Saman babaei; Mehrdad Mtani; Ali Fallah; Shayeste Varedi
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This study aimed to design and develop the pattern of mass media's effect on organizational health at the universities of Ilam. The statistical populations were reporters and experts of Ilam universities. Regarding theoretical saturation level, this study selected 15 experts for interview by using purposive ...
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This study aimed to design and develop the pattern of mass media's effect on organizational health at the universities of Ilam. The statistical populations were reporters and experts of Ilam universities. Regarding theoretical saturation level, this study selected 15 experts for interview by using purposive and snowball sampling methods. This research was applied in terms of purpose, and in terms of data for designing and developing the model. The collected data were analyzed by Theme Analysis. The findings showed that 68 indexes were considered for identification of the efficiency required for selection of main categories for designing and developing the model of mass media effect on organizational health at Ilam universities, including 21 components (trust, media validity, media reliability, audience loyalty dimensions, principles for improvement of news organization function, development of audience-oriented work groups, news imperialism, media news filers, promotionalimperialism, communication marketing principles, professional ethics in reporting, the news organizations tasks, methods for improvement of social responsibilities, strategies for improvement of social responsibilities in media,institutional unity, manager influence, thoughtfulness, structuring, resource support, morale, and scientific emphasis), 7 dimensions (strengthening the media validity and reliability, audience royalty to news organization;media imperialism, media professional ethic boosting, organizational levels, office level, and technical level) and 2 variables (mass media and organizational health). findings show that there are a relationship between and effects of mass media on organizational health indexes.
Ali Mohammadzadeh; ALi Asghar Pourezzat; Ali Pirannejad; Majid ,Mokhtarianpour; Mahdi Pendar
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Everything that involves the participation of citizens is formed in a context that is surrounded by common categories, and regardless of them, the participation of citizens is difficult to happen. The purpose of this study is to design a comprehensive model of citizen participation in Tehran. The research ...
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Everything that involves the participation of citizens is formed in a context that is surrounded by common categories, and regardless of them, the participation of citizens is difficult to happen. The purpose of this study is to design a comprehensive model of citizen participation in Tehran. The research method is qualitative and the current situation is modeled based on the Glaserian approach from the strategy of grounded theory. Along this line, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 19 citizens, city managers, and experts in the field of citizen participation who were selected in the form of snowballs. The Glaser side is introduced and modeled. "Lack of citizen-centered approach in the municipality" was introduced as a central phenomenon and 12 categories were introduced as sub-categories. The result is that to increase citizen participation, Tehran Municipality must reform the attitude of its human resources, especially managers and policymakers, and show this change in attitude in practice and the municipality to become a participation-oriented organization, and help to change this attitude citizens to prepare the ground for their presence in the field of urban participation and strengthen the central participation of the municipality and urban management, with the suggestions presented at the end of the article, to fill the gaps.
Hosein Namaian; Zahra Foroutani; Atieh Bohrani; Masoud Geramipour
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The Regarding the importance of applying organizational civilization, this study aimed to design and explain an organizational civilization model with a mixed method (quantitative/qualitative), in Mobarakeh Steel Company of Isfahan. In this study, 15 experts from the target community including management ...
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The Regarding the importance of applying organizational civilization, this study aimed to design and explain an organizational civilization model with a mixed method (quantitative/qualitative), in Mobarakeh Steel Company of Isfahan. In this study, 15 experts from the target community including management professors, experts and specialists in the company were identified by the targeted snowball sampling method and interviewed by deep semi-structured method. The statistical population in the quantitative part, included the company’s experienced managers and staff, and the sample size was calculated as 200 persons by cluster sampling and Cochran’s formula. Based on the qualitative findings and the Delphi technique, 4 main components and 40 sub-components were identified and the organizational civilization model was designed. Also, The factor loads in the whole model regarding the components of humanism, justice, community and knowledge were equal to 0.50, 0.578, 0.504 and 0.516, respectively.
Sayed Mohammad Mousavi
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Nowadays, good governance is used on a wide scale from the local to the international level. Meanwhile, the local level is of particular importance. Considering the characteristics, such as the principle of decentralization, democratic structure, local and non-governmental planning, decision-making, ...
