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.
leila monazah; Sayed Mahdi Sharifi; Fereshteh Amin Amin; taher roshandel
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Today, The manager is placed at the head of it as the official representative of the organization, in order to coordinate and increase effectiveness. Therefore, one of the factors that is critical for managers is the existence of managerial competencies, and one of the areas that requires competent managers ...
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Today, The manager is placed at the head of it as the official representative of the organization, in order to coordinate and increase effectiveness. Therefore, one of the factors that is critical for managers is the existence of managerial competencies, and one of the areas that requires competent managers is creative industries. Because this field, due to its new and begging, tends to have more decent management to achieve its goals. Therefore, designing a merit model for creative industries managers is very important. purpose of this study is to present the design of a competency model for managers of creative industries in TV news. The nature of the present research is applicable, The research methodology is qualitative. The statistical population of the study consisted of managers and experts working in the field of creative industries, in particular in the TV news section. Sampling in the present study was conducted Theoretical, with 11 managers and experts selected using this method. In this research, the tool of interview was used to collect views of managers and professionals in the field of creative industries. results showed that the competencies required by creative industries managers in TV news include four categories of experiential and knowledge, managerial, individual and news literacy. Each of these competencies has the following categories. Regarding the findings, can be said that TV news managers should have the competencies to be successful, the more managers in this field have the most competencies, the organization is better off achieving its goals.
Seyed Mohammadreza Seyedi; Hassan Danaeefard; Asadollah Ganjali; Ahmadali Khaef elahi
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Role is a behavior that is expected from people according to their position. Importance of ministers' roles isn't concealed to anyone. Ministers -at the top of politics and management- are managers of large organizations called ministries whose smallest decisions can have great effects; Therefore, lack ...
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Role is a behavior that is expected from people according to their position. Importance of ministers' roles isn't concealed to anyone. Ministers -at the top of politics and management- are managers of large organizations called ministries whose smallest decisions can have great effects; Therefore, lack of their role model, not only prevents them from optimal performance and puts them in a lot of ambiguities and conflicts, but also slows the progress of organizations; Therefore, this study addressed ministers and concentrated on designing a role model for them. Then, since review and concluding past studies findings is an important step in drawing up a comprehensive picture of them, the study concentrated on its meta-synthesis; So, in first step, gained 131 references about the subject, through a deep search in literature, which in a three-stage refinement reduced to 50 related references; which after refining, analyzing and summarizing their themes, resulted in 27 concepts and 7 categories as follows: public relations role, policy role, political role, executive role, parliamentary role, party and constituency representational role and international role. The findings were then validated by Delphi method; which finally party and constituency representational role and its concepts were deleted. The validation shows the last role and its concepts are not applicatory in Iran.
Lotfollah Alipour; abbas nargesian; hasan budlaei; yusef mohammadi moghadam
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E-HRM should be an opportunity for HR professionals to benefit from many of their routine tasks and to focus on the strategic aspects of their work. The purpose of this qualitative research is to present an e-HRM model in the banking industry.Semi-structured interviews were used to extract key components ...
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E-HRM should be an opportunity for HR professionals to benefit from many of their routine tasks and to focus on the strategic aspects of their work. The purpose of this qualitative research is to present an e-HRM model in the banking industry.Semi-structured interviews were used to extract key components of the Electronic Human Resource Management and in-depth interviews were conducted with 36 HR experts in banks. The study population consisted of HR experts in the banking industry. Participants were selected through purposive sampling from theoretical sampling. In this study, 15 categories and 31 concepts were extracted using Corbin and Strauss database method in open coding. In the axial coding stage, a paradigmatic model was presented based on the concepts of axial category, causal conditions, strategy, context, confounding conditions and consequences, and in the selective coding stage the theoretical model derived from the research findings was introduced and described. Electronic Human Resource Management is recognized as an innovation and development underlying human resource management infrastructures that results in a new phenomenon, driven by significant changes.
