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    Issue51   Vol. 16 Summer 2017
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        1 - Developing the Roadmap of Succession Planning in the Organization (Case study: Iranian Gas Transmission Company, district 3)
        Mostafa Najafi Sharafeddin  Mohammad arazi Aliakbar Hasani
        Developing a roadmap for an organization creates a clear path to a series of goals and visions for the future. Organizations use roadmap as a tool for variety of strategic objectives and the reason of this, is the diversity of approaches and techniques in this field. Ro More
        Developing a roadmap for an organization creates a clear path to a series of goals and visions for the future. Organizations use roadmap as a tool for variety of strategic objectives and the reason of this, is the diversity of approaches and techniques in this field. Roadmap helps companies, industries and organizations to map what they need to do to succeed in the future. Planning for supply appropriate human resources for the organization's future is one of the key and strategic decisions making for the organizations. In general, the purpose of succession planning is the preparation of talented individuals within the organization, to fill key, delicate and strategic jobs. Therefore, planning to build an integrated model to replace the old forces in any organization is inevitable. Therefore, in this paper we have tried to draw a comprehensive roadmap for the implementation of the succession planning as a roadmap for the survival of the organization, as well. A case study in this paper is the Iranian Gas Transmission Company, district 3 and with respect to the company's strategic importance to the country from different aspects affecting the sustainable growth, the development of roadmap for the future of this organization has been on the agenda. Data collection based on experts' comments and by using the Delphi process was conducted. The findings show that the roadmap developed according to the validation conducted by experts, has been well managed the visible and invisible Gas company needs to provide succession of forces according to the goals. Manuscript profile
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        2 - Effective organizational elements and the results of cross-functional coopetition in small and medium size industries
        Hossein  Rahmanseresht bahram jabarzadeh karbasi
        Due to changing conditions and unstable environment, Companies to survive and have a good competitive position always require proper utilization of the knowledge available in the organization. Without a proper structure and leadership style, using this source is not pos More
        Due to changing conditions and unstable environment, Companies to survive and have a good competitive position always require proper utilization of the knowledge available in the organization. Without a proper structure and leadership style, using this source is not possible. An appropriate leadership style and structure can not only create competition for the creation of new knowledge but also by providing suitable cooperation condition, can create conditions for sharing created knowledge. Therefore this study, investigates the effective organizational elements as well as the results of cross-functional coopetition, in small and medium size industries. The study was causal and statistical sample is 165 employees and managers working in companies located in the industrial areas of Kerman city and the tool for data collection is questionnaire. Reliability for Conservative leadership, participative leadership, formalization, centralization, cross-functional coopetition and knowledge integration mechanisms is obtained 0/81, 0/70, 0/72, 0/70, 0/91 and 0/84 respectively. The results indicate that the conservative leadership and formalization impact on cross-functional coopetition but participative leadership and centralization have no effect on cross-functional coopetition. Also the results indicate that the cross-functional coopetition has a significant and positive impact on knowledge integration mechanisms. Manuscript profile
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        3 - Exploring Content of Nurses’ Emotional Labour Dimensions and Investigating the Impact of Human Resource Management Practices on it in Mashhad’s Public Hospitals
            Mostafa Kazemi saeed mortazavi
        Emotional labor as the management of emotions is the vital aspect of nursing profession that must be observed in order to express the organization’s intended emotions. Despite the emphasis made over the importance of this topic, it has not been much within the spot ligh More
        Emotional labor as the management of emotions is the vital aspect of nursing profession that must be observed in order to express the organization’s intended emotions. Despite the emphasis made over the importance of this topic, it has not been much within the spot light of experts inside the country; as the result there is no accurate cognition over the phenomenon. The current study, due to the existing knowledge gap and its important application in the domain being studied, explores contents of emotional labor dimensions in nurses; since a special goal out of HRM practices must be developed to create and preserve desired organization’s emotions, the second aim for this paper is studying the impact of HRM practices on contents of these dimensions. In the qualitative, all exemplar nurses of Mashhad’s public hospitals were interviewed by purposeful sampling; and the analysis was conducted through Colaizzi method. In quantitative, a questionnaire was distributed among 130 experienced nurses; and the analysis was conducted through confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and AMOS software. Finally, in qualitative, in surface acting, 5 subcategories in 2 categories “emotional mask and emotional deal”; and in deep acting, 15 subcategories in 5 categories “emotional withdrawal, emotional empathy, emotional arousal, emotional sharing, and emotional reflection” emerged. In quantitative, the result for confirmatory factor analysis confirmed all categories and subcategories obtained in nurses’ emotional labor; also, HRM practices affected contents of emotional labor dimensions. Manuscript profile
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        4 - Motion Algorithm from EFQM toward BSC in order to prioritize improvement projects of self- assessment.
