Mahsa Javdanmehr; Fariborz Rahimnia; Alireza Khorakian
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The purpose of the present study is to investigate the mediating effect of knowledge absorptive capacity on the relationship between social capital-enhancing HR (egalitarian and collaboration) and innovation performance. The purpose of this study is applied and its method is a descriptive survey. The ...
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The purpose of the present study is to investigate the mediating effect of knowledge absorptive capacity on the relationship between social capital-enhancing HR (egalitarian and collaboration) and innovation performance. The purpose of this study is applied and its method is a descriptive survey. The data collection tool is a questionnaire. The statistical population of the study is food companies in Toos industrial zone of Mashhad. From this statistical population, 102 companies were selected by simple random sampling. Structural equation modeling (SEM) and Smart PLS software were used to analyze the data and hypotheses of this study. The findings show that the implementation of egalitarian and collaboration policies has a direct and significant impact on organizational innovation performance and the organizational knowledge absorptive capacity plays a mediating role in the relationship between egalitarian and collaboration.
Fariborz Rahimnia; Seyyedeh Nargess Rahnama
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Organizations Nowadays due to environmental turbulence, in order to survive and overcome the environmental challenges, have tried to improve their performance. So, they focus their efforts on increasing Optimal performance of employees. Organizational citizenship behavior is one of the factors that affects ...
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Organizations Nowadays due to environmental turbulence, in order to survive and overcome the environmental challenges, have tried to improve their performance. So, they focus their efforts on increasing Optimal performance of employees. Organizational citizenship behavior is one of the factors that affects on improving personal and organizational performance and also can be increased by both factors fun at work and joy. In this study, the role of fun at work and joy in increasing organizational citizenship behavior have been studied. purpose of the study is investigating effect of fun at work on organizational citizenship behavior through mediating role of joy. In this research 187 employees of Mashhad municipal have been surveyed who were selected by simple random sampling method. The nature of the study’s method is survey-applied and the method of that is analytical method. statistical software such as Amos 20 and SPSS18 were used for Statistical analysis. Analysis of data collected show fun at work has positive effect on organizational citizenship behavior. Moreover, positive effect of mediating role of joy on relation of fun at work and organizational citizenship behavior was verified. In addition, strongest relationship has been found between fun at work and joy.
Gholamreza Malekzadeh; Farborz Rahimnia
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Meaningful work and work meaningfulness concepts have recently received considerable attention in the management and organizational behavior research literature because they are strongly related to organizational outputs. So there has been a growing concern among researchers and practitioners about the ...
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Meaningful work and work meaningfulness concepts have recently received considerable attention in the management and organizational behavior research literature because they are strongly related to organizational outputs. So there has been a growing concern among researchers and practitioners about the need to better understanding of the work meaningfulness. Increased emphasis on the meaningful work is due largely to research linking employees who are engaged and intrinsically motivated in work they find meaningful with higher levels of job satisfaction, commitment, retention, performance, and productivity. Knowledge based enterprises as important organizations for developing knowledge based economy can use this concept in their job design, reengineering and organizing activities. The aim of this study was to understand the mental patterns of managers of Iranian knowledge based enterprises with Q-methodology. For this purpose, by using Q-methodology, forum phrases analyzed and four mental pattern of participants about meaningful work revealed which are: expectations about work, attitude towards work, the nature of work and individual features. Knowing these mental patterns can be used in explanation and choosing suitable strategies in job design, development plans and supporting programs of enterprises and their management.