Yousef Mobini Dehkordi; Mohammadreza Dalvi Isfahani; Alireza Shirvani Jowzadani; Abdolmajid Abdolbaghi Ataabadi
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The purpose of this study is to develop a model for identifying corporate governance principles regarding the role of the board of directors in state-owned banks. The nature of this exploratory research with an inductive approach and its philosophy is an interpretation with a developmental direction ...
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The purpose of this study is to develop a model for identifying corporate governance principles regarding the role of the board of directors in state-owned banks. The nature of this exploratory research with an inductive approach and its philosophy is an interpretation with a developmental direction that for this purpose, the qualitative method of Grounded Theory was used. Therefore, the target population was the professors familiar with corporate governance in the areas of finance, economics and management. Also, a combination of purposeful judgment and snowball method were used to select the sample. The research data were collected from semi-structured interviews with twelve university professors. As a result, analysis of research data through open, axial, and selective coding method was extracted from that, the role of board as causal conditions and board structure as central phenomenon and board characteristics as contextual and confounding factors and finally accountability as outcome and output.
Ebrahim Rajabpour
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One of the most important processes which has not been seriously taken into account in human resources management is the career path management. With regards to the present era, known as the knowledge economy era, knowledge and knowledge workers are of great significance. Hence, the issue ...
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One of the most important processes which has not been seriously taken into account in human resources management is the career path management. With regards to the present era, known as the knowledge economy era, knowledge and knowledge workers are of great significance. Hence, the issue being studied in the present study is the determination of importance of criteria affecting the career path of knowledge workers in both research and managerial groups; therefore, this study aims mainly at the prioritization of factors affecting the career path of knowledge workers of the Research Institute of Petroleum Industry. To prioritize the factors affecting the career path in this research, the fuzzy network analysis model with the nonlinear planning approach. Compared to the other prioritization methods, using this technique is because of assumptions that are more consistent with the real conditions of decision-making. Six factors were identified as the factors affecting the career path management of knowledge workers in this research. The results show that among the six main criteria studied in two knowledge workers, the orders of criteria influence on the career path are the same. The exclusive competencies have the highest level of importance in the career path of knowledge workers in both groups followed by the criteria of performance assessment, advantageous properties, training courses, working experience and education, respectively.
peyman akbari; hamze khastar; Yousef Vakili; Soltanali Shahriari
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The purpose of this study is to Conceptualization of Employees Engagement based on Gamification. In the "Gamification", in order to expand the Employees Engagement, the Choi model (2015) was used based on cognitive mapping. The model was also fully validated. In this study, the components of "Exhaustion", ...
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The purpose of this study is to Conceptualization of Employees Engagement based on Gamification. In the "Gamification", in order to expand the Employees Engagement, the Choi model (2015) was used based on cognitive mapping. The model was also fully validated. In this study, the components of "Exhaustion", "Ineffectiveness", "Cynicism" and "being known/ presented" were used as Employee Engagement. It continues with the help of 8 categories: "Epic Meaning", "Development and Accomplishment", "Empowerment of Creativity and Feedback", "Ownership", "Social Influence and Relatedness", "Scarcity and Impatience", "Curiosity and Unpredictability" and "Loss and Avoidance" Created in the form of four aspects of designing "Aesthetic", "Background story", "technology" and "elements" the implementation of Employee Engagement was based on Gamification. It was found that for each component of the Employee Engagement, conditions can be created from the game that can be increased, and also based on the research findings, the game process can be updated according to the employees' work situations. The results show that the motivational approach of Gamification can put employees in a situation that increases their motivation (internal and external).
khosro rashid; kambiz karimi; maede ataei; Galavizh Alizadeh
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Given the dependence of the organizations to the workforces and because most of the hiring process is performed through knowledge-based exams, the lack of focus on personality characteristics in hiring personnel has turned to a fundamental weakness in organizations. One of the most important personality ...
