Human Resource Management
Farideh Anvari; MirAli Seyyed Naghavi; Hossein Aslipour; Saeed Zarandi
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The emergence of Platform Businesses (PBs) has caused a conflict of interest between traditional and new economic players, so, based on the public interest theories to establish justice, the need for government intervention through regulation is highlighted. The research purpose is to extract regulatory ...
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The emergence of Platform Businesses (PBs) has caused a conflict of interest between traditional and new economic players, so, based on the public interest theories to establish justice, the need for government intervention through regulation is highlighted. The research purpose is to extract regulatory challenges and solutions to the PBs in the field of labor relations. The participant's community includes all the stakeholders of the PBs, 24 of which were selected by snowball sampling, and semi-structured interviews with labor relations experts, academics in legal, economic, and regulatory fields, managers, and workers of transportation platforms were conducted. Thematic Analysis method was used to answer the questions. Results showed 8 main categories of labor relations challenges, which are Ambiguity in the concept of PBs; Market failure and the necessity of government intervention; Ambiguity in how to regulate; Necessity of amending the labor law and creating a special law of PBs; Reducing the bargaining power of platform workers; Weakness of HR systems; Weak social protection of platform workers' rights; Domination of the capitalist system. Also, five solutions were extracted. The fifth scenario -participation of all stakeholders in regulating the labor relations of PBs - was proposed to the practitioners and policymakers.
Human Resource Management
ali shariatnejad; Seyedeh Maryam Mousavi zadeh
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The only constant principle in our world today is change, in such a way that change has become a constant element of today's equations. Change and transformation has caused new stimuli in the business world and has made flexibility skills an important necessity. Therefore, the current ...
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The only constant principle in our world today is change, in such a way that change has become a constant element of today's equations. Change and transformation has caused new stimuli in the business world and has made flexibility skills an important necessity. Therefore, the current research was conducted with the aim of recognizing and understanding the cognitive flexibility skills of managers with the FCM method. This research is applied in terms of purpose and it is survey and exploratory research in terms of data collection method. The statistical population of the research consists of experts including industrial and organizational psychologists and managers of knowledge-based companies, whose sample members were selected using the purposeful sampling method and based on the principle of theoretical saturation. The data collection tool is interview in the qualitative part and a questionnaire in the quantitative part. The validity and reliability of the tools have been analyzed using content validity and intra-coder-inter-coder reliability for the interview and content validity and retest reliability for the questionnaire, respectively. In this research, content analysis and coding method was used in qualitative part and fuzzy mapping method (FCM) in quantitative part for data analysis.
Human Resource Management
mahdi kheirandish; Akbar Hassanpoor; yousef vakili; hasan akbari
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The aim of this study is to explain the pattern of supply, development and maintenance of human resources in privatized manufacturing companies. This research is qualitative, practical, and exploratory based on the aim. In qualitative section, additionally, the research strategy has been based on the ...
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The aim of this study is to explain the pattern of supply, development and maintenance of human resources in privatized manufacturing companies. This research is qualitative, practical, and exploratory based on the aim. In qualitative section, additionally, the research strategy has been based on the analysis of interviews with experts and human resource managers of privated companies. The statistical population of the research is all companies and manufacturing enterprises that have been assigned to the private sectors during the last 10 years that 26 companies based on technical evaluation of privatization organization and also indicators of profitability, productivity, employment and fundraising, etc., were introduced as successful companies in the privatization field. Eventually, 12 companies were selected as the final sampling to collect research data. The data collection method was in-depth and semi-structured interviews with chief executive officer (CEO)s or human resources managers of the selected companies. Moreover, according to the principle of theoretical data saturation, all these people were interviewed. Research data analysis focused on three subgroups supply, maintenance, and development of human resources. Regarding the human resources supply in successful privatized companies, .
Human Resource Management
Ali Algharrawialsuwaid; Sayyed Mohsen Allameh; Tayebeh Amirkhani
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Green leadership is a new approach that has entered the field of human resource management with the importance of finding the environmental category in sustainable development. This issue mainly deals with the motivational and guiding aspects of human resources towards environmental care and the development ...
