S. M . Alvani; اH.R Asgari Dehabadi; E Rajabi
Volume 23, Issue 75 , September 2014, Pages 1-18
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In recent three decades, ICT experienced extraordinary progress. Governments have done positive efforts to make themselves electronic institutions and one of the manifestations of these efforts is using of teleworking. In this research we study the elements that affect the decisions of workers about ...
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In recent three decades, ICT experienced extraordinary progress. Governments have done positive efforts to make themselves electronic institutions and one of the manifestations of these efforts is using of teleworking. In this research we study the elements that affect the decisions of workers about using of teleworking. The statistical population is Iranian organizations and sample selected from this population is employers of Ministry Of Industry, Mining & Trading in Iran. Data were gathered with a questionnaire designed by researchers and then, four hypotheses were tested using SEM methods. The results show that job characteristics, characteristics of technologic environment, and personal characteristics have an effective and positive influence on decision-making about using of teleworking.
Seyyed Mohammad noe Pasand Asil; Majid Ashegh oseyni Mehravani
Volume 23, Issue 75 , September 2014, Pages 19-38
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At this time, focus on available resources is extraordinary important due competition among organizations for more advantages. The organizations couldn’t have been affected on environment and overcome in competition if they have had the best technology and provisions but also without expert human ...
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At this time, focus on available resources is extraordinary important due competition among organizations for more advantages. The organizations couldn’t have been affected on environment and overcome in competition if they have had the best technology and provisions but also without expert human resources. Nowadays, the organizations have found that talents are resources which they must be management for the best results. This study examines the relationship between talent management and organization performance. This is application study in order to objective and descriptive-correlation in nature. The population of this study is Guilan Ports and Maritime organization in1390 and over 281 emplogees which collected by Morgan table and stratified random sampling method with 162 samples. For data collecting used by a questionnaire contended 41 questions composed of 26 questions for talent management processes and 15 ones for organizational performance. For analyzing the fitness of questionnaire and constructs of research, CFA method and goodness of fit indices were used. For analyzing of data pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression with using of Enter method were used
Mahmood Mohammadian; Ghasem Bakhshandeh
Volume 23, Issue 75 , September 2014, Pages 39-68
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Caused changes and evolutions in earth sphere climates and more and more pollutions of cities especially metropolises, make it necessary to review and change production and consumption plans and in this way, green products consumption instead of current non-green products is seen as one way of protecting ...
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Caused changes and evolutions in earth sphere climates and more and more pollutions of cities especially metropolises, make it necessary to review and change production and consumption plans and in this way, green products consumption instead of current non-green products is seen as one way of protecting and improving environment for next generations. Present research with objective of offering solutions to persuade consumers to purchase and use green products has identified and suggested new and comprehensive model of effective factors on consumers' attitude and green purchase intention. This research is descriptive-surveying type and its statistical society is Allameh Tabataba'i University students that data is gathered by questionnaire from 402 people. In order to analyze data, structural equation modeling (SEM), confirmative function analysis (CFA), hierarchical regression, One way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and T test with two independent samples have been used. Data analysis results show positive and significant effect of “environmental attitudes”, “health consciousness”, “environmental knowledge” and “collectivism” variables on “attitude toward green products”, but “interpersonal influences” on attitude toward green products was not significant. Moreover, results showed that attitude toward green products has positive and significant effect on “green products purchasing intention” and variables of “willingness to pay” and “product perceived necessity” have been known as mediator and moderator variables, respectively. Finally, according to achieved results, solutions have been suggested to influence on consumers attitude and consequently persuade them to buy green products.
Mohsen Moradi; Mohammad Rasoul Heshmati
Volume 23, Issue 75 , September 2014, Pages 69-69
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Human resources are the basic column in organization and human resources management is considered as the strategic activity for maintaining and reinforcement the competitive advantage. Therefore, managing this vital resource requires strategic approach and strategic management. So, design the strategies ...
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Human resources are the basic column in organization and human resources management is considered as the strategic activity for maintaining and reinforcement the competitive advantage. Therefore, managing this vital resource requires strategic approach and strategic management. So, design the strategies of human resources is the first step of strategic human resources management. This paper aims to design the strategies of human resources in Mashhad Municipality, which was done by implementing SWOT method. Firstly, the main internal and external factors in relation whit human resource context were recognized and scored by human resource experts. After that, primary strategies of human resources were designed by using the SWOT technique and ultimately the appropriate strategies for human resource system have been offered by means of Internal-External quarterly matrix. Result showed that competitive and aggressive strategies were the best options for human resource system ofMashhad Municipality.
