Ali Asghar Fani; Hasan Danaee-fard; , Alireza Hasanzadeh; Fatemeh Sheikhinejad
Volume 18, Issue 1 , May 2014, , Pages 193-221
Abstract
Over the years, political behavior has been one of topics of interest to researchers in the field of organizational behavior. The reason for this interest is the extensiveness of this type of behavior in the organizations. This study, with regarding political skill and political will as moderating variables, ...
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Over the years, political behavior has been one of topics of interest to researchers in the field of organizational behavior. The reason for this interest is the extensiveness of this type of behavior in the organizations. This study, with regarding political skill and political will as moderating variables, considers the impact of perceptions of organizational politics on political behavior. The statistical population consists of managers and workers of water industry. In this research, the stratified (classified) sampling is used. To collect data, the questionnaire from five-option Likert scale was used, and the validity and reliability for each variable were confirmed. The data analysis was done by structural equation modeling, and path analysis by using LISREL software and Smart PLS. The results showed that perceptions of politics lead to political behavior, and political will moderates the relationship between the perceptions of politics and the political behavior. In this research, the moderating role of political skill was not confirmed.
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Jeiran Mohammadi; Ali asghar Fani; Saeed Fathi
Volume 17, Issue 2 , May 2013, , Pages 145-176
Abstract
Trying for improvement performance as an essential principle, since of preliminary management creation, had been noticeable and more extensive every day. Today, it has prospect behaviors beyond the formal duties that are contextual performance, extra-role behaviors, Spontaneous behaviors or organizational ...
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Trying for improvement performance as an essential principle, since of preliminary management creation, had been noticeable and more extensive every day. Today, it has prospect behaviors beyond the formal duties that are contextual performance, extra-role behaviors, Spontaneous behaviors or organizational citizenship behaviors. The other wise, the results of studies indicate that strain hinders of this behaviors. Therefore it's necessary schematization of plans and solutions for decreasing strain and then increasing OCBs. One of the most important of the activities is recognition of the effective variables on the OCBs for its preservation, increasing and reinforcement. This study with meta-analysis approach has recognized and studied the moderator variables that have been effective on this relationship. Statistical society is the hole of the studies that have investigating the relationship between strains and OCBs, total studies are 169 with 893 effect sizes, The results of studies revealed this relationship is moderated by five moderators of the characteristics of the study sample: the kind of job and organization (governmental vs. private), organizational position (managerial vs. nonmanagerial), the kind of employee (full time or no full time), and the number of statistic society.
Hasan Danaie Fard; aliasghar fani; sholeh zakiani
Volume 17, Issue 1 , February 2013, , Pages 133-148
Abstract
Organizational behavior is a complex of voluntary and intentional behaviors that are committed by the staffs and personnel of an organization even though they are not part of their official behaviors. The consequence of such behaviors is an enhancement of the functions and jobs of the organization. Organizational ...
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Organizational behavior is a complex of voluntary and intentional behaviors that are committed by the staffs and personnel of an organization even though they are not part of their official behaviors. The consequence of such behaviors is an enhancement of the functions and jobs of the organization. Organizational justice refers to ethical and fair behaviors of the staffs and personnel of the organization and is identified with 'equity', 'impartiality' and 'indiscrimination'. It is the organizational health that provides an opportunity for the staffs or their respective organization to perform far beyond the held expectations or their rivals. Considering these factors, the present study aimed at investigating the effect of the organizational health on organizational citizenship behaviors. It also aimed to explore the role of 'organizational healthy personality' as a moderate factor.
Ahmad Esakhani; Ali Asghar Fani; Hsssan Danaee Fard
Volume 16, Issue 2 , July 2012, , Pages 151-166
Abstract
In a recent decade there has been a great deal of interest in work engagement. This interest stems from evidences that show the strong relationship between engagement and individual and organizational outcomes. It has been reported that the level of employee engagement in organization is low. The decline ...
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In a recent decade there has been a great deal of interest in work engagement. This interest stems from evidences that show the strong relationship between engagement and individual and organizational outcomes. It has been reported that the level of employee engagement in organization is low. The decline in level of employee engagement costs organization billions of dollar in term of lost productivity. Different factors (such as job demands, job resources, personal resources) has been identified as antecedents and also different factor (such as organizational commitment, job satisfaction, Organizational citizenship behavior etc.) as consequences of work engagement. In this line, aim of this research is to explain antecedents of work engagement and its effect on organizational commitment. Results show that job resources (autonomy, social support, feedback, supervisory coaching, opportunities for development) and personal resources (self efficacy, proactive personality, conscientious trait) are work engagement antecedents. And work engagement has positive effect on organizational commitment.
SeyedYaghoub Hosseini; Ali Fani; Asghar Moshabaki
Volume 15, Issue 2 , May 2011, , Pages 107-132
Abstract
Measurement of Governance Capacity: Concept, Modeling and Evaluation
Ali Asghar Fani1, SeyedYaghoub Hosseini2, Hassan Danaeifard3,
Asghar Moshabaki4
1- Assistant Professor, Faculty of Management & Economics, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
2- ...
