JOURNAL OF EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT
Year:2014 | Volume:5 | Issue:10|Papers Count:8

The purpose of this study is investigating the relationship between organizational justice and effective execution of organizational strategies in the food industry of the West Azerbaijan province. For access to this aim 264 people are selected as a sample. The current study is applied study and based on gathering data is the descriptive and correlation study. The questionnaire was used to collect data.The results of this study indicated that personnel perception of justice is medium. Highest degree of justice belongs to interactional justice and the lowest degree belongs to procedural justice. Also, the degree of acceptance of the strategy, according to executive directors and employees, with an average of 3.11 is moderate or slightly above it. Based on diagram analysis, instructional and distribute justice have the most direct and procedural justice has a high indirect impact on effective execution of strategy.

The Purpose of this research was to investigate the moderating role of organizational commitment in the relationship between the organizational learning with management succession planning of managers and personnel of selected universities of Tehran. This was a descriptive research. The statistical population included all the managers and employees working in Tehran city universities, from which a sample of 313 people was selected through categorized random Sampling based on Morgan table. Data were collected using three standard questionnaires namely Nife organizational learning, Alen & Mayer (1984) organizational commitment questionnaire and William Jey Rozewell succession planning and effective management questionnaire. The results indicate that the organizational learning and organizational commitment variants have been the best predictors of succession management of managers and employees working in universities of Tehran. Further analysis shows that among the organizational learning dimensions, organizational culture, team learning and systematic thinking variants, and among organizational learning dimension, participative leadership, systematic thinking and competence development variants were the best predictors.

Nowadays, in different countries, including Iran, managers of education centers aspired to strengthen the components of knowledge management systems and their influenced elements. Accordingly, this research paper aimed to determine and leveling the interrelationships between elements that impacts knowledge sharing systems (KSS) in educational centers with presenting internal relations model. To achieve this goal, the ISM technique is used. Data was collected by using a proper created questionnaire. The questionnaires were distributed among 30 professors of Islamic Azad university-Tabriz Branch-as expert team. One of the main results was a four leveled model that has factors like: "the effect of face to face communication for knowledge sharing" and "openness in communication" in highest affecting level; and the factors like: "communication channels based on ICT for collecting and sharing knowledge" and "shared knowledge evaluation system for providing appropriate reward" have been identified as system infrastructures which have direct deriving but low dependency power. The Interpretation of the model of knowledge sharing elements indicates that with the view of systemic approach, for improving knowledge sharing process, the priorities must be with the elements that have more effect on the system.

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between components of Secure-Base Leadership and Psychological Safety with the dimensions of Workaholism among the staffs of the University of Orumiye. The methodology used for this study was descriptive-survey. The population of the study was all staff in Orumiye University (N=480), from which 214 were selected using simple random sampling method. Three questionnaires of "Secure-Base Leadership" (Coombe, 2010), "Psychological Safety" (Edmonson, 1999), and "Workaholism" (Spence and Robbins, 1992) were used to collect data. The validity of the questionnaires was approved by the experts and the reliability was calculated using Cronbach's Alpha (respectively, reported as 0.95, 0.84, and 0.74). The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics (mean and, standard deviation) and inferential statistics (MANOVA, multiple regression and linear regression). Results showed that there are significant positive relationships between all components of Secure-Base Leadership with the dimensions of Workaholism, and Psychological Safety also has a significant positive relationship with dimensions of Workaholism. Furthermore, results of regression analysis indicate that most of the components of Secure-Base Leadership were significant predictors for dimensions of Workaholism and Psychological Safety is just able to predict the dimension of Work Enjoyment dimension.

This research has been conducted in the domain of University-Industry Interaction in order to analyze the individual barriers of the relationship between university faculty members and Industrial Professionals in three levels of Knowledge, attitude and behavior/skill. Individual barriers are those barriers that prevent one individual to interact with another one. Hence, Delphi technique and SMART (social marketing model) were used to identify the barriers, select the most important ones and find the solutions and then ranking them. Target population was divided to university faculty members and industry professionals from whom a sample was selected by Chain Referral Sampling Method. The selected sample was surveyed in order to realizing the consensus regarding the barriers. After conducting a five-phase Delphi-SMART mixed model, the most important barriers and their solutions were identified according to each sector (university faculty members and industry professionals) finally, the social marketing mix stemmed from these results and strategies for overcoming these barriers were determined.

In today’s complex, dynamic and highly variable environment, companies require designing and adopting strategies that could assist them in improving their performance. In such a competitive environment, those companies can survive the competitions which keep pace with changing conditions. This shows that innovation and entrepreneurship are inevitable for organizational survival. Though there are huge theoretical materials about the role of marketing capabilities, a unique model which measures the marketing capabilities impact on entrepreneurship in SMEs is rare. Taking the impacts of marketing capabilities on entrepreneurship into consideration, this study is conducted in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) using structural equation modeling (SEM). Statistical population of the study is Tehran Hamburger, Pvt. Ltd. Data was collected using a standardized questionnaire, and then analysis of the data was performed. The results showed a positive impact of market-orientation, innovative and brand capabilities as elements of marketing capabilities on entrepreneurship in today’s competitive environment. In this study, innovative capabilities has a positive impacts on idea generation and assessment, market-orientation has a positive impact on idea generation, and finally, idea assessment and usage, and brand capabilities have positive impact on idea assessment.

Considering the shortcomings of traditional models of organizational performance measurement and contemporary challenges in management field, offering new performance measurement frameworks have been considered. Organizational excellence models, are one of the most important new models that designed based on a set of core values, The author introduces the following key performance indices are preferred. According to the Excellence model based on the contextual conditions prevailing in each country according to Takes place The purpose of this study is to design a model of organizational excellence. In this study, the researcher used descriptive research - a survey and comparative approach to the study of model Organizational Excellence and discusses the various contextual factors. Research data and questionnaires Level of public sector managers elected collected and analyzed using exploratory factor analysis were analyzed. The results show that the Excellence model in the Public sector with 8 criteria empowerment and 4 is an outcome measure.