PUBLIC MANAGEMENT RESEARCHES
Year:2018 | Volume:11 | Issue:40 |Papers Count:10

The purpose of the research is to validate and design a suitable model for networking in the field of entrepreneurship. The research tool was in the qualitative section, interview and in the quantitative part of the questionnaire. Data analysis was done in the qualitative section through theme analysis, and in the quantitative part of the structural equations. After designing the original model, the research questionnaire with dimensions was distributed among 240 experts and managers of the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare. Finally, 31 components were identified in four dimensions: necessity, structural, behavioral and background. Therefore, it seems necessary for the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare to focus on the role and importance of these factors in entrepreneurship policy development, in order to develop the field of entrepreneurship, and to replace the network thinking in policy making with hierarchical thinking.

Value creation has long attracted scholars' and managers' attention. This concept has transformed in the context of marketing paradigms. This paper aims to develop strategic value co-creation model in banking industry in Iran. Applying a mixed methodology, in the first phase a multiple case study was operated in three selected banks. A purposeful sampling helped data gathering. Data analysis in the qualitative phase was done through qualitative content analysis based on which the research model was extracted. Followed by the qualitative phase, the model was tested in a quantitative manner by a survey in the aforementioned selected banks. To do this, 70 questionnaires were distributed in a sample chosen by simple random sampling. The model was then tested in Smart PLS using least partial squares. The results show that the strategic value co-creation has two dimension including organizational value co-creation (with 7 factors encompassing marketing ability, service development ability, relational ability, IT ability, Organizing ability, organizational culture and human resource management ability) and customer value co-creation (with 5 factors encompassing contribution to service development, transactional ability, feedback giving, loyalty and responsible behavior).

The difficulty of job and high requirements of role and responsibility entail organizations to retain and empower ageing experts because they are valuable for business. Empowerment of the ageing experts is important to improve work efficiency and effectiveness of the elderly experts as it gives self-confidence and motivation to them to keep their jobs and create values for the organization. However, there is a limited of study in this topic and less number of scientific papers that proposed a framework for the empowerment of the ageing experts...

World-class organizations are continuously trying to determine their Knowledge Management (KM) position. In this regard, having a KM maturity model is essential. The purpose of this research is to design a World-Class Knowledge Management (WCKM) maturity model based on the excellence model using mixed method research. The statistical population of this research is the subsidiaries of the Iranian Ministry of Petroleum, and the top managers of these subsidiaries were selected as statistical analysis unit. Based on an in-deep review of the relevant literature, the components of the enabler of KM implementation and the indicators pertaining to the key results of WCKM performance were determined. Then, the enablers and the key results were identified and verified using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis techniques...

Mirjaveh Special Economic Zone is a growing region that has a natural and God given attraction inside, and unique natural and historical attractions around it, especially in the Temin and Ladiz areas. This special economic area with many strengths will be able to take advantage of its opportuni ty. The purpose of the present study was to identify the strengths and weaknesses and opportunities and threats in front of tourism development and the Mirjaveh special economic zone and provide the appropriate and efficient strategies. Identifying and analyzing strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats using the SWOT model, and quantitative strategy planning matrix (QSPM) has been used to select the best tourism development strategy. To determine the weight of SWOT factors, a questionnaire based on the Likert scale was designed as 5 items and completed by 20 tourism specialists and experts in the level of Sistan and Baluchestan province. The results of the research show that aggressive strategies are the most suitable strategies for the development of tourism in the special economic zone of Mirjaveh. The SO1 strategy, with an average of 2. 571, with emphasis on the development of ecotourism (natural tourism), has been proposed at the natural absorption centers as the best suggestion.

Automotive industry of the Iran and two major automaker, SAIPA and IRAN-KHODRO groups, have been always the central attention of the State and the Parliament. Also technology management in the massive scale was so effective and it is one of the important subjects of product architecture. During the formation of the product architecture structure, decisions for manufacturing processes and supply chain architectures will be made simultaneously. In this paper, case study research methodology is used to develop a model for the decision integration of a car manufacturing corporate for developing product and process technologies in the range of its suppliers. Preliminary data are collected from sites that involve in Iran car manufacturing corporates and wide range of interviews with managers and experts in product development strategies and suppliers. Secondary data is collected from literature review and available documents in mentioned business unit. Results show that there is a strong relation between product architecture and product and process technology policy in supply network.

The main aim of the present research was to determin the contribution of organizational factors in increasing the competence of Karaj municipality staff. The research population consisted of all staff (men and women) employed in the municipality of Karaj city in 1394. The sample comprised of 300 employees who were randomly selected by cluster sampling method. The research instruments were four questionnaires. The results showed that among the variables introduced into the model (emotional intelligence, creativity, job motivation, psychological empowerment and psychosocialization), only the variables of psychological empowerment, emotional intelligence and organizational climate entered into the model and were able to modify the competency explain the meaningfulness of merit changes. One of the scientific suggestions obtained from this research is that the managers of Karaj municipality can increase the level of competence of employees based on the contribution of organizational factors to the efficiency of their organization.

One of the most important attributes of each organization to work in today's changing circumstances is to have people who are willing to participate in the organization's successful changes; that is, to show organizational citizenship behavior. Successful organizations are looking for employees who go beyond defined tasks and their performance is higher than expectations. The purpose of this study was investigating the relationship between emotional intelligence and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). The statistical population consisted of employees at Imam Khomeini hospital in Alashtar and the sample size was determined using Krejcie and Morgan table. The data were collected using standard questionnaires made by Podsakoff et al. as well as Bradbury and Greaves. In order to confirm the research model, structural equation model was used and for analyzing data, AMOS 20 and SPSS 18 software were applied. The results showed that there was a significant positive correlation between emotional intelligence and OCB. Also, among the four components of emotional intelligence including self-management, social awareness, relationship management and self-awareness, the first three components are involved in predicting OCB.

One of the most important goals of business managers is to maximize the efficiency by the use of the available resources and achieve higher levels of productivity. Research and development departments are generally concerned with activities such as products quality improvement, new products design, procedures optimization, technology transfer and absorption, and gaining technical knowledge for production, all in the interests of industry owners, all of which lead to the total factor productivity (TFP). This paper studied total factor productivity based on stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) in 131 industries from 1999 to 2014, and it also investigated the effectiveness of research and development, alongside other factors, on productivity...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between authentic leadership and organizational citizenship behavior with respect to the role of mediating job motivation among employees of Kerman welfare organization. The survey population included 321 employees of the welfare organization of Kerman that 210 of whom were selected as sample size. The tools used to collect the data are authentic leadership questionnaire of Avolio et al. ( 2007), organizational citizenship behavior questionnaire of Podsakoff et al. (1990) and job motivation questionnaire of Alderfer et al. (1969). Structural equations modeling is used to analyze the data and the software used is SPSS and LISREL. Regarding the final model, it can be said that the authentic leadership with a coefficient of 0. 341 has a positive effect on organizational citizenship behavior and employees' job motivation has a positive effect on organizational citizenship behavior with a path coefficient of 0. 279. Also, the role of mediator of employee's job motivation in the relationship between authentic leadership and organizational citizenship behavior was confirmed.