JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION PERSPECTIVE
Year:2016 | Volume:- | Issue:27 |Papers Count:10

Nowadays, as the most important field of political participation, elections measure the level of popularity of any sovereignty. Gaining a majority and win the elections by political parties in democracies is always one of the main concerns that these parties have. In recent decades political marketing as a tool to win elections, gain a very important role; so that the success of political parties in elections is heavily depend on the effective use of these models of political marketing. In this research we tried to outline an indigenous pattern of political marketing in local elections in Iran. In this research we have used "Classical Grounded Theory" emergent approach. The results of in-depth interviews with 13 experts of local elections in Tehran have shown that the followings will determine multiple aspects of political marketing model in local elections: 1. Requirements for effective participation in the political competition; 2. Identifying the needs of vote market; 3. Designing an appropriate product according to the main claim of vote market; 4. Effective marketing and advertising for political product; 5. Selling the ideas/candidates; 6. Continuous monitoring of the environment.

The aim of the present study is to develop a succession planning model with considering the core competencies needed by key managers in organizations. The society of the present study is all the mangers of Kowsar Economic Organization and it is conducted at the level of the whole population (including managing directors and board members of the affiliated companies and senior management in headquarters of this organization). The present study is a developmental- applied and descriptive- survey study. Data was collected by questionnaire. Validity and reliability of this questionnaire were evaluated statistically by one and two- group Kolmogorov-Smirnov model and Kruskal- Wallis test. results indicats that research hypotheses are confirmed and that among the core competencies, identification of job description has the highest effect on succession planning and that human resource capacity has the highest effect in the model and succession planning has a significant relationship with strategic capabilities in this organization.

Employees' opinions and ideas are valuable sources for managers’ decision making. Thus, the proper conditions should be provided in organization so that employees could easily express their views and provide their useful ideas for solving organization problems. To create this situation, we should identify influencing factors. Therefore, this paper examines the relationships between ethical leadership, organizational voice, silence and employees’ performance. First, these variables are described and in the following, hypotheses are presented according to the literature. To explore hypotheses, data were collected from university of Guilan employees using questionnaires. For data analysis we used exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. According to exploratory factor analysis, prosocial, defensive and acquiescent voice were identified as dimensions of organizational voice and prosocial, defensive and acquiescent silence were identified as dimensions of organizational silence. The results confirm the influence of ethical leadership on organizational silence and voice and the influence of organizational silence and voice on employee performance.

The aim of this research is studying the antecedents Of Employees' Subjective Wellbeing. Subjective Wellbeing is considered as a dependent variable, Job Design and Human Resource Management Practices are considered as independent and antecedents of Subjective Wellbeing in this investigation. Our society is Emam Khomeini hospital laboratory (N=200).132 persons are selected based on random sampling. In this regards, 200 questionnaires were distributed, after gathering them 133 questionnaires were proper for analyzing. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) is used for testing the hypothesis. Our results show that Job Design and HRM practices have positive effect on employees' Subjective Wellbeing. Also the results show that the effect of Job Design on Employees' Subjective Wellbeing is more than the effect of Human Resource Management Practices, on it.

The goal of the administrative reform roadmap that has been conducted in 8 plans is steering administrative system to productive system based on Islamic values. In this research, by considering the strategy map, that is the foundation for Balanced Score Card (BSC), the strategic objectives are arrenged. These strategic objectives are in turn based on 8 plans of administrative reform roadmap. Then for identifying the cause and effect relations of each objective, the Fuzzy DEMATEL technique is used. So the most effective and the most impressible objectives are identified and weighted. In second step, the general performance evaluation criteria of government agencies that are defined in following of each objective are scored on basis of Fuzzy Analytical hierarchy process technique (FAHP) by implementation of Super Decisions software. Based on these results, system is created for performance evaluation of government agencies that their measures will be valued based on the strategic objectives of the administrative reform roadmap.

In recent years, government organizations, especially universities, based on laws and regulations, outsource their activities. The aim of this study is to provide decision-making model for outsourcing activities in universities by using exploratory mixed method research (Using the qualitative meta-synthesis method for extracting effective criteria on the decision Making to outsourcing and then use quantitative methods to confirm model and Determin the degree of importance of the criteria). Society of this research are professors, experts and practitioners of Shiraz university who are familiar with the outsourcing. For sampling 17 persons selected using purposive sampling Method. The model presented in this study has 3 dimensions, 7 Component and 39 criteria. Based on the results of analytic hierarchy process, strategic importance of the organization's overall activities, the relative importance of activities, dependence activity with other activities, acquisition activities in various sectors, income of activity and cost of activity are most effective factors in identifying the activities could be outsourced at the University of Shiraz.

Today, organizations have found that knowledge is one of the most obvious indicators of survival in the competitive world. Competitive aspect of any enterprise is establishment and transfer of effective knowledge within the organization. Successful implementation of knowledge management depends heavily on coordination between factors such as organizational culture, information technology, organizational structure, leadership and human resources. This research by using the evaluation of the key success factors, is looking for determine the state of readiness to implement knowledge management in IRIB-Internet Radio. Also, for each indicator, the components based on strategies of the model of Nonaka and Takeuchi have been used in the preparation of the questionnaire. Analyzing data obtained from the questionnaire by using the Friedman test (highest average) have been prioritized. According to the data analysis, this organization is far from the desirable implementation of knowledge management. Among the infrastructures of knowledge management, organizational culture is a disadvantage than the others. Also the IT infrastructure has the best situation. Finally, according to the base of knowledge building, offered suggestions for implementing knowledge management in this organization.