Hassan Esmailian; Hadi Teimouri; Arash Shahin; Ziad Dehghan
Abstract
Focusing on creating a joyful organizational environment is one of the ways in which human resource management can create a better working life for employees. Due to the necessity of applying and using new approaches in the management of interpersonal relationships and making the workplace environment ...
Read More
Focusing on creating a joyful organizational environment is one of the ways in which human resource management can create a better working life for employees. Due to the necessity of applying and using new approaches in the management of interpersonal relationships and making the workplace environment pleasant, having a sense of humor and knowing how to use it can be a useful management tool for leaders. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to design the model of antecedents and consequences of humor in Parsian Gas Refinery Company. This research, in terms of objective, is typically applied-developmental and has been done by applying a qualitative research method. In order to identify the dimensions of the antecedents and consequences of organizational humor, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 12 managers and supervisors of different units of Parsian Company using non-probability judgment and snowball sampling method and the data were analyzed using a thematic analysis method. The findings led to identify 10 main themes that were categorized into individual-oriented, group-oriented, organization-oriented antecedents and consequences, and also the dimensions of organizational humor. The results of present research will help to understand the effects and performance of humor in organizational environments.
General Management
seyyed abbas Moradi Shirazi; Marjan Fayyazi; Ali Heidari; MohammadAli Babaei Zakliki
Abstract
The fundamental condition of any construct architecture is attention to its cornerstone. Because not paying attention to cornerstone causes a faulty structure. In coaching process, antecedents can be regarded as cornerstone, influential factors that must be taken into consideration before doing coaching ...
Read More
The fundamental condition of any construct architecture is attention to its cornerstone. Because not paying attention to cornerstone causes a faulty structure. In coaching process, antecedents can be regarded as cornerstone, influential factors that must be taken into consideration before doing coaching action. The purpose of this study has been identification of antecedents in coaching process. Research orientation was descriptive-exploratory and its approach is inductive. ethnography research strategy for collecting data and thematic analysis and MAXQDA software and for data analysis were applied. Study population was knowledge-based firms and the field of study for the implementation of ethnography strategy was Asan Pardakht company, as a leading company in payment industry. After data analysis, 198 codes, 12 sub-themes and 3 main themes (Problem finding and context preparing, Planning and Provisioning, informing and empowering) were identified as antecedents of coaching process. Finally, according to the results, some researches with different topics were proposed for future studies.
Public Administration
hamed rahmani; fereshteh beigymogadam; Hormat Asghari
Abstract
Chapter 11 and Article 81 of the Law of civil service Management have a clear emphasis on the implementation of the performance management system and the measurement of the performance of government agencies. Given that the post office of Qazvin province complies with this law and that performance measurement ...
Read More
Chapter 11 and Article 81 of the Law of civil service Management have a clear emphasis on the implementation of the performance management system and the measurement of the performance of government agencies. Given that the post office of Qazvin province complies with this law and that performance measurement is not done in the form of regular reports, and only those reports were based on the completion of an evaluation form and had no effect on payments and the compensation system, the present article seeks to address barriers to the implementation of Article 81 in the post office of Qazvin province. In order to identify the barriers, the background of the research, and then the current status of the post office was examined and the topic analysis was used to analyze the data and the content validity rate and finally identification of the barriers were applied for screening. In this research, the method of data collection is using interviews with experts and experts of Qazvin Post Office and distributing Content Validity Questionnaire. To extract barriers, open and axial coding and finally to validate the content validity rate and distribution of questionnaires and interviews with 14 experts at the post office were used. The results showed that the obstacles with the most frequency and the coefficient rate of validity are the main obstacles as follows: lack of access and performance of customers in the evaluation score, weakness in the accuracy and bias of the evaluator, evaluation of all employees with every grade in one category, low attention of the employees to the evaluation score, the one-step evaluation, lack of familiarity of evaluators with the appropriate methods of evaluation.
Public Management
zahra hosseini; Saeed Mortazavi; Fariborz Rahimnia; Shamsodin Nazemi
Abstract
Unethical behaviors occur in most of organizations but a form of them is often neglected. A specific kind of unethical behaviors that are conducted with the intent to benefit the organization or its members is called "unethical pro-organizational behaviors". So the present study aims to identify the ...
Read More
Unethical behaviors occur in most of organizations but a form of them is often neglected. A specific kind of unethical behaviors that are conducted with the intent to benefit the organization or its members is called "unethical pro-organizational behaviors". So the present study aims to identify the reasons of unethical pro-organizational behaviors occurrence in governmental organizations. The strategy of research is narrative research and using narrative interviews, the individuals’ experience unethical pro-organizational behaviors were obtained. Fourteen managers from governmental organizations in Khorasan Razavi were selected through purposive non-probability sampling. Thematic analysis method was used to analyze the qualitative data. The findings are three categories which included organizational reasons (supportive behaviors of top managers, inefficient monitoring and evaluation, inefficient distribution of credits and budget, authority domain and time pressure), individual reasons (organizational identity, commitment, Compassion, self-serving and risky personality) and legal reasons (lack of rules, ambiguity of rules and incompatibility of rules).
