General Management
Saeed Jafarinia; Mehdi Kheirandish; akbar hassanpoor; somayeh Bakhshandeh
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Research on expectations and work preferences of millennium generation as a young generation of the workforce provides an insight to the managers that facilitates to formulate policies to absorb and retain this generation. Accordingly, the present study, by systematically reviewing the results ...
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Research on expectations and work preferences of millennium generation as a young generation of the workforce provides an insight to the managers that facilitates to formulate policies to absorb and retain this generation. Accordingly, the present study, by systematically reviewing the results of qualitative researches in this area, presented a list of work expectations of this generation and then, using the Shannon Entropy method, the order of their importance was highlighted. This research is descriptive in terms of purpose and is practical in terms of research type. The statistical population of the study consisted of 68 valid qualitative papers and theses, 21 of which were entered into the cross-synthesis process using a judgmental method. In order to measure the agreement between the two raters, the Cohen's kappa coefficient was used and the CVI index was utilized to assess the validity of the results and the validity and reliability were confirmed. The results showed that, respectively, work-life balance, opportunity for professional growth and development at work, having a fun and enjoyable work environment, flexible working time, challenging tasks, teamwork, supportive work environment, more salaries and benefits, and meaningful work are among the most important millennial job expectations.
Public Management
Belal Panahi
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The existence of destructive conflicts and lack of transparency, as well as the lack of correctly using organizational communication have created challenges in most organizations. The main purpose of this study was to evaluate the role of organizational transparency on organizational conflicts by intermediating ...
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The existence of destructive conflicts and lack of transparency, as well as the lack of correctly using organizational communication have created challenges in most organizations. The main purpose of this study was to evaluate the role of organizational transparency on organizational conflicts by intermediating the effective organizational communications. The present research is applied in terms of purpose and is descriptive in terms of nature, implementation, and collecting data, and is correlational in terms of research method. The statistical population of the study was 340 employees of the Regional Water Organization of East Azarbaijan and the sample size was 181 people that was selected through random sampling method and according to Cochran formula. The reliability of the questionnaires was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha formula and their validity was confirmed by content validity method. In inferential statistics, the first step was to test the normality of the data. Then, the research hypotheses were analyzed by using the LISREL and Path analysis method. The findings of the research indicated that organizational transparency has an impact on reducing organizational conflicts by intermediating organizational communication. Also, organizational transparency has a significant effect on organizational communication, and organizational communication also has an impact on reducing organizational conflicts.
Public Management
Fatemeh Moradi; Syeyed Mehdi Alvani; . .
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The proactivity of organizations is the necessity of today’s changing world. So the aim of this research was to determine the proper proactivity rate in Iranian governmental organizations. The research is quantitative in terms of method, applied in terms of purpose and exploratory survey in terms ...
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The proactivity of organizations is the necessity of today’s changing world. So the aim of this research was to determine the proper proactivity rate in Iranian governmental organizations. The research is quantitative in terms of method, applied in terms of purpose and exploratory survey in terms of research type. The statistical population was Fars Province Economic and Financial Affairs Department, Fars Province Governorate, Fars Province Agricultural Jihad, and Fars Province Islamic Culture, and Guidance Department located in Shiraz. The samples were selected through classification sampling method. The insruments for collecting data was a questionnaire, and Fuzzy Control method was used to analyze collected data . Based on findings, the proper situation for an organization to be proactive was provided through combining four dimensions of human relations, open system, internal process and rational goals. The results showed that Jihad Organization of Fars province was in the first rank in terms of proactivity in 1397 and the existing status of proactivity in terms of human relations and open system was more than needed, and in terms of rational goals and internal process was equal to the required level. In the Organization of Economic Affairs, Finance and Governance of Fars Province, the status of the proactivity in terms of human relations and the open system was less than needed and the dimensions of rational goals and internal process was less than rquired rate. In the Islamic Culture and Guidance Organization of Fars province in terms of human relations, open system, rational goals and internal process, the status of proactivity was less than rquired.
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 Management
mohsen farhadinejad; Sakineh Jafari
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The aim of the present study was to identify the causes of organizational disclosure and the reasons of unwillingness to disclose in governmental organizations that was done via sequential-explanatory mixed mode method. Participants in the qualitative part were managers and employees in public sectors ...
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The aim of the present study was to identify the causes of organizational disclosure and the reasons of unwillingness to disclose in governmental organizations that was done via sequential-explanatory mixed mode method. Participants in the qualitative part were managers and employees in public sectors among whom 75 people were selected as participants through purposeful sampling method. The statistical population of the quantitative sector included employees in governmental organizations in Semnan and 157 people were selected as samples through simple random sampling method. Analyzing the data in qualitative sector led to the identification of 32 basic themes in the context of employees’ disclosing reasons that were arranged in six organizer themes (health-centered approach, benefit-seeking approach, justice-seeking approach, ethics-oriented approach, task-oriented approach, and violent approach), and 26 basic themes about unwillingness to disclose were identified which divided into four organizer themes based on semantic similarity (organization-related factors, discloser- related factors, exposure related factors, violent-related factors). The results of the quantitative analysis show that justice-seeking, ethics-oriented, health-centered, benefit-seeking, task-oriented and violent approaches were the most important reasons for the decision to disclose respectively, and exposure related factors, organization-related factors, violent-related factors and discloser- related factors were the most important causes of being silent against observing inappropriate behaviors, respectively. The ranking of items related to the causes of disclosure indicates that the prevention of repetition of violation and feeling of injustice to oneself and sense of responsibility are considered as the most important causes of disclosure and disappointment of executive guarantee in case of disclosure of violation, high influence of the offender and lack of organizational support for exposing are considered as the main reasons for being silent against violation.
