Organizational Behavior
Hossein Hamzavi; Behrouz Rezaee Manesh; Habib Rudsaz
Abstract
Encouraging and strengthening creativity among employees is an important strategy for maintaining and improving competitive advantages, ensuring long-term survival and growth of organizations. On the other hand, it is important to determine which leadership styles are related to employees' creativity ...
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Encouraging and strengthening creativity among employees is an important strategy for maintaining and improving competitive advantages, ensuring long-term survival and growth of organizations. On the other hand, it is important to determine which leadership styles are related to employees' creativity through which methods, procedures and approaches and through which strategies. Organizational citizenship behavior as a psychological behavior may play a critical role as a mediator in our relationship between leadership styles and employee creativity. The current research is an applied research in terms of its purpose, and a descriptive-survey research in terms of collecting data and information. The statistical population of this research is all the employees of the Persian Gulf State University of Bushehr, numbering 302 people, and the sample size based on Cochran's formula is 169 employees. The tool for collecting data and information from the statistical population was a questionnaire. In order to analyze the research data, the Structural Equation Model (SEM) method and SPSS 22 and Lisrel software were used. The results of the research showed that servant leadership and ethical leadership styles have a significant effect on employee creativity with a mediating role of organizational citizenship behavior.
Fattah Sharifzade; Behrooz Rezaeemanesh; Amir Hassan Ezzati
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Due to the importance of organizational culture and its impact on organizational performance, the present article aims to identify and investigate the effect of behavioral, structural and context factors on the institutionalization of an organizational culture based on Islamic values, in order to help ...
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Due to the importance of organizational culture and its impact on organizational performance, the present article aims to identify and investigate the effect of behavioral, structural and context factors on the institutionalization of an organizational culture based on Islamic values, in order to help managers of organizations and executive agencies. This research is an applied research and survey design. Among the staff of the Government Education Management Center, 87 people were tested by simple random sampling method. According to the analysis, it has been shown that in order to institutionalize organizational culture , we are facing to several factors from different levels, it should be achieved with the support of high-level organizational managers and through the integrated management to institutionalize Islamic values in organizational culture. It was also found that leadership in the organization has a huge impact on the institutionalization of an organizational culture based on Islamic values.
Reza Sheikh; Saeed Aibaghi Isfahani; Ehsan Lotfi
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Purpose - To promote knowledge about how the process of change and its performance is implemented, and the complex environment in which public organizations operate. Methodology - The combination of three government offices in Mashhad was selected for a case study. This integration was carried out in ...
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Purpose - To promote knowledge about how the process of change and its performance is implemented, and the complex environment in which public organizations operate. Methodology - The combination of three government offices in Mashhad was selected for a case study. This integration was carried out in an environment increasingly complicated by the progressive development of implementing the process. The main method of collecting data was interviewing managers who participated in organizational change. A total of 19 interviews were conducted. Interviews were coded using Atlas.ti software. Findings- Analyzes show that a high degree of complexity of the environment forces public organizations to adopt a planned approach from top to bottom, while the effectiveness of such an approach is limited to the simultaneous change of a complex environment. In addition, the routine change leadership activities is not sufficient to implement a change in a complicated environment. In order to overcome environmental dependence and maintain current trend in change process, public managers must be involved in leadership activities focusing on external environment. Innovation - The hypotheses can be further tested in future research and provides a basis for future research in the field of change management in public organizations. Focusing on the process and not paying attention just to the feedback of the process and the pre-process schema is the distinction of the present research
ali shariat; reza sepahvand; mahmoud esmaeili; seyed najmoddin mousavi
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The main purpose of the research is to identify and explain the Effective factors and outcomes of Level five leadership using the Delphi Fuzzy technique. This research is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive survey. Also in terms of typology of research, it is a mix research with qualitative and ...
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The main purpose of the research is to identify and explain the Effective factors and outcomes of Level five leadership using the Delphi Fuzzy technique. This research is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive survey. Also in terms of typology of research, it is a mix research with qualitative and quantitative approach in inductive deductive paradigm. The statistical population of the research is knowledge based companies in Lorestan province, with 30 of their experts selected according to the principle of theoretical adequacy and using a targeted sampling method.The validity and reliability were confirmed using CVR coefficient and Kappa-Cohen test. In the quantitative section is a pair wise questionnaire whose validity and reliability were confirmed using content validity and retest were used. In the qualitative section, the qualitative data obtained from the interview using Atlas.ti software and the coding method was analyzed. In addition, in the quantitative part of the study, Delphi fuzzy method was used to determine the priority of the five level Leadership most important factors and outcomes. The results show that among the important factors of five level leadership, temperamental temperance, humility and self-esteem, high emotional intelligence, and courage in innovation as the most important accomplishments and factors leading the level five in knowledge based organizations. The results also indicate that the long-term horizons for the organization, modest leadership, deep dissemination, and mentoring, coaching, mentoring, and organizational management are among the most important consequences and outcomes of the five level leadership in the knowledge based organizations.
