Public Administration
Sepideh Gholipour; Ali asghar Pour Pzzat; Jabbar Babashahi; Reza Tahmasebi
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Addressing the issue of establishing development-oriented structures, governments might face either of the following situations: they find themselves capable of engaging target society in programs and projects or they fail in doing so which would lead to independent actions by people themselves. Complex ...
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Addressing the issue of establishing development-oriented structures, governments might face either of the following situations: they find themselves capable of engaging target society in programs and projects or they fail in doing so which would lead to independent actions by people themselves. Complex social problems and meanwhile population growth, would inevitably make primary governmental structures inefficient in achieving development objectives thoroughly, as a result governments should take active steps towards empowering and enlightening people in a way that they become capable of organizing their efforts in accordance with development objectives, public goods and public benefits. When underdeveloped societies find out about the influential role of non-governmental structures in the development process, governments would have two options: facilitating the engagement process for the society, or witnessing local societies authentically establishing bottom-up planning and implementation structures. Noticing the importance of organization and engagement seem much more crucial in case of villages, where in comparison with urban areas, suffer from deficiencies in engagement structures. This paper based on Hermeneutic analysis approach, takes advantage of literature study and two case studies of rural development policy making and implementation (European Union and Pakistan), in suggesting a theoretical framework for mobilizing social structures with the purpose of supporting development policies in Iran's rural areas.
Public Administration
Fatemeh Sadat Aboalmaali; Karamollah Daneshfard; Ali Asghar Pourezzat
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Technological-centered reforms, especially in the public sector, have been put in most countries' agenda setting. The pattern of. “Open Government” relying on “Open Data” is among the new patterns for the digital governance. It aims at the execution of reforms and aligning with ...
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Technological-centered reforms, especially in the public sector, have been put in most countries' agenda setting. The pattern of. “Open Government” relying on “Open Data” is among the new patterns for the digital governance. It aims at the execution of reforms and aligning with some paradigms (Open Government Paradigm) is an inevitable necessity for executing the policies for administrative. The open government is another outcome of digital governance evolution and the mentioned paradigm. Therefore, the present study aims at presenting a pattern based on governance in the digital age, “Open Government Pattern” for quickening the administrative reforms in the Ministry of Interior. The present study is fundamental, and its method is qualitative through employing the content analysis method. For compiling data and information, we have used the library research method and taking notes. Also, while interviewing the academic and administrative experts in the field, we have tried to compile and analyze the complementary data. The interviews were done with 16 academic and administrative experts in the field of study purposefully. By open and critical coding of acquired data through interviews (the qualitative section of the study), six primary themes have been coded for administrative reforms, recognition. The procedure took place based upon the Stephen & Neghendy Model. We have extracted 71 primary codes out of the interviews with experts in open coding. And finally, we categorized this network of themes into six central themes. The view of the experts (in the qualitative section of the study) for reforming the administrative reforms through employing the pattern of open government requires engineering of the cultural system, technology, and economic system as the most prominent factors for reforming administrative systems. The qualitative model (in the quantitative section of the study) was confirmed by the academic professors and experts through employing the methods of CVR and CVI.
Public Administration
Mohsen Rezaei; ali reza ali ahmadi; Mirzahasan Hoseini; mohamadtaghi Amini
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The aim of this research is to determine the influential factors on electronic marketing of commercial organizations for improving the quality of their activity in the cyberspace through presenting a scientific model which is aligned with the corporate strategies of the organizations. This research is ...
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The aim of this research is to determine the influential factors on electronic marketing of commercial organizations for improving the quality of their activity in the cyberspace through presenting a scientific model which is aligned with the corporate strategies of the organizations. This research is going to answer this question that being aligned the E-marketing plans with corporate strategies in online commercial organizations how much can culminate they to the success. In the research we use quality research methods including the systematic review for study and classification of the studies, meta-analysis for coding models and extracted parameters and the grounded theories for determining influential and required parameters for making a model using SPSS software. We use meta-synthesis method for finding the relations among elected parameters in creating a model and theorization in which we use the MICMAC software. The results of this research showed that the alignment between electronic marketing and corporate strategies of the organization is necessary. To achieve this goal we presented a model.
