فصلنامه فرایند مدیریت و توسعه
سال سی‌ام شماره 1 (پیاپی 99، بهار 1396)

This study intends to seek if any level of IT governance, strategic thinking, organizational agility and strategic alignment can lead to better performance of the governmental organizations in Kerman city. In terms of nature and procedures, this research was causal, and regarding objectives, it was applied with quantitative basis. Data collection method was survey and the statistical population consisted of all the governmental agencies in Kerman. Considering the number of statistical population (77 organizations) and Morgan’s table, a sample size of 64 organizations was calculated and finally 62 questionnaires were collected. To collect data to test the hypotheses of the study, the questionnaire included 88 questions, which involved such dimensions as IT governance, strategic thinking, organizational agility, strategic alignment and organizational performance. Based on one-sample t-test, the performance of government departments in Kerman city is at a relatively good level. The results of path analysis based on variance in Smart PLS software shows the relationship between IT governance and strategic alignment with organizational performance mediates well with organizational agility. Also, strategic thinking has a significant and positive effect on organizational performance through strategic alignment.

Talent management is a system for identifying, hiring, developing, promoting and maintaining talented workforce with the purpose of optimizing organizational capacity and realizing organization’s goals at large. The main objective of this study is to evaluate the effects of talent management on job performance through employees’ job satisfaction and work effort in the governmental agencies located in Tehran. Based on the research literature and the conceptual model, five hypotheses were formulated. To collect data, 350 questionnaires were distributed among 60 public organizations, from among them 288 were returned. Following that, model fitness, reliability and validity of the data were examined. Considering that talent management was a second-order reflection construct and that data were not normal, Smart-pls2 software was used to test the hypotheses. Hypothesis testing and the results show that talent management has significant effect on job satisfaction, work effort and job performance. Also, the effect of job satisfaction on performance is confirmed, but the hypothesis regarding the effect of work effort on job performance with 0.235 path coefficient and 1.62 t-value is not confirmed.

Governments change their governance style according to social, political and economic conditions. Cyber security technology is among today’s most changeable technologies, which is a critical key to the national security. Because of the weaknesses in the interaction among syber security research organizations, introducing a model for utilizing all existing capabilities can be an appropriate solution for the government. One of the most important domains of human knowledge is public policy, which relates to governance concept and network governance. with an aim to reach a network governance model for cyber security research institutions, this paper tried to identify governance factors, with regard to the environmental conditions in Iran. These factors were identified by using grounded theory and interviews with experts in this field. As a result, a model, together with theoretical propositions to explain it, is proposed. Among the most important propositions are: integrated policies using technology roadmap, cyber security native products, institutionalization of the importance of security in the country and a management committed to the private sector.

Today, entering Iranian universities to trade knowledge of an advantage has become a requirement. In the process of commercialization, many factors, including environmental factors, technological, human, organizational and many many other factors involved. The aim of this subject area, weighing the importance of environmental factors in humanities areas, the consequence of external organizational factors is the commercialization of university research. This study, using thematic analysis is conducted semi-structured interviews with the approach based discovery. The statistical population in this study, including an expert scientific community is in the field of higher education, technology transfer and commercialization suggests that the so-called elites. The results obtained 8 key codes: Legal, national documents, state structure, supportive, industrial, culture, education and inherent barriers were identified. And then the three indicators of institutional, government and private categories that indicate the role of environmental factors are important in the commercialization of academic research.

Due to the fact that rapid growth for any firm and its management team is a complex process, understanding why some companies regarding the size and This study aims to identify and prioritize the factors causing job plateau in governmental organizations. This survey research used qualitative-quantitative method and the type of research was both deductive and inductive. The study population consisted of human resource managers of Khorramabad State Agencies, 25 of whom were selected as members of the statistical sample. Using qualitative data obtained from exploratory studies and exploratory interviews, job plateau causes were first determined and then, evaluated. The results show the job plateau factors and their order of priority and importance. They are as follow: lack of motivation among employees, lack of possibility to improve working conditions, few opportunities for promotion, unchallenging jobs, job ambiguity and organizational restructuring.

The purpose of this study is to identify the individual factors affecting the political skills of managers in the public sector. In terms of purpose, this research is applied-developmental and regarding data collection, it is descriptive using survey method. To analyze the collected data, structural equation modeling with partial least squares approach was used with Smart PLS3 software. The research population included a sample of 345 managers from the Ministry of the Interior, who were selected through cluster sampling method. The tool used to collect data was a questionnaire whose validity and reliability were confirmed through convergent validity and the alpha coefficient of Cronbach, respectively. The results of this study show that there is positive and significant relationship between individual factors (personality, emotional intelligence, individual responsiveness, charisma and narcissism) and political skills of the managers of this state organization. According to the results, political will explains the relationship between charisma and personality with political skills of managers, but the moderating role of political will does not confirm any relationship between narcissism, emotional intelligence and individual responsiveness with the political skills of managers. In general, it can be concluded that political will does not moderate the relationship between managers’ individual factors and political skills.