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Green leadership is a new approach that has entered the field of human resource management with the importance of finding the environmental category in sustainable development. This issue mainly deals with the motivational and guiding aspects of human resources towards environmental care and the development of green culture, Based on this, the current research was conducted with the aim of identifying the themes of human resource management with a green leadership approach in the textile and leather industries of Baghdad with a qualitative strategy. The research method was thematic analysis . The data collection tool was a semi-structured and in-depth interview, which was analyzed using open and axial coding. The research community was (university expert professors related to the subject of human resources and green leadership, entrepreneurs and managers of the textile and leather industry in Baghdad), Returning to interviewees and external auditors was used for validation. The results showed that human resource management with a green leadership approach as a comprehensive theme includes 6 themes of effective communication, environmental skills, green organization, sustainable development, green leadership and green motivation with 37 components in the form of basic themes.
Human Resource Management
Davoud Hosseinpour; Farzaneh Aslibeigi; MirAli Seyyed Naghavi; Alireza Koushkie Jahromi
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The aim of this research is to identify the effective factors on organizational leadership branding with the approach of employee experience management, which led to the design of a model in Iran's automotive research and development centers. This research was done in terms of purpose, application, discovery ...
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The aim of this research is to identify the effective factors on organizational leadership branding with the approach of employee experience management, which led to the design of a model in Iran's automotive research and development centers. This research was done in terms of purpose, application, discovery and qualitative method. To collect information from articles related to the topic and semi-structured interviews with managers of centers and to analyze the data, content analysis method was used. After descriptive and interpretive coding (King and Horrocks's perspective), the basic topics were classified and a proposed leadership branding model based on employee experience management was presented.The findings of the research show that in order to develop the leadership brand, we need to manage the experience of employees in the main system of the organization in the face of external stakeholders, employees and managers.Based on the obtained themes, for the development of the leadership brand, a positive experience should be formed in how to respond to the stakeholders, human resources management and the development of managers.Under these main themes, sub-themes were identified as points of contact between leadership and employee experience.
Human Resource Management
Mohammad Hakkak
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Purpose: This research was conducted to design a human resource flexibility model with the fuzzy TISM approach at Lorestan University.Method: The research is based on a practical purpose and in terms of method, it is a mixed quantitative and qualitative research. The data have been analyzed through fuzzy ...
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Purpose: This research was conducted to design a human resource flexibility model with the fuzzy TISM approach at Lorestan University.Method: The research is based on a practical purpose and in terms of method, it is a mixed quantitative and qualitative research. The data have been analyzed through fuzzy total interpretive structural modeling. The statistical population of the research in the qualitative and quantitative part was a group of experts, consisting of professors from the Faculty of Economics and Management of Lorestan University, whose orientation and expertise were in the field of human resources management. The flexibility indicators of human resources were identified through theoretical literature and interviews with 7 experts in this field who were selected as a sample using the purposeful sampling method and based on the theoretical adequacy principle. As a result, 12 indicators were extracted. In the quantitative part of the questionnaire, the sample completed pairwise comparisons of indicators. Then, the interpretive structural modeling method was used in the fuzzy environment to create a connection and sequence between the factors and provide a structural model. Results: The leveling of human resource flexibility indicators was done in thirteen stages, finally forming the human resource flexibility model
Human Resource Management
Nasim Afshar-kaveh; Alireza Koushkie Jahromi; Mir Ali Seyyed Naghavi; saeed zarandi
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Moonlighting is a widespread and increasingly prevalent phenomenon in today's society, forcing human resources managers to develop new strategies for managing their workforce by deeply understanding this pervasive issue and its causes. Thus, the typology of moonlighting and its causes as well as alignment ...
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Moonlighting is a widespread and increasingly prevalent phenomenon in today's society, forcing human resources managers to develop new strategies for managing their workforce by deeply understanding this pervasive issue and its causes. Thus, the typology of moonlighting and its causes as well as alignment checks were the goals of the current study. In terms of its primary goal, the method utilized to collect qualitative data, and the Meta-synthesis methodology, this study is qualitative. For this purpose, a new configuration of the moonlighting phenomena was provided using the seven step model of Sandlovsky and Barroso. In this study, reliability was evaluated using Holstein's method, while validity was checked using Glynn's checklist. After examining and analyzing the results of the systematic review, four types of moonlighting—compulsory moonlighting, targeted moonlighting, full moonlighting, and hybrid moonlighting—as well as three categories of environmental, occupational, and individual antecedents—were discovered. After placing each type of moonlighting according to the components of the three antecedents, the moonlighting model was established as the cornerstone of organizational studies.
Human Resource Management
Akbar Hassanpoor; Reza Yousefi zenouz; Hossein Safari; Tohid Ghujali
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The research purpose is responding to the human resources compensation risk in Iran's insurance industry. By systematically studying the literature and interviewing 15 experts based on the snowball sampling , risks were identified and after screening based on the fuzzy Delphi, Fuzzy cognitive mapping ...
