PRODUCTIVITY MANAGEMENT (BEYOND MANAGEMENT)
Year:2011 | Volume:5 | Issue:18|Papers Count:8

The present research has been done to have a survey on the relationship between organizational transformation subsystems in the learning organization and organizational intelligence in Khoozestan Province Telecommunication Company. The seven traits of organizational intelligence in Albrecht’s view are strategic vision, shared fate, appetite for change, spirit, alignment and congruence, knowledge deployment, and performance pressure, which are the independent variables, and the organizational transformation subsystems in the learning organization with the indicators shared vision, organization culture, organization structure, strategic have been considered the dependent variables. Based on the descriptive research method of correlation, from the population consisting of 2132, a sample of 327 has been chosen by using Morgan’s Sampling Table. Also to collect the necessary data two questionnaires of Marquardt’s organizational transformation and Albrecht’s organizational intelligence were used based on Cronbach’s alpha with the reliability of 0.93 and 0.95, respectively. The collected data have been analyzed by using statistical software SPSS, and other tools in descriptive and inferential statistics. Based on the research findings, it can be concluded that there is a significant relationship between organizational transformation subsystems in the learning organization and organizational intelligence. Furthermore, alignment and congruence show the highest importance among the studied companies, and appetite for change shows the lowest.

In the information era, information technology development has made it possible for managers to study environment with more confidence. But the role of information systems in strategic planning process and compiling and fulfilling strategies is not clear. This essay analyses the effect of marketing information systems on the efficiency of marketing strategic planning process and its elements in Iranian banks. In the conceptual model of this research, goal setting, situational analysis, regulating goals and strategies and resource allocation are considered as the basic elements of marketing strategic planning process, and time, contents and form of information are the outputs of marketing information systems. The case study of this research for presenting quantitative results includes the country’s banks (except Central Bank). The results obtained from the views of senior managers or the experts of the banks’ R&D departments, which were collected through the use of the questionnaire designed merely for this purpose indicate that the outputs of marketing information systems have great effects on the efficiency of marketing strategies planning. The results of linear trend analyses show that the variables of information contents explain the changes of the elements of strategic planning process the most, and the form of information explain it the least. Among the elements of strategic planning process, situational analysis and resource allocation are affected by the outputs of marketing information systems the most while its effect on goal setting, regulating goals and compiling strategies is the least.

The main purpose this research is to study the customer-orientation management index and its relationship with organizational commitment in Islamic Azad University, Izeh Branch. One of the fundamental hypothesizes of this study is existence of a meaningful relationship between the customer management index and organizational commitment in Islamic Azad University, Izeh Branch. The statistical populations consists of all the official employees and full-time faculty members of the Islamic Azad University, Izeh Branch, and the research sample includes 114 subjects selected by using stratified random sampling. In order to collect the data, a researcher-devised questionnaire of total quality management with the reliability of 0.955 and Meyer- Allen’s organizational commitment questionnaire were used. The statistical t-tests of independent groups, the t-tests and correlation coefficient were to analyze the data. The results indicate that there is a significant relationship between customer management and the employees’ and professors’ emotional commitment, between customer management and and the employees’ and professors’ rational commitment, and between customer management and the employees’ and professors’ norm commitment in the Islamic Azad University of Izeh.

The present study seeks to determine the appropriate criteria to select a business partner in the chain of parts suppliers. Business cooperation among the companies in the supply of parts reduces costs, creates competitive advantage and increases the competitive capacity and ultimately increases their profitability. In fact, by building business cooperation in the supply chain of materials and parts, and preventing the selection of improper suppliers in various projects, we can the time and cost of projects. Choosing the right partner is an important step in building business cooperation. In this paper, by drawing on the views of senior managers and experts and by using the data obtained from the questionnaire, we have examined the appropriate criteria to select a business partner and designed a model for business partner selection. The research type is descriptive-survey, and the statistical population consists of the managers and specialists of the Iranian Marine Industries company. Finally, by analyzing the data collected from the population, we have specified the importance, priorities, and weights of these criteria.

In this research, we have tried to show whether the situations of the factors effective on empowering the NGOs active in the Welfare Purview of Mazandaran Province is favourable.For this purpose, the independent variables-structural factors, functional factors and contextual factors-were studied, and in order to attain the research goal, we designed a questionnaire and collected the data, which were analyzed by using SPSS software. The research showed that the situation of the factors effective on empowering the NGOs of the Welfare Purview of Mazandaran Province is favourable.

Regarding the increase of population in today’s world and turning cities into industrial places, the need for a management system is felt to compile principles and approaches related to this development. On the other hand, as a category of management science, urban management should pay attention to ecology as one of the most important parts affective city structure that creates a desirable environment for the residents.The present article is the result of a research which is conducted with the main goal to study the effective factors in compiling suitable and effective approaches for development in urban management system. The research was conducted by survey method with comparative framework. The information was gathered from documents, observations, interviews and questionnaires with Likert scale. The statistical population was the residents of Tabriz with the sample size of 260, and testing the hypotheses was done using t-student method. The findings of the research explain that the role of urban management is effective and important to fight against the negative effects of day-by-day increase of population and industrialization through orderly planning, providing suitable capitation, conducting public training, creating public contribution and paying attention to the future development of the city.

The complex and modern organizations must be organized on the basis of new thoughts and they must have exploratory and innovative characteristic in order to continue their existence and their qualitative and quantitative growth and development and to emphasize modern methods. The goal of this research is to determine the relationship between emotional intelligence and organizational innovation among the administrators of governmental organizations and the administrators of private sector of Tehran. The statistical population of the research includes the administrators of the governmental organizations of Tehran, the managers of private banks, and those of commercial firms. About One hundred persons of each group attended as the research sample, which had been selected by cluster sampling method. The questionnaire of emotional intelligence (bar-on) and organizational innovation was applied to collect data. Descriptive and deductive statistics was used in order to analyze the data. The results are indicative of the existence of relationship between the subscales of daring, taking responsibility, resolving problems, flexibility, tolerating stress, taking independence, controlling shocks, self-actualization, inter-personal relationships, empathy, and the organizational innovation. But the existence of meaningful relationship in the subscales of realism and optimism, and the organizational innovation hasn’t been reported.

Nowadays, due to lack of the necessary grounds to employ University graduates as also well as their inability to create opportunities and careers for themselves, the problem of employment and entrepreneurship has become an important issue, which can lead to the formation of different crisis and social damages, thereby requiring deeper examination. One of the suitable and sure ways to solve this problem is to enable them to acquire job creating skills during their studies at University, this ability can prevent many problems and challenges. However, because of some problems and defects in the curricula of University and other higher education centers, students cannot acquire the skills in this regard. With regard to the importance of the problem, we have tried to investigate the shortcomings of the curricula of the different courses in the Bonab branch of Islamic Azad University from the viewpoints of the students and the academic staff. The result obtained from the analyzing of the collected data indicated that the curriculum of entrepreneurship lacks proper quality and is not capable of training competent, creative, and innovative entrepreneurs. Finally, on the basis of the scientific fundamentals in the field, we have suggested the curriculum of entrepreneurship to be implemented in Universities and higher educational centers.