Hasan Danaee Fard; Hamidreza Harati
Volume 2, Issue 3 , June 2014, Pages 7-24
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Productivity of Public sector has been considered as one of the most important and challenging issue in general affairs administration and public management literature from a long time ago. Managers and policy makers have been looking for solutions to enhance the public sector's productivity. productivity ...
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Productivity of Public sector has been considered as one of the most important and challenging issue in general affairs administration and public management literature from a long time ago. Managers and policy makers have been looking for solutions to enhance the public sector's productivity. productivity has been also emphasized in our country's policies and strategic plans but until now there has not been any research in the area of identifying strategies and policies to promote the public sector productivity; all efforts are limited to studyor measure the impact of some factors on the public sector's productivity and identifying mechanisms of the promotion of the public sector's productivity has been neglected. The present study aimed to identify mechanisms to enhance the public sector's productivity and study the gap between current and desirable situation of these mechanisms. This study hasbeen conducted using a mixed method and exploratory approach. At the first stage, through interviews with managers, experts and authorities of public sector, it was engaged with mining mechanisms to enhance public sector's productivity and then, results of the interviews were analyzed by Grounded Theory analysis method. The mechanisms of promoting the public sector's productivity were classified in four categories: cultural, technological, economic and political-legal divisions. After that,at the second stage, a questionnaire including 25 mechanisms in 4 categories was designedvia combining the obtained mechanisms from the research literature and the interviews and it was measured in two ranges of the current and desired situation.Results indicated that there is a significant gapin Utilization of the mechanisms of public sectors' productivitybetween current and desired status in 23 organizations out of Tehran public service organizations.
Hadi Khan Mohammadi; Reza Vaezi; Mostafa Delshad Tehrani
Volume 2, Issue 3 , June 2014, Pages 25-48
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The subject of citizen's Participation in government and reign affairs or the interactions between people and government is one of the important issues that should be paid attentionby scholars and statesmen. This is while the subject got an important place in recent quasi paradigm of public management ...
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The subject of citizen's Participation in government and reign affairs or the interactions between people and government is one of the important issues that should be paid attentionby scholars and statesmen. This is while the subject got an important place in recent quasi paradigm of public management i.e. new public service so that different theories and models have been stated in this area since the 50's. In a logical and rational approach, each country's citizen participation model take different shape according to the culture and environment of the country; Although experiences of other countries can also be used in this field.Accordingly, given the importance of people's participation in government and reign, Followingresearchaimsto identifycitizen participation's model in viewpoint of NahjolBalaghe's teachings regarding practical and theoretical method of Imam Ali (greeting to him) totakea step in theproductionof Islamic model.Therefore, themain research questionis thatwhat the model of citizen participation inpublic managementlooks like based on theteachings of theNahjolBalagheh? Tocarry out the research,contentanalysis method by Maxqdaqualitative analysis softwarehas been used. The results showthatcitizenparticipationmodel is formedbased onbasic and fundamentalvalues ofthe Islamic government andhave an interactivemodel according to the rule of both parties' reconciliation in order to achieve mutual right and duty's performance with ultimate good cooperation and interaction. According to this model, citizen-government interactive process and other partly models are created.
Noormohammad Yaghobi; Akram ahmadnia Chanijani
Volume 2, Issue 3 , June 2014, Pages 49-64
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Strategic thinking is considered as an appropriate approach to form organization's strategy in present changing and unpredictable environment and makes managers able to distinguish which factors are effective on achieving the considered goals and which of them are not and that why and how effective factors ...
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Strategic thinking is considered as an appropriate approach to form organization's strategy in present changing and unpredictable environment and makes managers able to distinguish which factors are effective on achieving the considered goals and which of them are not and that why and how effective factors create value for clients. The produced insight helps recognizing success critical factors through strategic thinking and the issue leads ultimately creating stable competitive advantage for organizations. The aim of present research is to study the relationship between the strategic approach of human resource retaining system and employees' organizational commitment through investigating the impact of variables such as organizational support, organizational culture, organizational justice and supplying superior needs. The research is a descriptive one in terms of goal and it has been done by a survey strategy in viewpoint of method. The statistical universe of the study includes 2023 employees at Zahedan municipality from that a sample of 324 people has been selected using Morgan table. In order to gather data, questionnaires with the validity of 0.89, designed by researcher, were used. SPSS and Lisrel software and also Pearson correlation, Friedman and path analysis tests have been used to analyze data. The obtained results indicate that there is a significant and positive relationship between the strategic approach of human resource retaining system and employees' organizational commitment.
