JOURNAL OF CULTURAL MANAGEMENT
Year:2010 | Volume:3 | Issue:6|Papers Count:8

This paper has attempted to study learning organization characteristics, based on senge’s original learning organization model in Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting organization in order to provide, an applicable pattern learning organization, to consider seng’s disciplines, namely, personal mastery, mental models, shared vision, team learning and systems thinking. The methodology was descriptive-survey-and research tool was questionnaire which was carry out among employees and managers who was selected as sample. In order to analyse the collected data, descriptive and deductive statistics was used. Findings showed that the organization is fairly far from an effective learning organization. Morover, it seems that employees’ performance in team learning and changes in mental models are more satisfactory than managers. Regarding other characteristics of learning organizations, there are similarites in learning attempts by employees and managers. According to analyses findings and theoretical issues to lead the organization into a suitable situation and decrease the distance, to effective situation and reinforcement of skills, an applicable pattern and executive advises in this field are suggested.

With respect to major differences of religion, belief and cultural values in different societies, the expected result of advances in various fields including science and information technology, different cultures must move towards the integration of cultural. In this regard, financial issues are very important with the creation of financial Multinational companies working in the different communities with different cultures. The other hand, the value accounting can be a subset of social and cultural values that its characteristics will be visible in the financial reporting and accounting standards. Therefore, researchers in accounting have done more research using the Gray's model for the measurement of the impact of culture on accounting values. This research have done for the response to this question that, do Hofstede's cultural values can affect on conservatism in financial or not. In order to test research hypotheses, were selected sample from among 107 member companies listed in Tehran Stock Exchange between 1380 and 1386. Subsequent, Conservatism in financial reporting is measured through Guly and Hine model (2007) and information of variables related to culture was collected through the standard questionnaire Hofstede (1991). Finally, correlation between research variables was examined through multivariate regression, Durbin - Watson and Pearson correlation model. hypothesis test results, although is similar to previous research conducted in Iran from the point of correlation between variables, but ultimately very weak correlation between culture variables and conservatism in financial reporting resulting to rejection of research hypothesis and rejection of significant relationship between cultural values and conservatism in financial reporting.

This article was designed in order to analyze and compare proper factors for appointment and promotion and of managers in the Art and Cultural Organization of Tehran Municipality. The research conducted a survey using a questionnaire with fifty one parameters involved in employment and promotion of the cultural managers. Categorized in three subsets of interests, believes and behavior. The result indicated strong relationship between employment and promotion of cultural managers and their personal interests, believes and behavior. The findings can be used for cultural organizations to support their decisions in employing and treating their managers.

Cultural goods and culture consumption can be defined as none economic and political activity, as in implicitly common there is such an understanding and implicitly covering volunteer's social activity. With regard to increasing tendency to cultural goods changes in presenting methods of these goods in recent years. And in each society in different times, various grouping of cultural goods were presented. And with regard to purpose of this research that want to determine the rate of cultural goods consumption among veteran’s students of Lorestan province. Therefore a more accurate grouping of cultural goods with nine categories was presented. This research has been done through the Description- measurement method. And a researcher's questionnaire were been used, that its content validity was investigated through experts’ opinions. The statistics population of this research wan 580 persons, including 290 veteran's high school students of Lorestan province in 81-88 educational years and 290 persons of none veteran’s students. And with regard to small size of population. We don't need sampling and all of them were investigated and According to its results, the rate of most cultural goods consumption isn't in a suitable level. And merely in the case of some goods like hobby have a good performance. By the way in most cases there isn't a meaningful different between the rate of cultural goods consumption of veterans and none – veterans students.

The present study aims at investigating the factors for analyzing cultural entrepreneurship guidelines and indicating the most effective factors in performing the guidelines as well as providing an appropriate model for art and cultural institutes. In order to conduct the study, a questionnaire based on both kinds of the descriptive method, case and field, and a variance-based methodology have been adopted as methods of data collection and data analysis. Upon providing the definitions of cultural entrepreneurship and cultural entrepreneurship management, the researcher has dealt with the significance of cultural entrepreneurship guidelines analysis in developing activities of utilitarian and non-utilitarian art and cultural institutes. In addition to reviewing the related literature, in order to come up with the research hypotheses, a study was run in which more than 40 managers from different art and cultural institutes participated in the study. The results indicated that the role of inside environment factors were more significant than the outside environment ones in the process of strategy analysis. In this study, some factors such as probability, stability, competitive advantage, and compatibility with environmental factors have been coped with as merits, demerits, opportunities and environmental threats.

The objective of all educational system in different level is deployment of change in knowledge, attitude and skill of the students. The present study addressed the survey and comparison of knowledge, attitude and skill level of the master students of information technology management using virtual and traditional education in Islamic Azad University. The population for the study included 101 members. Sampling is according to population. For gathering data a researcher-made questionnaire was used. Reliability coefficient of the questionnaire was 0.91. Statistical data was analyzed by t-test and man-Whitney test. The results show that there is no significant difference between the knowledge, attitude and skill level of the students using virtual and traditional education in Islamic Azad University.

Out of various forms of modern diplomacy, including public, media, and educational diplomacy, cultural diplomacy is of special significance. Cultural diplomacy allows countries to directly contact ordinary people and leaders of public opinion by employing influential elements of their cultures. Influencing foreign masses and banking on their opinions at international level is a means of putting pressure on their governments. The main question of this research is why governments publish their cultural information and values to international community and why they believe that this will help them protect their national interests? The present paper will first discuss status of cultural diplomacy among various forms of modern diplomacy before focusing on management of cultural diplomacy by various countries which seek to meet their national interests.

In the article, the research has first studied the process of changes of Pre-Modernism (1000-1450), Modernism (1450-1960), Post Modernism (1960-1989) and Post-Post Modernism (early 1990s until now) periods and has then dealt with the position of human identity, especially woman, by special consideration of aspect of economy, management, culture, music and information society and has determined and analyzed the characteristics of each of them. Finally, all changes together with main concepts have been provided in a table.