General Management
Mojtaba Rafiei; Abbasali Ghadirian; seyyed Ali Akbar Ahmadi; Abolhasan Faghihi
Volume 4, Issue 3 , July 2016, , Pages 119-132
Abstract
In a situation that business environment is becoming more dynamic and complex, creating and sustaining competitive advantage depend on innovativeness and continuous current technological improvement. The research and development of the companies are playing a very important role in this respect. Their ...
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In a situation that business environment is becoming more dynamic and complex, creating and sustaining competitive advantage depend on innovativeness and continuous current technological improvement. The research and development of the companies are playing a very important role in this respect. Their leaders always have been facing with the challenges of how to enhance these organizations performance. Considering that, management scholars and practitioner believe that leadership, organizational culture and innovative climate are the most important factors affecting performance. A very limited study has been carried out on the combination effects of these factors on performance. So, the purpose of this paper is to fill this gap. This research is applied-developmental, and the research method is combinative. The research purpose in the first phase is survey and explorative oriented, and in the second phase is descriptive and explanative. The structural equation models are used for data analysis and approval of hypotheses. The result shows that the leadership does not have direct and meaningful impact on R&D organizational performance, because they are mediated and moderated by organizational culture and innovative climate. Therefore, leadership should avoid to directly interfering in research affaires, and they have to shape and strengthen innovative organizational culture and climate. So, they will be able to continuously improve performance and productivity of their organizations.
Seyyed Aliakbar Ahmadi; Mehdi Shahbazi
Volume 2, Issue 3 , June 2014, , Pages 101-110
Abstract
This study has engaged in explaining the empowering leadership style of knowledge cycle in universities of the country. The statistical universe of the research includes all members of scientific mission at University of Allameh Tabatabai and Payam noor University. The research is an applied research ...
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This study has engaged in explaining the empowering leadership style of knowledge cycle in universities of the country. The statistical universe of the research includes all members of scientific mission at University of Allameh Tabatabai and Payam noor University. The research is an applied research in terms of purpose and a descriptive-correlation one in viewpoint of gathering data. To investigate the relationship between the variables and structural equation modeling, PLS software has been used. Results indicated that there is not a significant difference, based on gender, in empowering leadership style of scientific mission's members at both of the universities and opinions of both men and women are the same in University of Allameh Tabatabai and also Payam Noor University. At the end, he transactional leadership style was identified as the empowering leadership style of knowledge cycle among members of scientific mission at universities.
