JOURNAL OF EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT
Year:2012 | Volume:4 | Issue:7|Papers Count:7

Strategic thinking introduced over the past two decades; and its need was emphasized for organizations and managers since 10 years ago, but there is no model for evaluating the ability of strategic thinking yet. Therefore in this study, a conceptual model was provided based on strategic thinking literature for measuring the strategic thinking. To achieve this objective, a questionnaire prepared and distributed between 70 active managers in the Tile and Ceramic Industry. Finally, 55 questionnaires data were analyzed using structural equation approach and the Amos software. The results show that strategic thinking eould be measured by five factors of "incarnation of the desired future and focusing on it", "intelligent opportunism with systems perspective", "understanding the situation based on learning and cognitive concepts", "flexible decision making based on the hypothesis" and "ability for development of organizational infrastructure" as observable variables. Moreover, an incarnation of desired future had a positive effect on intelligent opportunism and ability of development for organizational infrastructure.

Managing knowledge capitals and organizational mental abilities, and its strategic concepts have been considered as important elements of organizational survival and maintain its competitive position in the present era. In knowledge based organizations (KBOs), knowledge is the most important organization capital, and organizational success depends on their ability in creating, acquiring, implementing and transferring the knowledge and intellectual capitals. Thus for using the opportunities in a dynamic environment and obtaining competitive advantages, organizations should manage their knowledge resources and mental abilities effectively. Based on Alberkht (2010) organizational intelligence (OI) is defined as 'the use of the intellectual ability of the organization to achieve the organization's mission and objectives in a competitive environment'. The purpose of this study is to determine the effective factors in the competitive advantage of knowledge-based organizations (KBOs) based on organizational intelligence (OI). Unit of analysis and statistical population of this study included the professors and faculty members of universities in LORESTAN province, The sample size based on a rule to perform confirmatory factor analysis (FA) determined as 330 people. Analysis of the findings in the part of the structural model, showed that 46 percent of competitive advantage in KBOs explained through organizational intelligence structure. Moreover, knowledge communities and knowledge strategies with coefficients of 0.29 and 0.25, arc respectively considered as the most important factors which have the highest effect on the organizational intelligence.

Using the tools under the title of "customer scoring" drives the organizations to have their 1110stefforts in focusing for identification, acquisition and retention the customers, with high profitability. The Customers Lifetime Value (CLV) could be an appropriate framework in that respect, as valuing criteria of the customers. The main purpose of this paper is present, an adapted pattern for segmentation of customers in the retail banking industry based on RFM reference model. This research is formed based on the famous CRISP_DM methodology. The methodology of research is descriptive survey and after presenting the model, segmentation and ranking are done with the checking account information of some of the customers in one of the private banks with regards to the presented model and the reference model and through the cluster quality function the preference of the presented model, as compared to the principle model is shown. Finally an example of application of customer segmentation for analysis of the customer's behavior of each segment and proposed strategies will be presented.

The aim of this investigation is to relationship between career and organizational commitment in the faculty members of University Urmia. This is a descriptive correlation study. The sample was 70 faculty members, which they selected by randomly according to faculty. Two questionnaires were used for data collection. the first one is questionnaire of career based on Schein. And one questionnaire of organizational commitment based on Meyer and Allen. The questionnaire validity was determined based on viewpoints of experts in management and educational sciences. The reliability of questionnaire estimated through Cronbach Alpha coefficient a=0.894, a=0.933 for career and organizational commitment. The data analyzed based on research hypothesis with using of MAN OVA and Regression analysis. The results showed that: There is a positive and significant relationship between technical/functional competence and general managerial competence with all factors organizational commitment. and Technical/functional competence, general managerial competence, autonomy/independence, pure challenges and life style is significant predictors organizational commitment. According to the study findings it is recommended that individuals with Technical / functional competence be employed in management positions. To select managers, individuals with general managerial competence are recommended to be employed.

Gaining productivity is considered as one of the most important factors for an organization's survival in the existing competitive environment. The aim of this paper is studying the effects of this strategy on productivity's components in the Eghtesad_Novin Bank. Outsourcing can be defined as transferring or delegating to a service or operations supplier accompanied continuous business process management. The statistics population of this paper is the branches of the Eghtesad_Novin Bank in Mazandaran province, therefore as the statistics sample 102 managers and authorities are selected. First, productivity indices recognized and in order to studying the construct validity and structure of research variables factors, Exploratory Factor Analysis and Principle Component Analysis (PCA) with varimax rotation and scree test applied. Confirmatory factor analysis has been also used for measuring the influence of components on each other. Ultimately, we used structural equation modeling method in USRLL software. Then, after gathering and analyzing data, it is specified that there is not any meaningful relations among outsourcing and productivity components while there are positive and significant relations among productivity components. Consequently, the use of outsourcing strategy, is not leading to increase the productivity in the Eghtesad_Novin Bank in the province of Mazandaran.

This research performed to provide a framework for improving the effectiveness of strategic plans implementation. Two main questions of this survey devoted to the nature of the obstacles to the strategic plan implementation and also the prioritizing interaction between these obstacles to strategy implementation. The questionnaire for this survey was designed following the literature review and gathering the most important cited obstacles; which then applied to 112 managers and senior experts of pharmaceutical manufacturers that their firms were members of Iranian owners of Human Pharmaceutical Industries Syndicate (SYNDIPHARMA). In this study, the simple random sampling method was used and an exploratory factor analysis applied to categorize variables in 5 groups of operational, structural, human related, communication related and strategic factors; and then, structural relationships in the model test cd by structural equation modeling. Finally, the findings showed the acceptable level of fitness of this model and indicated that structural dimension had the most effect on the strategic plans implementation in the pharmaceutical industry, while communication related dimension had the least effect.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of perceptions from organizational justice on satisfaction from services compensation. For this purpose, a conceptual model based on the literature review of the context was developed, and the relationships among the constructs of the model was examined using survey research in a sample of a regional public organization's employees. Structural equation modeling was utilized to analyze research data. Moreover, relationship between dimensions of organizational justice (distributive justice, procedural justice, interactional justice) and dimensions of satisfaction of services compensation (pay level satisfaction, raise satisfaction, benefits satisfaction, pay structure satisfaction), was also investigated. The results showed that there is the positive and strong relationship between organizational justice and satisfaction of services compensation. The findings of our study showed that among 3 dimensions of organizational justice, distributive justice appears to have the most positive relationship with satisfaction of services compensation. It was also revealed that, distributive justice has a stronger relationship with the dimensions based on outcome of satisfaction of services compensation (pay level satisfaction, raise satisfaction, benefits satisfaction), while procedural and interactional justice with dimensions based on procedure of satisfaction of services compensation (pay structure satisfaction) appears to have the most effect on research dependent variable.