JOURNAL OF CULTURAL MANAGEMENT
Year:2015 | Volume:9 | Issue:29|Papers Count:7

Introduction: Quality of work life (QWL) refers to the favorableness of a job environment for the people working in an organization. The period of scientific management which focused solely on specialization and efficiency, has undergone a revolutionary change QWL is a process of work organizations which enable its members at all levels to actively; participate in shaping the organizations environment, methods and outcomes. This value based process is aimed towards meeting the twin goals of enhanced effectiveness of organizations and improved quality of life at work for employees. The traditional management (like scientific management) gave inadequate attention to human values. In the present scenario, needs and aspirations of the employees are changing. Employers are now redesigning jobs for better QWL. Regard to importance of QWL.Methods: This research is an attempt to study the relationship between each of the QWL processes with dimensions of Cultural identity in women breadwinner. Participants were 109 engaged in Emdad Committee, chosen by random, who were asked to fill a modified standard questioners of QWL and Cultural identity.Findings: Pearson correlation coefficient showed that there is a significant relationship between most QWL and Cultural identity dimensions.Conclusion: Findings from the pilot study revealed that that Safe workplace, had the greatest impact on Cultural identity. The results of this study provided the suggestions for improving the QWL process and enhance performance and increasing the level of staffs’ commitment and provided suggestions for future research.

Introduction and Aim of Research: This article studies the anomie and its effective Factors in Rasht city. Norm disordering is a main problem of the essay. If it happens, person cannot correct, select and so encounters with amazing in selecting accepted norms and legal means for reaching them.This study has been done by using Merton’s anomie theory. Based on this viewpoint, anomie is disproportion between accepted social goals and legal means for reaching them or reaching to success.Research Method: The main method of research is social survey, which has been performed by questionnaire. There are 500 people in the sample and method of sampling is multi-phase-cluster.Findings: The study of triple dimensions of anomie in Rasht shows that there is high level of anomie especially in formal one. Also findings show that 62percent of respondents have middle level of norm breaking.Conclusion: Merton main hypothesis that is gap between accepted institutionalized means and accepted cultural goals give rise to anomie, has been approved as possible access to goals. Also, variables such as social trust and social satisfaction have a reversed relationship with anomie. As a whole the triple variables determine 15 percent of anomie.

Introduction and Goal: This study aimed to investigate the effect of institutional management style is based on impulse. This study sought to answer the question of what impact an organization's management style on motivation?Methodology: The research method is survey. The population of the study, all researchers from religious research centers of in Qom, which is obtained numbers 200 through Cochran formula. Reliability of questionnaire were measured With Cronbach's alpha. data analyze with Descriptive and inferential statistics such as Pearson correlation coefficient.Findings: Analysis of the findings showed that the management style with three components of innovation, commitment and recognition effect on institutional motivation with four components of satisfaction, security, participation and attitudes. The results show that by upgrading components an management style in organization, level motivation increase. Management style affects on corporate culture cause certain type of procedures and organizational behavior, able to increase level of job satisfaction, job security, collaborate with colleagues and a positive attitude towards the organization.

Introduction and aim: Social capital as a set of relationships based on trust does not exist within a person or a social structure, but takes shape within the space between people. The present study has been developed to examine the impact of social capital on the quality of life of drug addicts.Research Method: In this study we have utilized the correlational method with an applied purpose. The study population included all addicts referred to the Welfare - Treatment Centers of Tehran, 380 of whom have been selected as the sample population based on the accessible sampling method. We have collected data using two questionnaires on social capital and life quality both have formal validity and the reliability has been calculated 0.81 and 0.78 by the Cronbach's alpha coefficient.Findings: All hypotheses have been confirmed according to the findings of the study. Meaning that social capital weakness of drug addicts has reduced the quality of life of these individuals.Conclusion: The social capital in the present research has been divided in two cognitive and structural dimensions. The cognitive dimension deals with the intangible part such as values, beliefs, attitudes, behaviors and social norms; and the structural dimension of social capital involves the structures and nets comprising collective decision-making and mutual responsibility processes. People with a history of drug abuse in life tend to have little relationship with their relatives lacking a common language to exchange thoughts with and express feelings to others. Such people have lost the power of sharing ideas with others and gaining a common experience, therefore, they suffer from social isolation and their quality of life is severely reduced as well and in case of increasing the cognitive dimension of social capital, their quality of life will also be improved. There is a significant relation between the structural dimension of social capital and quality of life of drug addicts. Keeping relationship with drug abusers, on the one hand, and having no ties with healthy people, on the other hand, can be of the major factors pushing people towards drug addiction. Due to isolation in the community and lack of connection with other people, drug abusers will be severely limited in terms of the structural social capital; consequently, their quality of life will be greatly reduced as well.

Introduction and purpose research: Leisure as a phenomenon and even sometimes in some communities as a matter of cultural, social, and even political common thread between all segments of society. Because of the importance of leisure time and attributes that have attracted the attention of some of them. Leisure is affected by various issues, one of which is virtual social networks. and With the same aim of the present study to investigate the relationship between virtual social networks and leisure activities.Research Method: The research study was The survey carried out among kashan university students. The sample size based on the sample of 415 selected using stratified sampling data have been collected.Results: The results show that variables such as membership in virtual social networks, the number of friends on virtual social networks and the use of virtual social networks (chat, likes and comments and recreation) have a significant relationship with leisure activities. Also among the background variables, gender and economic status have a meaningful relationship with their leisure time.Conclusion: In total, according to the findings of this study can be said that virtual social networks play an important role in leisure time users.

Introduction and Goal: Performance of an organization depends on the organization's human resources and especially its management. One of the most important factors which affect the performance of managers is the concept of emotional intelligence (EQ). The main goal of this research is to study the relationship between EQ and the performance of all director generals and their assistants in ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance.Methodology: The research method is descriptive, co-relational and applied from objective viewpoint. The statistical society includes all director generals and their assistants (24 director generals and 30 general assistants). In order to assess the performance of managers and directors for each manager, 4 persons of their employees who totally include 216 persons, were considered as research sample. To examine the EQ of managers, the standard questionnaire of Brad berry and Grivers, and to assess the performance of managers, the standard questionnaire of R.A Brown Company was used. For data analysis, descriptive and inferential statistical techniques, including multivariate regression were used.Findings: The data analyses show that there is a positive relationship between managers’ EQ and their performance. Among the dimensions of EQ, the maximum effect relates to empathy, and self-stimulating and finally the social skills; but self-control and self- awareness had no significant relation to performance in this research.Results: Confirming the relationship between emotional intelligence and performance indicates that strengthening the managers’ emotional intelligence will enhance their performance and organizational productivity.

Introduction and Goal: The purpose of this research is designing a model of ecosystem of the entrepreneurship promotion in Iranian cinema. An ecosystem with the elements such as Government, Elites, Financial Resources, NGO' s, Educational Institutions and Links between internal and external entrepreneurs has been designed. The goal is providing guidance to cultural management in Iranian cinema on how to use the entrepreneurship elements.Methodology: The method of research was descriptive and mixed method (Qualitative and quantitative) through purposeful interview and distributing the questionnaire, as main instrument of research.Findings: All the six factors of research have effect on Innovation factor. Among six factors, financial resources have the more effect on the factor of innovation and links between internal and external entrepreneurs has less effect on the mentioned factor.Result: Tendency of Iranian cinema to absorb young generation, remove governmental supervisory, encourage entrepreneurial ideas and plan a long-term view.