rahmatollah gholipour

This study was conducted with the goal of designing a policy-making model for sports in Iran, with a focus on the development of 'sport for all'. In terms of purpose, this study is classified as applied research, as it encompasses practical aspects for various organizations related to sports and health, in addition to providing awareness and scientific insights. Furthermore, this research is exploratory in nature, as it aims to design a model on a novel and innovative topic.

A mixed qualitative-quantitative method was employed in this study. The qualitative component was conducted using a situation analysis approach, which is one of the methods of grounded theory. The qualitative research involved interviewing experts; thus, 12 experts in the fields of policy making and sport management were interviewed. These experts were either professors or managers of organizations related to sports, possessing over a decade of executive and decision-making experience. Sampling was carried out using targeted and snowball methods. The quantitative section utilized interpretative structural modeling, an approach based on expert opinions, effective for exploring qualitative variables with mutual effects at various levels of importance.

After an in-depth examination of the interviews and the data obtained, each interview was analyzed individually to extract initial codes. Subsequently, concepts and categories were developed. Messy situational maps, ordered situational maps, and social worlds/arenas maps were identified. The primary categories of the sport policy-making model in Iran for the development of 'sport for all' include contextual factors, mediating factors, role players and influential institutions, executive requirements, environmental complexities, risks, legal problems, external organizational factors, costs and expenses, and interorganizational challenges. With the aid of interpretive structural modeling, conceptual modeling was conducted. Role players and influential institutions emerged as the most significant factors in Iran's sport policy-making process, possessing the highest influence and the least dependence compared to other factors.

Given that 'sport for all' should be elevated to the level of the country's macro policies, and its development and progress should be approached as a complex issue, the policy for the development of 'sport for all' becomes especially important. Policymakers should give it significant attention. Role players and influential institutions in Iran's sports policy-making process require substantial coordination due to their numerous connections and conflicts. In Iran, 'sport for all' and organized recreation have received limited attention, and currently, there is no mechanism for monitoring sports policies and their continuous implementation. Therefore, it is recommended to implement a national physical activity monitoring plan based on a comprehensive and electronic system. Since the involvement of managers and executives, as well as their cooperation with policymakers in the policy formation process, is crucial, policymakers should be as involved as possible in the implementation process. Additionally, conditions should be facilitated to enable the private sector to effectively engage in this field.

Mobile Telecommunication Company of Iran(Hamrah e Aval) due to the nature of the communication services industry in the country, has high dynamism and change in its field of activity. To control and adapt to these changes, the company needs a new model to evaluate its performance. Accordingly,The present Study is a qualitative research on performance appraisal with the approach of knowledge-based organization and by passing the existing performance appraisal models with a traditional and short-term perspective to cover the challenges of this field with a comprehensive, transparent and simple model, so that it is realistic and related to the sensitive and key areas of the company's performance as a knowledge-based organization. First, in order to collect data, after reviewing the literature and research background, the framework and protocol of semi-structured interviews were prepared and compiled, and then among scientific and executive experts active in the field of communication services by purposeful sampling method "Snowball", participants were selected. Data analysis was coded by Clark and Brown six-step inductive theme analysis. Data analysis in the coding process by MAXQDA software led to the emergence of 104open source, 31sub-themes and 7 main themes including management and human resource components, organizational, process, market and competitive environment, technical and executive business environment, knowledge-based platform and The results were in three areas: organizational, customer and regulatory. Due to the special characteristics of organizations active in the communication services industry and their emphasis on knowledge and information technology in order to achieve organizational perfection, the results of this study can be used by other knowledge-based companies.

Health policy-making process in Iran is extremely complex because of the impact of contextual factors and various actors with competing interest. It is not clear how the interaction of these factors bring about changes in policies. We propose a substantive theory to understand how policy changes form, and we provide policy practitioners with practical suggestions to improve the policy outcomes.

A qualitative method based on grounded theory research strategy was applied. For data collection we used in-depth one-on-one interviews with key informants who were involved in three major health policy figures in Iran. We explored the change mechanism by identifying the institutional context, action-interaction patterns and the consequent policy outcomes. For analyzing data, we conducted the three coding stages using Atlas-Ti software.