S.M Arabi; H.R .Pirmorad
Volume 20, Issue 61 , April 2010, , Pages 1-35
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This article is the product of a research taken place in line with thegoals of I.R. of Iran, stated in its vision document, in order for thecountry to reach the defined scientific position. As in the visiondocument has been put a lot of emphasis on scientific development ofthe country towards reaching ...
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This article is the product of a research taken place in line with thegoals of I.R. of Iran, stated in its vision document, in order for thecountry to reach the defined scientific position. As in the visiondocument has been put a lot of emphasis on scientific development ofthe country towards reaching the ultimate goal of acquiring the firstscientific position in the region, there seems to be a necessity forspecial attention to scientific and R & D centers of the country andmore specifically to the researchers and professionals of this section.On the other hand, acquiring the first economic position of the regionis Iran’s other major goal, to be reached by the end of the visionperiod. For this to take place, it should be considered that economicprosperity of organizations in today’s highly competitive markets, ismostly dependent on the function of R&D centers and their activities;while these centers are heavily dependent on their labor, andconsidering the need of their labor for innovation and creativity,applying a correct leadership and management strategy seemstremendously effective in enhancing the workforce performance andspeeding up the organizations’ progress.In this research, related studies carried out in other parts of the world,were investigated and the local characteristics of the country were alsotaken into consideration. This study is applicable and developingregarding its goal, and descriptive-survey regarding its method. Sinceit has tried to analyze the literature and information obtained from R&D centers to define the leadership strategies of researchers, it can beconsidered a descriptive survey; and since the results obtained, havebeen examined through the survey, we can consider it a survey study.This research was performed in the Niroo Research Institute (NRI) ofMinistry of Energy, as one of the largest national research centers inIran. The population of this study are the expert middle and highmanagers of this institute. Additionally, the validity and reliability of all surveys have beenevaluated and approved.Major results of this paper are the followings: determines appropriatestrategies, and provides an integrated model for leadership ofscientists strategies in R & D sections; provides effective parametersin determining the strategic position in the model.The results of this research, have also been evaluated andimplemented in the NRI.
Iraj Soltaani
Volume 11, Issue 41.42 , September 2004, , Pages 189-208
alireza moghli
Volume 11, Issue 43.44 , August 2004, , Pages 95-112
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The role of managers and leaders in The fundamental changes in The organizationsis inevitable. The modern Theories and views of organizational leadership opens a new vision in the pathway of directing organizations and ...
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The role of managers and leaders in The fundamental changes in The organizationsis inevitable. The modern Theories and views of organizational leadership opens a new vision in the pathway of directing organizations and their movement in the ways of development and give the managers and leaders the necessary information for facting the environmental changes. In this article after giving some description about the model of transformational leadership OB, different factors and dimenstions of transformational leadership model has been viewed. Then the testing tools of this method (MLQ) which are used in the world have presented for announcing the investigators of this field. In the end, in addition to concluding, some suggestion for using this model in IRAN were done
aliakbar farhangi; syedhaidar hosseini
Volume 7, Issue 27.28 , March 2000, , Pages 91-104
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t present complex conditions, systems of education and particular system of higher education gradually find that they will not be able to response their increasing leadership responsibilities without using effective management, because by appearing ...
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t present complex conditions, systems of education and particular system of higher education gradually find that they will not be able to response their increasing leadership responsibilities without using effective management, because by appearing significance of higher education in the society, people are sensitive toward its relative problems day to day. There lore performance method of universities exposed to a question. and old leadership styles are
doubted.
In this paper it has been tried to explain a dominant space al universities and define and appropriate leadership style tor them. So after doing a short explanation about nature and role of higher education, its decision making methods, dimensions of university management and general points about its effective lead ship a red is cussed. By bringing up negative effect of exercising power. it has been recommended that managers must not perceive the university as a bureaucratic organization, because professors and conversant with science u111 not be creative in such sphere. Also a advantages of participation and development of participative culture has been discussed.
ghasem ansariranani
Volume 6, Issue 23.24 , March 1999, , Pages 115-141
abbas mohammad zadeh
Volume 5, Issue 20 , February 1996, , Pages 75-92
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The leader with a functional perspective uses structures within the larger organization to get people to accomplish important tasks and commit themselves to organizational goals. In this article some examples have been discussed to demonstrate some of the ways in which managers can use the functional ...
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The leader with a functional perspective uses structures within the larger organization to get people to accomplish important tasks and commit themselves to organizational goals. In this article some examples have been discussed to demonstrate some of the ways in which managers can use the functional perspective to increase the performance and commitment of employees. If the manager views leader behavior as one of several structures capable of fulfilling task and maintenance functions, then he has a range of alternatives to choose from in maintaining effective employee performance and commitment. If performance is poor, is it because of too little or too much direction? if commitment is weak, is it because of too little support or because of a combination of too much support and too little direction? Once these and similar questions have been answered, the manager can begin to search for available, practical structures for remedying the inadequacies in any work situation. Some of the actions have been recommended are not generally thought of as part of leader behavior, nevertheless, they increase the likelihood that employees will perform well and commit themselves to the goals of the work group and, certainly, the manager who take steps to produce effective employee behavior is an effective leader.
hoseyn rahmanseresht
Volume 5, Issue 20 , February 1996, , Pages 109-130
