JOURNAL OF CULTURAL MANAGEMENT
Year:2009 | Volume:3 | Issue:5|Papers Count:8

This paper evaluates the relationship between social capital and quality of working life of the staff and managers of human resources management of the Oil Company. In this respect, social capital is considered as an independent variable and quality of working life as a dependent variable. Then, the relation of these two variables is analyzed through the data from questionnaire.The final analysis of the model showed that the relationship between social capital and quality of working life is 98 percent which indicated that the relationship is very strong so that it is only a distance of 0.02 from the homology (i.e., 1). In other words, with a change of one unit in social capital, quality of working life changes as much as 0.98.

The purpose of this research is to study the social- cultural factors that affect the social damage married devotee’s families in Sari. The research method is the survey one and the sample size, based on the kokran formula is136 married devotee people selected randomly and interviewed in Sari city. The results from testing the hypothesis and the related data confirm that the social damages in devotee’s families have an inverse and significant relationship with factors such as social contribution, social and economic status and commitment to values of the Islamic Revolution among devotees. Also, there is a significant and meaningful relationship between the devotee’s type of disability and social damages.

This study aims to evaluate and identify the status of religious education programs of students and pathology of Islamic education in schools of Qom province. To achieve the best results, four groups of principals, theology, Quran and training teachers in girls and boys schools of Qom were selected as the statistical population. Then based on the formula, the statistical sample size was determined from the number of principals of the four areas of the education in cities and villages of Qom province according to education level and gender.Method of data collection was distribution and completion of the questionnaires based on the statistical sample size and the information from the questionnaires was analyzed in SPSS software.The analysis of the information shows that schools have been successful in providing the right cognition and creating religious tendencies. However, schools have been less able to make students apply the religious lessons in their lives. Training programs of schools have been evaluated suitable enough as they are well various, but some of them have not been effective as they were expected.

This research aims to evaluate the role and effect of cultural components in International Relations, review the current works of Cultural diplomacy of Iran with the potential cultural capacities and capabilities of our country and study comparatively the patterns and models of the cultural diplomacy in nine studied countries, and finally it tries to pathology of our international relations with other countries. The method of the research was based on hypotheses and research questions were prepared by library and field methods. The statistical population included cultural consultants, cultural dependants, and authorities of cultural centers, cultural experts and managers who have at least a three-year experience in cultural activities in representatives of Iran held outside the country. In order to offer cultural diplomacy model suitable for the Islamic Republic of Iran, the attitude system is used. From this perspective, cultural diplomacy is studied in two basic parts. The first part of cultural diplomacy, including the principles and rules that indicate forming characteristics cultural diplomacy and the second part is the structure of the system in which and by which cultural diplomacy will be accomplished. Optimal model for organizing international cultural activities of governmental and non-governmental sectors is to make use of combinational models, i.e. the continuous Cultural Relations model which indicates that international cultural activities it must have an organic order and relationship with each other and the whole process and all organizations should pursue the same goal. This optimal model should also use a consultative model for macro policies and strategies and for international cultural relations of Iran with other countries.

The purpose of this study is reviewing the effect of cultural dimensions of Hafstede on moral elicit of accounting students. The cultural dimensions of Hafstede include power distance, uncertainty avoidance, masculinity/ femininity, individualism /collectivism and Long-term orientation / short-term orientation which are considered as the independent variables in this study. Also, moral elicit of accounting students based on Roast and Kohlberg’s model of four dimensions of moral development, ethical sensitivity, ethical intentions and ethical orientation are summarized in this study as dependent variables. In addition, age, gender and familiarity with the standards of professional behavior are considered as control variables. The hypothesis test results showed that only Individualism / Collectivism affect the ethical sensitivity and ethical orientation of accounting students. Also it was determined that the variable of gender affects the ethical dimensions.

This research is a practical one which has been done through questionnaires and the statistical population includes graduate students of cultural management. It tries to identify the level of the main components of individual entrepreneurship i.e.: risk taking, need to success, having the center of internal control, tendency to creativity, the need for independence, tolerance of ambiguity, futurism and negotiation power among students of cultural management are identified and tested.According to the research questions, the level of individual entrepreneurship among students of cultural management has been evaluated as good which is too far from the optimal level. But among the most important findings is that there is an inverse relationship between the risk taking components, the need for independence and tolerance of ambiguity and gender. There is an inverse relationship between the risk taking components and the need to success and age. I.e. with the increase of the age of the students the level of these components reduces. There is a direct relationship between having a center of internal control, ambiguity tolerance and negotiation power and the age, and no significant relation between the components of tendency to creativity and age.

This research is functional, purpose wise and descriptive (correlational), method wise. The research population includes all experts, professors and experts in the field of media and culture. In this population 86 experts were selected and the influence of each of the components on culture engineering was evaluated, stressing the role of governmental newspapers. In addition, in this study, library and field methods are used.The assumptions testing of the research show that according to the opinions of experts in the field of media and culture, there is a significant relation between the role of governmental newspapers and supported values, artifacts, and the fundamental and underlying assumptions of the main components in culture engineering. Also, according to the opinions of the sample experts, among the 15 studied components of risk taking is most important factor and the mental models of the linguistic paradigm is the least important factor in developing culture engineering at the level of governmental newspapers.

Media policy making can generally refer to planning, designing and decisions making in order to promote the objectives of media organizations, regarding the organization, environment and human resources. In decision making process, individuals and different groups with different social, cultural, values, beliefs, economic and political backgrounds are involved. The process of decision making deals with diversity of interests and the benefits. This means that any individual or group will pursue their own interests to benefit from the strategies according to their goals.This research is functional, purpose wise and descriptive (correlational), method wise. The research population includes all experts, professors and experts in the field of media and culture. In this population 86 experts were selected and the influence of each of the components on media policy making in the field of cross-cultural communication was evaluated. The results from testing the eight components in this study indicate that according to the experts, the external cultural factors were rated first and the external social factors were rated eighth in affecting media policy making in the field of cross-cultural communication. In addition, based on the findings of this study the external factors such as external cultural and political factors are of greatest importance to the internal factors in media policy making in the field of cross-cultural communication.