business managment perspective
Year:2008 | Volume:8 | Issue:27|Papers Count:7

The role of social capital in organizational entrepreneurship, which is emphasized today by many organizations, has been examined in this article. At first, we discuss the concept of organizational entrepreneurship, and then put forth the study that has been done by Liao and Welsch. We can classify the studies about organizations in three categories: the first category focuses on "the person", the second on "the process", and the third on "the rate". Because the concept of social capital contributes to the understanding of organizational entrepreneurship, we first explore the social capital based on each category, and then divide it into three dimensions - Structural, Relational, and Cognitive - and finally examine the relationship of each dimension with "propensity" and "ability", these are necessary for organizational entrepreneurship. At the end, we present a model of social capital.

This paper studies the relationship between emotional intelligence and organizational commitment in the Maskan Bank. For this reason, a questionnaire was distributed among 84 respondents.Pearson & Spearman test was used for the purpose of analyzing the obtained data. Findings show that there is a positive relationship between emotional intelligence and organizational commitment.

Emotional intelligence is the distinction factor between top and middle managers. The basis of emotional intelligence is self-consciousness. Emotional intelligence applies to a wide range of skills and individual characteristics. People with these awareness's can better control their emotions, behaviors, better understand others, and communicate with them.Research shows that effective top executive managers have more emotional. Capabilities as compared to other managers. They establish very good relations whit managers, staff, and others, have self-confidence, and great power of influencing. Also, from the perspective of their Co- workers and supervisors, they get the better marks, while from the employee's view they don't have such a competency. In this case there are differences between male and female managers. In the case of EI and job differences, there is no documented result. The results of this research can be applied in the selection of managers and their performance improvement.

A critical activity for many marketing managers is to establish product pricing strategy. To set effective prices, the marketer attempts to predict how consumers are likely to respond to different price levels or price changes. Researchers have established the importance of the psychological underpinnings of price perception, and have demonstrated that a variety of psychological factors influence consumers' responses to price.To manage pricing decisions effectively, the marketer must be able to understand both economic and non-economic (esp. psychological) responses to various price and price changes.Preceived price fairness (PPF) or unfairness (PPU) has been identified as one of the psychological factors that exert an important influence on consumers' reactions to prices. Therfore, in this article we study and describe: the theoretical principles of PPF and PPU, the most important factors that create PPU, and its effects, and finally, the directions for managers to challenge this problem.

Because of diversity and great size of business in defense industries, one of the main concerns in Iranian Defense Industry (DI) is the structure of assets. Optimal structure depends on effective management of all kinds of asset.Since balance of assets and structure can enhance financial power which has a major effect on the process of defense power creation, Defense Ministry decided to focus on this issue by designing and implementing a comprehensive approach for change and improvement of its financial structure.Implementing this model (called "Model of Confrontation to Liquidity Traps") has been one of the major approaches that DI deployed during recent years in order to improve financial affairs. In order to assess & review this approach, a clear, valid and reliable conceptual model is required.In this research, we review this approach and then present a conceptual model to measure its effectiveness. Based on this model by using semi-experimental design, the differences among variables were tested before and after implementing the approach. According to the research results deployment of this approach via increasing management financial wisdom has a significant effect on asset structure improvement and asset performance excellence.

This study is done with the aim of determining the aspects of empowering the educational managers, in order to provide them with a suitable framework. The review of literature shows that empowering the human resources has been studied from three points of View/ approaches: relational, motivational and cognitive. In order to achieve the above mentioned goals, this research using a national scale is done in a two-stage survey. The results show that 93.43 percent of the experts and specialists in the Ministry of Education considered the proposed framework perfectly appropriate. Consequently, based on the obtained results in this study, other researchers' works, and available theories, the framework enjoys adequate theoretical and experimental supports, and its administration for empowering the operational managers is strongly suggested to the high and intermediary managers in the Ministry of Education in Iran.

In this paper, the concepts of corporate identity and corporate identity elements have been examined in detail. The study explores and ranks the corporate identity elements in Iranian organizations.Therefore, the suggested model was tested by statistical analysis, and our sample was made up of seven governmental Iranian Banks in Tehran. The results of the research showed that corporate identity is made up of, corporate behavior, corporate personality, corporate communications, and symbolism. The paper ends with several suggestions.