Akram Hadizadeh Moghaddam; Ali Rezaeian; Gholamali Tabarsa; Hamid Raminmehr
Volume 2, Issue 3 , June 2014, Pages 65-88
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“Counterproductive work behaviors” (or deviance behaviors) is a kind of voluntary behaviors that violates organizational norms that reduce the efficiency of organizations and individuals. These behaviors include abusive behavior, deviant behavior, production, sabotage, theft and behaviors ...
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“Counterproductive work behaviors” (or deviance behaviors) is a kind of voluntary behaviors that violates organizational norms that reduce the efficiency of organizations and individuals. These behaviors include abusive behavior, deviant behavior, production, sabotage, theft and behaviors of withdraw or ignoring. Counterproductive work behaviors, has economical, social and psychological costs for organizations. So the main objective of this study is to investigate the causes of this behavior based on the theory of planned behavior. To achieve the research purpose, we handed out 330 standard questionnaires between the employees in different positions. Reliability and validity of the questionnaire were measured using convergent validity, discriminant validity, composite reliability and Cronbach's Alpha. The results of the survey indicate that correlation between constructs (behavioral attitude, mental norm, perceived control, behavioral intention and actual behavior) in theory of planned behavior in MELAT bank completely confirmed (it means all casual relationships confirmed). In another words, people do these behaviors intentionally or with prior purpose. Also the moderator role of fear of punishment was approved in the relationship between intention and actual behavior. It means that if punishment policies and procedures exist in bank and offenders punish severely, people will not show counterproductive work behaviors.
Reza Najjari
Volume 2, Issue 3 , June 2014, Pages 89-100
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Cynicism about organizational change is defined as pessimistic viewpointon successfulness of change efforts that can be a barrier to success of change plans. Present research aims to study cynicism about organizational change in PNU of Markazi province besides paying attention to environmental and personality ...
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Cynicism about organizational change is defined as pessimistic viewpointon successfulness of change efforts that can be a barrier to success of change plans. Present research aims to study cynicism about organizational change in PNU of Markazi province besides paying attention to environmental and personality traits factors. The serious important factors that are identified as cynicism incentive are hostile personality, violation of psychological contract, organizational justice and participation in decision making. It is supposed that the first and second variables have positive effect and other two variables have negative effect on the phenomenon of cynicism about organizational change. Results of structural equation model among 143 employees of PNU in Markazi province indicated that all four variables have significant impact on phenomenon of cynicism about organizational change and generally can explain 61 percent of variance of cynicism about organizational change. In addition, research finding showed that the most negative significant effect is allocated to procedural justice and the most positive significant
Seyyed Aliakbar Ahmadi; Mehdi Shahbazi
Volume 2, Issue 3 , June 2014, Pages 101-110
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This study has engaged in explaining the empowering leadership style of knowledge cycle in universities of the country. The statistical universe of the research includes all members of scientific mission at University of Allameh Tabatabai and Payam noor University. The research is an applied research ...
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This study has engaged in explaining the empowering leadership style of knowledge cycle in universities of the country. The statistical universe of the research includes all members of scientific mission at University of Allameh Tabatabai and Payam noor University. The research is an applied research in terms of purpose and a descriptive-correlation one in viewpoint of gathering data. To investigate the relationship between the variables and structural equation modeling, PLS software has been used. Results indicated that there is not a significant difference, based on gender, in empowering leadership style of scientific mission's members at both of the universities and opinions of both men and women are the same in University of Allameh Tabatabai and also Payam Noor University. At the end, he transactional leadership style was identified as the empowering leadership style of knowledge cycle among members of scientific mission at universities.