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Measurement of Governance Capacity: Concept, Modeling and Evaluation
Ali Asghar Fani1, SeyedYaghoub Hosseini2, Hassan Danaeifard3,
Asghar Moshabaki4
1- Assistant Professor, Faculty of Management & Economics, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
2- Ph.D. Student, Faculty of Management & Economics, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
3- Associate Professor, Faculty of Management & Economics, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
4- Associate Professor, Faculty of Management & Economics, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
Received: 17 /7/2010 Accept: 18/10/2010
Government capacity and governance capacity are the new concepts that have recently entered the literature of state management and political science. The existing literature in this ground is neither comprehensive nor homogeneous. This article intends to study different dimensions of capacity and, based on the findings, introduce a model for examining it.
Governance capacity is manifested in such dimensions as the capacity of a state in designing, implementing and assessing policies and super policies. The innovative point in this article is the introduction of a model on governance capacity, which has not been done in the previous researches. In the past studies, based on the context of the related study, scholars have had a micro view on the governance subject, and no comprehensive view to include all dimensions of governance has been considered. This inadequacy is removed by the outcomes of the present article.
This article consists of two parts. The first part includes the review of theoretical literature about governance capacity and theoretical fundamentals of the concept. The second part introduces a model, which has been examined by the data collected from different countries.
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Volume 14, Issue 2 , September 2010, , Pages 99-122
Abstract
Leadership is an important issue and choosing a leader with an appropriate
leadership style is critical for any firm’s success. Having an effective leader
is of great importance for a firm to perform well. In this study, we developed
a leadership model for Lebanese hospitals. Top and middle managers
participated ...
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Leadership is an important issue and choosing a leader with an appropriate
leadership style is critical for any firm’s success. Having an effective leader
is of great importance for a firm to perform well. In this study, we developed
a leadership model for Lebanese hospitals. Top and middle managers
participated in this study. All hospitals with more than 50 beds were chosen.
Finally, 68 questionnaires were collected from all the 92 hospitals. Directive,
supportive, participative and achievement-oriented were the measured
leadership styles. The relationships between the five dimensions of personality,
(i.e, extraversion, agreeableness, openness to experience, conscientiousness, and
neuroticism) and four cultural dimensions mentioned by hosted, (i.e,
individualism, masculinity, uncertainty avoidance and power distance) as well
as such organizational factors as job structure, authority systems and team
work were examined. The relationship of the subordinate factors as ability and
work liking and four leadership styles was also tested. Finally, we developed
a model that is appropriate for the internal factors in hospitals and consistent
with personality of leaders and their cultural dimensions.
Ali Asghar Fani; Abdulmajid Mosleh
Volume 11, Issue 3 , October 2007, , Pages 157-182
Abstract
The present era is named as information, digital or knowledge era, in which information technology, as a new strategy and thought, has affected all dimensions of human life Consequently, the organizations are among those concepts that have been affected by information technology. So that it is impossible ...
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The present era is named as information, digital or knowledge era, in which information technology, as a new strategy and thought, has affected all dimensions of human life Consequently, the organizations are among those concepts that have been affected by information technology. So that it is impossible to imagine the organizations without this strategy. In order to fullfil the requirements and expectations of the society in this field, the organizations have to use information technology if they are interested in surviving. Thus, developing information technology in governmental organizations of the developing countries has special significance. It is because, from one aspect, this skill is considered as a strategy to national development of the developing countries and, from the other aspect, it is very important in terms of governments role in national economiyc, GDP and information technology markets.
There fore, knowing the effective factors on using information technology is a nessecity. In this way, knowing structural and managerial factors effecive on using information technology is of great importancece and can help the governmental organizations to use this strategy more quickly.
The goal of the present research is to recognize these effective factors in governmental organizations. Accordingly, many factors such as the chief manager of information technology,s skill and support, suitable organizational structure in information technology and the sort of the activity of the organization on using information technology were studied.
Tayebeh Abbasi; Ali Asghar Fani
Volume 9, Issue 20 , October 2005
Abstract
Human resources are one of the valuable sources in every organization that causes the organization development. Nowadays with changes in organizations and their environment, career management of human resource is one of the main strategies for providing a necessary background for development and improvement ...
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Human resources are one of the valuable sources in every organization that causes the organization development. Nowadays with changes in organizations and their environment, career management of human resource is one of the main strategies for providing a necessary background for development and improvement of human resource and finally the whole organization.
One of the basic factors that has an important role in this case is career management of staff. In this basis, the existance of officient managers who whould have necessary skills to lead career management of staff with development and change in required in each organization.
So in this research, three skills in the form of three hypotheses and rate of their importance are considered and discussed.
The results of this research:
1. The effectivness of “self-knowledge skill” on “career management” is at the first level.
2. The effect of “environmental-knowledge skill” on “career management” is at the second level.
3. The effect of “interpersonal-knowledge skill” on “career management” is at the third level.
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Volume 6, Issue 3 , August 2002
