TRANSFORMATIONAL MANAGEMENT JOURNAL (JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT RESEARCH)
Year:2014 | Volume:6 | Issue:11|Papers Count:5

Existing workplace throughout the world have experienced wide changes in the nature of jobs. Given the severity of these changes, it is referred to the new employment model. In this position, intrinsic career has become more important than extrinsic career. Given the importance of the perception in intrinsic career success, the purpose of this research was to design and explain model of perceptual factors affecting intrinsic career success in service firms of Fars Province. For this purpose, with the aim of relevant literature, the most perceptual factors were considered. Then through the Delphi process using expert opinion in four steps, the most important factors in research population were identified. Finally seven factors, as most perceptual factors were determined and used in designing the path model. These factors based on the total impact on subjective career success respectively were: perceived organizational support, person-organization fit, perceived career path, learning climate, career self-efficacy, intrinsic motivation at work and organizational selfesteem.Then on the basis of previous researches, analytical model was designed, and collected data from research population was analyzed using LISREL software. The designed model explained 72% of the variation in subjective career success, which indicates the important role of perception in subjective career success. Also the model fitness indexes were in acceptable range. Conclusions and recommendations of study can help the career success of employees in service organizations and other similar companies in Iran.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate career plateau of academic librarians and their impact on burnout and intention to leave. For this purpose, data was analyzed from a sample of 537 collected both manually and electronically from research population. The results show a rate of above average job Plateau including structural and content Plateau, burnout and intention to leave among librarians. While gender does not make a significant difference in the perception of job plateau, less educated and more experienced employees perceive more plateauing. In addition, regression analysis indicates that career plateau has significant impact on burnoutand intention to leave of librarians. In other words, librarians with higher perceived career plateau, tend to experience more job burnout and intention to leave.

The aim of this study is to investigate human resource competencies in Iranian Petroleum Company. This study is a descriptive-analytical approach. In this research, we examined human resource competencies in six main categories including; credible activist, culture & change steward, talent manager/organizational designer, strategy architect, operational executor, business ally, as well as 21 sub indicators. To collect data, we used a designed questionnaire with 60 items. The collected data were analyzed by T-Test and Confirmatory Factor Analysis tests. The results showed, all of human resource competencies recorded above average score. Also the results showed that strategy architect and business ally had the highest average and the culture & change steward had the lowest average. The research also revealed that strategy architect and credible activist have the lowest and highest correlation with Human resource competencies respectively.According to the results, it is suggested that managers need to identify skills relevant to these competencies, and take necessary steps to learn and practice them.

In today’s business environment, firms in pursuing the goal of efficiency, outsource many necessary, but non-core operations. The majority of pervious outsourcing studies have focused on the costs and benefits analysis, while this research work examines a behavioral approach in outsourcing decisions. This study examines the effects of perceived trust on loyalty through mediatory role of relationship commitment in outsourcing activities in Mashhad hospitality industry. To collect data, a questionnaire was distributed among procurement officials and hotel managers in Mashhad hotels, using stratified random sampling. To test the hypothesis, structural equation analysis was performed. The results revealed that the perception of trust affects loyalty and the intermediary role of relationship commitment on loyalty was confirmed.