The main motivator of change in health policies is ‘impression making’ which its owners act in three contextual spheres of agenda-setting, documentation and implementation using certain strategic patterns to make it realized. Impression as the dominant determinant stream in health domain requires aligning four underlying streams of politics, idea, vertical individualism and problem with its requirements to realize the expected impressions of its owners. As long as the impressions are made, the change is in progress. By deviation of any contextual streams or reducing the eagerness to make impression, the change is stopped or downgraded regardless of the problem to be solved or the policy idea to be implemented completely.

Understanding the pattern of health policies changes through identifying role of contextual streams and adopted strategic patterns of behavior, reveals the casual mechanism behind the failure or success of polices. The theoretical model of policy change phenomenon provides policy practitioners with important lessons that enable them to control over the changes and improve the policy content and outcomes if they take them into consideration.

The organizational culture is one of the critical elements of the organization which determines organization approach to manage its activities. On the other hand, organizational culture has a systematic and direct relationship with employee empowerment and can be a factor in the success or failure of organizational programs. Such an idea has been considered in various studies. The present study was conducted to develop and explain the empowerment approach based on the culture of the organization in the municipality The method of data gathering is questionnaire. The statistical population of the study was employees and managers. Sampling was done randomly. The findings show that the organization has an inflexible culture, and the managers approach in terms of strategy is completely rational and controlling. Accordingly, the dominant cultural model is situational, and the functionalist empowerment approach is appropriate to this cultural model.

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have recently received a great deal of attention from the academic communities. However, these courses face low completion rates and there are very limited research pertaining to this problem. Therefore, this study uses Triandis theory to better understand variables that are indicative of MOOC completion. Furthermore, this study scrutinizes the quantitative relationship between MOOC usage and learning effectiveness. Two hundred and thirty-four users from selected Coursera participated in this study to evaluate the proposed model. The partial least squares (PLS) were used to analyze the collected data and test the research hypotheses. The results indicated that perceived consequences (including knowledge growth, social interaction, and compatibility) and affect have a significant impact on intention to use MOOC. In contrast, social factors delineated the insignificant effects on intention to use MOOC. The findings indicated that facilitative conditions and intentions to use MOOC have a strong and positive impact on the actual use of MOOC. Hypotheses regarding the influence of perceived consequences and the actual usage of MOOC on learning effectiveness were upheld.

Medical tourism is a growing phenomenon in 21th century that has one of fastest growing markets in tourism. Despite Iran's medical tourism capabilities, statistics show a very small market share for the country. Due to good opportunities and increasing international competition in medical tourism on one hand, and not using our capabilities in this industry on the other, this mixed method research aims to identify medical tourism development solutions as well as appropriate measures and policy instruments to implement them in Iran. The study was conducted in two phases. In the 1st phase(qualitative) after interviewing 16 participants, appropriate solutions, measures and instruments were extracted using thematic analysis. On the 2nd phase, statistical tests were used to approve and prioritize solutions as well as to assess the policy instruments according to effectiveness and feasibility measures. According to the results, there are 20 solutions and 37 effective feasible policy measures for medical tourism development in Iran which should be pursued in three areas of "policy making and administrative structures", "medical tourism supply chain" and "medical tourism markets.

Regarding bounding policies on public sector activities from 80s in many countries, the ratio of public expenditure is increasing. The growth of government size and expenditure could result in unintended socio-economics impacts and understanding the roots and causes of phenomena is significant to control and correct its impacts. Theories related to the growth of governments has mentioned in public sector economics and political sciences. In respect of limited description of these theories, the core problem of this research is finding and building an integrated theoretical description of this phenomena and its impacts in Iran. An important fraction of public expenditure in Iran, as an oil exporting country, is dependent to oil sales revenue and regarding this point different conditions has constructed for governments growth and citizens’ belief about government expenditures. Also social changes and cultural transformations after Islamic revolution in Iran is a significant dimension of this search.

