STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT THOUGHT (MANAGEMENT THOUGHT)
Year:2014 | Volume:7 | Issue:2 (14) |Papers Count:14

Throughout history, creating a truth and justice-oriented society has been recognized as a mission and vision of honest and fair people. So, in the way of achieving this ideal society, many efforts have been done. Activities of martyred officials of the public sector in the early days of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, is one of the best examples. This survey was conducted to identify the ideal society characteristics in the mind of the martyrs and then to appraise these characteristics as compared with the ideal society of Imam Ali in Nahjollbalaghe. The aim of this appraisal is to determine how much the image of ideal society in martyrs’ mind has been influenced by truth-oriented government characteristics. In this research, content analysis method is used to analyze books, articles, writings and speeches of the martyrs. Extracted statements were compared with the truth-oriented model. The results indicate that the society sought by martyrs was consistent with the ideal society mentioned by Nahjollbalaghe. Therefore, characteristics of this ideal government can be used for the design and construction of the future society from the perspective of martyrs.

Incorrect choice of e-business models, regardless of environmental and organizational conditions, is one of the most important obstacles in the development of e-commerce. Organizations need to consider what type of e-business models could associate their information of technologies with their strategies. Therefore, an awareness of the relation between e-business models and strategies is important for researchers and mangers for creating, capturing and delivering competitive value. Hence, this study examines the relationship between the business model and product strategy in small and medium sized e-businesses in Iran (E-SMEs). First of all, we reviewed literature in order to present a new typology of e-business model based on the strategic reference points. For this purpose, 400 small and medium e-businesses in Iran were studied. Then, for analyzing and testing the hypothesis, the SPSS 16 and LISREL 8.5 software was used. Our results showed that strategic reference points of focus and control are effective factors in the choice of e-business models and product strategy. Also, it was found out that there is a significant relationship between the choice of e-business models and the choice of product strategies.

In the present age, in order to meet their needs, people seek variety in goods and services. When facing this issue, big companies have to orient their endeavors to an exact organization of “portfolio” if they want to be constantly present on the scene. Previous researches show a need for such consideration for servicing industries, especially with regards to their qualitative aspect. In order to tackle this demand by combining “the pattern of coherent service management (8PS) ”, which demonstrates the decision-making variables for information exchange between the customer and the seller, as well “ABX model” Newcomb, which determines the concept of “cognitive balance”, the optimal pattern of coherent service portfolio (Xi) is created. To enhance the qualitative level of this pattern for achieving practical results, all steps (from choosing the model, gathering information, to data analysis) were taken with the aim of fulfilling CRM and with regards to social-economic benefits of “trust”, one of RQ criteria, in comparison to current and new customer demand (8CS). Since among service industries, insurance industry as an active investor in stock is an important and influential pillar for the growth of other industries, this paper has verified how to put the suggested model into effect with the help of questionnaires. Findings show that although insurance agents have more tendencies to trust the new customers, the current portfolio is 30% away from its ideal level. Also, the suggested model managed to identify the Iranian stock agents that are pioneer in their degree of paying attention to quality as compared to non-stock ones less than 10%***, and explain its cause with the levels of 8PS and 8CS.

By psychological contract, as opposed to formal contract, we mean individual beliefs about terms of agreement exchanged between the individual and his/her organization. These contracts explain the real relation between people and their organizations. Exploring and identifying the content of psychological contract enable organization leaders to manage their organizational human capitals. The objective here is to explore the psychological contract content in academic staff in Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. To do this a mixed method, with the priority given to quality over quantity stage, has been used. At qualitative stage, the data was gathered through forty semi- structured interviews with academics, analyzed by thematic technique. At quantitative stage, the previously found content was validated through questionnaires submitted to a large representative sample of 305 academics. The findings show that fairness in interactions with, job security and support for academic staff are the main university promises. Meanwhile, improving the university status, engaging in extra activity and upgrading the educational level of the university are the faculty's main academic promises in psychological contracts.

To boost advertising effectiveness, the market is segmented into parts according to some indicators. Age is one of the criteria for customer segmentation, so the children make a part of it. The question of this research is whether children can be addressed in commercial advertising from the perspective of Islam? To answer this, we have to discuss it from three points of view. First, commercial advertising output is studied from the perspective of Islam and the West. According to Islam, the ultimate goal of advertising is audience awareness and because of lacking in the power to detect, children cannot be addressed in this kind of advertising. The second is that rationality is the necessary factor in transactions according to Islamic rules and any obstacle in using rationality for the allocation of revenues should be removed. Commercial advertising, by using psychological techniques, conquers the audience’s mind and commands them to follow its dictates. Children, due to their age conditions, are most affected by these ads and because of their pressure on parents to buy products, the necessary rationality for transaction will not be created. Furthermore, people need to have the distinguishing power of choosing a product that conforms with their needs or has priority, so they could rationally allocate the required amount. In the third discussion, the above issue is explained according to the Islamic principle “Beware of assisting each other with evil matters”, together with some instances of negligence of this principle when addressing minors. Finally, based on the reasoning given, it seems that addressing minors with commercial advertising is not that much advisable by Islamic standards.

The large-scale export of the western humanities to other scientific and cultural domains of other regions in the world, particularly to the oriental and Islamic countries‚ has created a sort of passive reaction in their acceptance and application. As a result, now most of these theories, particularly in social sciences and management, determine and explicate the scientific frontiers and principles, the judgment and the decision-making. Also with regard to the evidence and the analysis of these theories a sort of inconsistency and inefficiency is perceived that hazard the bases and the ends of these theories. Considering this description, it's necessary to refer to the bases and the principles of the anthropology and monotheistic ontology, in order to find a correct interpretation of human nature and a complete knowledge of human characteristics. Applying "the thematic interpretation of the Quran" that is considered relatively to be a new method in Quranic researches in humanities, this research intends to study the behaviors and characteristics of Bani Israel nation (Israelites) together with Moses’ (PBUH) leadership style and his manner of interaction with this nation. In addition to identifying the behaviors and characteristics of Bani Israel, the researcher has indicated Moses’ (PBUH) model of leadership vis-a-vis these people as explained in 1130 verses of the Quran.

The purpose of this article is a comparative study of the most important performance measurement models. In this paper five of the best performance measurement models including EFQM, BSC, Iranian Quality Award, Deming Model and Malcolm Baldrig Model have been evaluated against each other and have been compared and ranked with the fuzzy AHP method on the basis of the criteria taken from its related literature. These criteria have been confirmed by the experts in the field of performance measurement and quality management. The review of the foundation and philosophy of these models shows that Deming model is the base of all the others and presents the primary ideas in the development of those models, but the conclusion shows that according to those criteria the EFQM and BSC have better ranking than the other models. The BSC, meanwhile, is a little better from the point of view of the experts. The Malcolm Baldrig model and Iranian Quality model have near scores, and of course the Malcolm Baldrig has a better rank and finally Deming model has the least score.