Mahmoud Jafarpoor
Abstract
Groupwork” is a series of conscious, united and coordinated efforts of a team in order to achieve a common goal or goals and also synergy is its subsequent; the subject that always has been a social concern and a key issue in the country’s organizations. Hence, the main purpose of the present ...
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Groupwork” is a series of conscious, united and coordinated efforts of a team in order to achieve a common goal or goals and also synergy is its subsequent; the subject that always has been a social concern and a key issue in the country’s organizations. Hence, the main purpose of the present study is pathology of teamwork in organizations that used the three-branched model including behavioral, structural and environmental pathos for categorizing the pathos. The present study is quantitative regarding to data type, exploratory regarding to objective and practical regarding to result. Statistical community of the research consisted of personnel of an NGO that works in teamwork frames and its activities are performed in groups. Sampling method was random cluster one; the sample size was 384 persons with confidence level of 99% and research instrument was a researcher-made questionnaire. The results showed that pathos in the way of realization of teamwork consist of 48 indexes. Indexes of “lack of performance measuring system”, “lack of teamwork training”, “insufficient understanding of organization work environment”, “unresolved conflicts in group” and “not measurability of objectives” were recognized as the most important pathos and “lack of loyalty between group members and leader”, “formal and uncomfortable environment in group” and “lack of confidence between group members and leader” were recognized as the less important pathos. While there was no significant deference between the view of respondents to structural and environmental pathos with different ages, respondents under 30 years old emphasized on behavioral pathos of teamwork more than other respondents.
Gholamreza Tavakoli; Mehdi Elyasi; Maysam Shafiee Roodposhti; Aliasghar Heidari
Volume 21, Issue 64 , August 2011, , Pages 55-88
Abstract
One of the most important strategic sectors of any country's economyis the military sector.Thus governments allocate a considerable amount of effort and cost to helpthis sector through obtaining its objectives. Meanwhile, it is known that aneffective way for military sectors to cover their own expenditures, ...
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One of the most important strategic sectors of any country's economyis the military sector.Thus governments allocate a considerable amount of effort and cost to helpthis sector through obtaining its objectives. Meanwhile, it is known that aneffective way for military sectors to cover their own expenditures, andshowcase their powers, is export. Also, it is known that a major prerequisitefor prospering in exports is acknowledging the customer wants and fulfillingthem.This article tries to identify the harms of Iran’s military export, and employsthe qualitative methods such as open questionnaire, depth interview, andcontent analysis. Afterwards, its conceptual model is drawn making use ofthe affinity diagram. At the final stage, using quantitative methods, harmsare categorized and prioritized by the results acquired from the adaptivematrix. Statistical population of this research is comprised of 63 internalexperts (with 0.65 cooperation ratio) and 95 foreign experts (with 0.65cooperation ratio). Findings revealed that internal experts found 9 harmitems to be critical, needing urgent investigation and resolution, whilethis number was 4 with the foreign experts.
