فصلنامه مهارت آموزی
پیاپی 10 (زمستان 1393)

To become successful in nowadays’ world competition, any organization should manage its knowledge and be creative. Knowledge management is the process of discovering, capturing, developing, instruction and retention, evaluating and effectively using organizational knowledge at the right time by competent people. And creativity is formed by interaction of an individual with the environment. Environment encourages people physically and socially to think in unusual and creative ways. So it supports staff’s creativity. The objective of the paper was to study the significance of knowledge management on creativity among the Iran Technical and Vocational Training Organization (Iran TVTO)’s headquarters staff. This research was implemented by using the approach of descriptive correlational design. Data, collected through a standardized questionnaire with Cronbach Alpha coefficient 0.945, were analyzed by SPPS software. The Kolmogorov-Smirnov (K-S) test was used for normality of the distribution. Watson- Camera test was used to assess independence of errors in regression. The results showed a significant correlation between knowledge management and creativity. Therefore, if the level of knowledge management in the organization increases at rate of 1.0, the level of creativity among staff will increase at a rate of 0.969 and vice versa.

This paper aimed to identify the key and contributing factors of instructors’ competencies and qualifications of Tehran Technical and Vocational Training (TVT) Centers. Due to its purpose and data collection method, this research was an applied and a cross- sectional descriptive survey respectively. All Tehran TVT Centers’ instructors were the research population. Since in exploratory factor analysis (EFA), a sample of at least 350 cases is needed; the gross of sample for this research was 392 TVT centers’ instructors that based on KMO index it has sampling adequacy. A researcher-made questionnaire were developed as data collection tool. Findings showed that 70.647% of TVT instructors’ qualifications are determined based on 8 factors. These 8 factors respectively were “skills for learning environment management and organization”, “skills for design, curriculum development and training implementation in class and workshop”, “basic and fundamental skills”, “thinking and  conceptual skills”, “business skills”, “communication skills”, “personality traits and skills”, and “evaluation skills”.  The results indicated that “skills for learning environment management and organization” having 18.883% and “evaluation skills” with 3.44% are the most and least important factors respectively.

Women employment as half of human capital can play an important role in the economic growth and national development. On the other hand, economic enterprises and financial institutes are competing to capture the market and attract customer satisfaction. More labor force employment can be expected by expanding financial development. Although, the literature on financial development has grown up, only a few researches studied the nexus between financial development and employment, especially women employment. In this regard, the paper aimed to investigate the relationship between financial development and women employment in Iran economy, by using available time series data analysis and using the selected econometric modelling. Results implied that increase in level of financial development can be expected to increase women participation rate in Iran national development.

This study aimed to investigate the pathology of significant factors of skills training in order to develop a strategic development plan for this training in Mazandaran province, Iran. Research methodology was an integrated approach (qualitative and quantitative). Content analysis and descriptive data were respectively used in qualitative and quantitative methods. The research population involved provincial skill training chief experts for the external assessment and Mazandaran Technical and Vocational Training (TVT) Head Office’s experts for the internal assessment in 2014-2015. To determine components/ factors and ills in skill training implementation, semi-structured interviews and for scoring and ranking the factors, a questionnaire were developed as data collection tools. Findings showed that there are multiple ills and injuries to both external and internal factors of Mazandaran TVT Head Office. The most crucial ills were the mismatch between skill training and labor market needs, lack of qualified personnel to provide some skill training, and lack of financial and cedit facilities. Not to update the skill training equipment and facilities, inadequacy of  training materials and consumables, and no official support of entrepreneurs and distiguished skill tranees were the other main ills and problems.

Nowadays, there is no doubt that the importance and role of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) for economic growth and development is highly appreciated. Industrialized and developing countries through making policy and planning has been trying to organize, tackle barriers and problems, improve environment for doing business and provide the necessary circumstances in order to make best beneficent of SMEs for entrepreneurship development and solution to the unemployment. 98.4 percent of businesses in Iran are micro-enterprises (1-9 workforces), while this for small ones (10 – 49 workforces) is only 1.4 percent. This paper aimed to study the contributing factors on innovation, training/ education, skill, and entrepreneurship in SMEs in Arak. Due to its purpose and data collection method, this research was an applied and a descriptive survey respectively. For data analysis, descriptive and inferential analysis, Friedman test, Cochran, and nonparametric test were used. Findings showed that market competitiveness, and current internal and external environment have an effect on innovation in SMEs.

The present study aimed to identify and provide solutions to attract the maximum competitors/ trainees for Iran National Skills Competition (Iran NSC) according to various skills in North Khorasan Province. It was a descriptive survey research. All competitors, and experts participated in Iran NSC during the years 2013 and 2014 were the research population. 267 samples were determined as adapted from Krejcie & Morgan table, and selected in a random sampling way. A researcher-made questionnaire having 34 statements (questions) in the scale of Likert were developed as data collection tool. Cronbach's alpha coefficient (0.828) was calculated to identify the questionnaire reliability and based on chief experts’ views, its validity was confirmed. Finally, after data collection, statistical analysis, and Friedman test, the results showed that the “public positive attitudes towards the TVT and NSC” had the highest rank to attract competitors. “Skilled instructors”, “high quality training courses”, “facilities to support employment and government financial support”, and “advertising and promotion” were the next priorities to attract competitors for NSC.