Public Administration
Rasoul Abbasi; Seyedeh Fatemeh Faghihi; Fatemeh Ghate
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Given the importance of labor law in regulating labor-employer relations and its determinant role in the economic development of manufacturing firms, this study was done aiming at analyzing the labor law of the Islamic Republic of Iran from the viewpoint of employers from the perspective of human resources ...
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Given the importance of labor law in regulating labor-employer relations and its determinant role in the economic development of manufacturing firms, this study was done aiming at analyzing the labor law of the Islamic Republic of Iran from the viewpoint of employers from the perspective of human resources management. This research is an applied one in terms of objectives, and the grounded theory was applied for data analysis. Statistical population includes employers of industrial companies located in Tehran, among whom 8 employrs were selected through Snowball sampling method and theoretical saturation rule, and in-depth interview was utilized as collection instrument. The results of data analysis showed that for employers the most important weakness of the law is the lack of transparency and different inferences from the text of the law and the limited powers of the employer in the labor law. According to the employers, the current law may not be effective in arbitration between the worker and employer, and this widens the gap between the actual human resource conditions and the content of the law.
Public Administration
Somayeh Roshani; mohammad bakhtazmaybonab
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Today, spiritual leadership is considered as an important factor in reducing organizational paranoia. Organizational commitment can be used as a tool to help leadership in this regard. Therefore, as the organizational commitment of the staff is strengthened, the amount of organizational paranoia will ...
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Today, spiritual leadership is considered as an important factor in reducing organizational paranoia. Organizational commitment can be used as a tool to help leadership in this regard. Therefore, as the organizational commitment of the staff is strengthened, the amount of organizational paranoia will decrease as much. The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of spiritual leadership on organizational paranoid with emphasis on the mediating role of organizational commitment in the social security organization of the East Azarbaijan Province. The research type is applied and the statistical population of this research includes all managers and staff of Social Security Organization of East Azarbaijan province. The sample size of the study has been obtained 267 people by using the Sample Size Determination in Limited Communities formula. A questionnaire has been used to collect the required data, which after confirming its validity and reliability, was distributed among the statistical population. Descriptive and inferential statistics and partial least squares approach were used to analyze the data. Results show that spiritual leadership has a positive and significant effect on organizational paranoid regarding the mediating role of organizational commitment. Spiritual leadership has a negative and indirect effect on organizational paranoid. Organizational commitment has a negative and indirect role on organizational paranoid, and spiritual leadership has a positive and significant role on organizational commitment.
Public Administration
Rahim abdollahfam; jahangir Yari; Behnam Talebi; davod ebrahimpoor
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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 ...
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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.
Public Administration
Zeinab Molavi; reza tahmasebi; Hassan DanaeeFard; Ali Hamidizadeh
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The importance of citizens’ perception and attitude toward state’s performance needs broad studies in this field. Various studies are conducted on citizens’ perception and attitude toward state, most of them have considered inefficiency of the state. A few studies addressed negative ...
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The importance of citizens’ perception and attitude toward state’s performance needs broad studies in this field. Various studies are conducted on citizens’ perception and attitude toward state, most of them have considered inefficiency of the state. A few studies addressed negative perceptions and attitudes toward public section while not related to state’s inefficiency. Present descriptive – correlational paper aims at studying the relationship between bureauphobia and Perceived national resilience. To this end, by surveying the citizens through a questionnaire, the phenomenon of bureauphobia and Perceived national resilience was identified. Then the relations between both variables were investigated. Research population consists of all 18 – 70 year-old citizens who had gone to public organizations at least one time in past year to receive services. Data was analyzed by drawing table and Chi2 test. The results suggest that distrust to states and employees in public section are not only related to the performance of public services and 31 percent of respondents have bureauphobia. Likewise, 31 percent of respondents had negative Perceived national resilience on threats. Finally, findings indicate that there is a significant relationship between Perceived national resilience and bureauphobia.
Public Administration
Farajollah Rahnavard; Ali Jokar; Habibollah Taherpour; Mahdi rasouli
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Social accountability of public agencies is one of the requirements of public governance in the country. This kind of accountability is responding to social groups. The purpose of this study is to develop a framework for establishing social accountability in Iranian public sector organizations based ...
