Seyyed Mehdi Alvani; Kiomars Ahmadi
Volume 1, Issue 3 , November 2013, Pages 8-16
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Appearing trends have inclined public management to movement from inside out. Public change should invole manifestation of citizenship feeling in its performance. It is required to redefine public organizations feeling on society. Today, public management is considered as public issuses management for ...
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Appearing trends have inclined public management to movement from inside out. Public change should invole manifestation of citizenship feeling in its performance. It is required to redefine public organizations feeling on society. Today, public management is considered as public issuses management for improvement of public interest and making belief in corporates' social responsibilities is the base of public issuses management. Recently concept of corporate social responsibility has changed to the corporate social responsiviness. This research has dealt with explaining and developing factors of Corporate social responsiveness concept for Iran'spublic organizations so that it has presented 5 dimensions, 11 factors and 28 criteria for the concept. The research is an applied developmental study in terms of purpose and in viewpoint of method, is descriptive one and in correlation exploratory type that has been accomplished via Delphi technique and structural equations (SEM).
Hasan Danayi fard; Adel Azar; Seyyed Abbas Ebrahimi
Volume 1, Issue 3 , November 2013, Pages 17-34
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The purpose of this study is to investigate solutions to improvement of social, political, technical and administrative feasibility and assessment of the government's public policies in area of high education through evidence-based policy making approach. In terms of methodology, this study ...
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The purpose of this study is to investigate solutions to improvement of social, political, technical and administrative feasibility and assessment of the government's public policies in area of high education through evidence-based policy making approach. In terms of methodology, this study is a survey (non-experimental) one. The data was collected through a questionnaire. Results from analysis of collected data from 140 policy makers and higher education experts revealed that utilizing statistical evidence in compiling, executing and evaluating the government's policies in area of higher education makes improvement of political, technical and administrative feasibility and assessment of these policies. Moreover, lack of up-to-dated information and statistical evidence, difficult access to them, lack of on-time statistics' broadcasting, incomprehensible produced statistics, and lack of possibility of comparing available statistic with previous ones and etc. are the most important problems and difficulties of utilizing statistical evidence-based policy making approach.
Ali Rezaeian; Mojtaba Gharibi; Elham Erfani Adab
Volume 1, Issue 3 , November 2013, Pages 35-42
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There are diffrent viewpoints among scholars on the consequences of workaholism. Some scholars evaluate it as a negative phenomenon and some as a positive phenomenon. Positive consequences of workaholism have been investigated in numerous studies along with its negative consequences. This paper not only ...
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There are diffrent viewpoints among scholars on the consequences of workaholism. Some scholars evaluate it as a negative phenomenon and some as a positive phenomenon. Positive consequences of workaholism have been investigated in numerous studies along with its negative consequences. This paper not only tries to explain this phenomenon and its various dimensions, but also ties to study one of its positive consequences as organizational citizenship behavior. The data were collected by questionnaires and among 340 members of the medical staff of martyr Beheshti Hospital. In order to examine the hypothesis, first of all, Spearman rank correlation test was used to assess correlation. Then, the causal relationship between the variables was examined through structural equation modeling. Findings indicate that there is a positive and significant relationship between workaholism and organizational citizenship behavior and its four dimensions. Moreover, results show that workaholism has positive outcomes such as creation of organizational citizenship behaviors in addition to the negative consequences. This makes a complicated challenge for managers in dealing with this comprehensive phenomenon.
Shamsossadat Zahedi; Behrooz Rezaeimanesh; Alireza Eslambolchi
Volume 1, Issue 3 , November 2013, Pages 43-63
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Intellectual capital is a knowledge that can create value. Nowadays, attention to intellectual capital is an approach that provides instrument for efficiency and effectiveness fulfilment for public departments' managers and hence, intangible elements are paid attention intensively in public departments, ...
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Intellectual capital is a knowledge that can create value. Nowadays, attention to intellectual capital is an approach that provides instrument for efficiency and effectiveness fulfilment for public departments' managers and hence, intangible elements are paid attention intensively in public departments, in spite of the emphasis, there is a place for intellectual capital in public organizations hardly ever and so far, a few number of public organizations attempts to measure, manage and report their intangible assets. To deal with managing these capitals better, this research intends to present a model for measuring and evaluating intellectual capitals level in Iranian public cultural organization and testing the model through evaluating intellectual capitals in the ministry of culture and Islamic guidance as the largest and main organization, custadian of culture in Iran. In this study, the research primary model was designed after a review on intellectual capital literature and particularly measurment models and evaluation of intellectual capital in public organizations, then by using focus group and delphi techniques and ideas of a panel of experts, model's criteria were adjusted and reformed and the resulted questionnaire was examined in the ministry of culture and Islamic guidance. Findings analysis confirmed research hypotheses and the validity of presented model for meadsuring and evaluating intellectual capital in public cultural organizations.
Ali Asghar Saadabadi; Gholamreza Taleghani; Armin Golchin
Volume 1, Issue 3 , November 2013, Pages 65-82
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According to the importance and significant role of teamwork in knowledge-based organizations, this study aims to discover and investigate teamwork barriers in Iranian knowledge-based organizations using the 3C model. This study is an applied research in terms of purpose and its method is a survey ...
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According to the importance and significant role of teamwork in knowledge-based organizations, this study aims to discover and investigate teamwork barriers in Iranian knowledge-based organizations using the 3C model. This study is an applied research in terms of purpose and its method is a survey descriptive type in viewpoint of data gathering. The statistical universe includes university professors, experts and managers of Iranian knowledge-based organizations. 24 members of the above population were chosen as the research sample universe based on snow-ball sampling method. In present research, first of all, 130 teamwork barriers were taken into identification, primary codes were analyzed and revised many times and 22 indices were identified, then, Fuzzy Delphi technique was used in order to examine the results. Finally, 14 factors were identified as the teamwork barriers in Iranian knowledge-based organizations and classified in three groups of content, co-structural and context.
Hasan Alvedari; Mohammad Taghi Amini; Esfandyar Farajvand
Volume 1, Issue 3 , November 2013, Pages 83-97
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Universities are facing various environmental challenges that threaten their existence and survival. The main aim of this research is to present an effective model for improving adaptability capacity of Payame Noor University. In present study, the Grounded theory was used to analyze data. The method ...
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Universities are facing various environmental challenges that threaten their existence and survival. The main aim of this research is to present an effective model for improving adaptability capacity of Payame Noor University. In present study, the Grounded theory was used to analyze data. The method of targeted sampling from Contextual data and interviews with eminent Managers is used for this purpose .McKinsey 7S model was chosen as the initial or basic model for investigating the effective factors on adaptability. Then, a new model was designed as "FITNESS". Based on this model, organizations must be equipped with structure, culture, strategy, visions, processes, technology, and adaptable workforce in order to achieve adaptability or sensitivity and responsiveness to the environment,. Finally, some recommendations are offered for adaptability of Payame Noor University.
