Vahid Nasehifar; Yasaman Giyahi
Volume 24, Issue 77 , July 2015, Pages 1-27
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This article has been written to research about pathology in Administrative and financial deputy of the Iran Ministry of Commerce and indicates its strengths and weaknesses in four criteris: Management System and Managers. In this research, Kolmogorov – Smirnov test is used to determine normality ...
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This article has been written to research about pathology in Administrative and financial deputy of the Iran Ministry of Commerce and indicates its strengths and weaknesses in four criteris: Management System and Managers. In this research, Kolmogorov – Smirnov test is used to determine normality of 29 indicators. All indicators are normal and importance of each of them is determined by Student's T test. In each of four criteria, determined indicators are ranked by Friedman test. Thereafter, proposed strategies are ranked by Chi – Squared test in each criterion. In managers’ criteria, "job enthusiasm, motivation and willingness to work" and in management system criteria, "management knowledge of policies" have top ranks among indicators. In managers’ criteria, "training" and "performance management" and in management system criteria, "training", "performance management" and "policy" have the most frequencies among proposed strategies. This research has been done as an independent research in Institute for Trade Studies and Research.
Mehdi Hghighi; Nader Mazloomi; Parya Ghafory
Volume 24, Issue 77 , July 2015, Pages 29-49
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The idea of establishing security via insurance has been originated long time ago. Insurance is one of the most valuable human achievements for dealing with events and providing some of the economic, social and psychological needs. Life insurance is one of the most important kinds of personal insurances; ...
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The idea of establishing security via insurance has been originated long time ago. Insurance is one of the most valuable human achievements for dealing with events and providing some of the economic, social and psychological needs. Life insurance is one of the most important kinds of personal insurances; the life and saving insurance are considered as significant means of financial savings. According to the nature of tasks related to insurance, gaining the trust of people will guarantee the survival of an insurance company and its profitability in the long run. In regard with the long term policies of life insurance and the undertakings accepted by the insurer, one of the issues worth debating is the question of public trust in insurance companies, i.e. to what extent are they willing to confide in these companies and entrust their funds to them through premiums payment despite the long term policies. The main objective of this research is to identify and prioritize the effective factors on the trust of people in life insurance
Abdolmajid Mosleh; Ahmad Allahyari Bouzanjani
Volume 24, Issue 77 , July 2015, Pages 51-76
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This study aims to investigate the effect of internal market orientation on employee’s tendency to accept organizational change. The employees that are working in FARS science and technology parks (FSTP) are the sample study of this research. Based on this, the standard questionnaire was distributed ...
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This study aims to investigate the effect of internal market orientation on employee’s tendency to accept organizational change. The employees that are working in FARS science and technology parks (FSTP) are the sample study of this research. Based on this, the standard questionnaire was distributed among FSTP employees and data’s were gathered. Finally, the PLS method was used to investigate the hypothesis of this research. The results show that internal marketing has a positive and significant effect on employs tendency to accept organizational change. Also, reward systems and employs development, respectively, have more effect on employs tendency to accept organizational change. Furthermore, it was fund that internal communications hasn’t significant effect on employs tendency to accept organizational change.
MahmudReaz Esmaeili; Ali Shariat Nejad
Volume 24, Issue 77 , July 2015, Pages 77-97
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The aim of this article was surveying the role of transformational leadership in intellectual capital and psychological Capital with emphasis on transformational management. The research objective was applied and the research type was analytical survey. The statistical population was made ...
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The aim of this article was surveying the role of transformational leadership in intellectual capital and psychological Capital with emphasis on transformational management. The research objective was applied and the research type was analytical survey. The statistical population was made up of over 220 faculty and 450 staff members of Lorestan University. The sample size was 281 cases which were obtained using Cochran's formula and random sampling - stratification.. The validity of questionnaire was proved using content validity method and their reliability using Cronbach's alpha. In this article to test hypothesis and conceptual model structural equation approach and Amos 18 software were used. The result show the transformational leadership has relationship with intellectual capital and psychological Capital and transformational management. Also the results show the transformational management has relationship with intellectual capital and psychological Capital.
MR Ardalan; S Ghanbari; K zandi
Volume 24, Issue 77 , July 2015, Pages 99-123
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The purpose of this study is to analyze the mediatory role of employees participation in explaining Relationship between transformational leadership and readiness for organizational change. Concerning its purpose, the study is practical and considerate the data collection procedure it is a descriptive ...
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The purpose of this study is to analyze the mediatory role of employees participation in explaining Relationship between transformational leadership and readiness for organizational change. Concerning its purpose, the study is practical and considerate the data collection procedure it is a descriptive correlation study. The population of the study includes Office of Education Kurdistan and Office of Education Region 1 and 2 in Sanandaj. Using a classified random sampling a sample of 170 employees selected and studied. The instruments used were the Transformational leadership Questionnaire (Bass & Avolio, 1997), Employee participation Questionnaire (researcher-made) and readiness for organizational change Questionnaire (Dunham et al, 1989), that their validity and reliability were confirmed. Data were analyzed using Pearson's correlation test, multiple regression analysis and Path analysis. The results showed that there was significant positive correlation between transformational leadership and readiness to change; there was significant positive correlation between transformational leadership and employee participation; and there was significant positive correlation between employee participation and readiness for organizational change. The results of path analysis showed that two components sharing information and participation in decision making have Mediating role in the relationship between the components of idealized influence, intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration with readiness for organizational change
Yousef Mohammadi Moghaddam; Jafar Abbaspour
Volume 24, Issue 77 , July 2015, Pages 125-152
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Due to research developments in social and human sciences, scientists have come to this conclusion that having command over all aspects of a subject is almost impossible. Therefore, they tried combinational studies which would provide them with the extract of the current studies related to a special ...
