فصلنامه مطالعات رفتار سازمانی
سال دوازدهم شماره 1 (پیاپی 45، بهار 1402)

Leadership is a crucial aspect of management that plays a vital role in organizational survival and efficiency. This study aims to identify the leadership style of commanders during the eight years of holy defense and develop a leadership model applicable to managers in organizations, thus contributing to the advancement of leadership theory. The research adopts an exploratory approach in terms of purpose and utilizes qualitative data collection methods and thematic analysis. The data collection methods employed include fieldwork and library research, with semi-structured interviews serving as the primary data collection tool. The study focuses on fighters (followers) who had direct contact with the commanders during the eight years of holy defense. Additionally, relevant books and documents on the leadership style of the commanders were consulted. A sample size of eight soldiers was purposefully selected, employing non-probability sampling. For qualitative data analysis, coding and thematic analysis methods were employed. The results of the study reveal that the leadership style exhibited by the commanders during the eight years of holy defense can be characterized as "monotheistic leadership." This style combines elements of spiritual leadership, servant leadership, transformational leadership, and an attractive leadership style.

One of the issues that threatens organizations today is the discussion of job plateauing and its effects on the performance of employees and the organization, which can affect the sustainability of the development of the organization's activities and the development of the employees' capabilities. The importance of this issue is that predicting and explaining this process practically makes it possible to direct the behavior of employees towards a desirable and systematic process. The purpose of this research is to identify and prioritize the factors affecting job plateauing in the electricity distribution company. DEMATEL grey technique has been used to prioritize and check the relationships between factors. The results have shown that C11 (unsuitability of the person to the job) and C12 (staying too long in the job) are of high importance (power) and the comparison of the factors in terms of intensity and effectiveness has shown that low job diversity and organizational structure Inefficient in terms of definite influence (cause) and comparing oneself with other people in higher positions and the feeling of unfair promotion in terms of definite influence (disability) have the highest priority. Applying the results of this research and examining the factors affecting job plateauing will adjust the plateauing in organizations, and in this way, the necessary ground will be provided for the development of employees' capabilities, increasing their satisfaction and motivation at work. By doing this research, it is possible to know the existing situation of the plateau of employees and to design and implement the necessary planning to eliminate or reduce this feature. Also, using the results of this research, the background factors affecting job plateau are identified, and while identifying the effective variables, the necessary measures can be applied to reduce and adjust their impact.

Research in the field of management faces numerous challenges, including the methodological challenge of conducting management research, such as organizational behavior. Examining and understanding this topic helps advance knowledge in organizational behavior. This article investigates the research conducted by the Organizational Behavior Studies Quarterly from a methodological perspective. The purpose of this research is an applied research project, and the research method is qualitative, based on content analysis. The statistical population includes all articles published in the “Organizational Behavior Studies Quarterly” between 2013 and 2021, totaling 242 articles. Eight indicators were analyzed, including the distribution of articles by year, research approach, data analysis method, data gathering tools, research area, number of authors per article, geographical area studied, and field of study of the corresponding author. The results show that most studies were focused on Tehran province (37 cases), Razavi Khorasan (13 cases), and Fars province (10 cases). The most common subjects of the articles were leadership and trust (40 cases), deviant behavior (32 cases), and attitude (23 cases). Public administration researchers made a significant contribution to publishing articles in the field of organizational behavior. The majority of studies were descriptive-correlational and quantitative, using the structural equation method. Additionally, 54% of the data collection was through questionnaires.

Organizational culture is considered as the factor of survival of organizations and providing their organizational growth. Therefore, this study is carried out with the aim of identifying and presenting the ideal organizational culture model in the libraries and information centers of Payam Noor universities in the country. According to the nature and purpose of this research, its review is Mix-Method. The studied community includes academic experts, librarians and library managers of Payam Noor universities across the country, 18 of whom were selected using the snowball sampling method until reaching theoretical saturation. The research tool is a semi-structured interview. The text of the interviews was examined by thematic analysis and a total of 4 dimensions, 9 main categories and 25 sub-categories were identified, which are dimensions of human-oriented culture (scientific selection, knowledge improvement), law-oriented culture (standardization and organizational adaptability). ), interactive culture (perspective, institutional justice, adaptation and environmental flexibility), aesthetic culture (refreshing and standardization) were categorized. Finally, this research has provided the necessary background for understanding and recognizing this concept and its correct application in the libraries and information centers of the country's Payam Noor universities by presenting the ideal organizational culture model.

Considering the importance of having a cheerful atmosphere and friendly interaction of senior managers with the employees and the preference of humorous leaders over serious leaders, this research aims to provide a humorous leadership model by studying thermal power generation industry, in a qualitative way according to the Grounded Theory method. The research is exploratory in nature and applied-developmental in terms of purpose. Based on the judgmental-targeted sampling method and with the aim of achieving theoretical saturation, a semi-structured interview was held with 21 CEOs of power plants, who were familiar with the concept of humor and its application. The reliability of the conducted interviews was confirmed by Cohen's kappa test and the agreement coefficient of 82% indicated a good agreement between the experts. Based on the analysis, 135 main concepts were extracted, and finally 9 main categories were identified. Then, the humorous leadership model was presented with the Charmaz approach was presented for the first time in Iran's production organizations, considering its characteristics and components. The results indicate that humorous leadership can help the country's thermal power generation industry in the competitive world to use this style for improving the work environment and gain a competitive advantage over competitors.

Despite the fact that the concept of public service motivation includes a wide range of roles in public organizations, but in most cases, the use of this term is unclear. Therefore, the necessity of understanding this word requires a clear definition of it. The purpose of this research is to clarify and analyze the concept of public service motivation according to the existing theoretical issues, to know its characteristics, antecedents and consequences. In terms of methodology, in this research, Rogers' evolutionary concept analysis approach was used. In this approach, a comprehensive synthesis of research presented in the field of the desired concept is identified and analyzes the evolution of the concept in a cycle of its importance, use and application. The desired texts were searched in the form of thematic analysis similar to content analysis with the keyword "Public Service Motivation" between 1990 and 2022 from existing and reliable databases. Based on the inclusion criteria and the sampling process, 17 studies were selected for review. Findings showed that public service motivation is based on benevolence, doing good deeds to help others and the interests of society and the desire to influence society. Its characteristics include membership in the public sector, efficiency in individual performance, and less dependence on material incentives. Related concepts include altruism, intrinsic motivation, prosocial motivation and sense of community responsibility. Its important antecedents are organizational commitment, employee-leader relations, socialization, Job attributes, religiousness and it has the positive relationship with the variables of Person-organization fit, organizational citizenship behavior, job commitment, quality of work, work effort and organizational performance. The results showed that the public service motivation is related to the activities of public sector employees in organizational responsibilities and activities.