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Breakthrough Knowledge stems from a type of knowledge in which innovation is formed through novel thoughts and beliefs and not in gradual and incremental growth. Breakthrough Knowledge has some characteristics that go beyond traditional and old paradigms, it pursues qualities excluding order/discipline and objectivity, certainty, stability and accurate predictability that were proposed/discussed in traditional paradigms. Breakthrough Knowledge may be the result of features such as complexity and chaos, discontinuity and disruption, instability, probable relations, estimation and illumination (intuition) in knowledge. This type of knowledge could bring about dramatic and profound effects in the world, by using partial force and modicum resources. Adventurers, entrepreneurs, innovative and creative people are required for creating such knowledge, with its particular criteria for genuineness and originality. Through explaining these criteria and also attributes of Breakthrough Knowledge, this research attempts to illustrate the context and conditions of its creation, growth and development.

Some scholars and thinkers in the field of theory and practice of public administration, believe that there is difference between administration in the public sector compared to private sector management. Politics, bestows a special tone, form and content of administration to public organization. Therefore, conceptual arrangement and practical layout of administration in public sector organization should be biased on political values. This approach to public administration has been called in literature as "political approach" to administration in the public sector; an approach that emerged with the advent of the new public administration and became prevalent in many countries, with aim to engage politics in the fabric of administration. In the current era, the influence of politics in the administration is called the politicization of bureaucracy; a phenomenon which entails negative consequences and positive implications. Understanding of the theoretical principles and forms of politicization of the mechanisms operating in the public sector, as well as the analysis of the consequences of such an approach is the ultimate goal of this article.

One of the methods to execute the census or enumeration via Web Platform is web technique used in many countries in recent years.  In this study we have tried to identify and prioritize the factors affecting the adoption of Internet censuses. To this end, we resort to decomposed theory of planned behavior (DTPB); we developed our model by adding variables of perceived trust, perceived security, attitude, perceived behavioral control and subjective norm as the determining factors. As for questionnaires, the target population of 300 experts includes experts from the Statistical Center of Iran and a number of experts in IT, the 160 questionnaires have been analyzed after omitting incomplete ones. The collected data are analyzed by using simple linear regression method via SPSS software. The results showed that the proposed model is capable of predicting intent to adopt Internet census; it is also demonstrated that the attitude has the greatest positive direct impact on the adoption of Internet census, while security is perceived as having the least impact.

One of the most important stages of the outsourcing process, is assessment and selection of contractors. Failure of proper implementing this step can lead to failure to meet the expectations of outsourcing. Since organizations have different features and circumstances, it is advisable for each organization, according to its particular differences, to design a framework for evaluating the competence of contractors’ act. Therefore, this study aimed to provide a framework for evaluating qualification and selecting contractors for Shiraz Municipality parks & green spaces organization. Firstly, the criteria for contractors’ qualification evaluation and selection are extracted through a literature review. Secondly, by implementing experts’ views, the criteria for creation and maintenance of green spaces contractors’ evaluation qualification and selection are identified, then, the criteria based on the importance of using fuzzy screening method, is prioritized. Finally, by using consensus cluster analysis technique, a model has been proposed. The results show that Shiraz Municipality parks & green spaces organization has to consider 41 criteria for contractors’ qualification evaluation. Furthermore, "having a standby equipment and machinery, adequate and accessible," is of the most importance in this process. According to the results of consensus cluster analysis, the 41 criteria are identified, clustered in 4 and 8 components, and the model is formed accordingly.

This study is conducted to investigate the effects of different aspects of organizational justice and sharing knowledge on innovative capacity in Birjand University of Medical Sciences. This is a practical study which is conducted by descriptive and correlational methods. The target population include the personnel of Birjand University of Medical Sciences selected by simple random sampling. Questionnaires were used to collect data and data analysis and hypothesis testing were conducted through structural equation modeling and LISREL software. The research findings suggest that there is a direct and significant relationship between organizational justice and sharing knowledge, and also between organizational justice and innovation capacity. However, the findings do not represent the existence of any relationship between sharing knowledge and innovative capacity. Moreover, as for different aspects of organizational justice, interactional and procedural justice have positive effects and distributive justice has relatively little effect on sharing knowledge (receiving and imparting knowledge).

Nursing personnel comprise the largest proportion of medical system in almost every country. One of the main issues in nursing is low job satisfaction, which can lead to decreasing quality of care, turnover of nurses, and increase in absenteeism. Nursing staff shortage is a global problem. Thus, in this study the relationship between daily self-management, job resources and job engagement for nurses of Sasan hospital and Firoozgar in Tehran was investigated. This study was conducted for a sample of 202 people from these two hospitals. As for data collection, Hatton and Neck standard questionnaire was used to evaluate self-management, Jackson and Rothman questionnaire was used to study the job resources; Hackman and Oldham questionnaire and also Schaufeli and Bakker questionnaire were applied to investigate job engagement. In order to check for the validity and reliability of the research, confirmatory factor analysis (CAF) and Cronbach's alpha were used, also structural equation modeling (SEM) was employed for testing research hypotheses. Data analysis indicates a significant positive correlation between dimensions of daily self-management and job engagement; also a significant positive relationship is confirmed between daily self-management and job resources, and so is between job resources and employee engagement.