MANAGEMENT KNOWLEDGE
Year:2008 | Volume:21 | Issue:80|Papers Count:11

Understanding the buying behavior of the organizational purchasers is essential for every organizational marketer as well as for the researchers of marketing. The main goal of this research is to analyze the organizational buying behavior, the process that organizations pass to buy computer products, as well as the factors and variables that influence on their decision making. The research method is descriptive and correlation Matrix Analysis, data gathering method is a combination of interview and questionnaire methods, and the method of data analyzing is Structural Equations Method. The results of the research shows that organizational buyers (banks and financial firms) pass eight steps in purchasing computer hardware products They are affected by five groups of major factors in decision making process as follows: Environmental factors, suppliers' marketing motive factors, organizational factors, interpersonal factors and individual factors. The coefficients of the standardized path from path analysis test showed that there was a meaningful relation between all the above factors and the organizational purchasers' decision making process.

Women constitute about half population of the society and public opinions have caused women not to act and progress well in the society. Television as the most popular and further epidemic media may present the women's abilities toward achieving the goals of twenty-year vision deed. The present essay is attempting to consider the different abilities of women such as personal, familial and social ones to study its influence on achieving the goals of long term development of Islamic Republic of Iran (I.R.I) through TV media. The method of this research is Documentary and Delphi. It is also being attempted to refer to the experts of development and TV to answer the questions of the research and design a model to present women's abilities and their effective roles to access the goals of society via mass media particularly TV media. 

Building a research questionnaire and using assessment tools play a crucial role in social, management and behavioral sciences. Scales and questionnaires are deemed wrongly as the same tools, but in spite of the similarities they are basically and technically different. Although making a research scale or questionnaire may seem quite an easy job for some researchers, gathered results by these tools are normally miles away from the reality. By this token, it necessitates some technical skills and scientific background. This article is to study the Likert Scale, introduced by R. Likert in 1932, as the most commonly used assessment tools and the most recently published researches' findings are explored to build and statically analyze the produced results developed by Likert Scale.

One of the important issues in survival and efficiency of organizations is procurement of the staff job satisfaction. The available literature and the researcher’s observation has given him much cases of relationship between participative decision making and job satisfaction in Iran organizations such as Khuzestan Agriculture Bank. The following made him interested to carry out a scientific study on the factors which effecting on it. The considered population was 682 staff of Khuzestan Agriculture Bank and the sample population composed of 90 people who’s selected in a ratio stratified sampling. The means of gathering data was Library and field studies also the measurement medium was questionnaire. The validity confirmed by content, face and construct validity and the measurement reliability confirmed through cronbach alpha (cronbach alpha = 0.90). The research hypotheses analyzed by Kendall’s correlation coefficient, Kruskal-wallis and scheffe. Their analysis results (confidence invalter of 0.99) refuse null hypotheses. Therefore participative decision making and job satisfaction of Khozestan Agricultural Bank staff have high amount of meaningful straight relation (confidence invalter of 0.99).

Recent developments in leadership theory have shifted interest from earlier theories of charismatic leadership, that viewed the leader as extraordinary and the followers as dependent on the leader, to neo-charismatic theories and transformational leadership theory, which are concerned with the development and empowerment of the followers to function independently .because of the increasing notice to the leadership in making organizational change in the all of the world, and because of the key function of cultural alternatives to do that, in this research the relationship between transformational leadership and organizational culture with using correlational method has been investigated. research results show that leaders in this ministry see themselves as transformational but their followers don’t see them as transformational and both of the leaders and followers, inform the low level of the cultural elements like integration and identity in ministry .this is the alarm for organizations and ministries that before of the cultural integration, do just the physical integration.

According to the management theories and principles, the "science of management" contains four steps: policy making and planning, organizing and structure, leading and monitoring and evaluating. No matter how large or small scale your organization may be, you need to pay full attention to these steps (in addition to the environmental factors) if you would like to achieve an acceptable level of the management process. Inefficiency of the process of the Iran's economic management for the past three decades is something that the top executives, elites, and the public are all aware of. The economic indicators and variables such as the inflation rate, unemployment,. Unfair (country's income) distribution, the poverty rate etc are all a few of many reasons which could confirm the above claim. Although there are different other factors, that also could have contributed to this inefficiency, however, the oil income and its injection into the country's budget with the title "government" is being studied carefully here as a "very influential fact." Based on the research assumption the injection of the oil revenue into the government's and then spending it by the government, has had important influence on causing this inefficiency. The survey method has been employed to investigate the mentioned assumption, and after determining the statistic sample, their opinions regarding the assumption were gathered and analyzed. The sample was chosen so that it can be much knowledgeable about and well familiar with the subject being researched and were acquainted with "mechanism of the oil income distributor throughout the country" for at least two years. The statistic sample includes: all the ministers of commerce, economy, industry, agriculture and Jihad, and management organization" executive, and the chiefs of the economic as well as the planning and budgeting committees of the parliament for the past thirty years. The researched assumption was confirmed after classifying, analyzing, and performing the required tests, and it was concluded that the existence of the oil income, as an income provided to the government, has had a very large effect on the inefficiency of the economic management of Iran. To disrupt it this flow must be hindered and a new mechanism must be designed to be able to inject revenue into the country's economy and the private sector.

Entrepreneurship as any Emergence scientific field is confronting with scientific legitimacy. Entrepreneurship as a scientific field has received increasing attention but doesn't acceptance as well as. From this point of view entrepreneurship is confronting with legitimacy challenge. In this article Entrepreneurship as a emergence scientific field that is based on the five dimension consist of: subject, strong conceptual model, distinctive methodology, the research, training and publication situation and professional implications, is discussed. The findings of this article have indicated that entrepreneurship is confronting with legitimacy challenge. To get ahead of this challenge should more pay attention to dimensions of ground conceptual model, research methodology, explorative and theoretical researches.

One of the most popular management tools, the mission statement, also is subject to widespread criticism. In order to improve our understanding of the mission statement’s strategic value and to provide actionable and scientific recommendations for mission statement formulation have been tried by reviewing different strategic management texts, is represented a comprehensive model for formulation mission statement. At the result of models analysis, finally the paper found eight factors underlying 23 possible mission statement content items. And base on these factors we represent our mission statement model. The goal of this comparative study is to provide a useful model to formulate mission statement based on similarities, differences, strengths and weaknesses of different models and comparing them with each other.