The purpose of this study is to investigate The effect of perception of talent management strategies on job performance by considering the mediating role of emotional intelligence. The population of this research is employees of Iran Khodro Company, The required data obtained by using of questionnaire instrument and random sampling of 379 personnel. Research method In terms of data collection is descriptive-correlational, fpom branch of covariance analysis and Specifically, based on structural equation modeling and and by using of LISREL software were done. The results results of statistical analysis show that 1) Employee's perception of talent management strategies had significant positive effect on the emotional intelligence. 2) emotional intelligence had significant positive effect on job performance. 3) Perception of talent management strategies had significant positive effect on their job performance. Finally, Emotional intelligence play the mediator role in the relationship between employee's perception of talent management Strategies and job performance.

Evaluation of policy measures aims at improving the implementation of policy and outcomes. This article tries to use Marsh and McConnell’s framework to evalvate public policy on subsidies. It is a three-dimensional framework with process, program, and political dimensions. To achieve this goal, it has conducted a survey to explore the views of 70 experts through interviews and questionnaires. The results show that this policy, from the process dimension viewpoint, was not successful. Also in the opinion of the experts, government couldn’t achieve any of its targeted objectives in the short-term. And finally the evaluation of political dimension indicates that subsidies cannot lead to the increased levels of political popularity in the short-term. Also, some environmental factors and international restrictions governing the domestic economy as well as the currency crisis have played a significant role. Finally, some solutions are presented for streamlining this policy, they have been extracted from the views expressed by experts in the interviews

In third millennium, knowledge management and knowledge sharing was introduced as a strategic need for educational institutions system. In fact, relying on human capital, ideas and information, will ensure long term excellence of the organizations and communities. At first hand, psychological empowerment is one of factors that influences organizations and firm's success, economic growth, and productivity. Researches indicate that there's a positive relationship between knowledge sharing and psychological empowerment. The purpose of this research is to assess the effects of psychological empowerment on knowledge sharing among mazandaran province female staff of ministry of education. The methodology of this paper is descriptive survey method, based on structural equation modeling, with questionnaires used to gather the required information. Reliability of the questionnaire was tested using Cronbach’s alpha and the validity was confirmed by specialists in the fields of human resources management, institutional behavior and knowledge management. The results indicate that the psychological empowerment and dimensions of psychological empowerment is a significant predictor of knowledge sharing among employees. In other words, the psychological empowerment does affect the knowledge sharing.

Brand as the most valuable intangible asset of any companies has an important role in companies’ success and efficient communication with customer because of its excellent benefits. So creation and maintenance its appropriate situation in customers’ mind in order to effect on their decision making and purchase intention is one of the companies’ goals and priorities. This research investigates the effect of brand equity and its dimensions based on Aaker’s model (brand awareness, brand association, perceived quality, and brand loyalty) on perceived value and repurchase intention and mediator role of perceived value between 267 life insured in Saman insurance in Tehran. Research data are gathered by questionnaire with Reliability coefficient equal to 0.95. Exploratory factor analysis and correlation test are done on data by SPSS16 software and LISREL8.50 software is used to test measurement and structural models. The results show that brand equity has significant and positive effect on perceived value and repurchase intention. Perceived value has significant and positive effect on repurchase intention. Brand awareness and brand association do not have significant effect on perceived value and repurchase intention. Perceived quality has significant and positive effect on repurchase intention indirectly by mediatory of perceived value and finally brand loyalty is the only dimension that directly and indirectly by mediatory of perceived value has significant and positive effect on repurchase intention.

With respect to the vision statement, economy of Iran has to transform to a knowledge-based economy in 1404, which is currently (according to the official statistics) an input-oriented one. Improving productivity is among primary solutions to reach the goal. Nevertheless, productivity of the government has not been in a good condition during past few years. Due to this matter and challenges in productivity of government, the author tries to investigate it and explain productivity in a new conceptual framework of government and analysing its situation in Iranian state, in addition. The technique which has been used in this study is documentary and the author by the help of secondary analysis of the findings, tries to draw and analyse the current productivity situation in Iranian government, as well as suggesting solutions. These solutions are typically structural with consentration on structural revision of government and methods in which public organizations are conducted.