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The research purpose is responding to the human resources compensation risk in Iran's insurance industry. By systematically studying the literature and interviewing 15 experts based on the snowball sampling , risks were identified and after screening based on the fuzzy Delphi, Fuzzy cognitive mapping has been used to respond to risk. the inflexibility of compensation was identified as the most central element of the cognitive risk mapping. In the next , the effect of different risk control policies on map elements was investigated in three scenarios. After controlling one factor and its lack of influence on the whole map, finally with the policy of controlling the key elements , seven key elements with the highest degree of centrality include inflexibility of compensation, lack of employee satisfaction, lack of transparency, internal and external inequality, and non-alignment of payment. And performance, the imbalance between short and long-term incentives and the non-compensation of extra-role behaviors of employees selected and with the aim of fully controlling these elements, values corresponding to these elements were considered equal to zero in the initial state vector. results show that by controlling key elements of mapping, whole mapping undergoes changes and risk of human resources compensation is reduced.
Human Resource Management
Mehri Baharvandi; Mohammadreza Jaberansari; Seyed Mehdi Alvani; Mohammad Hakak
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The purpose of this research was to identify the components of improving the mindfulness of managers in Iran's government organizations. The current research method is mixed (qualitative and quantitative). In the qualitative part, 20 people were selected using a targeted method, and in the quantitative ...
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The purpose of this research was to identify the components of improving the mindfulness of managers in Iran's government organizations. The current research method is mixed (qualitative and quantitative). In the qualitative part, 20 people were selected using a targeted method, and in the quantitative part, 300 people were selected using the table of Karjesi and Morgan (1970). The data collection tool in the qualitative part is in-depth and unstructured interviews, and in the quantitative part, a researcher-made questionnaire with a reliability coefficient of 0.92Is. To analyze the data in the qualitative part, the data has been used using the microscopic method during three stages of open, central and selective coding with the help of MAXQDA2020 software and in the quantitative part with the help of SPSS and Smart PLS software. The findings of the research show that this model is in the form of 26 main categories and 180 variables, including the promotion of managers' awareness in government organizations as the core or main category of the model; Causal variables (threatening stimuli, encouraging stimuli, feelings and emotions, abilities); contextual variables; Intervening; and finally consequence categories (attention and concentration, awareness of experiences, awareness and transformational management) were placed.
Human Resource Management
Naseh rookhandeh; Kumars Ahmadi; Mahdi Hamzehpoor; Fatemeh Sohrabi
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Administrative discipline is one of the most important cohesive factors in the organization and plays a key role in improving the performance of organizations. It is necessary to identify the factors that strengthen it (drivers), so this research aims to identify the main and subcategories and key indicators ...
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Administrative discipline is one of the most important cohesive factors in the organization and plays a key role in improving the performance of organizations. It is necessary to identify the factors that strengthen it (drivers), so this research aims to identify the main and subcategories and key indicators of drivers of administrative discipline through a meta-synthesis method, one of the qualitative research and meta-study methods. In this research, some 67 scientific texts in Persian and English were discovered and extracted from reliable domestic and foreign websites and scientific databases between 2003 and 2022 AD and 1390 and 1401 AD. Finally, 28 research titles using the skills method critical assessment (CASP) were considered, and the main indicators were extracted through the document analysis method. After studying and extracting the key codes, these codes were aggregated and clustered, and the principal and subcategories were set. The findings showed that 12 main categories, 28 subcategories, and 120 indicators or primary codes were extracted. The main categories of drivers of administrative discipline included culture, trust, communication, order, empowerment, balance between life and work, spirituality, organizational participation, organizational justice, accountability, quality of work life, and motivation; the results of this research can significantly help managers and organizations develop and improve performance as the driving force of organizations and turn them into leading organizations in their field.IntroductionAdministrative discipline is one of the ways that guarantees order, efficacy, and observing regulations in the workplace (Ernest, 2021). If the staff has discipline, this will improve practical efficacy. (McCarter et al., 2022). Discipline is the key to a company's success in achieving its goals. (Astuti et al., 2020). Accordingly, during the last decade, numerous studies on administrative discipline have been done, whose common features are dispersion and lack of coherence in presenting the