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Due to research developments in social and human sciences, scientists have come to this conclusion that having command over all aspects of a subject is almost impossible. Therefore, they tried combinational studies which would provide them with the extract of the current studies related to a special subject in a more systematic way. Due to the importance of the relationship between transformational leadership and organizational citizenship behavior, this study has reviewed 8 articles aiming for merging quantitative results of studies regarding the relationship between transformational leadership and organizational citizenship behavior in Iran, using meta-analysis method and comprehensive meta-analysis software (CMA2).The results of meta-analysis indicates that there is a higher than average relevance between transformational leadership and organizational citizenship behavior (with average effect-size of 0.6). Among the transformational leadership attributes, idealized behaviors with the effect-size of 0.62 has the greatest effect-size regarding organizational citizenship behavior and individual considerations with the effect-size of 0.54 has the least effect-size regarding organizational citizenship behavior.
Gholamreza Tavakoli; Majid Ramezan; Abbas Moayya
Volume 24, Issue 77 , July 2015, Pages 153-169
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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 ...
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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.
Shahabeddin shams; Amir Teymur Esfandirari moghaddam
Volume 24, Issue 77 , July 2015, Pages 171-185
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In this paper, the relationship between organizational trust and job satisfaction. The populations of the study are employees of public organization in Tehran and the sample consists of 218 employees of the organization. To study Organizational trust the model Ellonen, Bloom West and Pamalaynn has been ...
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In this paper, the relationship between organizational trust and job satisfaction. The populations of the study are employees of public organization in Tehran and the sample consists of 218 employees of the organization. To study Organizational trust the model Ellonen, Bloom West and Pamalaynn has been used and to study job satisfaction has been used the model Smith, Kendall and Hulin, and his colleagues. For test the hypothesis, has been used Spearman correlation test and Friedman Test rankings. Also for analysis of data has been used software’s SPSS. The spearman correlation test results revealed a significant Positive relationship between organizational trust and job satisfaction. Also survey results showed a significant positive relationship between all dimensions of organizational trust (Lateral trust, Vertical trust, Institutional trust) and job satisfaction. In addition the results show that all dimensions of organizational trust have a positive relationship with all aspects of job satisfaction.
Seyed Ali Akbar Afjahi; Jamshid Salehi Sadaqyani; Ebrahim Mahmoudzadeh; Mohsen Adabi Firozjayi
Volume 24, Issue 77 , July 2015, Pages 187-219
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Researches show that much than 70% change efforts have been failed to realize the expected goals. One of the main reason for this failure, is the non-alignment between power types and change. In this paper, the alignment between power and change types and its effect on the performance improvement were ...
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Researches show that much than 70% change efforts have been failed to realize the expected goals. One of the main reason for this failure, is the non-alignment between power types and change. In this paper, the alignment between power and change types and its effect on the performance improvement were investigated in 18 commercial companies of Defense Ministry, being active in trading (non-military) market. The present research is descriptive-expressive in terms of goal, applied-developmental in terms of consequence and mixed (qualitative-quantitative) in terms of data type. In quantitative research, 105 questionnaires were collected from the strategists of companies. In this research, "the model of structural equations" and especially the technique of path analysis were applied to study the relationships between the research variables, employing the Software smart PLS, v. 3.0; "cluster analysis" and "variance analysis" were performed by the Software SPSS, v. 19. Also, the qualitative data from the structured interviews made with 36 senior managers was analyzed by content analysis, and the criterion for comparing the performance of the companies was determined by Delphi technique. The results of variance analysis test indicated that the companies, where change and power types are more aligned, have a higher performance.
Hamidreza Oreyzi; Behrooz Dorry; Hajar Barati
Volume 24, Issue 77 , July 2015, Pages 221-240
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The success of change depends on the appropriate context for it because organizational context and features prepares organization for change and make commitment to change. Hence, The aim of current research is todetermine contextual and organizational factors affecting on reaction to change ...
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The success of change depends on the appropriate context for it because organizational context and features prepares organization for change and make commitment to change. Hence, The aim of current research is todetermine contextual and organizational factors affecting on reaction to change and its outcomes and also investigation of mediator variables affecting on this relation in Bandare-Emam Petrochemical Company employees.The sample research consisted of 383 employees of this company who were selected by stratified random sampling method. Then, they responded to research instruments.Fordata analyzing,path analysis and mediator analysis were used. The results showed that the informational justice(β=0.42), innovative climate(β=0.34) and organizational policy(β=0.31),predict change effectiveness and change effectiveness(β=0.80) predicts reaction to change and is mediator variable. Also, reaction to change predict change support(β=0.89), and change resistance(β=-0.30). According to findings, Organizationsshouldintroducethe change as effective and in this way increasing positive reaction to change until more change support and less change resistance be achieved
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In this paper, has been studied relationship between organizational trust and job satisfaction. The populations of the study are employees of public organization in Tehran and a sample consists of 218 employees of the organization. To study Organizational trust has been used the model Ellonen, Bloom ...
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In this paper, has been studied relationship between organizational trust and job satisfaction. The populations of the study are employees of public organization in Tehran and a sample consists of 218 employees of the organization. To study Organizational trust has been used the model Ellonen, Bloom West and Pamalaynn, and to study job satisfaction has been used the model Smith, Kendall and Hulin, and his colleagues. For test the hypothesis, has been used Spearman correlation test and Friedman Test rankings. Also for analysis of data has been used of software’s SPSS. The spearman correlation test results revealed a significant Positive relationship between organizational trust and job satisfaction. Also survey results showed a significant positive relationship between all dimensions of organizational trust (Lateral trust, Vertical trust, Institutional trust) and job satisfaction. In addition the results show that all dimensions organizational trust and have a positive relationship with all aspects of job satisfaction.