General Management
Mohsen Taheri Demneh; sheyda Tayefe Hashemi; Zahra Heidari Darani
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This research was conducted as an applied research with the aim of corporate foresight in Isfahan Gas Company. In this research, a set of foresight methods including six pillars of future, trend analysis, expert panel, environmental scanning, and scenario writing have been used. Participants in this ...
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This research was conducted as an applied research with the aim of corporate foresight in Isfahan Gas Company. In this research, a set of foresight methods including six pillars of future, trend analysis, expert panel, environmental scanning, and scenario writing have been used. Participants in this study were 15 senior managers of Isfahan Gas Company who participated in more than twenty expert panels. The results showed that four major drivers, that is, 1- Relationship of the country with the global village, 2- Internal political tensions and resulted insecurity, 3- Gas company privatization, 4- Gas export, will affect the future of the Gas Company work environment. Based on the different combinations of these four drivers in the scenario planning software (scenario wizard) and the use of a scenario-based approach focusing on critical uncertainties, the story of three scenarios of 1. double effort in green state, 2. one to shore, one to nail in yellow state, 3. trying to survive in the red state, has been prepared. Finally, according to the provided scenario, suggestions for implementation were presented.
Ali Asghar Sadabadi; Aryan Azimi
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Achieving the goals and mission of the organization as well as competitiveness in the chaotic world today is only realized in the light of the attention paid to organizational vulnerability. This research is one of the first attempts to provide a model for assessing the vulnerability of organizations ...
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Achieving the goals and mission of the organization as well as competitiveness in the chaotic world today is only realized in the light of the attention paid to organizational vulnerability. This research is one of the first attempts to provide a model for assessing the vulnerability of organizations to various types of disorders. To this end, in order to identify the indicators of organizational vulnerability assessment, textbooks, articles and research projects related to the subject, they were analyzed and institutionalized and the main indicators and sub-indicators were identified. Then, in order to observe the indicators and evaluate the indicators that were identified in the previous stage, semi-structured interview technique and fuzzy seven-dimensional questionnaire were used. Ultimately, the Ishikawa Fuzzy Delphi technique was used to reach consensus on the indices. Finally, three main dimensions and 13 main indicators were identified as indicators of organizational vulnerability assessment.
Public Management
Mohammad Ali mojallal; sina asadzadeh
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the e-literacy of Maragheh administrative staff and its impact on their sociability and transformability. The models used in staff e-literacy, sociability, and transformability parts were based on ICDL model, the Taormina theory (1997), and the John Gutter ...
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the e-literacy of Maragheh administrative staff and its impact on their sociability and transformability. The models used in staff e-literacy, sociability, and transformability parts were based on ICDL model, the Taormina theory (1997), and the John Gutter and Peter Drucker (1996) model, respectively. The statistical population of the present study was all staff of the education department of Maragheh city, which was 45. In this research, due to the low number of statistical population, the members of the statistical society were selected through the census method (accessible sampling), so the number of sample population was all 45 staff except 4 who were excluded from the research. Ultimately, the number of participants of the study was 41. In order to collect data, three researcher-made questionnaires were used. The results of testing hypotheses indicated that, firstly, the average e-literacy status of Maragheh Education Department staff was below the average rate, and secondly, the e-literacy of the staff had an impact on the sociability and transformability of the staff of Maragheh Education Department.
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.
Maryam Gholizadeh; Mohammad Ali Sarlak
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Knowledge intensive business services (KIBS) are known to play a significant role in innovation systems. Past research has however mostly treated KIBS as a homogenous group; it is now time to understand better the variety that exists among KIBS. The main purpose of this study was the classification of ...
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Knowledge intensive business services (KIBS) are known to play a significant role in innovation systems. Past research has however mostly treated KIBS as a homogenous group; it is now time to understand better the variety that exists among KIBS. The main purpose of this study was the classification of knowledge intensive business services by distinguishing their knowledge bases (analytical, synthetic or symbolic). In this Delphi study, after reviewing previous research and examining the upstream documentation and infrastructure at ABFA, the areas of knowledge associated with a description of business services were identified. The results of data analysis showed that in all knowledge areas identified including creation, upgrading and development of water and wastewater facilities, center of supervision, operation and maintenance of facilities, sales and customer service, supply and support management, human resources management, management Financing, partner relationship management, developing management systems have analytical and synthetic knowledge.