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Social accountability of public agencies is one of the requirements of public governance in the country. This kind of accountability is responding to social groups. The purpose of this study is to develop a framework for establishing social accountability in Iranian public sector organizations based on grounded theory. The statistical population of this research includes experts who have sufficient knowledge and practical experience in the field of social accountability. According to the research framework, a semi-structured method based on Atlas ta software has been used to collect the required data. After analyzing the text of the interviews, the dimensions of social accountability and causal, mediator and moderator variables were identified to develop a final framework. Research findings show that international requirements, the type of organizational mission, organizational culture, legal requirements, organizational reputation, and public maturity of society are key factors influencing the establishment of social accoعntability in public agencies. Meanwhile, the outcomes of establishing social accountability in public agencies are an increase in public trust, public satisfaction, and community growth and excellence.
Public Administration
daood hosainpoor; Fattah Sharifzadeh; roohallah noori; omid karimian
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The present paper seeks to use the grounded theory to assess the economic policies of the Islamic Parliament. Research method is based on the qualitative method of grounded theory. Depth interviews were conducted with 16 representatives in the Islamic Parliament using snowball sampling. After open, selective, ...
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The present paper seeks to use the grounded theory to assess the economic policies of the Islamic Parliament. Research method is based on the qualitative method of grounded theory. Depth interviews were conducted with 16 representatives in the Islamic Parliament using snowball sampling. After open, selective, and axial coding of collected data, 159 primary concepts, 45 subcategories and 8 main categories were extracted. The final outcome of this study is the design of a 5-dimensional model whose dimensions are categorized into four bases of the ground, input, process components, and products. The findings of this study indicate the domination of the political climate of Iran over the policy climate, the rule of politics over economy, followed by the confrontation of legislative, administrative and executive sectors with institutional, structural and cultural challenges in the policy-making process. Therefore, it is suggested that legislators emphasize national interests by adopting a holistic approach and avoid the involvement of political approaches with the policy-making process. Also, it is necessary to form special committees in the Islamic Parliament in order to align policies with high-level documents.
Public Administration
hamed rahmani; fereshteh beigymogadam; Hormat Asghari
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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 ...
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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 Administration
mohsen sadr; Akbar Etebariyan; Reza Ebrahimzadeh; Marziyeh Piravi vanak
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Objective: The purpose of this paper was to identify and categorize cultural organizations according to the viewpoint of organizational population ecology. Methods: The exploratory mixed method based on repertory grid approach has been used. All isfahanian cultural experts were been considered as Statistical ...
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Objective: The purpose of this paper was to identify and categorize cultural organizations according to the viewpoint of organizational population ecology. Methods: The exploratory mixed method based on repertory grid approach has been used. All isfahanian cultural experts were been considered as Statistical population that were been sampled in two stage (qualitative and quantitative). the data gathering method in qualitative phase was interview and in quantitative phase by compilation the questionnaire, elements (organizations) were been scored based on the Likert spectrum and the necessary data were collected and idio-grid software was used for data analysis. The fitting indices such as Cronbach's alpha index (0.78 for constructs and 0.73 for elements), Bieri index(0.36), Fransella index(0.38) were calculated, which showed reliability and validity of repertory grid process based on the method. Findings: in the qualitative phase, 19 constructs have been investigated and in the quantitative phase 11 constructs in 3 dimensions(as named: survival and relationship, isomorphy and cultural originality) determining 76.87% of total variation were categorized and were used as typology basis . Conclusion: Finally, researchers based on the final constructs shaped the two-dimensional diagram and categorizes four different types of cultural organizations with their specific characteristics. Originality and Innovation: The present research has originality and innovation in three aspects, the ecological approach of organizational population and the new method was used in typology and Quantifying the experts' mind map based on accurate statistical approaches.
Public Administration
Amir Hossein Jahanikia; Mohammad Javad Hozoori; Mahdi Yadollahi; Adel Azar
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Decision making is one of the most important activities in all organizations, and in the meantime, it is more important in innovative and knowledge-based firms due to the lack of structure and resources on the one hand and the impact of decisions on the organization on the other. The business environment ...