findings. This has caused problems for politicians and organizational administrators, as no coherent study synthesizes the past findings to present unified findings.Research questionsTherefore, the present study uses a meta-synthesis method and subsidiary indices and concepts of administrative discipline.Literature ReviewDisciplineAdministrative discipline consists of two words: discipline and administrative. In its common uses in the Oxford dictionary, discipline can mean rearing, taking care of regulations, approaching order, and even punishment. Referring to the etymology of this word and its idiomatic meaning will reveal its historical (meaning shift).The word discipline stems from the Latin discipulus, meaning follower, servant, and those around a religious agent. Also, the word discipline originates from the Indo-European’s dek or des, meaning derive, acceptance, and suitability (Tafazoli, 2014).Administrative disciplineThe issue of administrative discipline and how to tackle it is one of the responsibilities of personnel management in organizations. One responsibility of personnel management is determining administrative discipline principles, rules, and regulations to achieve organizational goals. Important issues exist in organizations, and administrative discipline is one of them. Administrative discipline is one of the prerequisites of any office and organization, and paying attention to it can be one of the main factors in organizational development (Daft, 2012).On the other hand, we witness many staff holding ideas, perspectives, and behaviors that dramatically affect the practical efficacy of various organizational units. Reforming staff behavior is among managers' main concerns and policies (Qolipour, 2019).MethodologyConcerning practical goals, this study is quality type and meta-synthesis in its strategy. This study uses the seven-stage method of Sandlooki and Burusu (2007). In this study, authentic scientific English and Persian texts have been considered. The period of this study was 2003 to 2022 and 1390 to 1401 solar years—the data analysis (previous documents). To have an organized scrutiny, the related articles and research, interior sites, Iran doc, Jahade Daneshgahi, and Civilica, and foreign sites like Emerald Inside, Scopus, and Science Direct have been used. The terms discipline, administrative discipline, and word discipline are used in the search process. Organizational discipline and staff discipline have been used. Based on the searches done, 126 articles, of which 40 (Persian) and 86 in English were found. Then, based on the acceptance criteria, 40 students for their titles, 20 for their abstracts, and 34 studies with the mentioned criteria were selected. Afterward, the texts' content was studied carefully, the main indices were derived, and the information was categorized. Then, all the determined components were derived based on meaning and summing up the given concepts. The researcher has tried to classify the concepts so that some were summarized into one component.Finally, to control the study's quality, the Kohen test and content validity have been used.ResultsFinally, the results showed that the issues of official regulations have five subsidiary titles consisting of centralized regulations (code 3), fair laws (code 6), supervision of laws (code 6), obeying the laws (code 4), and promoting the laws (code 5). The official control category has two subcategories: controlling efficacy (code 6) and preventive measures (code 4). The category behavior control has three subcategories: behavior evaluation (code 6), standardizing behavior (code 5), and self-control (code 2). The harmony category consists of two subcategories: internal harmony (code 5) and external harmony of behavior (code 2). Obedience has two subcategories: following the routines (code 5) and obeying orders (code 4). The responsibility category has two subcategories: responsibility toward the organization (code 4) and responsibility of duty (code 6). The category promotion has two subcategories: financial (code 5) and spiritual (code 5). Punishment has two subcategories: financial (code 5) and nonfinancial (code 3). Discipline routines have two subcategories: reconciliation (code 8) and forcible (code 4); self-discipline also has two subcategories: individual (code 3) and organizational (code 4). Guidance has two subcategories: giving directions (code 4) and attitude change (code 4). In order to control the study's quality, the Kohen test and content validity have been used.DiscussionThe main categories of administrative discipline were regulations and rules, official monitoring, harmony, obedience responsibility, promotions, punishments, discipline approaches, self-discipline, and official guidance.ConclusionBased on a comprehensive pattern that was attained from the meta-synthesis method and observing the commonalities of different ideas about administrative discipline, one can take more effective and purposeful actions to establish administrative systems, determine the laws of trial and discipline committees, moral manifesto, and finally unity of procedure and word. This comprehensive pattern can give managers and staff a more complete and more accurate definition of administrative discipline.AcknowledgementsHereby, we fully appreciate the efforts of all those who gave us a hand in doing this study.
Human Resource Management
Aakbar Hassanpoor; Sareh Ebrahimi
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As the most important capital of the organization, managers spend most of their time in the workplace. The characteristics of the quality of work life have an effective role in managers' performance and can encourage them to use their maximum abilities. This research aimed to design and explain a hierarchical ...
