Pathology
Rahim abdollahfam; jahangir Yari; Behnam Talebi; davod ebrahimpoor
Abstract
Abstract Social health has been influenced by several factors as a factor in evaluating and recognizing an individual's social function and has been studied in different researches from different angles. In this regard, the present study was conducted with the purpose of structural analysis of factors ...
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Abstract Social health has been influenced by several factors as a factor in evaluating and recognizing an individual's social function and has been studied in different researches from different angles. In this regard, the present study was conducted with the purpose of structural analysis of factors related to social health of faculty members of Islamic Azad University of East Azarbaijan. In this research, 320 faculty members of Islamic Azad University of East Azarbaijan Province were randomly selected. A standard questionnaire was used to collect data that validity and reliability of each of them was confirmed. The collected data were analyzed by a Structural Equation Modeling method using PLS software and a suitable model was presented. Based on the findings, the factors affecting social health are: Occupational factors (occupational characteristics), individual (personality type and self-efficacy) and organizational (organizatio-nal support, organizational trust, and organizational health). In addition to the three mentioned factors. The components of each of these factors have a positive correlation with social health and its dimensions. The dimensions of social health include social cohesion, social acceptance, social participation, social adaptation and social flourishing.
Pathology
Ali Hamidizadeh; Reza Tahmasbi; Ashraf Mirzaei
Volume 4, Issue 2 , April 2016, , Pages 51-66
Abstract
In recent years, performance gap between private and public sector has affected researchers of public administration to pay attention to the concept of public service motivation. Present research has been accomplished aiming at improving public service motivation among employees of public sector and ...
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In recent years, performance gap between private and public sector has affected researchers of public administration to pay attention to the concept of public service motivation. Present research has been accomplished aiming at improving public service motivation among employees of public sector and is intended to identify effective factors on public service motivation. For this reason, 196 people of employees at Qom central municipality have been studied in a descriptive survey method. Results show that family socialization, religious socialization, professional identity, job characteristics, member/leader exchange and role situation are effective on public service motivation. On the other hand, results showed that demographic characteristics don't affect on public service motivation. Based on research results, absorbing people who have strong and related family background and also stronger religious beliefs will lead in improving public service motivation in municipality. Furthermore, improving group and professional identity, redesigning jobs in a flexible way and based on freedom of action, trust creation between leader and member and disclosure of organization's roles expand public service motivation in municipalities.
