فصلنامه مطالعات منابع انسانی
پیاپی 13 (پاییز 1393)

Human capital has been one of the most important wealth capitals of the progressive organizations. These organizations try to develop their human capitals to preserve their competitive positions. One of the effective methods in this field is to perform knowledge management successfully in the organization. The current research studies that how and to what extent knowledge management practices can develop the organizational human capitals. To study this issue, the effect of knowledge management process (four stages of creation, recordings, application and sharing knowledge) on four aspects of human capital (adaptness, skill,experience and knowledge) is investigated. The research method is descriptive. The community of this research includes 359 managers and employees of managing and development department of ministry of civil and road of Islamic Republic of Iran. A sample of 186 persons was chosen by random sampling. The research results showed that knowledge management practices have a meaningful and positive influence on all studied aspects of human capital and performing effective knowledge management practices in the organization leads to development of human capital. Some recommendations were presented to managers and researchers.

Understanding the factors that lead to the academic achievement and preventing the academic failure is very important; hence, over the last three decades, the study of factors affecting the academic achievement has been the training and education professional’s interest and always several factors ranging from individual knowledge structures to individual and environmental factors have been examined. This research was conducted in order to find a correlation between feeling honor (self-esteem) with student’s academic progress of Shahid Sattari University. In this research, 327 students were selected by simple random sampling as the sample. The research method has been descriptive research of correlation type. To measure the amount of self-esteem Cooper Smith standard questionnaire, and to assess the academic progress total gpa1 of students has been used. In order to test the assumptions, Pearson correlation coefficient, and in order to check the effect of the independent variables on the dependent variable, multivariate regression, and in order to investigate the importance of the components of the self-esteem Friedman rank test have been used. The findings indicate that significant and positive correlations between self-esteem and academic achievement of the students and all components of self-esteem have transition effects on educational progress of the students. Furthermore, two principal components among 5 components of the self-esteem, self-acceptance and a sense of worthiness have been the greatest role in shaping self-esteem.

Leadership as one of the most important elements has an important role in advancement in every organization. This study has been identified effective factors on leadership intent of students of management. The questionnaire of the study was according to previous researches and a part of that was designed by the authors. Validity of questionnaire was confirmed by comments of the experts and factor analysis in SPSS software. And its reliability was approved by using Cronbach's alpha coefficient. The questionnaire was distributed among students of management at universities in the city of Tehran using Random sampling. The results analyzed by Amos Graphics software showed that leadership motivation, leadership efficacy and social networks have positive and significant influence on leadership intent. It was concluded that leadership efficacy and leadership motivation, social networks and leadership motivation, social networks and leadership efficacy have positive and significant Influence on each other.

Quality of working life and the loyalty are the variables which have recently attracted the attention of many managers. The aim of the present study is to investigate the relationship between quality of working life and loyalty of the employees of Eilam Province General Department of Libraries. The present study is the cross-correlation type. The population consisted of all the employees of Eilam Province General Department of Libraries among which 86 employees were selected by Morgan Chart through multi-stage cluster random method and they responded to customer loyalty research Walton working life quality assessment questionnaires. The data were analyzed using correlation coefficient statistical method and multivariable regression. The findings showed that the quality of working life of the employees in eight participation dimensions in organization, job promotion, individual problems solution, communication, motivation, job security, salary and allowances, job pride and job stress is effective on the employees loyalty.

Developing the organizational entrapreneurship is one of the best strategies that can aid the organizations in keeping the stable competitive advantage. The main purpose of this research is to study the influence of knowledge management on development of organizational entrepreneurship in technical universities of Tehran. The statistical community of the research is 432 teachers and academic members of technical universities of Tehran that 203 of them are chosen by random sampling and Cochran formula.The collection data tools was the standard Newton knowledge management questionnaire and the standard organizational Antonic and Hisrich questionnaire. This research is practical type and descriptive-correlation research. The results analyzed by SPSS and LISREL and correlation tests showed that there is a positive relationship between knowledge management and organizational entrepreneurship. Applying and creating knowledge have the highest correlation among all other factors with 0.74 and 0.68, respectively.

The main purpose of this research is to study the relationship between cultural intelligence and empowerment of teachers of female schools in Tehran. The statistical community of this research includes 12680 teachers of female schools and 346 teachers were chosen by Cochran`s formula. The main tools for data collection was standard cultural intelligence questionnaire and standard questionnaire of Blanchart empowerment test. The present research is descriptive type and the aim of the research is descriptive-correlation. The research results analysed by SPSS, LESREL and correlation tests showed that there is a positive and meaningful relationship among all factors of culture intelligence and empowerment of teachers. Behavioral and motivating factors had the highest correlation with empowerment of teachers of female schools among factors of culture intelligence.

Nowadays, Managers operate in the world full of complexity and due to the rapid changes, they are at risk of failure. Therefore, the challenge which they interface is the ability to use all physical and mental potentials to understand all aspects of each event and perform genuinely based on it. Zen as a unique method of training the body and mind that is based on the awareness and intuition provides the opportunity to understand a pure and unmediated reality and then perform based on the practical approach by using special techniques. Therefore, the use of Zen in the field of management is the key to managerial effectiveness. So that, without Zen, general and professional competencies of manager will not valuable not only for the organization but also for the manager. Thus, the present study has been tried to provide the basics of Zen philosophy as a symbol of east culture for investigating the application of Zen in management and facilitate the understanding of its mysterious concepts by comparing the traditional management, attributing to the west, with Japanese management arising from the east and accordingly expose the main contribution of its in more effectiveness of Japanese manager’s performance. If the cultural values of managers are adapted with the underlying values of the Zen, they can benefit from its advantages.