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Nowadays, good governance is used on a wide scale from the local to the international level. Meanwhile, the local level is of particular importance. Considering the characteristics, such as the principle of decentralization, democratic structure, local and non-governmental planning, decision-making, increasing the role of non-governmental organizations and civil society, paying attention to the common interests of the people, distributing opportunities, and establishing social and geographical justice, increase the efficiency of the local government which can be considered a good and efficient example of good governance due to its special nature and functions. In this perception, decentralization (one of the pillars of the national government) is the most important and main goal of the local government in achieving good governance. The lack of good governance in the country, especially in rural areas, can be the source of many social problems in society. In the present study, an attempt has been made to investigate and evaluate the reasons for the failure of local governance in Iran in the rural areas of Zanjan Province. Descriptive-analytical method, field research, and survey method were used. The statistical population of the research consists of rural areas of the province. The sampling method is random and the sample size is 200 villages and the data collection tool is a questionnaire. Its validity was assessed by governors and district governors and its reliability was 0.84 using Cronbach's alpha. Data analysis was performed using SPSS software. The results showed that there is a direct and significant relationship between the limitations of rural areas and their failure. This relationship was confirmed by the intensity of the effect of 0.667.
Mostafa Hadavinejad; Adeleh Alkozehi
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Diversity in the workplace provides opportunities for developing organizations. But not only is this capacity sometimes used in organizations, in some countries it also includes pests such as sectarianism in organization. The purpose of this study was to explore the lived experiences of employees from ...
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Diversity in the workplace provides opportunities for developing organizations. But not only is this capacity sometimes used in organizations, in some countries it also includes pests such as sectarianism in organization. The purpose of this study was to explore the lived experiences of employees from public organizations in Herat, Afghanistan –a proper context for sectarianism in a an effected counry by such a phenomenon, to gain diverse understandings about consequences of sectarianism in the organization through a phenomenography. Research participants were 24 employees from 16 mentioned organizations that were invited to the research project through typical sampling until theoretical saturation. The method of data collection was in-depth interviews. Maxqda software was used for data analysis. Based on the findings of the study, five different viewpoints toward the consequences of sectarianism in the organization were found, namely, in-parties’ anti-norm actions, out-parties’ frustrations and passive actions, conflicting interpersonal communication, organizational dysfunctions, and public distrust. Subsequently, based on their level of complexity, the classes were placed on a hierarchy with five levels (in-parties actions, Out-parties’ actions, individual, interpersonal communication, organization, and external environment of organization) and shaped the hierarchical outcome space for different ways of perceiving the consequences of the phenomenon of sectarianism in the organization.
Amir Lalisarabi
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This study aimed to investigate and monitor the mediating role of career path development in the relationship between the reduction of perceived organizational justice and the glass ceiling. The research was descriptive-causal in terms of nature, applied in terms of purpose, and fundamental in terms ...
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This study aimed to investigate and monitor the mediating role of career path development in the relationship between the reduction of perceived organizational justice and the glass ceiling. The research was descriptive-causal in terms of nature, applied in terms of purpose, and fundamental in terms of type. The data were collected by using questionnaires. The statistical population was all female education employees of Hashtgerd city, among whom 316 were selected through a random sampling method according to Gorjesi and Morgan tables. The confirmatory factor analysis to analyze the data and used path analysis of structural equations were applied to examine path coefficients with the help of Amos Graphics software estimates. According to the results of the path analysis, the overall effects of decreasing perceived interactive and procedural justice, career path development, and decreasing perceived distributive justice on the glass ceiling were significant, and they could explain only 20% of the changes in the dependent variable. By comparing the beta coefficients, it can be said that the glass ceiling is affected more than anything else by the reduction of perceived interactive and procedural justice.
Gholamreza Tavakoli
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Cameron and Quinn's organizational culture assessment tool has been used as one of the most valid models of organizational culture to identify the prevailing organizational culture in many organizations. The purpose of this study is to critique, analyze the weaknesses and identify the main discourses ...
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Cameron and Quinn's organizational culture assessment tool has been used as one of the most valid models of organizational culture to identify the prevailing organizational culture in many organizations. The purpose of this study is to critique, analyze the weaknesses and identify the main discourses towards this model in Iranian government organizations. For this purpose, the Cameron and Quinn organizational culture assessment tool presented in 1999 was carefully studied and the required data were collected through a library study of available resources and a two-stage semi-structured interview (20 people, 15 people). The statistical population in the present study was all managers and organizational experts in government organizations. In the first part of the research, 20 interviews were conducted with experts who were purposefully selected and 94 meaningful units, 33 codes, 12 categories, and 4 themes of data were counted using directional qualitative content analysis. The reliability of the findings of the first part using the method P. Scott was approved. In the second part of the study, to analyze the discourses and enumerate the main discourses about this model, 15 experts were interviewed and three main functional, contingent and non-functional discourses were counted by the critical discourse analysis method. Then, using the opinion of experts with the Vasspas ranking method, the main discourses were ranked with non-functional, contingent, and non-functional priority. This means that from the point of view of experts in government organizations, the tool for assessing the organizational culture of Cameron and Quinn is not suitable for implementation in Iranian government organizations. Finally, suggestions were provided to improve the model.