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Decision making is one of the most important activities in all organizations, and in the meantime, it is more important in innovative and knowledge-based firms due to the lack of structure and resources on the one hand and the impact of decisions on the organization on the other. The business environment generally has many uncertainties, and this uncertainty about start-ups and technology-based businesses is much deeper. Deciding in this uncertain environment has limitations that make many technologists unconsciously use intuition in decision making. The purpose of this study was to study the descriptive process of intuitive decision making in technology and knowledge-based companies. Given the nature of the intuition, the method used in this research was qualitative (Grounded Theory) and based on the analysis of interviews. The results suggest that there is sufficient evidence that the decision-makers of knowledge-based companies use intuition in the uncertainty environment, and that information and time are the causative factors causing uncertainty. In addition, it was found that experience and intuitions are inextricably linked, and the mental patterns and curiosity of the variables associated with them. Unstable environment of business also play the role of the underlying factor of intuitive decision making. Increasing the speed of decision making, creativity and reducing feelings of regret from positive outcomes and increasing decision errors are also the negative consequences of the use of intuition.
Public Administration
Mohsen Manteghi
Abstract
Organizations seek to accomplish their goals by hiring their staff. Organizational conditions in terms of physical space, workplace and laws, as well as the ethical and behavioral characteristics of employees provide the context for some employees to elude from work and absent in performance while they ...
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Organizations seek to accomplish their goals by hiring their staff. Organizational conditions in terms of physical space, workplace and laws, as well as the ethical and behavioral characteristics of employees provide the context for some employees to elude from work and absent in performance while they are present physically at work. Investigating the behavioral pattern of invisible employees is the aim of this research which has been done based on the foundation data method. The study, which was conducted in cultural organizations and educational centers in Qom, was based on limited theoretical literature and mainly based on interviews with 12 people (snowball method) from professors and experts in the humanities. The propositions of the study were obtained in the form of open coding, selective coding, and axial coding. Internal validity coefficient was used to ensure the validity of research and three stage-qualitative reliability was used to calculate research reliability. The results of this study show that proper staff selection, reforming structures and laws, reinforcing religious and spiritual beliefs, making employees aware of the consequences of their actions, and reforming socio-political relationships can greatly reduce the phenomenon of invisible employees.
Public Administration
Asghar Abolhasani Hastiani; Ghorban Daniali
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The issue of combating money laundering and its international and internal standards are very important that in accordance with these standards, the financial action group and even the International Bank for Recognition are conducting a ranking of the banks and the styles of them in the countries. In ...
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The issue of combating money laundering and its international and internal standards are very important that in accordance with these standards, the financial action group and even the International Bank for Recognition are conducting a ranking of the banks and the styles of them in the countries. In this regard and in accordance with the standards, the banking systems of each country are required to executive the bylaws and regulations which is related to anti-money laundering laws to pave the way for international cooperation. On this basis, it is important to develop and present a model for preventing and combating money laundering. The main purpose of this paper were developed to adopt by using content analysis method and utilizing the opinions of experts and exploratory analysis, Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, Delphi method, Bartlett test, Levine test and T-test with Using of SPSS22 dimensions, components and indicators of the desired model were extracted for Bank Saderat Iran and frameworks of the elements of the model. Furthermore the model was evaluated and the results show that the measures taken to prevent and combat money laundering are not consistent with the international standards developed by the financial group.
Public Administration
Volume 6, Issue 3 , July 2018, , Pages 33-48
Abstract
The proverb has a great role in the field of literature, so that its scientific and historical value is less than inscriptions and stones. In the life of all the strata of the society, whether it is a general, educated, the function of the proverb is like the mirror, which sees the cultural and social ...
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The proverb has a great role in the field of literature, so that its scientific and historical value is less than inscriptions and stones. In the life of all the strata of the society, whether it is a general, educated, the function of the proverb is like the mirror, which sees the cultural and social features of a society and organization. Probably the proverbial work has done hours of speaking, reasoning and reasoning. Proverbs are a window towards culture. This research examines the components of organizational culture in Iran from the perspectives of Persian proverbs. Qualitative research method. The statistical society consists of 12,000 Persian pronouns, of which 1200 proverbs were randomly considered as examples. Data analysis was used to analyze the data. The results showed that Persian proverbs can explain the components of organizational culture in Iran. This means that proverbs show that Iranian organizational culture has characteristics such as personality, power distance, distance from conflict, masculinity.