Ali Babaeian; Firouz Zandi
Volume 23, Issue 75 , September 2014, Pages 97-114
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According to Social Exchange Theory, Employees participate actively in social interactions and considering their inputs they expect outputs from these interactions. Employees' exchange in organizations, if interpreted justly, leads to understanding organizational trust and organizational support. ...
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According to Social Exchange Theory, Employees participate actively in social interactions and considering their inputs they expect outputs from these interactions. Employees' exchange in organizations, if interpreted justly, leads to understanding organizational trust and organizational support. One of these interactions is employment relationships. Psychological contract is trying to explain such a relationship between employees and the organization. If employees perceive that the organization has made its promises and obligations, Psychological contract will rise in a way to act as a kind of organizational support which can be considered as a buffer against work and environmental stress. The aim of this study is to investigate the role of psychological contract fulfillment considering cognitive differences and perceived organizational support as mediators for job burnout. The research method is functional, descriptive-survey and is specifically Structural Equation Modeling. The population of this research is Imam-Khomeini hospital nurses, 188 of them were chosen using stratified random sampling. The results indicated good fitting proposed model in which perceived organizational support and cognitive characteristics as mediating variables explain the effect of psychological contract fulfillment in burnout reduction. Research results show that the psychological contract fulfillment has a significant negative relationship with burnout, either directly or indirectly. Fulfilling psychological contract reduces nurses' job burnout and leads to an increase in positive affectivity and perceived organizational support and to reduce negative affectivity among nurses.
Rasoul Abbasi; Gholamreza Taleghani; Hassan Abedi Jafari; Abolhassan Faghihi
Volume 23, Issue 75 , September 2014, Pages 115-136
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Mosque is one of the institutions intermingled with the life of majority of Muslims but the issue of mosque management is yet to be neglected. This study has been made to identify the elements of effective practices model in the mosques that serve as process for the effective performance system of Mosque. ...
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Mosque is one of the institutions intermingled with the life of majority of Muslims but the issue of mosque management is yet to be neglected. This study has been made to identify the elements of effective practices model in the mosques that serve as process for the effective performance system of Mosque. The method of conceptualization in this research is isolated operational concept. Delphi method has been applied for confirmation of designed model. Information collecting has been done through different scientific and religious sources. The identified components for mosque's effective practices are: governing values, functions and operation management. According to the experts and Freedman ranking test, all of the components have the same significance. Matching the practices to values (8.35), spiritual leadership (8.55) and benchmarking from Shi’ea Imams' behavior (8.60) are the most important indicators in above-mentioned components respectively.
Seyad Ahmad Hosseini; Fatemeh Shams
Volume 23, Issue 75 , September 2014, Pages 137-159
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Nowadays, Many researchers believe that the psychological capital of organizations can Contribute to a sustainable competitive advantage. On the other hand, to keep that presence in global markets, organizations need to make use of novel ideas in the market. One of the latest ...
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Nowadays, Many researchers believe that the psychological capital of organizations can Contribute to a sustainable competitive advantage. On the other hand, to keep that presence in global markets, organizations need to make use of novel ideas in the market. One of the latest innovation paradigms in the organization leading to competitive companies, is known as open innovation. In this paradigm, efficient interaction with the outside inshrutions of the organizational including the competitors may be present throughout the process of innovation. therefore, this study aimed at investigating the impact of positive organizational behavior & Open innovation on the improve of competitive advantage. Kaleh Food industries, as one of the international brands with a great diversity in products and using open innovation in producing similar to foreign products has been investigated in the present study. the methodology of this study is Descriptive and Correlational. 170 manager & experts of Kaleh food industries participated in the study, 118 of which were selected as the sample group by random selection. The data collecction instrumant was questionnaire. the Reliability and Validity of the questionnaire were confirmed by Cronbach's alpha and construct and content Reliability , respectively. PLS software was used for data analysis. correlation coefficient, average test and t-test were calculated, and contruct equation modeling was presented. the findings of study confirmed the effect of positive organizational behavior & open innovation on competitive advantage. First and second hypothesis stating the impact of positive organizational behavior on open innovation and positive organizational behavior on competitive advantage, respectively, was confirmed. , however, the third hypothesis stating the impact of open innovation on competitive advantage was not confirmed
