Seyed Yaghoub Hosseini; Mani Arman; Zahra Mohammadizadeh
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Organizations in order to achieve its objectives are looking for the establishment of systems to ensure the enabling environment for productivity increase. One way to increase productivity is selection of qualified staff.Assessment center and the development are including ways that are used with aims ...
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Organizations in order to achieve its objectives are looking for the establishment of systems to ensure the enabling environment for productivity increase. One way to increase productivity is selection of qualified staff.Assessment center and the development are including ways that are used with aims of people selection, promotion and education. The staff performance evaluation is performed to survey their behavior, capabilities, growth and prosperity to achieve the organization’s goals. This study aims at showing that data based on the assessment center results (the competency of staff) to what extent offer a significant relationship with the staff performance scores. So, participants of the assessment center were clustered first according to data of the assessment center and second based on the evaluation of the 360 degree performance. In this study, self-organizing maps have been used for segmentation of people and the data were analyzed by version 5 of Discovery Profiler software. According to Chi 2 agreement test’s results, obtained parts of the performed clustering with two methods, did not show any relationship. But based on correlation coefficient, there is a significant and positive relationship among selected people of the assessment center to develop and evaluate their performance
Mani Arman; Mahboobe Shafiei
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As in most industries, there is no certainty about the assessment of the business environment; companies must be able to compete through sustainable methods. So in order to survive and succeed in the marketplace, companies must focus on building their competitive strengths and capabilities. The main ...
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As in most industries, there is no certainty about the assessment of the business environment; companies must be able to compete through sustainable methods. So in order to survive and succeed in the marketplace, companies must focus on building their competitive strengths and capabilities. The main objective of this study is to investigate the impact of strategic agility and strategic learning on competitive capabilities, and explore the impact of strategic learning on strategic agility in knowledge-based firms of Science and Technology Park of Bushehr. This study is an applied research and data gathering methodology is a survey. Statistical population of this study is all of the knowledge-based companies of science and technology park of Bushehr. Data were collected from questionnaire and to assess reliability, Cronbach's alpha is used which demonstrate the validity of the questionnaires. In order to test the hypothesis and model SMART PLS software is used. The results of this study show that, strategic learning and strategic agility have positive and significant effect on the competitive capabilities of knowledge-based companies, as well as strategic learning strategic has a significant and positive impact on strategic agility of these firms.