Policy science experts believe that policy termination is a step in the process of policy making which, compared to other steps, has been less attended to. Terminated policies are of two types: 1) those based on logic and rationality (resolved public issues, inefficient current policies, etc.) and 2) those abandoned (and ultimately terminated) after compilation and official notification. Effort has been made, in this qualitative research, to theorize the second type through, first, collecting data by conducting structured interviews with the Iranian policy making authorities/managers, and then after extracting the “key themes”, developing the theory of public policy termination according to GT which is a systematic and qualitative theorization method. The findings show that the central phenomenon of such a process is a theme called “unstable public policy” that explains policy termination in a process that involves some basic disruptive factors supported by certain causal ones.

The main purpose of this research is designing model of factors that affect utilization of policy research with concept mapping technique and verifying it. For this in three stage, Sequential-Exploratory Mixed Methods Design is used. In first stage, literature review, interview and focus group is used for identifying factors. The analysis is used for analyzing data. In second stage for designing model, concept mapping is used and finally in third stage for verifying model, Conformity factor analysis is used.Population is teachers and researchers of public policy making area and policy makers of Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution. In different level of multi-level sampling, sequential-Purposive way is used. Sample size is in interview 10, focus group 7, and designing model 19 and verifying it 83.As result shown in designing, the model consist of 18 components and 4 dimensions (context, identity features of researcher, researchers, research users). Also in verifying stage, the model that is designed confirms.

Due to the fact that the knowledge is the main engine for fortune creation in today’s world and has more effective role in national development than traditional factors such as work and capital. Advanced education, as a very important institution, is in more attention of nations and governments. That’s why selection of the students who are able to help their community in future is considered as an important subject. This issue is so important and serious that causes constant and continuous review and assessment of admissions process in our country. In a manner that the law for student assessment and admissions in universities and advanced education centers is passed by parliament and notified to relevant governmental entities to execute. In this article the new law is analyzed based on dynamic comparative policy and pentaProcedures which are qualitative method. According to the finding of this study creation required capacity take consideration of land preparation (diversity, distribution, number), enhancement in quality and quantity of balanced education and research, balanced qualitative and quantitative growth and development of science and researches, adjustment of economical and industrial development policies with national innovation policies, increasing the share of innovations based on technology in gross domestic production, effective cooperation with technology and globally scientific advanced centers, development of science, technology and innovation in order to increase national authority, supplying financial resources, development of knowledge base companies and providing job opportunities are the main principals of development of progress oriented in advanced education which seems these factors are not considered. According to other findings, common issue which is the lack of sufficient capacity in admissions system to evaluate real knowledge and ability of applicants and organized them in related majors has some aspects that one of them is the current test method. The reason that amassing and approval Policies could not define a comprehensive system in field of student admission is an incomplete policy decision making process. It means that common problem is not recognized correctly and when the problem recognition is not correct, solutions will not be compatible with the problem.

Contractor selection is one of the most important problem in supply chain and its strongly effect on firm`s performance. Because a significant amount of a university`s budget assigns to construction contracts, contractor selection is an important problem for the financial status of universities. Since Contractor selection is a multi-criteria decision making problem (MCDM), lots of methods proposed to face this problem. Selection is a broad comparison of contractors using a common set of criteria and measures. Analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and other traditional methods widely used for contractor and vendor selection by researches regarding to lots linguistic variables and both qualitative and quantitative criteria and to tackle ambiguous nature of contractor selection problem, although there is some Insufficiency about them. In this article we use FAHP that is a fuzzy extension of AHP to handle the fuzziness of the data involved in deciding the preferences of different decision variables. The linguistic level of comparisons produced by experts for each comparison is tapped in the form triangular fuzzy numbers to construct fuzzy pairwise comparison matrices. We priorities Tehran university`s construction contractor about each criteria and determine the best one about all of them.