Seyedeh Nasim Rasouli
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The revolution of the fourth generation of technology has significantly transformed organizational processes. To succeed in such circumstances, the development of human capital compatible with this generation is an undeniable necessity. This study aimed to design and present the human capital 4.0 development ...
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The revolution of the fourth generation of technology has significantly transformed organizational processes. To succeed in such circumstances, the development of human capital compatible with this generation is an undeniable necessity. This study aimed to design and present the human capital 4.0 development model in the Tehran municipality. This research was exploratory in terms of purpose. Data were analyzed with a mixed (qualitative-quantitative) approach. In the first stage, the qualitative method and in-depth interviews were used to identify the components of the model. Participants in the quality section were 17 university experts and senior managers of Tehran municipalities who were purposefully selected. In the second stage, to fit the designed model in the qualitative part, the quantitative method and the structural equation modeling approach were used. The statistical population of this section included managers, experts, and employees of the municipalities of Greater Tehran, where 336 people were selected by Kline's (2005) formula and stratified random sampling method. The data collection tool in this section was a researcher-made questionnaire whose validity and reliability was confirmed. Qualitative data analysis was performed by a coding method using MaxQDA software and quantitative data analysis was performed by Smart PLS software. The results of the qualitative section showed that the 4.0 generation human capital model includes 64 primary codes, 11 sub-categories, and 4 main categories of digital competency, digital skills, digital organization, and digital resources. The results of the quantitative part of the designed pattern have an acceptable fit.
Masoome Momeni Mofrad; Reza Sepahvand; Seyed Najmedin Mousavi; Hojat Vahdati
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The purpose of this study was to design and explain the performance evaluation model of the governors of the Islamic Republic of Iran. This study is applied in terms of purpose and is descriptive in terms of method. The qualitative population in the present study consisted of all university professors ...
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The purpose of this study was to design and explain the performance evaluation model of the governors of the Islamic Republic of Iran. This study is applied in terms of purpose and is descriptive in terms of method. The qualitative population in the present study consisted of all university professors in the field of public administration and strategic management, the governors of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and senior managers of the Ministry of Interior. The number of participants in this study was 18. The statistical population of the study consisted of a small group of experts such as the governors of the Islamic Republic of Iran, deputies, and senior managers. The research sample was 48 people selected from the statistical population by using the convenience non-probability sampling method. The results of the qualitative part of the study were the identification of 12 main categories including geographical knowledge, cultural awareness, social maturity, political perception, economic growth, welfare development, stakeholder satisfaction, security level, social capital, political participation, interactions, and productivity. The model classified performance evaluation dimensions into 5 levels, in which geographical knowledge was found as the most effective dimention, and stakeholder satisfaction, political participation, and productivity as the most effective dimensions.
Mohammadali Alizadeh; Mojtaba Ramazani; Seiied abdollah Hojjati; Nader Bohlooli; Karim Skandari
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Since developing a rich model of Islamic management for the countries in the region, the Islamic world, and the whole world is significantly important, the existence of a comprehensive model of Islamic management to respond to the managerial and governmental needs of the countries in the shadow of Islam’s ...
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Since developing a rich model of Islamic management for the countries in the region, the Islamic world, and the whole world is significantly important, the existence of a comprehensive model of Islamic management to respond to the managerial and governmental needs of the countries in the shadow of Islam’s rich and redemptive school is an indispensable necessity. The present study aimed to design a model for the globalization of Islamic management. The study implemented a qualitative methodology in the form of the Grounded Theory and was applied according to its goals, and the data were collected using a survey research methodology with an exploratory nature. The population consisted of all Iranian experts in the field of Islamic management. Then, 45 experts were selected using the snowball sampling method according to the principle of theoretical saturation, and in-depth interviews were used to collect data. The instruments implemented in the study were open and in-depth interviews with the experts and upstream documents. The data were analyzed according to the method proposed by Glaser and Strauss. Thus, constant comparison in three stages - open, axial, and selective coding – was carried out. According to the findings, 26 effective factors of the globalization of Islamic management in five dimensions, including the administrative dimension, cultural promotion, economic promotion, Islamic behavior, and the scientific dimension, were proposed, and the research model was approved by the experts.