        mohammad saleh  owlia mohammad hosein abooie پرستو دمرچی
        EFQM excellence model with specifying the position of organization in the path of excellence is a practical tool in order to understand its deficiencies and shortcoming, so that with providing guidelines in the form of improvement projects helps organizations to advance More
        EFQM excellence model with specifying the position of organization in the path of excellence is a practical tool in order to understand its deficiencies and shortcoming, so that with providing guidelines in the form of improvement projects helps organizations to advance the process of appropriate management systems .EFQM self- assessing model as a tool of Total Quality Management is facing with the problem of the lack of prioritizing improvement projects because of the lack of facilities and limits of resources in enterprises hence there are the necessity of strategic prioritizing of self-assessment projects in the organization. The aim of this study is to provide the steps of moving the EFQM model to BSC model as a strategic management tool by using FTOPSIS and FANP techniques in order to strategic prioritize the improvement projects of the EFQM self-assessment. This study is functional in terms of the objective and in terms of method is a survey research and in terms of the collection of information is a field research. Statistical society consists of 7 persons of Yazd municipal managers in the form of excellence team and interview and questionnaire are tools used in the research. The result of prioritizing improvement projects led to determine importance of internal process perspective in the organization in the organization and prioritize 21 improvement projects including “ provision and updating of educational electronic ID”,” personal relocation in occupational category according to given training”,” create documentation center in municipality” Manuscript profile
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        5 - Design and offering conceptual model of investigation impact of strategic entrepreneurship on strategic innovation in knowledge-based firms of Bushehr provience
        fakhrieh Hamidianpour mahboobe shafiei مریم دهقانی
        Market's condition is changeable and this condition force businesses to adopt themselves with new situation, technology and value propositions. In the today competitive environment, organizations try to imitate innovation from competitors, so innovation and continuous i More
        Market's condition is changeable and this condition force businesses to adopt themselves with new situation, technology and value propositions. In the today competitive environment, organizations try to imitate innovation from competitors, so innovation and continuous improvement is necessary for success of organizations, therefore strategic innovation is an important issue. Strategic innovation is about creation of new markets and leaps in customer value and reshaping the existing markets to achieve value improvements for customers. On the other hand, strategic entrepreneurship results from the integration of entrepreneurship and strategic management knowledge. Objective of strategic entrepreneurship is making continuous competitive advantages that lead to wealth creation. In this paper, first we introduce the concept of strategic innovation and strategic entrepreneurship, then explain the conceptual model of strategic entrepreneurship impact on strategic innovation. Statistical society of this research, is knowledge-based companies of Science and technology park of Boushehr. According to the results obtained from testing this model, the main hypothesis of this study confirm that the result shows a positive and significant relationship between strategic entrepreneurship and strategic innovation in the organization. Manuscript profile
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        6 - The Role of Agile Manufacturing in Improving Organizational Productivity
        gholamreza hashemzade khorasegani Mohammad Reza Bahrami
        Today, the increase in instability and turbulence in organizational environments has made organizations achieve certain levels of agile manufacturing to meet the needs of their customers in unpredictable conditions, as agile manufacturing is considered the major contrib More
        Today, the increase in instability and turbulence in organizational environments has made organizations achieve certain levels of agile manufacturing to meet the needs of their customers in unpredictable conditions, as agile manufacturing is considered the major contributor to the success and survival of firms. However, many manufacturing firms do not pay much attention to such issues. This paper was mainly aimed at investigating the role of agile manufacturing in improving organizational productivity. To this end, a number of employees at Moghan Wire & Cable Company were selected as the study sample. The research was an applied cross-sectional survey. Simple random sampling was used to select 134 managers, specialists and employees familiar with agile manufacturing at Moghan Wire & Cable Company. After identifying productivity and agile manufacturing indicators, a questionnaire was designed. The questionnaire’s validity was confirmed by professors and a group of experts at Moghan Wire & Cable Company. Cronbach’s alpha was used to evaluate the questionnaire’s reliability. The questionnaire’s Cronbach’s alpha was 0.90. Descriptive and inferential statistics were applied to analyze the collected data and find the relationships between the variables. The analyses were performed using SPSS 20 and SmartPLS 2. The results showed that high levels of agile manufacturing had a significant influence on productivity at Moghan Wire & Cable Company. Manuscript profile
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        7 - The Effect of Brand distinctiveness and performance on Brand Competitiveness with the Mediating Role of Technological Opportunism
        Davood Feiz Ali Reza  Motameni Asadolah  Kordnaeij Azim Zarei Mahdi Dehghani Soltani
        Today, brand competitiveness is among those issues which has received much attention among researchers and scholars in economy and has been touched upon as a means to achieve desired economic growth and sustained development. In today’s world, the development of food in More
