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The study of organizational culture acts as a data collection tool that enables managers to prioritize issues, and identify the perceptions and expectations of employees, comparing the sectors and working groups, so as to improve the gap between status quo and a desired one. This paper aims to examine the impact of organizational culture on the entrepreneurship component in RIPI. The study population included all of 200 employees, 127 of which were selected using random sampling. For data collection, two standard questionnaires of Marguerite Hill regarding organizational entrepreneurship and Cameron and Quinn’s organizational culture questionnaire were used. The results of the study indicate that there is a significant positive relationship between variable of organizational culture and components of group culture, adhocracy culture, market culture and organizational entrepreneurship.

One of the fundamental activities of ministry of education and parent–teacher association is the realization of active participation of parents in school affairs. The current study aimed to investigate the parents’ participation rate in schools and offer practical tactics to increase their participation so as to determine the reasons for the decline of their participation. The population of the study consists of 173 educational managers and 360 parents, from Mallekan town, who were randomly selected in the study. The data collection instrument was two researcher-developed questionnaires dealing with school affairs. To analyze the research data, Chi square, t-test and Pearson Coefficient were used. The research findings suggested that there was a significant relationship among parents’ ignorance from the benefits of participation, income, age, vocation, evidence, parents’ ignorance from their rights, and educational managers’ attitudes, poor functions of educational personnel and participation rate. However, it was indicated that there wasn’t any significant relationship between parents’ sex and participation rate.

This study aims to investigate the impact of job characteristics and the quality of working life on the behavior of organizational citizenship. This paper is an applied investigation by purpose, and a survey in terms of data collection method and correlational regarding data analysis. After studying the background of the subject matter and existing patterns about job aspects, working life quality and the behavior of organizational citizenship and developing a conceptual framework, a conceptual model and research hypotheses were formulated. To measure the variables, a researcher-made questionnaire was employed. The sample population in this investigation consisted of 103 employees working at the office for educational ministry of Bandar Abbas branch who were selected using simple random sampling technique. Research findings suggest that there is a meaningful & direct relationship between job characteristics, quality of work life and on the behavior of organizational citizenship. Finally, based on the results, some suggestions were made for the organization under study and future researchers.

This study was conducted to evaluate ethical leadership with organizational health of Saveh high school teachers. In terms of purpose, research methodology is applied and the methods are descriptive-correlation. Statistical population involved all high school teachers (male and female) at Saveh city including 260 members 2013. Sample volume was 155members were estimated based on Morgan table be selected via random sampling and relative-classified method. Data collection was carried out through researcher-made questionnaires of organizational leadership and standard organizational five-point likert spectrum.Technical characteristic of questionnaire including reliability and validity were studied by using various criterions, for example Alpha Cronbach method used as one of the methods of reliability assessment for this research, the coefficient obtained for ethical leadership, organizational health were 0.86,0.85, respectively. Also management experts were asked to evaluate the validity of questionnaires.Data analysis was carried out through Pearson's correlation coefficient & stepwise regression). The results showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between ethical leadership and organizational health confirming that the more ethical leadership is added the more organizational heal this increased as well; also the highest correlation coefficient is related to justice.

This research attempts to demonstrate the importance of each obstacle and difficulty of teamwork in view of the scholars and the people who have closely coped with the difficulties of team work by studying the obstacles of doing a team work in cooperative companies. The reason why we choose cooperative companies is that both cooperatives and teams are identified by common cooperation of individuals. This process helps the chooser arrange the priorities according to their own goals, knowledge and experiences in a way that they thoroughly consider their feelings and judgments, too. The viewpoint of administrators especially in steering teams, the view point of chief executive officers and chairman of cooperatives and in in administrative teams the view of sale teams and marketing teams and in suggesting teams work group managers and project managers are used to identify the most important obstacles and to sort out all the impediments of doing a teamwork.

Today, knowledge sharing is of great importance because of creating competitive advantage, innovation, increased productivity, reduced costs and so on. This study aimed to investigate the effect of different communication factors on the knowledge-sharing in several levels including individual, institutional and technological on the knowledge-sharing. This research is applied and descriptive which is conducted via survey method. Research population was Lorestan University's faculty and staff. Stratified random sampling technique was used to determine sample and questionnaire was used for data collection. Data analysis was conducted through SPSS software. The result of analysis of data indicated that three communication dimensions including communication satisfaction, communication style and communication technology had a significant effect on the knowledge- sharing. In this study, it was found that people more tended to provide knowledge than gain and collect it. Communication satisfaction had the greatest effect on the knowledge sharing; therefore, the results also showed that communication technology situation wasn’t desirable in Lorestan University. Finally, recommendations are provided for authorities and university managers.

Nowadays, individuals have a key role in the growth and development of any organization. Human capital is considered as one of the most important dimensions of intellectual capital in universities and higher education institutions contributing to sustainable competitive advantage. The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of knowledge sharing on human capital in Payamnoor University. This descriptive, correlational study included students of Payamnoor University at Shahin Shahr as its statistical population. In order to achieve the purpose of the research, a questionnaire was designed by using a five-point Likert scale. In order to evaluate the reliability of the questionnaires, Cronbach's alpha was calculated to be 0.887 which shows its high reliability. Statistical analyses of data were carried out by SPSS19 software and finally a structural equation modeling was presented by Lisrel software. The findings showed that knowledge-sharing has a significant and positive correlation on human capital by Spearman test. Also, the structural equation modeling confirmed that the research model has a sound fitting of it. The results of this research will help universities and higher education institutions to promote their human capital through knowledge-sharing.