IRANIAN JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCES
Year:2019 | Volume:14 | Issue:54|Papers Count:6

This article aimed at examining the deficiencies of compensation system in Iran’ s Public Sector. The main question is: “ what deficiencies the Iranian Public Sector compensation system are facing? ” To answer this question, we began an exploratory studies including; the review of the literature, the analysis of archival data on formal governmental institutions, as well as the laws and regulations followed by a comparison of practices in several countries. In this qualitative cross-sectional study, data was collected through field observation, the government documents and archive materials and semistructured interviews. To proceed this pathological study, we selected interviewees from Iranian political and administrative experts who were selected based on a purposive and snowball sampling approach. A thematic analysis was used for interpretation of interviews. The study results indicate that the compensation system of Iran’ s Public Sector, in addition to structural deficiencies, suffer from a number of Contextual factors; unclear budgeting system, inadequate taxation system, weak performance management system, demerit system, multiple paralleled decision-making authorities, weak transparency and monitoring, a deformed diversification of compensation orderliness, weakness in managerial, financial and legal structures of governmental agencies and weak legal nature of certain executive agencies.

Focusing on geo-tourism as one of the fast growing concepts within Iran’ s tourism industry, both in academic debate and business market, this study aimed at investigating the status of geo-tourism in Iran’ s public policies. We conducted a nonreactive research, collecting archival data from Iran’ s Islamic Parliament Research Center Database. The research result of the content analysis show that from three hundred fifty three rules and regulations that were enacted over a period of 2001 to 2018, there were fifty eight geo-tourism policies. In next step we attempted to make a typology, bringing the identified policies into five different policy categories; geoheritage development, accommodation development, infrastructure development, service and facility development and geo-tourism management development. As for frequency dimension of content analysis, the geo-heritage category stood in the first place. It seems that other components of geo-tourism development have not much considered by Iranian policy makers. It may be argued that the actors emphasis on geoheritage development policy agenda, compared to other geotourism policy priorities, has been affected in the light of legal and institutional changes occurred between 2004 – 2006.

Setting an appropriate strategy for service and product development is one of the key success factors for service oriented organizations such as banks. On the other hand service and product development in banks is closely related to external environment changes for banks due to their role in economic ecosystem and dependence to environment. In this dynamic and unpredictable environment, banks are needed to explore key variables which have impact on service and product development in order to set strategy as much as robust to achieve competitive advantage. This paper aims to explore and identify key variables influencing service and product development in one of the Iranian banks. as a case study. After reviewing related literature, 28 variables were explored. By using fuzzy Delphi technique the number of variables reduced to 20 and relationship between variables was discovered with fuzzy DEMATEL method. Findings show that variables such as GDP, foreign investment, startups and fin-techs, US sanction, relation with European Union and e-banking security and quality, have more impact on other variables. The liquidity, central bank flexibility in acceptance new rules and technologies, e-commerce and bank resource have less impact than the others.

Pricing has always been an important component of marketing. Price discrimination is one of the attractive pricing strategies to get the most out of the consumers. But these policies can have a direct impact on consumer behavior and trigger different reactions. In this study, the role of price discrimination, inequality status and reference price in consumer behavior is discussed. By conducting two experimental studies, 540 management students have engaged and collaborated projects, the impact of these variables on perceived unfairness, negative emotions, repurchase intention, positive word-of-mouth and perceived value in the shopping malls industry was studied. The results showed that different levels of price discrimination produced different responses from consumers. However, indirect price discrimination (using membership fees) is the best option for enforcing this policy. Internal reference prices can also moderate consumer reactions. The results of this study can be used as a practical model for shopping malls (especially for use in customer clubs).

In this research, the use of power sources on managers' behavior in organizational rip currents was investigated. Organizational rip currents are factors, outside the control of the organization, that make drastic and irregular changes in the organization's organs. It is like a tsunami, causes instability, lack of efficiency and even death of an organization. The purpose of this research is to categorize and highlight those manager’ s behavioral traits that influence their relative success by using different sources of power to accompany employees encountering organizational rip currents. The statistical population of the study consisted of 230 Payame Noor University’ s staff who work at central organization and hold a management BA degree. In order to collect data, a standard power source measurement questionnaire and a researcher-made questionnaire containing 14 questions were used. The managers’ power sources used in the study were expertise, legitimate, legal, coercive, and reward. The research findings indicate that there are a direct relationship between power sources of managers and organizational rip currents. Furthermore, it show a significant relationship between their legal power and substantive, structural and behavioral factors. Also, the results of the multivariate step by step regression confirmed that the legal and expertise sources play the most important role in predicting the behavior of managers when facing organizational rip currents.

One of the reasons for failure of implementation of public policies in Iran is policy alienation. Policy alienation is a psychological state that lead to implementers' psychological disconnection from the policy program being implemented. This phenomenon may have harmful consequences, and resulted in lessening of implementers’ performance. It will in turn, leads to public discontent with the public institutions implementing public policies. The purpose of this paper is to identify the antecedents of tax policies alienation. The research population consisted of tax auditors of the General Directorate of Tax Affairs of Qom province. The sample was selected through a purposeful sampling method. We conducted a semistructured interviews to collect data, and used the thematic analysis technique for interpretation of collected data. . The results showed that the lack of interaction between policy makers and policy implementers at the policy formulation strategic level, as well as, tactical and operational levels are antecedents of alienation of implementers from tax policies in Iran.