        Today, brand competitiveness is among those issues which has received much attention among researchers and scholars in economy and has been touched upon as a means to achieve desired economic growth and sustained development. In today’s world, the development of food industry market from one hand and increase in competitiveness among firms and customers’ expectations, on the other hand, have persuaded food companies to generate a strong brand in today’s competitive markets. The present research is aimed at studying and examining the effect of brand distinctiveness and performance on brand competitiveness through the mediating role of technological opportunism among super exporter firms of food industry products. Data gathering instrument was a standard questionnaire whose face validity for validity purpose and Cronbach alpha coefficient for its reliability were examined. This study is practical in aim and descriptive-survey in data gathering procedure. To test the research hypotheses and to confirm the conceptual model, structural equation modeling was used. The results show that brand distinctiveness and performance have a significant positive effect on brand competitiveness while technological opportunism has a mediating role in the above relationship. Manuscript profile
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        8 - Explaining the Patterns of Excellence in Excellence for Activist Organizations
        Maryam Gholizadeh  
        Despite the vast application of excellence models in modern organizations, it is not clear that which one is more appropriate. This paper is aimed to choose the most proper Excellence patterns to be employed to realize the excellence goals in progressive organizations. More
        Despite the vast application of excellence models in modern organizations, it is not clear that which one is more appropriate. This paper is aimed to choose the most proper Excellence patterns to be employed to realize the excellence goals in progressive organizations. For this study, not only we studied the literature of research, but also we employed Fuzzy Delphi technique to filter and select superior excellence patterns. The conducted idea analysis was filtered during two steps using Cheng & Lin approach. The study population was comprised of 30 industry experts and university faculties. In order to study and analyze, 12 excellence patterns were selected from different fields including human resources, training, ethics, and knowledge management from which 5 excellence models were chosen after filtering experts' opinions. It is considered that through this process, the excellence path for organizations will be defined and will make them capable to take actions in order to realize the excellence goals in much shorter period of time Manuscript profile
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        9 - Identify and Prioritize indicators Of Knowledge-Based Soft Technologies Case Study:Computer Games
        Alireza Aliahmadi Tahereh Barideh
        This paper has aimed to identify and prioritize the indicators or factors of knowledge-based soft technologies in case study .Computer games industry is a subset of the creative industries, wich can be effective in accelerating the development of Resistance Economy.Beca More
        This paper has aimed to identify and prioritize the indicators or factors of knowledge-based soft technologies in case study .Computer games industry is a subset of the creative industries, wich can be effective in accelerating the development of Resistance Economy.Because the creative industries don’t require material or machinery and they use mining mind so cann’t be sanctioned.This paper probes for a comprehensive conceptual framework with an exploratory study and comparative to identify the most important factors which form the background to achieve knowledge-based soft technologies factors and classification of factors on the basis of the characteristics of each component/factor variable within a Tri-Category conceptual framework.With combination of variables and generation of the three dimensions of context,structure,content,the conceptual framework of this study was developed.The proposed conceptual framework was developed with three rounds of Delphi method by collecting data of 22 experts,and model validation study was presented at the end.Base on the finding,48 indicators that affect on computer games industries were founded.So,14 indicators for contextual part ,20 indicators for structur part and 14 indicators for content part were identified.Also,analysis of expert option with Friman test,Showed that content factors(soft technology),the first and the top rated,structure factor(knowledge-based)and contextual factors (technological industry) were ranked second and third in priorities of panel members. Manuscript profile
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        10 - Identifying and evaluation the effective factor on successfully implementation of ERP in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises with emphasis on the life cycle of this system (Case Study: Enterprises located in the industrial town of Rasht Sefidroud)
        Marzieh Babaeianpoor    
        ERP system implementation can affect all the functions of the areas in organization and lead to increased efficiency and total productivity in the organization. But usually the organizations face with important problems and barriers such as restrictions on capital, reso More
        ERP system implementation can affect all the functions of the areas in organization and lead to increased efficiency and total productivity in the organization. But usually the organizations face with important problems and barriers such as restrictions on capital, resources, poor management and so on during the process of ERP implementation. One of the priorities of economic development in many of the developed countries is small and medium firms. What is important in these companies is ERP system implementation, so in this research we provide a model for successful ERP implementation by using its critical success factors in ERP life cycle. Therefore, study population in this research is small and medium companies based in the industrial city of Rasht Sefidrud taken into account that the number of respondents included 166 patients and for analysing the results by using structural equation modeling (SEM). The results obtained confirm the factors to company's strategy (transparent goals), accuracy of information and knowledge management, organizational structure (organizational readiness), experience, knowledge and expertise of the members of the project team and the support and participation of senior managers in step pre implementation, and approve all contributing factors is in during ERP implementation. As well as factors of change management, system acceptance / resistance ERP, collaboration and communication between departments, participation of stakeholders (end users, shareholders, etc.) and the Steering Committee also approved sample was in ERP post implementation step. Manuscript profile
