Public Management
Nabiallah kohan
Abstract
The purpose of this study is description and understand an idiomatic training course but competitive that name is branch advanced course. The course is performing in the military unit. To observe security issues, in this study the name of that unit was not mentioned. The type of study is developmental ...
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The purpose of this study is description and understand an idiomatic training course but competitive that name is branch advanced course. The course is performing in the military unit. To observe security issues, in this study the name of that unit was not mentioned. The type of study is developmental and to extract factors, ethnography methodology that is a qualitative method was used. Sample population is among a military unit that this course perform in it. Data were selected via 23 military man interviews. They had tendency for dialogue and interview. Also the researcher observed the daily interaction of those employees for data collecting process and writes that interaction specification instantly. Researcher was immersed in that field because, he is graduated from that course. Data were saturated according to sample size. Braun and Clarke (2006) thematic analysis was used for data analyzing. After initial analysis, 12 initial codes were generated. These codes were categorized to two general factors. These general factors were individual and social factors that are outcome of training competition. The individual factors have 6 codes. The social factors have 6 codes. After thematic analysis, thick description was presented about competition and 12 themes shows itself in individual and social categories.
Public Management
Nabi Allah Kohan; Ali Safari; Hadi Teimuri
Volume 5, Issue 3 , July 2017, , Pages 13-30
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to identifying factors affecting workplace friendship. The study type is developmental and mix method. To extract factors, ethnography methodology was used. In quantitative section of this study, to approve the extracted model from qualitative section, researcher-made questionnaire ...
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The purpose of this study is to identifying factors affecting workplace friendship. The study type is developmental and mix method. To extract factors, ethnography methodology was used. In quantitative section of this study, to approve the extracted model from qualitative section, researcher-made questionnaire was used. To identifying sample size, the structural equation modelling (5q≤ n≤ 15q) formula was used. With regard of questions of the questionnaire, 315 individual were selected for sample size and questionnaires were distributed among them. Questionnaire validity was approved with content and structural method with structural equation pattern and its reliability was approved through Cronbach alpha. Data analysis in qualitative section was done with Braun and Clarke (2006) thematic analysis. The result of qualitative section shows that individual, organizational and ultra-organizational factors affecting workplace friendship. The result of quantitative section shows that individual factors with 0.91, organizational factors with 0.21 and ultra-organizational factors with 0.5 percent affecting workplace friendship.
