This study attempts to investigate and analyze the impact of organizational
culture and degree of fit between university faculties on behavioral outcomes
in our case study. The basic question is that how much organizational culture
and degree of fit (mis) between university faculties and university ...
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This study attempts to investigate and analyze the impact of organizational
culture and degree of fit between university faculties on behavioral outcomes
in our case study. The basic question is that how much organizational culture
and degree of fit (mis) between university faculties and university could
influence the organizational citizenship behavior and their intention to remain
in university. This study uses the survey research method to answer the basic
question. The research population includes 393 individuals consisting of all of
the full time university faculties in Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman
(1385). Further, based on the pilot study and using stratified sampling method,
205 individuals were selected as sample. The results confirmed the impact of
person-organization fit on organizational behavior of university faculties.
Furthermore, no significant relationship between the values fit and intention to
remain, goals fit and intention to remain, and work environment fit and
organizational behavior (organizational citizenship behavior and intention to
remain), was found with 95% confidence level. Finally, the relationship
between the type of organizational culture and person-organization fit was
statistically significant.
Change is the main characteristic of new business era. Confronting this
changing environment, Agile Manufacturing System (AMS) as the most
advanced production paradigm, is emerging in the production world.
Attention to this concept has resulted in developing various methods of
assessing organizational ...
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Change is the main characteristic of new business era. Confronting this
changing environment, Agile Manufacturing System (AMS) as the most
advanced production paradigm, is emerging in the production world.
Attention to this concept has resulted in developing various methods of
assessing organizational agility as an important part of agility literature.
These methods have a common deficiency in methodology; the lack of
considering the amount of need for agility in assessing organizational agility.
All researches in this area measure only the capability of agility. In fact, the
intensity of environmental change determines the extent of need for agility.
This necessity in turn defines the level of agility capability required for
responsiveness. To obviate the cited shortcoming, a method should be
developed to consider the capability of agility (output) against the extensity
of change (input).
This paper presents a modified Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model
to assess the relative organizational agility. Then, this new model is used for
assessing the agility of 20 production organizations from 5 different
industries. Finally, agility efficiency and efficiency path for organizations
are mapped.
Social undermining has been considered as one of the negative outcomes of
social life that imposes huge costs on both organizations and society.
Mangers should be aware of all dimensions and outcomes of this
phenomenon in order to reduce its negative interactions.
The purpose of this paper was recognizing ...
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Social undermining has been considered as one of the negative outcomes of
social life that imposes huge costs on both organizations and society.
Mangers should be aware of all dimensions and outcomes of this
phenomenon in order to reduce its negative interactions.
The purpose of this paper was recognizing of social undermining model,
and establishing social consciousness in employers and employees.
According to fairness theory, a conceptual model was developed, which
examined the relations between independent variable (social undermining)
and dependent variable (employee outcomes) as well as the relations of
these variables with mediate variables (justice perception) and the
consideration of moderate variables (cultural values and some functions of
human resource management) in two Iranian organizations by path analysis
and subgroup methods . The obtained results using the social undermining
model confirmed the function of mediate variable (justice perception ) and
moderate variable of some functions of human resource management but
denied the function of moderate variable of cultural values (power distance ).
Nowadays, by the daily expansion of service industries, the subjects of service
marketing and service quality have been converted into vital issues for all
organizations. Abundant attempt of organizations in this area is a clear
evidence of this claim. In the past years, organizations have tried to ...
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Nowadays, by the daily expansion of service industries, the subjects of service
marketing and service quality have been converted into vital issues for all
organizations. Abundant attempt of organizations in this area is a clear
evidence of this claim. In the past years, organizations have tried to provide
high quality service and better external customer satisfaction through external
marketing concepts and attitudes of external marketing. One of the important
specifications of services is the employees 'direct interactions with customers
and the determinant role of their customer-orientation behaviors in contact
with customers. Therefore, to gain superior service quality thus external
customers ’satisfaction, we should have employees (internal customers) who
are obligor to the company's goals and visions. They should also have
customer-orientation behaviors. Nowadays, with the introducing of internal
marketing concept, the importance of organization's internal customers
(employees) in the success of external marketing plans has become more
obvious. Researches have indicated that there is a close interaction and
relationship between internal and external marketings. According by, the
present research was conducted to identify the effect of internal marketing's
effect on organizational citizenship behaviors and quality of services. The
research methodology was survey - correlation based on the structural equationsmodel. Using conceptual model (path analysis), the obtained results indicated
that internal marketing effect in Great Tehran Gas Company (GTGC) has
increased organizational citizenship behaviors of the employees as well as the
quality of services.
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.
Volume 14, Issue 2 , September 2010, Pages 123-148
Abstract
One of the most important debates in public administration has been Political
attitudes and activities of bureaucrats and their impact on their performance
that has been studied in politics-administration dichotomy. In order to
prevent of curroption in public service public administration researchers
argue ...
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One of the most important debates in public administration has been Political
attitudes and activities of bureaucrats and their impact on their performance
that has been studied in politics-administration dichotomy. In order to
prevent of curroption in public service public administration researchers
argue that administration should not involve in political patronage. Also
political officials should not do extensive political appointees in all of the
administrative levels. But we see that in developing countries, when winning
certain political patry, many of the public administrators were changed. This
paper purposes to argue the Cause of this process for politicization of the
public organizations and it’s influence on individuals performance and
behavior. In this regard, this research examined the effect of political
attitudes of bureaucrats on their organizational citizenship behavior (OCB).