Public Administration
zeinab shokri; Mansour Kheyrgu
Volume 6, Issue 2 , April 2018, , Pages 79-94
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Public policies are play an important role in the country's progress and development So that the goals of development and Welfare any country depends on the quality of public policies. A major challenge facing the public policy making system is How to evaluate the quality of public policies and programs. ...
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Public policies are play an important role in the country's progress and development So that the goals of development and Welfare any country depends on the quality of public policies. A major challenge facing the public policy making system is How to evaluate the quality of public policies and programs. This Mixed research in the first stage Is designed A comprehensive model for quality evaluation of public policies. In the second stage, Relations between Factors of Produced model open to Quantitative Test. Therefore, the aim of this study was to design a model for quality evaluation of public policies in the qualitative phase, and in the quantitative phase study designed to test the conceptual model. Results show that According to the process of public policy making, the most important stages to that effect public policies quality are The formulation of public policy and the legitimate public policy.Key Words: Quality, Public Policy, Evaluation, Grounded Theory
Public Administration
Abdoulla Karimi; Arash Shahin; Ali Shaemi Barzoki
Volume 6, Issue 2 , April 2018, , Pages 95-108
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The purpose of this research is to propose a competency-oriented performance assessment system via succession planning. It was carried out via mixed methods research. The statistical population included the experts and academic specialists in the field of human resources and senior managers of Bank Saderat ...
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The purpose of this research is to propose a competency-oriented performance assessment system via succession planning. It was carried out via mixed methods research. The statistical population included the experts and academic specialists in the field of human resources and senior managers of Bank Saderat Iran in the qualitative section and experts and managers at various levels of Bank Saderat in Isfahan province in the quantitative section. judgmental purposive sampling and random stratified sampling were employed in the qualitative and quantitative sections respectively. In the qualitative section, 17 persons participated in the interview and in the quantitative section, 400 persons participated as the research sample. Tools of data collection were interview and researcher self-made questionnaire. Reliability of the questionnaire was calculated equal to 0.82 and its validity was approved. Data analysis was carried out through descriptive statistics and inferential statistics including exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling. The results of the survey in the qualitative section illustrate that there are 24 components of competency-oriented performance assessment system in five dimensions including competency, foresight, flexibility, justice, and comprehensiveness. In the quantitative section, the findings showed that competency has the highest factor loading (0.92) and flexibility has the lowest factor loading (0.79) and other dimensions are in subsequent order of importance respectively. Likewise, the results disclosed that dimensions of competency-oriented performance assessment system have a positive and significant effect on establishment of succession management.
Public Administration
arash derakhshanmehr
Volume 6, Issue 2 , April 2018, , Pages 149-158
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The aim of this study is to identify the role of moderating professional ethics in the relationship between ethical leadership and Certified Public Accountants performance. The present study was conducted in 2017 and the statistical population of this study is all auditors employed in all auditing institutions ...
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The aim of this study is to identify the role of moderating professional ethics in the relationship between ethical leadership and Certified Public Accountants performance. The present study was conducted in 2017 and the statistical population of this study is all auditors employed in all auditing institutions accepted in the Iranian Association Certificate Public, of which 150 were selected by simple random sampling method.The data of this research were collected through ethical leadership, performance and professional ethics questionnaires and analyzed in two descriptive and inferential levels. To confirm the validity of the questionnaires, the experts' opinions and confirmatory factor analysis were used. The results confirm the validity of the questionnaires. For data analysis, structural equation modeling and partial least squares algorithm (PLS) were used. The results of the test indicate confirmation of the role of moderating professional ethics on the relationship between ethical leadership and the performance of independent auditors.
Public Administration
fattah sharifzadeh
Volume 6, Issue 1 , January 2018, , Pages 83-100
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The present study was designed to design a model of performance management in the public sector of the country in two phases of design and evaluation of the model. In this section, the model was designed in a qualitative manner by carrying out semi-structured and in-depth interviews with a sample of ...
