Modeling
Hossein Eghbali; Ebrahim Rajabpour; Zaeemeh Nematolahi
Abstract
Current researches around the axis of strategic management indicate that strategy formulation cannot be the main concern or problem of organizations. Rather, what has become a problem is the lack of alignment between different departments of the organization and the organization's strategies. This research ...
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Current researches around the axis of strategic management indicate that strategy formulation cannot be the main concern or problem of organizations. Rather, what has become a problem is the lack of alignment between different departments of the organization and the organization's strategies. This research tries to provide a model for creating strategic alignment of employees with the interpretive structural modeling approach. The tool of this research was a researcher-made questionnaire that was given to experts (11 university professors and managers and employees of Bushehr gas company). To check the validity of the research tool, content validity was used and the reliability of the tool was calculated with Cohen's kappa index, which was reported as 0.65. In order to conduct the research, first by reviewing the literature, the desired factors were extracted, and then by forming a focus group of university professors and managers of Bushehr Gas Company, eight final factors were selected, which were finally selected using interpretive structural modeling at three levels. The results of the research showed that factors such as the maturity of the organization's culture, employees' perception of the organization's goals, employees' participation in strategy formulation, appropriate reward system and transparency of the organization's mission statement, have the greatest impact on the strategic alignment of employees. Therefore, managers are advised not to ignore the great impact of these five factors if they want to align employees with the organization's strategies.
Ebrahim Rajabpour
Abstract
One of the most important processes which has not been seriously taken into account in human resources management is the career path management. With regards to the present era, known as the knowledge economy era, knowledge and knowledge workers are of great significance. Hence, the issue ...
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One of the most important processes which has not been seriously taken into account in human resources management is the career path management. With regards to the present era, known as the knowledge economy era, knowledge and knowledge workers are of great significance. Hence, the issue being studied in the present study is the determination of importance of criteria affecting the career path of knowledge workers in both research and managerial groups; therefore, this study aims mainly at the prioritization of factors affecting the career path of knowledge workers of the Research Institute of Petroleum Industry. To prioritize the factors affecting the career path in this research, the fuzzy network analysis model with the nonlinear planning approach. Compared to the other prioritization methods, using this technique is because of assumptions that are more consistent with the real conditions of decision-making. Six factors were identified as the factors affecting the career path management of knowledge workers in this research. The results show that among the six main criteria studied in two knowledge workers, the orders of criteria influence on the career path are the same. The exclusive competencies have the highest level of importance in the career path of knowledge workers in both groups followed by the criteria of performance assessment, advantageous properties, training courses, working experience and education, respectively.
