مجله پژوهش های مدیریت عمومی
پیاپی 21 (پاییز 1392)

Strengthening the national unity requires deep knowledge of the process of national identity formation and use this knowledge for promotion of the unification concepts and relevant values ​​in the society. To achieve this goal، this paper aims at developing a systematic model for the strategic management of national identity. The proposed model was tested using DEMATEL technique. The results indicate that the historical and environmental factors (ethnic، national، and international) affect strength of nationalistic attitudes and behavior، more than any other element. Moreover، the official media، the education system، family and friends، as means of socialization and identity، are identified as part of the national identity management system.

Coaching organization is a new organizational face that focuses on coaching as an effective strategy for developing human resources and organizational learning. The problem of this study is the affecting factors on developing a coaching organization which identified and summarized in three categories: human resources factors، business contexts and coaching culture. Then by Survey research method via a descriptive questionnaire the impact of human resources and business contexts as independent variables and coaching culture as mediator variable on developing a coaching organization as dependent variable has tested and examined the fitness of research conceptual model via factor analyses and lisrel software. Research findings are: introducing the impacting factors on developing a coaching organization and presenting a model for a coaching organization on the bases of sport and playing skills، indigenous cultural values and inherent variables of Iran،s Insurance industry which organized in 7 original and 28 partial hypotheses to explain the direct and indirect relationship between mentioned factors and the coaching organization and Finally all of original and 22 of partial hypotheses verified. The research results are according to coaching literature and hypotheses testing results on the bases of factors impact priority are: human resources factors، business context and coaching culture. The mediating effect of coaching culture on the relationship of two other factors with coaching organization assessed positive and strong. The most important research suggestions offered on the bases of these effects and also suggested to other researchers the examining of the research model in private insurance sector and other organizations to develop a general model.

This research seeks to clarify the relationship between Entrepreneurial Corporate Culture (ECC) and Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO). For this purpose، 247 of the 2،354 people، that working in 129 small and medium enterprises (in five industries of food and beverage، cellulose، chemicals، metallic minerals and non-metallic minerals that have been active in Birjand)، were selected to fit the above categories. Due to the lack of appropriate models to assess the ECC compatible with Iranian Islamic culture that is based on our country، researcher tried to formulate this model. Then dimensions and indicators of ECC and EO were confirmed by experts. Then using descriptive – solidarity research method and using path analysis (Structural models of SEM) and regression testing and with the help of SPSS and AMOS software، relations between ECC and EO are shown. The results showed that there is a significant positive relationship between ECC (and its dimensions) and EO، and the significance of the concept of Development Orientation is greater than other dimensions (0. 67). Results also showed that this relationship based on managers'' responses is more significance.

All organizations are experiencing increasing competitive challenges in today̛s competitive environment. The rate of changes in new products and technologies and shifting in customer preferences has increased. The survival in such an environment is only possible thorough obtaining superior organizational performance. Therefore، it is necessary to consider the factors affecting the organizational performance. Entrepreneurial strategic planning is one of the factors affecting organizational performance. The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of entrepreneurial strategic planning dimensions including entrepreneurial orientation، environmental scanning، participation in planning and flexibility of planning on the organizational performance of food industry in Shiraz province. The population for this research involved 90 principal managers of the food industry in Shiraz. The standard questionnaires were used for data collection and data analysis was done using structural equation modeling and path analysis by PLS software. The results of this research indicate that entrepreneurial orientation، participation in planning and flexibility of planning are positively related to the firm performance، but the effect of scanning intensity is not supported.

The purpose of this study is designing a model of organizational participation for use in Zahedan schools. This is a descriptive- correlation study and its population were principals and teachers of Zahedan schools in academic year 2012-2013. 548 principals and teachers from them were selected by random sampling method. The study instrument was a questionnaire with seven dimensions (participatory culture، organizational structre، transformational leadership، attitude to participation، interpersonal trust، organizational commitment، and organizational participation). The scores were analyzed using the Spearman correlation coefficient and multiple regression by Software SPSS17. Results showed that were significant positive correlation between participatory culture with organizational participation، organizational structre with organizational participation، transformational leadership with organizational participation، attitude to participation with organizational participation، interpersonal trust with organizational participation، organizational commitment with organizational participation.

There are several different factors in industrial processes، each of which may have an impact on final product specifications. In this paper، to optimize the parameters of continuous production process and restrictions the choice of these parameters and influence factors are discussed، and conceptual model with its steps، using a combination approach of Response Surface Methodology، Artificial Neural Network and Meta heuristic algorithms is presented. as an example، modeled polyethylene terephthalate (PET) process with the 5 quality characteristics as response variables and 9 influence factors. The proposed approach makes it possible that when caused a change in the production plan which leads to a decrease or an increase of production، be able Meanwhile observe the standard of response variables (characteristics of product quality)، to determine amounts variables (the product of the adjustment of process requirements) can be.

The present research with purpose of the survey of relationship between organizational agility and competitive intelligence in bank branches has been designed and implemented. For this purpose، the staff of 7 governmental and private banks of Sanandaj city were considered and evaluated as statistical population. Method of this research is descriptive study، in kinds of the correlation and in particular، is based on Structural Equation Models. For measure the basic concepts of research، organizational agility questionnaire of Goldman et al included dimensions (delivering value to the customers، being ready for change، valuing human knowledge and forming virtual partnerships) and researcher made competitive intelligence questionnaire with reliance on the «Fahey» model consists dimensions) marketplace opportunities، competitor threats، competitive risks، core assumptions and key vulnerabilities) were used. Reliability of questionnaires with Cronbach''s alpha، respectively for the two variables، was calculated to be 0. 91 and 0. 89، and accepted. Test validity too، with two methods of content validity and construct validity using، results of exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis and the KMO index was confirmed. Final results of research، in software''s spss and lisrel، showed significant relationship between organizational agility and its dimensions with competitive intelligence in bank branches is studied.