JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Year:2017 | Volume:9 | Issue:3 |Papers Count:9

Recently, schools of governance have been in vogue in different countries in order to study specific governance issues and to propose solutions. Having understood the necessity to form such schools in the country, the researchers aimed to investigate the elected schools of governance and to extract sub-systems of such schools. The data were collected from the libraries and were analyzed through content analysis. The validity of the results was approved using fuzzy Delphi method. The results indicated that the sub-systems and the activities in schools of governance were identified to be either among the main activities or supportive activities. The four main activities including educational system, research system, training system and the agenda setting, along with discoursing and networking systems shaped the main processes in the schools of governance in the form of 39subcategories. Supportive processes in schools of governance are identified to exist in four main categories including architecture and physical construction of the school, social structure and the pattern of the administration, finance and budget system, and financial support and academic support system. These supportive activities were further classified into28 subcategories.

This research was aimed at identifying, prioritizing, and structuring the governance challenges of Tehran’ s disaster management network. For this purpose, Tehran was selected as the case to study. Data gathering was in the form of in-depth interviews and completing questionnaires. The participants consist of the representatives (senior and junior managers and experts) of 26 governmental and private organizations involved with Tehran’ s natural disaster management. These organizations were among the ones listed in the disaster-relevant regulations and they were selected with the aid of snowball sampling method. A fuzzy Delphi method and interpretive structural modeling (ISM) were employed to prioritize and structure the identified challenges. The findings determined 18 major challenges with which Tehran’ s disaster governance has faced. At the end, the researchers proposed some recommendations for better management of such challenges and also some suggestions for future studies.

The study was an attempt to determine the extent of the implementation of governmental policies supporting knowledge-based companies, to examine the relationship between these policies and the commercialization of inventions. The reliability and validity of this questionnaire were reported 0. 89 and 0. 94, respectively. The statistical population for this research consisted of 131 companies. The research results revealed that the average extent of the implementation of governmental financial policies aiming to support companies was around 60. 5% with an average financial value of 1245 million Rials. The implementation of the non-financial governmental policies was also low and was calculated to be 2. 63 based on the Likert scale. The results indicated that 37. 3% of the variations of the performance of companies in commercializing by the predictor variables. Moreover, some components such as the decrease in the rate of interest on facilities, interest-free loans, long-term loans, tax exemptions, the ensured security of investments, intellectual ownership rules, proper international relations, human resource training and marketing aids were reported to have the highest effect on the commercialization of inventions, respectively.

Autopoietic theory was first used in the science of biology in order to define life and characteristics of a living existent while it encounters the environment. Principles used by a living existent in encountering environmental complexity and changes can also be used in management for the sake of developing functions of “ organizations” . Besides, it can help introduce new methodologies, new theories and unveil the flaws and the missing parts of the previous studies. The present essay deals with introducing this theory and its applications in management and attempts to present some directions to be used for future researches through investigating experimental and conceptual researches done in this realm. For this purpose, 74 related articles were selected from reliable scientific databases and their main theme was extracted and analyzed afterwards. In addition, these articles were classified based on their empirical and conceptual nature. The results showed that Autopoietic theory has not been used much, neither scientifically or applicably, in the literature in the realm of management. However, due to the capabilities of such theory, it is recommended to use for management purposes as well.

The main purpose of this research is to design a model to use scientific elites in university camps of the country using the basis of the grounded theory in a qualitative form. The data were collected through semi-structured interviews and data analysis was done using Strauss & Corbin’ s paradigm model. Purposive (inductive) and snowball (rippling) sampling were used and 36 interviews with Tehran University professors and scientific elites (experts in the areas of research and science) were conducted respectively. The results of open coding, axial and selective processes led to the formation of a model, based on the grounded theory, which can help employ the scientific elites in university camp settings. The proposed model includes the effective aspects and variables, barriers and strategies, features, causal, contextual, and mediating conditions and elements leading to the consequences and strategies on the implementation of such a general policy.

The essence of higher education is its human capital (resources). Nowadays, where science and technology are the country's top priorities, the importance of planning in this area is a priority, too. The purpose of this article is to develop an evaluation model of effective retention policy for faculty members in higher education. The research is applied in nature and the researchers used mixed method (qualitative-quantitative) to conduct it. The research was carried out in two steps: in the first stage (qualitative) the dimensions and components of the model were set through reviewing theoretical literature and in-depth interviews with 16 experts (faculty members all of whom were selected based on snowball sampling). The extracted dimensions were analyzed using theme analysis. Finally, 22 main categories, 50 sub categories, and 9 dimensions were identified and classified according to their conceptual similarity. In the second stage (quantitative), the Delphi method and a questionnaire (a two-step questionnaire with 20 people selected by targeted sampling method) were used to assess the validity of the identified components. There achieved a consensus among the experts and the finalized model was obtained.

The main purpose of this descriptive-survey research was to investigate the factors affecting strategic empowerment of human resources in governmental communication and media organizations to identify the reasons why human resources are not capable enough to produce products that are in line with the demands of the audience and their satisfaction. The statistical population of this research includes of the experts in the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology and Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB). In the present study, in order to identify the dimensions of each component, the Delphi technique has been used in three steps. To ensure the validity of the questionnaire, the researchers examined all content, face, convergent and discriminate validities. Besides, the reliability of the questionnaire was evaluated using principal component analysis, Cronbach’ s alpha, Dillon-Goldstein’ s ʃ index and reagent stability. The findings showed that there is a significant relationship between the following parameters: between the strategic component and the individual component; between the strategic component and the organizational component; between the economic component and the individual component; between the organizational component and the component of human resource empowerment; and finally, between the individual component and the component of human resource empowerment. The proposed model could explain 98. 6% of the human resource empowerment variance, 99. 9% of the individual component variance and 96. 4% of the organizational component variance.