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As the most important capital of the organization, managers spend most of their time in the workplace. The characteristics of the quality of work life have an effective role in managers' performance and can encourage them to use their maximum abilities. This research aimed to design and explain a hierarchical model of public sector managers' quality of work life in Tehran using a mixed method (qualitative-quantitative). In the qualitative section, 18 model components were obtained from interviews with 18 experts and analyzed using the content analysis method. The quantitative section determined the relationship between the components using the Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) method. Analyzing the qualitative and quantitative data of the research, a 9-level model was obtained. The most affecting component of this model at the ninth level is uncertainty. At the same time, decision phobia and fear of mistakes, false participation in decision-making, loneliness in the workplace, stress, and nervous pressure are the components that were affected more than other components of this model. The results of this research help employees and managers to have a more realistic image of managerial positions by presenting the pros and cons of it.Introduction Early qualitative research suggests that becoming a manager can be a double-edged sword. It means this important career change is a narrative of gains and losses: On the one hand, new managers often boast of their new influence and authority while lamenting that they are doing too much in too little time. Therefore, considering the important position of managers in the public sector and their multiple roles, the analysis of managers' quality of life is of great importance as an important issue. In addition, knowing the components of managers' quality of work life helps employees make a more informed decision about career advancement and better guide their career path. In addition to being exposed to environmental, socio-economic, cultural, and family stressors, the public sector also faces occupational stress. Therefore, by identifying the hierarchical model of managers' quality of work life, it is possible to increase the motivation of employees for promotion by benefiting from the factors that strengthen the quality of managers' work life and providing a solution to improve the factors that lead to endangering the quality of managers' work life. Moreover, portraying a more realistic vision of the managerial position prepared them for career advancement. For this purpose, this research seeks to find the hierarchical model of public sector managers' quality of work life in Tehran.Materials and methods This research was conducted using a mixed research method (qualitative-quantitative) and seeks to provide a hierarchical model of the quality of working life of public sector managers in Tehran. This research is a descriptive survey in terms of nature and method and practical in terms of purpose. In the qualitative part, the thematic analysis method has been used through semi-structured interviews to understand, recognize, and extract the variables. The statistical population of this research in the qualitative part includes a collection of academic experts and specialists familiar with the quality of work life of managers and with the scientific rank of associate professor and above, managers of seven government organizations in Tehran with a master's degree and above and management experience of at least ten years, as well as consultants Managers of government organizations with at least ten years of consulting experience and a doctorate in management. The criterion of sample adequacy is theoretical saturation. A total of 18 people were interviewed using the purposeful selective sampling method, and theoretical saturation was achieved. The following variables were modeled using the Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) method. In the quantitative part of the research, 14 experts from the qualitative part who were familiar with how to respond to the self-interaction matrix were selected purposefully.Results and DiscussionBy Analyzing data in the research, a nine-level model was obtained; the most affecting component of this model at the ninth level is uncertainty, while decision phobia and fear of mistakes, false participation in decision-making, loneliness in the workplace, stress, and nervous pressure are the components which were affected more than other components of this model.ConclusionAs the research model shows, uncertainty can affect salaries and rewards, legal responsibility, and managers' sense of power. Therefore, it is suggested that managers first define and understand uncertainties. Then, try to have an efficient and effective pre-determined scenario for each of these uncertainties in the government organizations of Tehran. Managers of government organizations in Tehran should know that to maintain a balance between their lives and work; they should pay attention to their personal life issues, take these issues seriously, and always try not to diminish their role in the family. Managers are suggested to respect old friends and colleagues more than before and to lay the foundation of friendship in performing organizational tasks. This will make the manager's colleagues and friends consider work fun and commitment. As public sector managers get promoted, they somehow lose their informal connections and friends and end up alone in the workplace. Weakening of informal relationships, formal behaviors, feelings of power, etc., finally leaves managers alone in the workplace, which reduces the quality of their work life and makes managers suffer from this problem. In order to deal with loneliness, Tehran's public sector managers should try to reduce their distance from employees as much as possible and apply reasonable formality. Managers should adopt a collaborative approach to organizational decision-making. Maximizing participation and valuing employee input can reduce false participation. Using an efficient suggestion system can also help the manager in this direction. The fact is that stress and nervous pressure challenge the working life of managers in the public sector. It seems that maintaining calmness in stressful working conditions, accurate and regular prioritization of tasks, using organizational justice in the real sense, organizational transparency, and establishing a balance between personal and professional life can effectively reduce stress and nervous pressure. The results of this research help employees and managers to have a more realistic image of managerial positions by presenting the pros and cons of it.