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Given the dependence of the organizations to the workforces and because most of the hiring process is performed through knowledge-based exams, the lack of focus on personality characteristics in hiring personnel has turned to a fundamental weakness in organizations. One of the most important personality traits of employees in organizations is people-orientation. People-orientation has several components which makes it necessary for organizations and institution's hiring system to construct standard tests to measure it. So, the purpose of this study was to construct and standardize the people-orientation test for employees of Maskan Bank. To achieve this goal, a questionnaire with 22 items was constructed. To identify problems, the test was validated by a group of psychologists and specialists, and after evaluating the data, two weak items were deleted. Then the test was piloted on 50 subjects and some of the items were changed, and the final test was prepared. The research was a descriptive survey study and the final subjects were 1176 employees of the Maskan Bank all around Iran, 200 of whom completed the standardized Service-Orientation Test (Rashid, 2012). The findings showed that the constructed people-orientation questionnaire measures three factors: responsibility, empathy, and extraversion. The reliability of the questionnaire by the use of Cronbach's alpha method was 0.85. Also, the questionnaire had a high correlation with Service-Orientation test (0.76). According to the reliability and validity of the questionnaire, it can be said that it is a good tool for assessing people-orientation in employees.
Hedayat KargarShouroki; sayed Habibolah Mirghafoori; ali mohamad Soltani; Habib Zare Ahmadabadi
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The emerging wave of convergent technologies (NBIC) that is derived from combining four advanced technologies (Nano-technology, Bio-technology, Information technology & Cognitive sciences), would have a rich and revolutionary impact on all human constructs such as organization and administrative ...
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The emerging wave of convergent technologies (NBIC) that is derived from combining four advanced technologies (Nano-technology, Bio-technology, Information technology & Cognitive sciences), would have a rich and revolutionary impact on all human constructs such as organization and administrative system. The present study seeks to foresight the presence of technological convergence in Iranian administrative system by identifying and prioritizing the factors affecting this flow. This qualitative & descriptive study uses “Environmental Scanning” technique to identify the factors affecting technological convergence in administrative system and then these factors are prioritized, by “Social Network Analysis” technique and UCINET software. Then, by selecting two main factors and using the scenario-building technique, the future scenarios of Iranian administrative system is drawn. Findings show that the conceptual network of factors influencing the convergent administrative system in Iran consists of seven main elements. Among these, the two factors of "technological capacities" and "political environment" were selected with the highest value of degree centrality and betweenness centrality indicators as priority factors. Finally four scenarios for the future of technological convergence in Iranian administrative system were designed (including pivot / follower / isolating / silent), by analyzing the interaction of uncertainties related to these two factors. The study shows that Iranian administrative system will be affected by NBIC, But the quality of this affection is depended on political conditions and technological capacities.
Sana Esfandyari; Kazem Askarifar; Abolghasem Ebrahimi
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Attracting private sector participation in public sector participatory projects in the country requires an organizational framework tailored to the expectations of the private sector, and the purpose of this study as an applied, descriptive, exploratory and mixed research is to provide a public sector ...
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Attracting private sector participation in public sector participatory projects in the country requires an organizational framework tailored to the expectations of the private sector, and the purpose of this study as an applied, descriptive, exploratory and mixed research is to provide a public sector organizational model in order to attract private sector participation in public projects, that has been done in two stages, qualitatively and quantitatively. In the qualitative stage, the factors influencing the decision of the private sector investor in the form of codes, concepts, sub-themes, and main themes have been determined with a phenomenological approach. Then, these organizational factors are classified into effective and efficient factors by DEMATEL method. The statistical population of the study consisted of private investors in public projects and experts of this era, in which 13 private investors and 9 experts were selected in a judgmental and purposeful manner and participated in interviews. Findings show that eleven major themes in the public sector including systems, advertising, business processes, organizational governance, human resources, communications, trust-building, branding, physical evidence of the organization, economic and social attractiveness of projects are influential in the private sector decision to partner with the public sector. Among them, organizational processes, human resources involved in the process of attracting partnerships, and organizational governance of the public sector are the most influential factors.
