STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT THOUGHT (MANAGEMENT THOUGHT)
Year:2018 | Volume:11 | Issue:2 (22) |Papers Count:8

After establishing ISU in 1982, Ayatollah Mahdavi Kani, the founder, set out on leading and managing it at different strategic, operational, decision-making and executive levels, next to teaching and educating. As the president of the first private, but non-profit, Islamic university, with the aim of achieving a leading authority in the field, he had to deal closely with different academic challenges in education, research, student affairs, logistics, and campus development. This research has tried to explain some of his thoughts in the field of organizational leadership based on his experiments through 32 years of managing in ISU. The research approach is "qualitative", and its strategy is "case study". The data has been gathered through participating observation, hence absolutely original because of the writer's close responsibilities in ISU. The outcome introduces some of the distinguished behavioral characteristics of the late Ayatollah in organizational managing and leadership, namely a deep faith in the value of experience at decision- making and supervision levels, training young graduates and paving the way for their involvement in executive work, setting a model example of interacting through compassion, seriousness and accountability side by side with a sense of humor, considering the specifically academic environment, programming with anticipatory outlook, mobilizing human resources, creating motivation, guiding through formal, group-based and interpersonal ways , and finally, evaluation and supervision.

This study seeks to explain the Islamic view of man based on the ideas of Allameh Tabatabai and its role in the formation of the Islamic human resource management. The data is library based and analyzed with thematic method, encompassing two separate fields of anthropology, that of conventional human resource management and the one derived from Allameh Tabatabai's thoughts. Then, with an analytical method, the themes deduced from Allameh's thoughts have been compared with the conventional ones under four categories:1) novel propositions2) confirming propositions3) contradictory new propositions,4) complementary propositions.The results show that from Allameh Tabatabi's anthropological viewpoint, the approach of human resource management schools to mankind, whether cost- based, source- based or capital- based, is, first of all, following the second dimension of human nature analysis, and, secondly, it doesn't surpass human material nature. Consequently, the existential level, and the second and third dimensions of human nature analysis, have a preferable capacity for upgrading conventional human resource management systems.

"Enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong" is a highly emphasized religious practice, even much more recommended than jihad in the path of God, to the extent that if done correctly, it will bring felicity to humans, and if abandoned, it will cause their wretchedness. The purpose of this paper is to identify and extract organizational examples of this practice.To accomplish this, a meta-synthesis method has been used and a total of 75 articles and books have been chosen for drawing related codes. Then these codes have been classified under 10 categories: individual, related to employer, related to employees, related to customers, associated with competitors, stakeholders, related to society, related to products, related to marketing, accounting and finance, and related to IT. Some of these concepts are doing with issues in the field of business ethics raised by various scholars, and some are different. The authors believe that this article is actually a beginning step in introducing the practice of "enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong" in organizations, and requires further comprehensive research in future.

Current study have been attended to identification and description of trends impacting the future of Imam Sadiq university. These trends have seen in three levels: 1. Global higher education trends 2. Specific trends of Iran higher education 3. Specific trends of Imam Sadiq university. Exploratory mixed method is its research method. After document review the experts interviewed for identification of global and national trends. Then, identified trends validated with design and distribution of a questionnaire and 25 trends accepted in these two levels. On the other hand with other set of questionnaires, Specific trends of Imam Sadiq university identified. Then Specific trends of this university validated with design and distribution of the second questionnaire. Finally, accepted trends including 20 global trends and 5 national trends and 8 Imam Sadiq university trends classified in 6 categories. Also brief descriptions about trends presented for creating common sense and preventing possible misunderstandings.

IRIB, needs to be able to utilize its own organizational knowledge elements as competitive advantage and as well, to maintain its acuteness and flexibility so that it could endure in an internal and international contest. The researcher has been sought to interview with executives, professors and operating specialists in IRIB and universities present media lessons so that he could eventually suggest an applicable indigenous knowledge management model to IRIB. In this regard, 15 people who have been teaching knowledge management as executives and professors in IRIB, Tehran and Allame Tabatabaie universities or even those who have been carrying out projects on knowledge management and those who are generally familiar with the subject, have been chosen based on a theoretical sampling method. As well, some managers in IRIB, who have been engaged in knowledge management in some way, are chosen as samples to be interviewed. Then, the researcher conducted in-depth interview which involved developing some context mechanism to gather interviews and study them. Subsequently, the data were analyzed in three steps include open, axial and selective coding. Eventually, 226 concepts were extracted from the interviews which were classified in 73 sub-categories, 21 categories and finally in three main categories. In conclusion, the researcher has reached a three-dimensional model of knowledge management for IRIB, using open, axial and selective coding. Different facets of the model involve "knowledge and resource centers, infrastructural requirements of knowledge management and knowledge management process". The primary facet indicates a knowledge center in IRIB which includes knowledge resources as the main focus of knowledge management within the organization. Also, infrastructural requirements involve 10 categories which focus on necessary infrastructures to implement knowledge management process in IRIB. And finally, the researcher has reached a process in IRIB which contain nine elements or categories indicating effective flow of knowledge in IRIB.

Financial institutions are faced with different risks among which the market risk is of great significance, because the calculation and control of this risk plays a major role in the success of financial institutions and investors. Out of different criteria and ways to measure market risk, Incremental Value at Risk has been used in the current study. The data of this study consists of the daily prices of stocks of 50 companies active in Tehran Stock Exchange during the year 2013.At first, the daily return of equities price was calculated for each company and then 1 home portfolio and 50 sub-portfolios were formed using equal weighting method. Next, Goodness of fit tests were used to determine the real distribution of portfolios. For the formed portfolios, first, Value at Risk (VaR) and subsequently, Incremental Value at Risk (IVaR) were calculated using ʻ before and after ʼ approach. At the end, with regard to the impact of each stock on reducing portfolio risk, optimum stocks were selected. The results show that Incremental Value at Risk (IVaR) can rightly identify the impact of each stock on the creation of portfolio risk.

Financial institutions are faced with different risks among which the market risk is of great significance, because the calculation and control of this risk plays a major role in the success of financial institutions and investors. Out of different criteria and ways to measure market risk, Incremental Value at Risk has been used in the current study. The data of this study consists of the daily prices of stocks of 50 companies active in Tehran Stock Exchange during the year 2013.At first, the daily return of equities price was calculated for each company and then 1 home portfolio and 50 sub-portfolios were formed using equal weighting method. Next, Goodness of fit tests were used to determine the real distribution of portfolios. For the formed portfolios, first, Value at Risk (VaR) and subsequently, Incremental Value at Risk (IVaR) were calculated using ʻ before and after ʼ approach. At the end, with regard to the impact of each stock on reducing portfolio risk, optimum stocks were selected. The results show that Incremental Value at Risk (IVaR) can rightly identify the impact of each stock on the creation of portfolio risk.