JOURNAL OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT RESEARCH
Year:2018 | Volume:10 | Issue:3 (33)|Papers Count:10

This research is aimed at identifying and prioritize factors affecting attraction and retention of faculty members in universities. Hence, the factors influencing the attraction and retention of faculty members based on Verhaegen’ s study were identified and localized. This research is based on best-worst method (BWM) for ranking the factors. The questionnaire, designed according to the best-worst model, was presented to university professors engaged in teaching and investigating in the field of human resource for years, and to comment separately on attraction and retention of scientific talents. The research community includes all applicants and the present faculty members at universities. The informant sample is composed of five matured and experienced professionals in order to localize the conceptual model of research, and to have their comments on priority ranking questionnaires. Hence, it can be claimed that judgmental and purposive sampling method is used for sampling. The results indicated that it is important to pay attention to the factors of brand and university reputation and their values and cultures play important roles in attracting scientific talents. Furthermore, in order to succeed in the retention of the present scientific talents, it is important to pay attention to the values, the culture, and the atmosphere of instruction. Considering the important factors identified in this research can help better attraction of scientific talents for universities.

The scholars of the field of social deviance have addressed the social abnormalities from biological, psychological, and sociological standpoints. Biological and psychological theories try to establish relationship between human behavioral and psychological abnormalities. Only Individual behaviors and characteristics are dealt with in these two approaches. However, sociological theories focus on the role and behavior of human beings at the organization level. Along with these approaches and theories relating to the abnormal behavior of individuals, there are some other factors affecting the behavioral abnormalities of humans, which can be addressed at three individual, social and organizational levels. As this research is intended to investigate the causes of a particular behavior in a large society, it follows an explanatory-survey research with an applied purpose. The domain of this research entails organizational study inside the country from the winter of 2016 to the summer of 2017. Statistical population contains a total number of 25 cases. The research was conducted through a researcher-made questionnaire. The data was analyzed by SPSS and smart pls3 software. The results revealed that social factors, organizational factors and individual factors had impacts on employees’ abnormal behaviors as much as 52. 8%, 19. 6%, and 19. 2% percent respectively.

This research is aimed at investigating the impact of local marketing on occupational consequences (job satisfaction, occupational involvement and job engagement), and organizational consequences (organizational commitment, organizational identity and perceived organizational support) in Pasargad Insurance Company in Tehran. In this survey research, the target population includes all employees of Pasargad Insurance Branches in Tehran. The sample is selected through a two-step cluster sampling method. Samples size, decided based on Cochran formula, includes 385 people, and data was collected by questionnaire. Data analysis method was performed by structural equation modeling using SmartPLS2. 0. M3 software. The results indicated that there is a significant relation between local marketing and job satisfaction, occupational involvement and job engagement. Trivial impact of local marketing on organizational commitment, organizational identity and perceived organizational support was confirmed. This study has studied a comprehensive model of the impact of local marketing on job and organizational consequences in Iran’ s socio-cultural context and non-governmental sector.

Any changes in an organization entails accepting and acquiring of the essential skills by the human resources of that organization. Interoperability of electronic governments has emerged as a new issue in today's organizations referring to the concept of common collaboration among organizations. This research is aimed at identifying human resource capabilities needed by organizations during various stages of their maturity in e-government interoperability. A purposive nonrandom sample of 16 experts was selected from among the experts based on the criteria of education, professional experience and written works. This is a mixed method research in the first stage of which, qualitative directed analysis, the maturity stages of interoperability and human resource capabilities associated with each stage were identified. In the quantitative stage, using the Fuzzy Delphi technique, the identified items were confirmed by the experts. The results indicated that the required capabilities of human resources in the early stages of maturity of the interoperability are mainly technical, and as the interoperability maturity progresses go further, these requirements become more complex including theoretical or cognitive skills.

Today, it is not possible to achieve a progressive and developed society in various aspects without the guidance and assignment of elites at various levels. Accordingly, the present study aimed at providing an appropriate model for the guidance and assignment process of highest scientific talents, through a descriptive-exploratory study following a developmental applied approach. The statistical population of the research includes the scientific elites as well as the senior managers of ‘ Iran’ s National Elite Foundation (INEF)’ . 25 people were selected as the statistical sample through a judgmental purposive method. Data collection tools contained library studies and semi-structured interviews with the experts. The data were analyzed through a qualitative method based on the hybrid algorithm of the soft system methodology and cognitive mapping. The research ended in a model for the talent assignment process including two approaches of structural and facilitating guidance for the elites. The results indicated that both of structural and facilitating approaches are necessary for the guidance of the elites in the country.

