ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE MANAGEMENT
Year:2020 | Volume:18 | Issue:1|Papers Count:8

Since the purpose of this study was to provide a comprehensive picture of the status qua of the social responsibility directions and factors in the Iranian oil refining companies, the study at hand is a descriptive needs analysis research. Moreover, it was a mixed method study in which first an exploratory qualitative sub-study was carried out using thematic analysis method. At this stage, the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) thematic network of Iranian oil companies was researched based on the interviews with 16 experts who were members of the key stakeholders of the companies with the experience or knowledge related to social responsibility in the oil industry selected based on the snowball sampling method. The obtained data was analyzed and drawn using Attride-Stirling coding method. The interviews were continued up to the point data saturation was achieved. The validation of the extracted model was done with the cooperation of 42 experts using a questionnaire and the three-stage Delphi method. The results show that although at the first stage of the thematic analysis, six comprehensive themes and 23 organizing themes were extracted, at the validation stage, the four comprehensive themes of “ issues related to customers, environment maintenance, issues related to the staff, and the development of local communities” , 18 organizing themes, and 109 basic themes were confirmed as the CSR dimensions of oil refining companies.

Today, if organizations want to deal with the inactivity and break the silence of employees and invite them to participate, they must provide the appropriate grounds for them. Team trust is one of the infrastructures in this regard. The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of team trust on the collaborative culture and the mediatory role of knowledge sharing in the collaborative culture. This study was conducted with the cooperation of a sample of 185 employees of the Isfahan branches of Melli Bank selected through simple random sampling based on the Krejcie & Morgan model. The research method was correlational, and standard questionnaires were used to gather data. For data analysis, structural equation modeling was done using LISREL8. 8 software. The reliability and validity of the questionnaire was found to be appropriate. The results showed that trust has a direct, positive effect on knowledge sharing and has direct and indirect significant positive impacts on collaborative culture.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the mediating role of perceived transformational Leadership in the relationship between mindfulness and subjective well-being in the Ferro Gilan Complex. The study was descriptive in terms of purpose and descriptive-correlational in terms of data collection method. The statistical population was comprised of all Ferro Gilan Complex employees (N=419), out of which a sample of 200 people were selected via simple random sampling based on Cocran formula. Data collection tools were subjective well-being questionnaire of Keyes and Magyar-Moe (2003), mindfulness questionnaire of Baer et al. (2006), and transformational leadership questionnaire of Bass and Avolio (1997). The obtained data was analyzed descriptively and inferentially using structural equation modeling in SMART PLS2 and SPSS 20. The findings indicated that perceived transformational leadership has a full mediating role in the impact of mindfulness on subjective well-being.

The purpose of this study was designing and testing a model of antecedents (including ethical leadership, transformational leadership, transactional leadership, and organizational centralization) and consequences (including job frustration, job anxiety, workplace deviance, and employee silence) of perceived organizational politics in the employees of Abadan oil Refinery Company. The research design of this study was correlational, done through structural equation modeling (SEM). The statistical population included all employees in Abadan oil Refinery Company in the year 2018, out of which a sample of 459 employees was selected using multistage random sampling method. The data collection instruments included perceived organizational politics (Zho & Ferris, 1996), ethical leadership (Brown et al., 2005), leadership styles (Ismail et al., 2010), organizational structure preference (McShane & Von Gilnow, 2013), job frustration (Peters et al., 1980), job anxiety (Parker, & De Cotiis, 1983), workplace deviance (Aquino et al., 1999) and employee silence (Brinsfield, 2013) scales. The structural equation modeling was used to test the proposed model. Also, bootstrapping method was used to evaluate indirect effects in the model. Results showed that the fitness indices for the proposed model were in the acceptable range; however, by imposing some modifications, the model achieved a better fitness. The results also showed that all direct paths (except for the paths of transactional leadership and centralization to perceived organizational politics, and the paths of job frustration to workplace deviance and employee silence) were significant. Based on the findings of the present research, political perceptions can bring about employee silence and workplace deviance. Therefore, it is essential to pay attention in this regards.

