فصلنامه نوآوری های مدیریت آموزشی
سال دوازدهم شماره 4 (پیاپی 48، پاییز 1396)

In most organizations in all over the world, managers are looking for upgrading and improving the performance of their organizations. Management Research Focus on the importance of knowledge management and organizational learning in order to improve the performance. This study aims to investigate the impact of knowledge management on financial performance, directly or indirectly, mediated by organizational learning in education office of central province. Research method is cross-sectional and of correlational type. The population of this Research includes 250employees in education office of Central Province. The sample size was determined by sample size formula as 82. The standard questionnaire was used to collect data whose content and construct validity and its reliability were measured through Cronbach's alpha. The data were analyzed using LISREL software. The results of data analysis revealed that all research hypotheses were retained.

The purpose of this research was to present a model for developing faculty members’collaboration in research activities of Islamic Azad University in Tehran Province. The research method was surveying and the statistical population of this study all part-time and full-time faculty members of Islamic Azad University branches in Tehran province, who were 5922 people. 415 were selected as the sample through Cocron’s formula. To collect the data, a researcher-made questionnaire that contained 41 questions (one open-ended question) was used. The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by five expert`s in the field, and its reliability was measured as .97 through Cronbach’s alpha. Data analysis procedure, auch as descriptive, variance, mean, and KMO were applied through SPSS software. The results showed that developing collaboration of faculty members in research activities has six main components include administrative and organizational, social and cultural (.599), financial and economic (.618), personal and professional (.605), facilities and type of research activity (.617), and solving research barriers (.651).

This study aimed at investigating the relationship among organizational culture, quality of work life, and organizational commitment in different wards of Tohid Jam Hospital. To this end, 200 people were selected through convenience sampling and completed Denison’s organizational culture survey (1991), Walton’s quality of work life questionnaire (1973), and Allenor’s organizational commitment questionnaire (1990). The correlational research design was applied in this study. Pearson correlation coefficient and multivariate regression were used to analyze data. The results of data analysis revealed that there was a significant and positive relationship between affective commitment, and fair payment, secure workplace, growth opportunity provision, social dependence, legalism, whole living space, social and cooperative integration, stability and unity, flexibility, and mission. Norm commitment established a significant and positive relationship with fair payment, secure workplace, growth opportunity provision, social dependency, legalism, whole living space, social integration, human and cooperative development stability and unity, flexibility, and mission. Meanwhile, mental commitment had a significant and positive relationship with social integration. Analysis of regression reflected that social dependency and integration could predict 21 percent of personnel organizational commitment variance. Cooperative factors were able to define 21 percent of personnel organizational commitment variance and quality of work life was a stronger predictor for organizational commitment compared with organizational culture.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of leaders’ wisdom on organizational citizenship behavior with the mediating role of organizational culture among Azad university faculty members of Tehran City. The research method was practical and descriptive type and quantitative. The population consisted of 700 full time faculty members in Tehran Azad University that were selected through cluster random sampling method. To collect the data, three standard questionnaires were used: (a) organizational wisdom by Ardlet (2003), (b) organizational citizenship behavior by Organ and Kanofski (1996), and organizational culture by Dennison (2000). After collecting the data, they were desescribed in terms of the mean and standard deviation through SPSS-21 software and inferential statistics was carried out through structural equation modeling with the help of LISREL-v8.80 software. Technical characteristics of the questionnaires were assessed including reliability, validity, convergent and divergent validity. Path coefficient and significant ones were used to test the hypotheses. The results showed that the degree of appropriateness of the proposed model was ideal with regard to research components. Also the results of the study indicated that leader wisdom had significant impact on organizational citizenship behavior with the mediating role of organizational culture among Azad university faculty members.

This research is descriptive and of survey type and in terms of purpose is based on applied. 233 out of 588 staff of Islamic Azad University in Lorestan province were selected as the sample of the study. For collecting the required data, Walton Standard Quality of Life Questionnaire, Organizational Culture Questionnaire, and Citizenship Behavioral Inventory of Podsakoff were used. Data were analyzed using SPSS20 software. The results of the study showed that the quality of work life and each of its components, namely fair and adequate payment, safe and hygienic work environment, provision of growth opportunities, constant security, organization legality, social affiliation, overall living atmosphere, unity and social cohesion, and human capabilities, are effective on the organizational culture of the staff of Islamic Azad University of Lorestan province.

The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between job ranking of employees and their performance in education office in Zanjan. This is an applied research and data collection was of survey type. After studying the literature, the variables of the study were identified and research hypotheses were formulated. The dependent variable was measured through a questionnaire whose reliability was calculated through Cronbach’s Alpha as .83. The sample of this study included 248 employees of education department in Zanjan who were randomly selected. Coefficient of correlation used in data analysis revealed that there was significant relationship between employees’ performance and their job ranking. Finally, based on the obtained results, suggestions were presented to further researchers.

What has been of importance for psychologists and sociologist is job satisfaction and its effect on morality and productivity, so the chief goal of the present study is to shed light on the relationship among narcissism, self-esteem, and job satisfaction of Golestan university staff with respect to the mediating role of citizenship behavior. Research method is survey- descriptive and of correlational type. The population were all 120 employees of Golestan university. The sample of the study were 92 employees who were randomly selected through Morgan Table. Data were collected through four questionnaires: Donal and John’s (2011) narcissism, Gardner and Pierce (2011) qustionnaire for self-esteem, Minesotami ‘s (1995)questionnaire for job satisfaction, and organizational citizenship behaviors of Organ (1998).The reliability of all those questionnaires were measured above 0.7 through Cronbach's alpha. The employed methodology was descriptive- correlational and data were analyzed utilizing structural equitation modeling (SEM). The results indicated that all research hypotheses were confirmed.

This study intends to evaluate the mediating role of knowledge management maturity in the relationship between entrepreneurial opportunities and strategic adaptation from perspective of experts in Science and Research branch of IAU. This research is an applied one and the data collection method is descriptive-non-experimental and is known as a case study. The statistical population of research includes 450 experts working in industrial projects of Azad University of Science and Research. Using Cochran formula, 207 individuals are selected as the statistical sample through random sampling. First, the demographic information about the experts was examined. After confirming the validity and reliability of the questionnaires, the relationship between knowledge management maturity, entrepreneurial opportunities, and strategic adaptation was analyzed in the form of structural equation model. Data analysis was performed using SPSS software and LISREL software. The results indicated that entrepreneurial opportunities directly affect strategic adaptation with respect to the mediating role of knowledge management maturity. Entrepreneurial opportunities also play an important role in information systems, marketing systems, and business processes.