The results showed that political attitudes have a significant correlation with
OCB and that the bureaucrats that belong to the ruling party exhibit more
OCB than others.
Volume 14, Issue 2 , September 2010, Pages 149-172
Abstract
This paper proposes a Fuzzy Multiple Criteria Decision Making (FMCDM)
approach for measuring supply chains capability with the main aim of
customer satisfaction development. Drawing on the four measurement
criterions of a Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) model, this
research first summarized ...
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This paper proposes a Fuzzy Multiple Criteria Decision Making (FMCDM)
approach for measuring supply chains capability with the main aim of
customer satisfaction development. Drawing on the four measurement
criterions of a Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) model, this
research first summarized the customer satisfaction and performance indexes
synthesized from the literature relating to supply chains capability. Then, for
screening, the indexes fit for supply chains capability in customer
satisfaction development were selected through fuzzy screening.
Furthermore, the relative weights of the chosen indexes were calculated by
Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP). The MCDM analytical tool of
TOPSIS was adopted to rank the supply chains performance and improve the
gaps with three supply chains as an empirical example. The analysis results
highlighted the critical aspects of evaluation criteria as well as the gaps to
improve supply chains capability for achieving the aspired/desired level of
customer satisfaction development. The results also showed that the
proposed FMCDM measuring model using the SCOR framework can be a
useful and effective assessment tool.
Volume 14, Issue 2 , September 2010, Pages 173-202
Abstract
Progressing environment and competitive market in the recent years have
caused shorter product life cycle. Therefore, organizations have to keep up
with the other competitors in introducing products conformed with customer
demands, if they want to survive. On the other hand, designing and offering
new ...
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Progressing environment and competitive market in the recent years have
caused shorter product life cycle. Therefore, organizations have to keep up
with the other competitors in introducing products conformed with customer
demands, if they want to survive. On the other hand, designing and offering
new products to the market in some industries imposes enormous costs to the
organizations. Automotive industry is one of these industries. This research
was accomplished with the focus on the product of “Samand“ in “Iran
Khodro” company. Nowdays, the necessity of launching a new product can
be greatly realized, but it seems to be impossible due to the urgency of
executing the so called project and also the lack of monetary resources.
“Face lift designing“ can be regarded as a suitable approach to solve the
mentioned problem. The goal of the research is to find out the parts that
considering the monetary limitations, could bring out the best “Face lift“
design for the company. To ascertain this goal, value engineering (VE) and
analytical hierarchy process (AHP) were used.
Four populations consisting of customers, experts, automotives designers
and strategic planners were used gathering data from the two populations of
customers and designers. In conclusion, considering budgetary constraints of
the company, those parts, which due to the redesigning of them, best face lift
design might be obtained were orderly determined as bumpers, lights, side
mirrors and gutter.
Volume 14, Issue 2 , September 2010, Pages 203-220
Abstract
In this paper, the energy demand of transport sector from 1386 to 1400 was
forecasted using artificial neural networks (ANN) approach considering
economic and social indicators. Feed forward supervised neural networks to
forecast and back propagation algorithm to train networks were used. In
order ...
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In this paper, the energy demand of transport sector from 1386 to 1400 was
forecasted using artificial neural networks (ANN) approach considering
economic and social indicators. Feed forward supervised neural networks to
forecast and back propagation algorithm to train networks were used. In
order to analyze the influence of economic and social indicators on energy
demand of transport sector, Gross Domestic Product (GDP), population and
the total number of vehicles in 1347-1385 were taken into consideration. The
obtained results as compared with the multiple regression method, revealed
much less mistakes. The average absolute error percentage was decreased
from 15.52% to 6.05%.
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Volume 14, Issue 2 , September 2010, Pages 221-244
Abstract
Plenty of managers have comprehended the essential role of knowledge in
acquiring competitive advantages and pursuing the strategic organizational
objectives. Since knowledge management is a competitive obligation, it is
crucial for organizations to know whether their systematization is prepared or
not. ...
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Plenty of managers have comprehended the essential role of knowledge in
acquiring competitive advantages and pursuing the strategic organizational
objectives. Since knowledge management is a competitive obligation, it is
crucial for organizations to know whether their systematization is prepared or
not. Lack of appropriate infrastructures and the indispensable prerequisites
cause the utilization of such procedures to be extravagant rather than profitable.
The presentation of organizational preparation model in knowledge
management is inevitable to attain such a goal. That is why, a conceptualized
model was offered in this research to quantify the preparedness of an
organization. The indexes pertinent to knowledge management preparation
were extracted from the subject’s literature review. Then they were
dispatched to 50 experts and cognoscenti in the knowledge management
field, whereas 40 questionnaires were rendered back. The authentication
agent analysis methodology was used to validate 5 factors, which
encompassed 19 indices and Finally 6 indices were crossed out. t-test 2-term
experimentations were employed to verify the chief and subordinate
hypotheses. The indices and determinants of the model were stipulated in the
ensuing stage, in which a harmonious mean was utilized. 94 questions were
chosen for the verified indices. The Iranian statistics kernel was quantified
through this questionnaire. The preparation level was illustrated in diverse
dimensions and some proposals were offered based upon the organization
circumstances.
