General Management
Reza Zare; Akbar Bahmani Choob Bastani; Alireza Fathizadeh
Volume 4, Issue 3 , July 2016, , Pages 29-48
Abstract
Democracy is not only limited to political structures but including establishing it in the whole society, its structures and organizations. Organizational democracy is necessary and vital to achieve democratic ideals such as individual independence, social liberty, freedom of expression and participation ...
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Democracy is not only limited to political structures but including establishing it in the whole society, its structures and organizations. Organizational democracy is necessary and vital to achieve democratic ideals such as individual independence, social liberty, freedom of expression and participation in all issues that affect citizens' life. The aim of present research is to achieve effective factors on establishment of organizational democracy in public sector organizations so that they can design the way of performing their duties and also work environment by using democratic principles in such a manner that leads to blooming and developing employees' potential abilities and also impressive presentation of products and services to the public. In the present applied-developmental research, descriptive-survey Delphi method has been used to achieve effective factors on establishment of organizational democracy and the descriptive-correlation structural equations modeling has been utilized to confirmatory factor analysis and construct validity analysis. Participants in Delphi parts included university professors and top managers of public sector organizations who were familiar to the concept of organizational democracy. Statistical universe in structural equations modeling part include staff of seven public organizations in Bushehr Province. In present study, a comprehensive study in scientific texts was taken up at first and indicators were identified and then, these indicators were put at the polls of experts. At the end, 32 indicators and 9 main dimensions were identified that are social responsiveness, shared governance, justly organizational atmosphere, organizational generosity, transparency, effective communication, culture of organizational liberalism, organizational flexibility and occupation justice.
mojtaba rafiei; Hosein Balochi; Majid Nematollahi; Samira Mottaghi
Volume 4, Issue 1 , January 2016, , Pages 121-140
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to enhance the capability of companies in product innovation using organizational knowledge.Therefore, this paper is dealing with examining the effect of organizational knowledge on performance and innovation of new products at knowledge-based companies of Science and Technology ...
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The purpose of this paper is to enhance the capability of companies in product innovation using organizational knowledge.Therefore, this paper is dealing with examining the effect of organizational knowledge on performance and innovation of new products at knowledge-based companies of Science and Technology Park located in Khorasan Razavi Province and clarifying that if organizational knowledge leads to innovation of new products and performance improvement? Thus, important factors that link knowledge, performance and product innovation of organizations has been presented in a structural model. The research statistical universe included Science and Technology Park companies in Razavi Khoerasan province. To reach the sample mass, convenience sampling method was used. A standard questionnaire was used to collect data. The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by convergent and divergent validity and its reliability confirmed by Cronbach's alpha and combined reliability. To test the hypothesis, Structural Equations Modeling and Partial Least Squares approaches by WARP PLS software was used.The results of this study showed that organizational knowledge affects on innovative information, information acquisition efficiency and its interpretation. The effect of efficiency of acquisition information on the performance of the new product was not confirmed.Organizational structuremoderated the relationship between organizational knowledge and informationacquisition and its efficiency but the moderator role of this variable was not significant in the relationship between organizational knowledge and information interpretation
