The effect of authentic leadership on employees creativity with regard to the mediator role of psychological capital.
Volume 18, Issue 3, September 2014, Pages 181-204
mohammad rahimian; seyed mohammad mirmohammadi
Abstract Today, creativity and innovation are considered valuable resource in gaining competitive advantage for any organizations.One of vital factor that influences on creativity and innovation and also employee’s psychological capacity is leadership.Thus, the study aimed at investigation of most recent leadership approach entitled with authentic leadership with creativity and mediator role of psychological capital.Statistical population consists of 885 of managers and employees of National Cartographic Center. The data were collected through questionnaire by simple random method and analyzed by SEM.Validity of questionnaire by confirmatory factor analysis and its reliability through Cronbach's alpha investigated and confirmed. The results of SEM support all hypotheses. Authentic leadership has had a positive significant effect on psychological capital and creativity. Regarding path coefficient these relationship were relatively high. Psychological capital also has had a positive significant and relatively high influence on creativity.In addition, it showed that psychological capital has a partial influence on the relation of authentic leadership and creativity.
Qualitative Analysis and Reflection of the Opinion of Figher Education Students about the Merging of Sports and Youth Affairs Organizations
Volume 17, Issue 1, February 2013, Pages 169-188
seyed mohammad mirmohammadi
Abstract . The purpose of this study is to assess the opinion of the graduate students of public administration about merging of the Sport Organization with the Youth Organization and establishing the Ministry of Sport and Youth Affairs. In this study, three method were used including phenomenographic, pathological and factor analysis. An open-end questionnaire was distributed among all graduate students of the various fields of public administration in Allameh Tabatabae University asking the advantages and limitations of the formation of the Ministry of Sport and Youth Affairs and whether it is in consistent with the sections 10, 21 and 25 of General Public Policies. In addition, in order to test the reliability of the findings, triangulation and multiple analyses were used. In the end, advantages and disadvantage of this merging are described by the extracted codes and analyzed interviews through Nvivo software. The purpose of this study is to assess opinion of master students of public NVivo software.