The aim of this study is to identify factors influencing the turnover of knowledge workers at the Iranian National Company of Oil Refining and Distribution. The main question of this research is that view of KW is different from their managers. Therefore، after a thorough literature review، the researcher has chosen thefactors that effect on turnover. The personal، environmental and structural factors and job satisfaction، organizational commitment is consider to survey. The statistical sample of this study were the managers and employees of Iranian National Company of Oil Refining and Distribution، therefore، based on a random sampling method، we have survey 120 respondents. Instrument for measurement is questionnaire. Based on the proposed research model، we have examined the research questions، which consisted of one main question and five sub questions. Conclusion demonstrate the differences between the views of KWs and their mangers about the factors that effect on their turnover. Knowledge workers’ preferences are the general training، autonomy، social support and pay. Managers’ preferences are job satisfaction، pay، social support and justice.

Inadequate people awareness about Insurance services is one of the most important factors of underdevelopement of Iran insurance industry. Because insurance services aren’t objective and familiarity of people with them requires presenting comprehensive data, so professional advertising campaigns of insurance companies is so helpful. Effective advertising policymaking in insurance industry can increase insurance penetration rate and in the result, economic and social security of the society will be improved. Identifying and approving dimensions of ‘model of effective advertising policymaking’ and the relations among these dimensions are main objectives of this research. Research method is based on Survey, and questionnaire has been used for data collection. Pearson correlation test, Kruskal-Wallis test, Multidimensional Scaling, Quadratic Assignment Procedure Correlation (QAP) and Cluster Analysis have been used for analyzing data and approving model dimensions and relations. Research results, have approved six dimensions of effective advertising policymaking model and have revised relations among dimensions of primary and conceptual model of research.

Policy research is process of doing research about or analyzing a social issue in order to propose policymakers with some practical recommendations. Utilizing policy research is important than of doing it. Utilization occurs when policy research affect, shape or change people or systems. This article aims to identify factors influencing on the utilization of policy research and to design them within a model. In doing so, a sequential-exploratory mixed method is used. In order to identify factors, literature review, interview and focus group are used. In order to design a model, conceptual mapping is used. Statistical population is teachers and researchers in the field of public policymaking. In different stages of multi-level sampling, sequential-Purposive method is used. In sum, 36 people have participated in this research (10 people in stage of interview, 7 people in stage of focus group and 19 people in stage of designing model). Finally, 94 factors within 18 components and 4 dimensions were identified. This article s results support “classification of factors” and show that there is consensus mostly over research itself, policymaker and idiosyncrasies of researcher, and contextual dimension, which freedman s test has supported this ranking.

One of the most important steps in policy making process is the implementation phase. Unsuccessful implementation of complied policies especially industrial policies is one of the problems that almost all developing countries and developed ones, face with and they have paid irreparable costs for this problem too. The Model for Implementation of Industrial Policies in Qom Province presented in this paper has five stages which respectively include: culturalization of implementation, Capacity-building of Implementation, entrepreneurial Implementation, the synergy in the implementation and finally the successful implementation of industrial policies. The main purpose of this model, offers strategies for successful implementation of industrial policies in the province of Qom. In this research, exploratory interviews and grounded theory were used to collect data and modeling. Also in this study validated interview is used for testing the model.

Almost all countries get entangled in corruption in their own administrative system. The corruption in its various forms usually causes a lot of damage. It is necessary for a country which is stepping toward development and progress to do so without getting entangled in corruption, as well as to fight against causes of corruption for preventing from its damages in future so that sustainable development cab be achieved in a uncorrupted society.This paper studies corruption, its consequences, some approaches to it, and solutions for fighting against it. While describing the situation of corruption in Iran, the paper presents a pattern for fighting against corruption, in which solution for reducing corruption as well as for increasing administrative health are suggested through using multidimensional approaches and strategies with ideological and cultural orientation based on the structure of Iranian Constitution.

The process of student admission in some countries is an important challenge of educational system because of the height demand of society for university education. That is also the case with Iran, in which the overall examination taken by universities has been become the mostimportant educational event because of both height demand for university education and limited supply of it. This paper, while reviewing of history of student admission system in Iran as well as comparing such system in other countries, tries to pathologize the current system, finally suggestion a proposal for making some reform in the current system. The basis of the suggested pattern is to make a distinction between student admission and student examination with emphasizing on height education as well as independent of universities for student admission.