Journal of Improvement management
Year:2012 | Volume:6 | Issue:1 (15)|Papers Count:6

Since environmental dilemmas have become more complicated in the third millennium, organizations’ survival has depended more on leadership skills and distinctive competencies. Global challenges, rapid changes of technology, complexities and social demographic varieties are some of Indicators of this century that managers are involved in them. Herein, psychologists believe that smart people can find their way better than others. The purpose of this paper is to introduce a new construct of intelligence, Spiritual Intelligence (SQ), as a Transformational Tool for Organizational Leaders. This study empirically has investigated the relationship between SI Indicators and transformational leadership. In addition, the impact of demographic attributions on SI has been assessed. Two types of questionnaires distributed in a large Iranian petroleum organization. Descriptive and inferential statistical techniques such as are PLS method of structural equation models are used for analyzing the data. The results of the study show that there are a meaningful relationship between SQ and transformational leadership.

Sometimes in the real world, decision makers escalate on their commitment and decisions, despite of the negative feedbacks. Several factors and classifications have been proposed for this organizational phenomenon, but they only considered classical perspectives and do not represented comprehensive outlook. In this study, we designed a questionnaire which contains the related factors and then by analyzing the obtained data and using the confirmatory factor analysis, the assumptions given were examined. So, we recognized 7 causes of this phenomenon such as: psychological, social, environmental, and project factors, fear and concerns, organizational supervision, and agent. It should be noted that, we were not able to elicit experimental evidence for agent factor. Finally, we proposed the limitations of this study and represented some suggestions for future studies.

Purpose – This paper addresses examining the impact of coordination of Business Strategy & Manufacturing Strategy on Organizational Performance.Design/Methodology/Approach – The research is based on a quantitative approach using a questionnaire survey and personal interviews from Safa Industrial Group operated in Steel industry. The identified constructs have been utilized to test a hypothesized model using a structural equation model (SEM) technique.Findings –The results of this research show that firms should pay attention to the relationship between business strategy & manufacturing strategy for obtaining higher performance. First,, it’s better, in a firm with cost-leadership strategy to focus on cost variable in manufacturing strategy. But it seems that it’s not a competitive advantage to choose delivery factor and spend many organizational resources for attaining this factor. Second, it’s better in a firm with differentiation strategy to choose quality as its manufacturing strategy. They also can focus on delivery to achieve higher performance. Also, unexpectedly we find a non-significant relationship between differentiation and flexibility factor.Practical/Managerial implications – Managers and strategists should notice that one of the important aspects of strategy implementation is to translate to functional strategies. So, manufacturing strategy (one of the most important functional strategies) add some details to BS implementation. Therefore, it is necessary to identify them, so, lack of this information makes some losses that they aren’t recognizable clearly.Innovation/Values – This study completes previous researches in strategic role of manufacturing through analyzing its effect on organizational performance. Many researchers suggested to survey on the relationship between business strategy & manufacturing strategy in detail; in this respect, the paper fills an important gap in the literature.

This research attempts to investigate and survey the innovative literature about commercialization procedure of products using advanced technology. Then tries to determine the factors influencing this process and design a suitable conceptual model of commercialization of the products with advanced technology. This model indicates all the institutions involved in the commercialization process with an emphasis on soft technology (The management process of organization). Having done field studies and interviews with experts, this model has been applied in the aviation industry in Iran. The strengths and weaknesses of the current process of commercialization of Iran's aviation industry will be investigated. Finally the most important challenges and some realistic suggestions with the most appropriate procedure of commercialization of the Iran’s aviation industry will be offered.

Existence of accurate systems, comprehensive and credible of performance management, as one of the indicators of development organizations and communities, needs to provide infrastructure and special requirements that especially in the public system, creating, maintaining and expanding of that requires planning, determination and support. Considering the importance of attitude changes in public sector programs and necessary revisions in the administrative processes of this section, there are the limitations for implementing a comprehensive system of assessment. The purpose of this study provides a combined approach of FANP, VIKOR and balanced scored card to assess performance in the public sector. This study was conducted in cooperative Department of Yazd Province that covers 10 branches. Accordingly, the evaluation indicators based on balanced scored card model in four aspects; financial, customer, internal processes and learning and growth were extracted and then were weighted by using technique FANP. Then weights allocated to each index, was merged into the data of each branch and VIKOR technique was used to ranking of cooperative department branches of Yazd Province. Based on the results of FANP, the financial perspective with weighing 0.312 as the perspective important, and based on results VIKOR technique, Branch J, have the best performance among the branches.

Promotion of organizational culture in higher education institutions is a very important issue and at the same time, the proper planning and management required to achieve it. Nowadays it is proved that enhancement of organizational culture has a direct impact on the quality of educational services. The purpose of this research is the analyzing of cultural dimensions of organization using business excellence in Taft Branch of Islamic Azad University. In order to collect data we use a questionnaire that measures dimensions of organizational culture in 10 dimensions and 45 components. For analyzing data we use Shannon entropy and TOPSIS methods. Shannon entropy has been used for answering to research questions and TOPSIS method used for ranking the dimensions of organizational culture. However, the results showed that the identity and individual initiative have proper conditions but some of dimensions don’t have good situations. Also in this research we identify the strengths and weaknesses of various indicators of organizational culture in Taft Branch and ultimately underlie an important step toward improving organizational culture and consequently the quality of educational services.