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        11 - Identification and analysis of the affecting factors on the success of technology road mapping by using interpretive structural modeling technique
        Afsaneh Ahmadi Seyed Sepehr Ghazinoory Fatemeh Saghafi
        With increasing cost, complexity and speed of technological changes and global competition, to ensure that technological investment is consistent and aligned to present and future needs of the organization, industry and country has become the most important challenges f More
        With increasing cost, complexity and speed of technological changes and global competition, to ensure that technological investment is consistent and aligned to present and future needs of the organization, industry and country has become the most important challenges for policy makers and managers. So, technology management and innovation through a structured and flexible approach such as TRM is necessary. However Road mapping projects implementation and use of its advantages is impossible without identifying and prioritizing of success factors of technology road mapping. The aim of this work is using interpretive structural modeling technique to analyze the affecting factors on the success of technology road mapping. This helps improving technology road mapping process and identifying appropriate organizational policies. For this purpose, we firstly focus on literature review to extraction of technology road mapping success factors. Then, interpretive structural modeling technique is used for revealing the relation between those factors. For data gathering, 17 questionnaires are distributed among people with executive background or related working experience. The results show that the effective factors were classified in four levels. the most influencing factors are related to "commitment and support of management", "financial support" and "access to data, information and required knowledge", " appropriate participation of people ", "proper facilator" and " Accepting roadmapping ". The most influenced factors are "quality of roadmap" and "flexibility for reasonable changes by updating of roadmap"'. Manuscript profile
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        12 - Work-life quality and organizational performance, using the Balanced Scorecard (Case Study: University of Science and Technology)
        saeed khademian hamed dehghanan
        Today, the importance of human resources in organizations is obvious. On the other hand achieving improved organizational performance requires attention to staff motivation and continual improvement of these factors are factors. Therefore, the quality of working life of More
        Today, the importance of human resources in organizations is obvious. On the other hand achieving improved organizational performance requires attention to staff motivation and continual improvement of these factors are factors. Therefore, the quality of working life of the factors that on various topics such as productivity of people and organizational performance, impact. Balanced Scorecard is a performance evaluation of new methods In this method, organization or enterprise in the four-way learning, internal processes, financial and customer is assessed. Thus, according to the staff at the University of Science and Technology and their effective role in the performance of the organization, in the present study seeks to answer the question that Does the quality of work life and organizational performance using the Balanced Scorecard at the University of Science and Technology Indicators There is a significant relationship? The methodology of this research is descriptive-survey-correlation and it is aimed at applied research. The population of the research staff of the University of Science and Technology is a high school diploma or higher. The sample size was calculated using the Cochran 270. Sampling in this study was stratified random sampling. Library and field research data were collected in two parts, Walton's QWL model and evaluate the performance of two organizations with a research design was used. Prshnamh reliability using Cronbach's methods The more Tyb 907/0 and 890/0, respectively and the validity of the method has been validated using expert opinions To analyze the data, Pearson correlation test using LISREL is used. The main hypothesis of this study, the relationship between quality of work life and organizational performance Based on the results obtained in this study was confirmed.Based on the findings, the quality of working life in the layers in order on financial, learning and development, internal processes and client layers organizational performance had the greatest amount of influence Based on these results the organization should plan on financial topics and learning and growth Azparamtrhay quality of work life The payment of fair and sufficient and ongoing growth opportunity and security conditions improve staff productivity and provide organizational performance. Manuscript profile
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        13 - استراتژی مسیریابی و زمان بندی بهینه وسایل امدادی برای تخلیه افراد سالم در شرایط بحران
        مهدی حیدری fatemeh sabouhi ali bozorgi amyri
        Each year natural disasters such as earthquake, tsunamis, hurricanes, etc. due to the thousands of people homeless, cause a significant loss of social, economic and even cause the death of many people. One of the most critical steps after the disaster is to evacuate he More