This research is intended to identify the components of human resource development for the promotion of the performance of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) at behavioral, structural and contextual dimensions. This is an applied research following a quantitative and qualitative data collection method. In the qualitative phase, reviewing the literature and the previous researches and discussing the subject with experts in the field of human resources and SMEs, the components of three dimensions of behavioral, structural, and contextual aspects were identified. The final components were identified by forming a panel of 25 experts in four phases based on Delphi method. In the quantitative phase, 375 of SME managers were selected based on the Morgan Table. Cluster sampling method was used to form the sample. The research model was designed with 74 indicators in 12 latent variables to achieve three independent variables. The outcomes of structural analysis illustrated that all three behavioral, structural and contextual aspects played significant roles in the development of human resources in SMEs. The priorities of the components were investigated by Freidman Testing. The results of the research indicated that the structural, behavioral and contextual components which affected the development of human resources led to increase in knowledge and skills, improvement of attitude and motivation, and consequently increase of financial and operational efficiency of SMEs.

Business environment seems to be complex, dynamic and increasingly competitive in today’ s economics. The need to encounter this competitive environment has made enterprises suffer decline. As human resource plays important roles in the improvement of organizations and their survival in recessions, this research is aimed at identifying new dimensions of human resource in recessions. The statistical population of the research contains top managers of food industry companies having experienced a minimum period of one-year decline. Qualitative content analysis is used in this research, and snowball method is employed for interviewing. It is worth mentioning that this research is the result of semi-structured interviews with sample managers from eleven executives of outstanding companies. The results illustrated that human resource strategies at the time of recession include 6 themes, 12 components and 39 items, including CEO level strategy, senior management level strategy, cost reduction strategy, innovative human resource strategy, culture change strategy, and ultimately an innovative strategy. The titles of some themes are the same as the literature; however, the sub-components and constructor items are somewhat different. Furthermore, introducing innovative theme in the literary is an innovative outcome of this research.

This research is intended to design a strategic excellence knowledge management model in Khuzestan Province Gas Company. This is a mixed (quantitative and qualitative) research. It is a descriptive exploratory research in terms of data collection following an applied-developmental purpose. The statistical population of the qualitative phase contains 15 university and industrial experts, The quantitative phase of the research includes 340 knowledge workers (process dealers, knowledge management team, knowledge facilitators, and the strategic group) at Khuzestan Province Gas Company among whom 124 employees were selected as sample according to Cochran formula. The validity of the qualitative data was verified by Newman's validation method, and the reliability and validity of the quantitative method were testified and validated by Cronbach's alpha coefficient and confirmatory factor analysis. Data analysis was carried out through grounded theory in the qualitative phase (designing the model). In the quantitative phase, the collected data was analyzed by SPSS and LISREL software. Finally, the strategic excellence integration knowledge management model was designed with three key components (strategies, processes, and outcomes), 19 criteria, 140 sub-criteria, 4 contextual variables and 4 preventive variables. Furthermore, the results of quantitative analysis indicated that the company obtained 1257 points from the strategic excellence knowledge management model, which results in a 983-point gap.

The main purpose of the present research is to determine the impact of knowledge management (KM) on organizational performance with regard to the role of mediating strategic measures of human resources. This is an applied research following a descriptive-correlative method. The statistical population of this research includes all 750 employees of Irankhodro Diesel Company, from whom a sample of 254 people were selected by simple random sampling method according to Cochran formula. The main instrument for data collecting was a questionnaire. In terms of strategic human resource management, Chang and Huang (2006), organizational performance, Wang et al. (2005) and knowledge management (Wang and Ahmed, 2010) were employed. The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by content, and its reliability was confirmed through Cronbach's alpha as much as 0. 845 for human resources strategic management, 0. 686 for organizational performance and 0. 89 for knowledge management. The collected data were analyzed using structural equation modeling. The results indicated that the knowledge management influences organizational performance directly and indirectly through strategic human resource activities.

The development of all countries is due to the competence of their elites. This research is intended to investigate the requirements, obstacles, problems, and the solutions suggested by the elites, and to take steps to optimize the management of the elite human resources. This is a qualitative phenomenological research. The research population includes all elites at Iran’ s National Elite Foundations (INEF), including 14, 800 elites having been registered. By a purposive sampling method of maximum change, a total number of 55 elites were selected from the ninth elite groups as the sample. Data were collected by semi-structured interview. The findings were analyzed separately for each of the nine groups in three categories of requirements, barriers, problems and solutions through Corbin and Strauss color coding. The categories of each section are presented in terms of the frequency of each category representing its importance. A number of requirements and problems were common in all nine elite groups requiring special attention. They include: employment in accordance with the capabilities, facilitation postgraduate education, administrative bureaucracy and the lack of universities’ justification, institutions, and organizations of issues relating to elites, problems caused by the deficiency of facilities provided by the INEF, and neglecting the elite of the humanities.