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The present study was designed to design a model of performance management in the public sector of the country in two phases of design and evaluation of the model. In this section, the model was designed in a qualitative manner by carrying out semi-structured and in-depth interviews with a sample of 11 experts and analyzing the themes of their interviews. The sample of the qualitative section of this research is selected in terms of theoretical saturation and is targeted by selective sampling method. The data collected in this section was confirmed using Amos software analysis and exploratory components of the model through confirmatory factor analysis. In the quantitative stage, 60 managers and expert experts of performance appraisal offices were selected by 20 ministries and national organizations and 31 provincial units of the organization of management and planning without sampling. The model was evaluated through five indexes of simplicity and ease of use, applicability, completeness, accuracy, innovation by using a standard questionnaire whose validity and reliability were confirmed. According to the findings of this research, access to an optimal model that can cover all aspects and requirements of public sector performance management around the policies and with the separation of the role of each of the effective actors. This should be done with consideration of the role of each actor and their activities. ; Besides determining outcomes or immediate results, mediation and, ultimately, the strategic outcomes of each actor while paying attention to the components and relationships between these sectors.
Public Administration
MirYaghoub SeyyedRezaei; Ali Asghar Pourezzat; Arian Gholipour
Volume 5, Issue 3 , July 2017, , Pages 47-64
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Budget is the most important tools of justice development in the country and influenced by the performance of a wide range of the relevant factors. Regard to the extent and complexity of the budgeting process, trying to identify the factors affecting justice heed has the great importance. In this study ...
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Budget is the most important tools of justice development in the country and influenced by the performance of a wide range of the relevant factors. Regard to the extent and complexity of the budgeting process, trying to identify the factors affecting justice heed has the great importance. In this study have tried series of affecting factors during open and semi-structured interviews with budgeting experts has identified. The method of the study was grounded theory. Snow-ball sampling continued until complete data saturation. Open and semi-structured interviews held with experts of the Country Management and Planning Organization (those in charge of formulating the budget bill and analysts of budget document are considered as the main informants). Data analysis was done through coding (open, axial and selective). Findings suggest that two major categories of “national and trans-regional factors” and “regional and provincial factors”, each containing different categories, affect justice development directly or indirectly through budgeting system and allocation of public budget.
Public Administration
Seyed Kazem Ebrahimi; Ali Bahraminasab; Mehdi Hasanzadeh
Volume 5, Issue 2 , April 2017, , Pages 61-76
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Directors of public companies have short-term horizons decisions, so they are try to use every possible means, including manipulation and earnings management, to improve their current performance and therefore increase their reward. In addition relations and political connections influence not only on ...
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Directors of public companies have short-term horizons decisions, so they are try to use every possible means, including manipulation and earnings management, to improve their current performance and therefore increase their reward. In addition relations and political connections influence not only on the financial position of economic firms, but it also affects managers' motivation in relation to earnings management. Finally, it is expected that this situation creates significant differences in tax policy and the quality of corporate reporting; the aim of this study was to determine the effect of governmental ownership and political connections on financial reporting quality and tax avoidance. In this study, the data from 106 company listed in the Tehran Stock Exchange in the period from 2010 to 2015 were used, the results of multivariate regression model shows that governmental ownership and political connections have negative and significant effect on the quality of financial reporting and when the percentage of governmental ownership or political connections rise, leads to reduced quality of corporate reporting. The results also showed that Governmental ownership companies have no significant effect on tax avoidance, but political connections have a significant positive effect on corporate tax avoidance.
Public Administration
Adel Azar; Reza Vaezi; Vahid Mohammadpour Saraiy
Volume 5, Issue 2 , April 2017, , Pages 89-106
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The strategic plan of nanotechnology development in the 1404 vision was passed with the endeavor of the national Nanotechnology Development Staff. This document includes 52 executive plans, which are to be implemented by various organizations. Making policy for the commercialization of nanotechnology ...
