Gholamreza Tavakoli; Majid Ramezan; Abbas Moayya
Volume 24, Issue 77 , July 2015, , Pages 153-169
Abstract
In today’s era Organizational Capacity for Change (OCC) is an important and strategic capability and a source of competitive advantage for organizations; therefore the strategic thinkers should go beyond the daily managerial processes and crises to focus on developing the capacity for effective ...
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In today’s era Organizational Capacity for Change (OCC) is an important and strategic capability and a source of competitive advantage for organizations; therefore the strategic thinkers should go beyond the daily managerial processes and crises to focus on developing the capacity for effective response to the environmental uncertainty. In this study 29 governmental organizations were surveyed. The level of Strategic Thinking and OCC in each organization was evaluated and the relationship between these two concepts was investigated by correlation test. In this research Liedtka’s model of Strategic Thinking and Judge’s model of Organizational Capacity for Change have been used. The results showed that organizations with higher level of Strategic Thinking have greater Capacity for Change. Furthermore, it was determined that there are positive and meaningful correlations between each element of Strategic Thinking (systems perspective, intent-focused, intelligent opportunism, thinking in time and hypothesis-driven) and OCC. The statistical analyses also demonstrate that there are positive and meaningful correlations between Strategic Thinking and both human capital and social infrastructure attributes of OCC.
Mohammad Reza Taghva; Hadi Abdollahi
Volume 22, Issue 72 , March 2014, , Pages 23-48
Abstract
Complex nature of personality caused the various theory that one of the most famous, is McCrae and Costa (1987) five-factor theory. In view of the personality and its role on emotional intelligence and organizational change and also, with the choice of McCrae and Costa five-factor model, this study is ...
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Complex nature of personality caused the various theory that one of the most famous, is McCrae and Costa (1987) five-factor theory. In view of the personality and its role on emotional intelligence and organizational change and also, with the choice of McCrae and Costa five-factor model, this study is considering the impact of five factors characters on emotional intelligence and organizational development. Present study is a descriptive survey and to collect data, a questionnaire has been used that 386 numbers of employees in the banking sector, hospitals, engineering firms, educational institutions, building companies and service companies in Tehran were selected as research sample. In this research, for data analysis, hypothesis and model testing, Cronbach's alpha coefficient test, Pearson correlation, structural equation modeling (SEM) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) were used under the both SPSS and LISREL software’s. Research findings indicate a significant effect of "Neuroticism", "Extraversion", "Openness", "Agreeableness" and "Conscientiousness" on "Emotional Intelligence" as well as "Emotional Intelligence" on "Organizational development
