahmadi; Eskandar Shirazi
Volume 3, Issue 2 , March 2015, Pages 91-106
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Present paper is dealing with studying environmental dimensions of Trauma director organization. For this, the designed questionnaire by Delphi method was distributed among over 111 ones of participated experts at specialized panel, at first. After analyzing the results by Lisrel software, the required ...
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Present paper is dealing with studying environmental dimensions of Trauma director organization. For this, the designed questionnaire by Delphi method was distributed among over 111 ones of participated experts at specialized panel, at first. After analyzing the results by Lisrel software, the required factors and index were selected for the second round and at the second raound, factors of cultural environment, legal-political environment, social environment, technology environment, economical environment, physical environment, ethics and social responsibility were confirmed at the first Delphi round. Ranking the indices of each of them, all confirmed factors were got to the Delphi second round. At that round, the serious important indices of each factor were chosen and finally, at the third Delphi round, that was concentrated on ranking the effective factors on trauma director organization, it was distinguished that social responsibility and also ethics are the important factors of the organization in a raw. In addition, using path analysis software, the relationship between variables and direct and indirect impact of them were examined and the results showed that environmental dimensions' factor have direct impact (55%) on trauma director organization in public sector while this variable has indirect impact and more than direct impact (/11) on the mentioned organization.
