business managment perspective
Year:2007 | Volume:6 | Issue:23-24|Papers Count:10

At the beginning, this study presents a short foreword on the existing status and significance of morality and information technology and the relationship between them, and then the key words and their definitions are introduced.Then, a brief report on various theories related to morality philosophy and their relationship to the information technology is discussed. Finally, the relationship between Islamic morality philosophy and information technology is Presented. This study points out that the moral behavior of people based on Islamic moral principles are considered as internal behaviors; consequently morality in information technology must be internalized in the people and force, regulations, and punishment are not appropriate tools for making people observe the morality in information technology.

Self-respect is one of the human behavioral traits which has an important role in achieving motivation, so that it can create dynamic productivity, learning, and excellence in human beings. This research has been conducted in the Regional Electricity Corporation in Kerman. Three hundred questionnaires have been distributed among the employees. These questionnaires were to examine the relationship between self-respect and achievement motives with four factors including: target orientation, hardworking, competitiveness and responsiveness. The reliability and validity of the questionnaire were 83% and 0.84.The results indicated a positive relationship between self-respect and the three factors of target-orientation, hardworking, and responsiveness. No significant relationship was found between self-respect and competitiveness. For generalization of these results multi variable regression equations were applied. The results indicate that for the improvement of self-respect among employees, there is a need for effective planning and continuous reviewing of the plans in order to prepare the basis for effective communication, team work, innovation and individual and corporate improvements.

Supplier selection is one of the most important activities of purchasing departments because of the key role suppliers perform in terms of quality, costs and services which affect the outcome in the buyer's company. Supplier selection is a multiple criteria decision making problem in which the objectives are not equally important. In practice, vagueness and imprecision of goals, constraints and parameters in this problem make decision making complicated. Simultaneously, in this model, vagueness of input data and varying importance of criteria are considered. In real situations, where decision makers (DM) face up to uncertain data, the proposed model can help them to find out the appropriate ordering from each supplier, and allows purchasing manager(s) to manage supply chain performance on cost, quality, and on time delivery, etc. In these cases, the theory of fuzzy sets is one of the best tools for handling uncertainty. In this paper, a weighted additive model is presented for fuzzy multiobjective supplier selection problem. The model is explained by an illustrative example.

Lean is an inspired thought that recalls the leading companies all over the world to the new business. Lean management is a sophisticated practice built around several key conceptual and physical tools. Implementing such a management thought breaks old patterns and installs new ones. It also results in many benefits including: higher quality products and services, increased market share, margin expansion, revenue growth, higher productivity, better customer focus, faster response to changing market conditions and higher asset efficiency. To accomplish this, an organization needs a whole new set of tools, and a framework for applying them, therefore a system is needed.The industry of switch board and electrical panel in supporting projects and variety of industries is faced with the necessity of high quality, low cost, innovation, flexibility and faster delivery. This research deals with designing the lean management implementation process in Mazandaran Switch Board Company (MSB Co.) according to the step by step procedure proposed by Thomas Jackson and Karen Jones (1996). Business renewal process. focus and standardization stages of strategic improvement circle were implemented in MSB company. This implementation resulted in determination of development keys including learning levels. five-year development plan, annual improvement themes, and plans and team structure needed to do them. The business renewal process team is responsible for designing and implementing lean management system, and the researcher has played the steering role. The other teams, including deployment and action teams, have been organized by their manager or others responsible. For the MSB Company, the production and engineering keys were determined as strategic keys for development.Also, market share, and speed to market in the first circle of improvement were selected as improvement themes.

In continuous review models, the inventory position of an item is monitored after every transaction, and the policy is to order a lot of size Q when the inventory level drops to the reorder point. In these models, demand is considered as probability distribution, and the other parameters are considered as crisp constant. Since determining the parameters as crisp, often is impossible, in this article the cost parameters including holding cost, ordering cost and shortage costs are considered as triangular fuzzy numbers, and the demand is considered as a probability distribution. Using the "extension" principle concept and fuzzy arithmetic, a fuzzy model is developed.Then an algorithm is proposed to obtain economic order quantity and optimal reorder point in the fuzzy sense. Numerical example is presented to illustrate the application of the algorithm. Finally, concluding remarks are given.

Since a long time ago, the government has considered itself as the guardian of the people, and in the best circumstances has defined expanded roles and functions for itself to be in service of the nation. But this broadness of duties, by broadening the government, has been changing it to an obstacle in the process of society development. Since the late 80s, when the new paradigm of new public management emerged, the dialogue of privatization and reduction of government was posed; and in their new definition, social scientists limited the government's tasks to control and policy making.Given that more than ten percent of the GNP is allocated to product and service purchase by governments in different countries of the world, clarity and competitiveness of tenders will lead to both prevention of state corruption and empowerment of private sector. The recent tender law in Iran, has put forward new concepts which are inconsistent with the traditional public administration model. The complete conduction of this law, increasing control of interest groups on public trading and emphasizing on accountability, and responsibility of state towards private sector, will reduce the trading risk and consequently direct and indirect costs of state.

Accounting information systems, as a major subsystem of the MIS, provides most of managerial information. Review of effectiveness. And efficiency of organizational information systems may help the managers in any change, enhancement or promotion of these systems. Benchmarks for evaluating information systems can help managers in deciding about the selection of proper systems.Since the system implementation process is a very expensive and time consuming process, cost -benefit review and value added analysis of these software’s is very important. In this article, we cocentrate on measuring of cost-benefit and value added aspects of accounting packages in Iran. Since most of the benefits and costs are qualitative and cannot be measured by monetary equivalent, in this research, we refer to judgments of system users. Findings, in contrast with the same ones in developed countries, showed that these packages could not produce value added in Iranian companies.