Ardeshir Shiri; Atefeh Seify; Zahra Heydarnezhad
Abstract
Merit phobia is considered one of the organizational diseases in governmental organizations, which has hindered the favorable appointment process. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to design a managers' merit-phobia model in public organizations in Lorestan province. The present study was qualitative ...
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Merit phobia is considered one of the organizational diseases in governmental organizations, which has hindered the favorable appointment process. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to design a managers' merit-phobia model in public organizations in Lorestan province. The present study was qualitative using the grounded theory method. Participants in the study were managers of public organizations in Lorestan province. Data were collected by using semi-structured interviews with 20 managers who were selected through the purposive sampling method. In the process of data collection and analysis, the grounded theory proposed by Strauss and Corbin was adopted. Six main categories and 45 concepts were extracted from the interviews. The findings revealed that conditions such as the weakness of the succession system, fear of losing position, traditional management systems, narrow-mindedness, partisanship, and lack of a decent career path cause the phenomenon of managers' merit-phobia. Factors such as unhealthy competition, politicization, greed, a relationship-oriented culture, and nepotism provide a background for managers' merit phobia. According to the findings, salaries and benefits, selfishness, dependence on power, and utilitarianism mediate this phenomenon, which leads to consequences such as dwarfism, reduced investment of knowledge and skills for the future, reduced efficiency and effectiveness, job boredom, degradation of the manager's social reputation, increased the employee voluntary leave, reduced organizational creativity, and lack of organizational progress. Finally, the study model was approved by experts.
Nusrat Alsadat Ghorabi; Nusrat Alsadat Ghorabi
Abstract
The purpose of outsourcing is productivity and it is accomplished through assigning tasks to out of the organization. There are different factors including the perspective of the managers which would effect the success of the outsourcing. To be aware of the perspective of the managers who are related ...
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The purpose of outsourcing is productivity and it is accomplished through assigning tasks to out of the organization. There are different factors including the perspective of the managers which would effect the success of the outsourcing. To be aware of the perspective of the managers who are related to outsourcing would facilitate the whole process.The purpose of this study was to identify managers, view in outsourcing organizational activities of organizations in the Ahwaz city by examining the mentalities of the participants. The research method is applied in terms of the purpose and the method of data collection, which is used in the methodology of Q. The participants of the study included 11 managers of public organizations in Ahwaz, who had direct relevance to the research. The discourse space of the present study was gathered from a variety of sources. After evaluating and summarizing the discourse space by the expert, 32 sentences were selected as examples of phrases Q. After collecting the data from Q sorting, this information was analyzed by Q factor analysis. The results showed that four distinct mental patterns can be identified among managers of government organizations regarding the outsourcing of organizational activities, which accounts for ./72 of the total variance explained. These four mental patterns were named with titles “utilitarianism", "organizational agility", "empowerment and competitiveness, respectively.
General Management
OZRA jaberimanesh; Ardeshir Shir; mohamad taban
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Intimacy at workplace can be regarded as a relation, interaction, and making communication through sharing work needs with other employees so that they can reach to a deep understanding and sensitivity towards work problems. This study was done with the aim of understanding the process of forming organizational ...
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Intimacy at workplace can be regarded as a relation, interaction, and making communication through sharing work needs with other employees so that they can reach to a deep understanding and sensitivity towards work problems. This study was done with the aim of understanding the process of forming organizational intimacy. Research method was a qualitative method based on grounded theory. In order to gathering data, semi-structured interviews were applied. Strauss and Corbin method and also paradigm model were used to analyzing data. Population of present study consisted from organizational and management experts. Sampling of study was done through meaningful snowball sampling way based on which 17 interviews with organizational and management experts were implemented. Results of these interviews was a body of basic themes gathered through open coding process, out of which some categories were extracted. At axial coding stage, the link between categories was established and subsequently selective coding stage was implemented. During this study, causal conditions of organizational intimacy were categorized into organizational justice factors, employees' welfare, work independency, optimism, mutual recognition, promotion, and individual characteristics. Empathy and sympathy were mentioned at core category or phenomenon. Identified codes for interfering factors included participation and performance evaluation system. Positive outcome was employees' satisfaction and negative one was lack of taking responsibilities.
Ardeshir Shiri; Sabrieh Khold Sharafi; Mehdi Dehghani; Ali Yasini
Volume 3, Issue 3 , September 2015, , Pages 107-128
Abstract
In the modern world, human resource is considered as the best competitive advantage of an organization and human has got importance in organizations' theory more than ever. Human resource can help organizations in competition just as it can be a serious barrier on the way of organization. Thus, the aim ...
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In the modern world, human resource is considered as the best competitive advantage of an organization and human has got importance in organizations' theory more than ever. Human resource can help organizations in competition just as it can be a serious barrier on the way of organization. Thus, the aim of this research is to study and examine the relationship between managers' narcissism and hypocrisy behaviors with the moderator role of managers' Machiavellian behavior in governmental organizations of Kermanshah City. The population of statistical universe included 4588 people that 355 of them were selected as statistical sample through using simple random classified sampling and Cochran's formula. A questionnaire, designed by the researcher, was used for gathering data that its' face validity was confirmed by professors and experts. To examine the questionnaire's reliability, Cronbach's Alpha was used. The research is an applied research in terms of purpose and is a descriptive and correlation research in viewpoint of gathering data. Correlation test and structural equations model available in Lisrel and SPSS software were utilized to analyze the questionnaire's data. Results showed that managers' narcissism has significant and direct impact on (0.74) on hypocrisy behaviors. Machiavellian behavior has significant and direct impact (0.66) on hypocrisy behavior, so the moderator role of Machiavellian behavior in the relationship between managers' narcissism and managers' hypocrisy behavior is confirmed.
