Reza Tahmasebi; Mahdi Mfkhami Ardakani; Jabbar Babashahi; Hamidreza Yazdani
Volume 21, Issue 1 , May 2017, , Pages 121-150
Abstract
The knowledge workers are the most important members of organizations in the 21 century. Therefore, proper management of knowledge workers is one of the successful management principles of knowledge organizations.Identifying knowledge jobs is one of the primary and fundamental steps in managing knowledge ...
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The knowledge workers are the most important members of organizations in the 21 century. Therefore, proper management of knowledge workers is one of the successful management principles of knowledge organizations.Identifying knowledge jobs is one of the primary and fundamental steps in managing knowledge workers. The aim of this study is to provide a tool to measure and identify knowledge jobs. Positions are determined in a two-dimensional space criteria of “knowledge intensity” and “job requirements”. Mixed method approach applied using grounded theory strategy in qualitative phase and survey strategy in quantitative phase. Documents and textual data were used in the qualitative phase and a questionnaire for the quantitative phase. The study population is RIPI line jobs that have been selected by census method. Results show that developed tool is valid and it can identify and measure knowledge jobs regarding “knowledge intensity” and “job requirement”.
Asadollah Kordnaiej; Jabbar Babashahi; Hassan Danaee Fard; Adel Azar
Volume 16, Issue 4 , January 2013, , Pages 45-62
Abstract
Attaining wellbeing and promoting standards of citizen's life is one of the pillars of national security of countries since a long time ago, and success of governments in achieving this goal is interpreted as one of their power elements, in a manner that guarantee of social member’s survival and ...
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Attaining wellbeing and promoting standards of citizen's life is one of the pillars of national security of countries since a long time ago, and success of governments in achieving this goal is interpreted as one of their power elements, in a manner that guarantee of social member’s survival and achieving good and happy life is counted among major mission of governments. In present research, besides review of present literature about wellbeing, promoting national wellbeing is considered from perspective of improvement of public service qualities and good governance. Research methodology includes both descriptive and correlation analysis based on Structural Equation Modeling. Data was collected by means of documents and libraries studies. Research results indicated that improvement of good governance components result in national wellbeing promotion. Meanwhile, promoting good governance pave the way of wellbeing promotion in quantities direction such as gross domestic product, education, research, health and … and qualitative directions such as happiness. In other words, promoting good governance has dual objectives such as improvement of quantitative indexes like national product and growth of qualitative indexes such as decrease of social costs of economic growth, safeguarding resources for futur and stability of growth.