        Each year natural disasters such as earthquake, tsunamis, hurricanes, etc. due to the thousands of people homeless, cause a significant loss of social, economic and even cause the death of many people. One of the most critical steps after the disaster is to evacuate healthy victims to shelters from disaster areas. We propose a mixed integer linear mathematical programming model to provide the routing and scheduling of relief vehicles with possibility of servicing to healthy people in the each disaster area by several relief vehicles, the possibility of getting service from the each shelter by several relief vehicles, several crisis centers, the number and capacity constraint for each vehicle, capacity constraint for each shelter and time windows constraint to get to relief vehicles to disaster areas and shelters. The objective of the model is to minimize total time to get to relief vehicles to the disaster areas and shelters. Manuscript profile
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        14 - Stuyding the relationship between assertiveness and empathy of faculty members who have managerial positions (case study:Valiasr university of Rafsanjan)
        marzieh kahnooji
        Objective: the main goal of the present research is to study the relationship between assertiveness and empathy of faculty members who have managerial positions. Method: this is a correlative-applied research. statistical population of the research includes all faculty More
        Objective: the main goal of the present research is to study the relationship between assertiveness and empathy of faculty members who have managerial positions. Method: this is a correlative-applied research. statistical population of the research includes all faculty members with managerial positions in academic year 2015-2016 in Valiasr University of Rafsanjan. The number of them is 61 persons. The statistical population has been studied as the sample. Data were gathered by standard questionnaires of assertiveness (Gambrel & Richy) and empathy (Davis). Data were analyzed by descriptive and infrential statistics.Findings: results of data analysis suggest that there is no significant relationship between managers’ assertiveness and viewpoint and between amount of imagination and empathetic attention and there is relationship between managers’ assertiveness and personal distress.Conclusion: results of the research suggest that there is no relationship between assertiveness of faculty members with managerial positions and dimensions of empathy. Therefore, it is necessary to pay attention strictly to these dimensions in behaviors of managers. It is recommended that managers are chosen more accurately by holding educational periods, related workshops and more scientific selections. Manuscript profile
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        15 - Design human resource strategy according to jobs grouping in Tehran UAST
        seyed aliakbar ahmadi freshte amin مجتبی کاتب reza rasouli
        Human resource has earned basic position and become a strategic factor in organizations in recent years. This research is fulfilled by using Mesholm & bamberger model for separation of jobs grouping with the goal of design of human resource strategy in the University More
        Human resource has earned basic position and become a strategic factor in organizations in recent years. This research is fulfilled by using Mesholm & bamberger model for separation of jobs grouping with the goal of design of human resource strategy in the University of Applied Science and Technology (UAST). Managers and experts formed statistical society of this research and the data is extracted through questionnaires, document study and interview with managers and experts. in this research, strategic coordinates were determined and proper human resource strategies were identified for any group of jobs after data processing. Results show that in the existing situation of UAST Paternal strategy is the dominant human resource strategy according to the experts attitudes. In this research, human resource strategies are also presented in order of separation of jobs grouping in UAST. Manuscript profile
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        16 - Explanation of Human Resource Development Model Based on Islamic-Iranian Model
        vahid nasehi far saeid Askari Masule
        This study seeks to explain human resource development models based on Islamic-Iranian model of progress in line with a generalized model in the selective ministries of Iran. The research method is descriptive-survey and is based on cross-sectional data. The questions a More
        This study seeks to explain human resource development models based on Islamic-Iranian model of progress in line with a generalized model in the selective ministries of Iran. The research method is descriptive-survey and is based on cross-sectional data. The questions are descriptive and hypotheses are relational. The main question of the research involves how the integrated model of development of human resources based on Islamic-Iranian model of progress in the ministries of Iran is. The population mean test was used to test the hypotheses and Friedman test was used to prioritize variables. Thirteen hypotheses were defined based on the models of previous studies. The population of the study includes all vice presidents and directors of human resources development who are at service for the year ended in 1395 in the selected governmental ministries. The findings of the hypotheses testing indicate the confirmation of all the variables influencing the research model. According to the results of the confirmatory factor analysis, from the organizational perspective factors like organizational justice, cross-organizational factors, training, hardware factors of the working environment, indigenousness of the model, knowledge management, national factors and software factors of the working environment and from individual perspective factors like faith-centeredness and engagement of the employees are effective on the development of human resources based on Islamic-Iranian approach of progress. Finally, the final version of the research model extracted by using confirmatory factor analysis and its fitting was approved. Manuscript profile

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