In rich cultures such as Persian culture, sarcasm has a great role in interpersonal communication, and its proper use can be a valuable motivational tool for corporate executives. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of managers’ sarcastic behaviors on the employees’ creativity with the mediating role of constructive conflict. The present study was applied in terms of purpose, quantitative in terms of data collection, and descriptive-survey in terms of approach. The statistical population of this research was comprised of all the 900 engineers working on the projects of Telecommunication Company in Lorestan province, out of which 270 people were selected using convenience sampling. The data gathering instrument in this study was a standard questionnaire whose validity and reliability were confirmed using Content Validation and Cronbach's alpha. The hypotheses of this research were tested using the structural equation modeling technique. The results showed that sarcastic behavior has a direct, positive, and significant effect on creativity and constructive conflict. In addition, the results indicated that managers’ sarcastic behavior, combined with constructive conflict, has a positive and significant effect on employee creativity.

One of the methods of futurology is scenario writing. In this study, the main factors of the future formation of the standardization system have been identified and analyzed, and the scenarios for the standardization system have been extracted. To this end, based on library studies, a list of the most important factors and variables effective in determining the status of the system was first identified and then, based on expert opinions, the factors that were below the mean scores were eliminated. This way, the selected factors for the next stage of the research on and the designing of the cross-impact questionnaire were extracted. Then, using the questionnaire and applying the cross-impact analysis method using MicMac software, the opinions of the experts were analyzed and 9 factors were identified out of the 24 previously extracted factors as the final key (risk) factors. The results of this section were presented to experts in the form of another questionnaire to determine the uncertainties and significance of each variable. Finally, based on the results and calculations performed on the results of the uncertainty questionnaire, the future scenarios of the standardization system in the field of production technology were identified. According to the results, the two uncertainties of “ production policies in order to develop a competitive ground in industries” , and “ the possibility of producing modern equipment and machinery” were found to have the highest coefficients and therefore constitute the axes of the scenario of this study.

In the last two decades, organizational performance has become one of the interesting topics in the theoretical and applied research domains. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of psychological and social capital on organizational performance. This study was applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-correlational in terms of method, in which structural equation modeling was used. The statistical population was comprised of all the employees working in the small businesses of Tabriz. In the first phase, 18 businesses were selected through cluster sampling and in the second phase, of the total 750 employees, 255 people were selected randomly using Cochran formula. Data collection was done using a standard questionnaire and the obtained data was analyzed using SPSS18 and AMOS22 software. The findings showed that there is a significant positive relationship between psychological capital and social capital. Also, social capital and psychological capital have positive and significant effects on organizational performance, where the effect of social capital was more significant and stronger. The psychological capital was indirectly effective on the organizational performance through social capital variable, and social capital was a mediator variable between the psychological capital and organizational performance.

The awareness of current knowledge and the estimation of its future growth can provide a real picture of the efficiency of universities. Since universities depend on scientists, it is highly important to be aware of their knowledge level. A deeper understanding of the human capital conditions is crucial in determining the rate of university growth. Accordingly, the present study set out to design a knowledge measurement model for the faculty members of the Iranian universities. This study was a fundamental research, and relied upon the library research and a questionnaire to collect data. Statistical population was comprised of 137 faculty members of the human resources major and education management major in the Iranian state universities. The statistical sample was made up of 101 faculty members, selected by the multi-stage cluster sampling. Data analysis was done using Fuzzy Delphi method, Exploratory Factor Analysis, Decision Making Trail and Evaluation (DEMATEL), and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). Fifty nine factors were extracted for the measurement of the faculty members’ knowledge. These were classified into 5 groups, including management ability, scientific ability (fundamental), scientific ability (practical), interaction and communication skills, and specialized skills. The conceptual model was then designed and – after modification – was confirmed to have a desirable fitness. With regard to the effectiveness rank, the specialized skills were found to be at the top of the list, followed by interaction and communication skills, management ability, scientific ability (practical), and scientific ability (fundamental).