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The strategic plan of nanotechnology development in the 1404 vision was passed with the endeavor of the national Nanotechnology Development Staff. This document includes 52 executive plans, which are to be implemented by various organizations. Making policy for the commercialization of nanotechnology is a complicated and unstructured issue in which various stakeholders participate. Regarding the complexity of nanotechnology commercialization policy making along with the role of human factor in it, soft systems methodology (SSM) is used as the research method. In this research, using soft systems methodology (SSM), the unstructured issue of nanotechnology commercialization policy making was defined initially. After defining the scope of the issue, an enriched image of different actors and their interests was depicted. Then, using CATWOE, the fundamental definition of nanotechnology commercialization policy making was defined. In the next stage, the developed model was compared with the real world. After that, desired changes for the development improvement of the new system were identified. Finally, applied plans for operationalizing the changes were proposed to the stakeholders and incumbents dealing with the issue, hoping for improving the function of the system and enhancing the effectiveness of the process of commercializing nanotechnology policy making.
Public Administration
Saeid Radmard
Volume 5, Issue 2 , April 2017, , Pages 125-134
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of managers' professional ethics on the protection of human rights. This research is a descriptive survey based on the application of the purpose and the method of data collection. The statistical population of the study is all managers of state ...
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of managers' professional ethics on the protection of human rights. This research is a descriptive survey based on the application of the purpose and the method of data collection. The statistical population of the study is all managers of state universities in the northwest of the country, with 312 people. The sample size was determined on the basis of Cochran's formula of 172 people and stratified random sampling was used for sampling. Standard questionnaires for professional ethics of Kadors and the protection of organizational dignity were collected. The Kolmogorov-Smirnov test and linear regression were used in order for investigating the relationships and influence of variables in the conceptual model. The results of the research showed that the professional ethics of managers and its dimensions: accountability, supremacy, honesty, respect for others, respect for values, respect for justice and justice, commitment, sympathy with others, and loyalty to the protection of influential human rights is ineffective in protecting human rights. The results of Friedman's test also showed that among the dimensions of professional ethics of managers, the observance of justice and fairness is ranked first in terms of impact on the protection of human rights
Public Administration
Behnam Shahaei; Hassan DanaeiFard; Adel Azar
Volume 5, Issue 1 , January 2017, , Pages 67-88
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After 30 years from 1979 revolution, Islamic Repulic of Iran subsidy was engaged in fundamental change of the subsidy policy. This research is aimed to answer why and how the change was happened, using one of theoretical views of public policy process, named, Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF). The Research ...
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After 30 years from 1979 revolution, Islamic Repulic of Iran subsidy was engaged in fundamental change of the subsidy policy. This research is aimed to answer why and how the change was happened, using one of theoretical views of public policy process, named, Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF). The Research design contained pospositivist philosophical orientation, case study strategy, and process tracing as analytical method. Cues and evidence taken from direct and indirect Interviews as well as public documents revealed that there were two major advocacy coalition in the subsidy policy reform: Consumption Advocacy Coalition (CAC) with beliefs such as libertizing and modifying the prices of public goods and energy fundamentally and suddenly and supporing low income people) and Production Advocacy Coalition (PAC) with beliefs such as libertizing the prices incrementally, supporting production sector, and devising non- price solutions. Also, the evidence showed that the subsidy policy changein Iran can be explained by four casual mechanisms within ACF: policy learing, external shocks and perturbations, internal shocks, and negotiated aggrement.
Public Administration
Abbas Nasiri Zang Abad; Reza Rasouli; Hasan Alvedari; Ali Mohammad Zadeh
Volume 5, Issue 1 , January 2017, , Pages 91-106
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Although the term Entrepreneurship has been shaped and nurtured first time in the business area in the literarature, but today we can see it’s entering to the area of public services. One of the promotion of this attitude, is the creating of reinventing government theory. In the present study, ...
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Although the term Entrepreneurship has been shaped and nurtured first time in the business area in the literarature, but today we can see it’s entering to the area of public services. One of the promotion of this attitude, is the creating of reinventing government theory. In the present study, we decided to test the effect of injecting the mentioned theory in the public sector of Iran. For doing this, a fundamental research approach and Delphi techniqe, as well as confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling to assess construct validity was used. Delphi panels formed of 15 executives from administrative division population and academic faculty, consists of 15 members. For designing the primary questionnaire design, dimensions and variables was extracted from the theory. after 3 rounds of the Delphi, by eliminating the 5 variables of the 10 variables and adding 3 local variables, the 8 variables and 67 indicators of the final model were defined Variables include: community-opened, market orientated, mission-oriented, customer-driven, decentralized, promoting professional ethics, development the social justice and Jihadian management.
