فصلنامه فرایند مدیریت و توسعه
سال بیست و پنجم شماره 1 (پیاپی 79، بهار 1391)

Stress is a critical factor in many psychological and social traumas out of which the psychological ones are diminishable through stress management. Emotional intelligence is a set of non-cognitive abilities and skills that increase the individual success capability in facing environmental stresses especially job stress. Therefore، this research is aimed at identifying the relationship between emotional intelligence and job stress controlling factors. This study is an applied descriptive survey، making use of data collection method، library research and fielded study. The statistical population of the study consists of the University of Yazd faculty members. Correlation test and regression analysis are employed to finalize the research goals as well as to test the hypotheses. The results of Pearson correlation test indicate a significant relationship between emotional intelligence and stress controlling factors. Besides، the results of stepwise regression analysis illustrated that social awareness and self-consciousness factors significantly influence stress controlling factors. In other words، the individuals enjoying social awareness and self-consciousness have more capability to control and manage the stress because when facing stressful circumstances، they analyze the situation and problems while keeping patient and well adapting themselves to the stressing conditions by means of previous experiences and keeping hopeful for a better situation. Meanwhile، it is to be noted that social awareness factor plays the best role in reducing the job stresses in a way that 45 percent of job stress changes could be explained by this factor.

The scientific identification of production growth resources is among the requirements of getting access to sustainable and endogenous economic growth. According to Solow growth model، the economic growth is generated by means of a couple of resources، i. e. the growth in production resources and the growth in productivity resources. This research takes the data of Iranian production industries within 2000-2007 on the basis of international industrial standard two-digit codes through panel data approach and uses production function estimation in order to identify the production resources in the industrial sector as well as to determine the total factor productivity status of production resources. According to the results of the study، Iranian industries’ growth during the period was 12. 34 percent، out of which 16. 6 percent was owing to the total factor productivity growth in the sector; 69 percent of the growth belonged to the labor growth while 13. 5 percent was a result of the growth in capital assets.

Comprehensive Welfare and Social Security System Structure Act، ratified in 2004، brings about a structure، composed of principles، policies، components as well as fundaments within which the substantive laws are regulated and enforced. From such a perspective، it holds a pivotal position to study the relationship between the regulations of Comprehensive Welfare and Social Security System Act and the former substantive laws. The present article studies this aspect of Comprehensive Welfare and Social Security System Act regarding the principles and policies of the system. Meanwhile، it is proven that although the verdicts concerned do not contradict with the former substantive laws in a way to consider them as its abrogation or appropriation، its essence is of such a type that could be employed as the exegete of the former or subsequent substantive rules. This research tries to study the role of the principles and policies dominant on the Comprehensive Welfare and Social Security System in the exegesis of the verdicts and substantive regulations.

This article tries to study the professional competencies among the directors of educational departments from the viewpoints of the professors and directors of educational departments in Islamic Azad University – Central Tehran Branch. To this end، the theoretical fundamentals and the related literature are reviewed through library studies. Later، considering the findings، a collection of factors and sub-factors pertaining to the professional competencies of the directors of educational departments are extracted and enumerated in the framework of 7 factors and 52 sub-factors of competency. The statistical population of the research includes all 2200 professors and 50 directors of educational departments in Islamic Azad University – Central Tehran Branch. A sample of 327 professors and all 50 educational directors were selected according to Morgan sample size determination table. However، a questionnaire consisting 7 factors of competency in addition to 52 behaviors indicating competency was devised to gather the information، whose reliability was calculated to be 99. 08 via Cronbach alpha coefficient. The resulted data were analyzed through descriptive and inferential statistical methods. As far as the descriptive part was concerned، the average، average standard deviation، variance and standardized deviate of scores were calculated; and as for the inferential statistics، T-test for independent groups were used so as to study and compare the differences between the points of view belonging to the professors and the directors of educational departments concerning the factors and sub-factors of professional competency. The results of the data analysis demonstrated that the directors of educational departments in average believed the managerial competencies to be the highest while they deemed the political ones as the lowest. Meanwhile، the average highest and lowest competencies in the mind of the professors respectively went for the character-related competencies and political competencies. Moreover، having reviewed the results of the independent T-test، it could be claimed that there was a significant difference between the opinions of both groups، i. e. professors and educational directors، on the factors and sub-factors of professional competencies.

Working conditions in today’s organizations are in such a way that many individuals allocate considerable part of their life time to their jobs. One of the implications of such a condition would be ‘workaholism’ which denotes spending excessive amount of one’s time to job. This article tries to study the effects of workaholism on organizational commitment. Having analyzed the statistical data belonging to 86 samples of managers and employees in Kashmar Township Department of Education، a significant and positive correlation was confirmed to exist between workaholism and organizational commitment. Meanwhile، it was asserted through statistical data analysis that job involvement، inner urge to work and immense enjoyment have a significant and positive relationship with organizational commitment.

This article tries to study the effect of structural، relational and cognitive social capitals on employees’ organizational commitment along with the various dimensions of such a commitment. The research is conducted in descriptive-correlation method. The population of the research consists of governmental banks in the city of Kerman including Bank Melli Iran، Bank Mellat، Bank Tejarat، Bank Refah and Bank Maskan، of which 40 branches are randomly selected. All employees of the branches under study، composed of 400 persons، participated in the research. The data collected from 308 filled out questionnaires were used as the basis of testing the hypotheses and conceptual model of the research. The results showed that: a) the relational social capital is directly، positively and significantly effective on employees’ organizational commitment as well as on the normative and affective dimensions of such a commitment at the level of = α 0. 01; yet it does not have a significant effect on continuance commitment. b) The structural and cognitive social capitals do not have any significant impact on employees’ organizational commitment and its dimensions. c) The structural and cognitive social capitals have significant and positive effect on relational social capital at the level of = α 0. 01. d) Path analysis results indicated that the structural and cognitive social capitals have an indirect، significant influence on organizational commitment and its normative and affective dimensions through relational social capital although they do not have any significant impact on continuance organizational commitment.

Strengthening administrative incorruptibility، qualitative improvement of laws and functions of controlling and supervision organizations as well as dealing with corruption extension could possibly be conducted by means of conformity among the macro-policies and the laws concerned in the administrative system in the country، consistency of the controlling organizations’ functions with controlling and supervision laws، and finally set the stage for bolstering the public participation in the procedure of controlling and supervision. In other words، the first solution to prevent systematic corruption would be to develop a systematic controlling and supervision system in a way that there is a consistent and synergic relationship prevalent among all its components. Yet، it should be noted that such a controlling system، sooner or later، would end up in a systematic administrative corruption if it does not moves in a democratic and culturally sound environment، no matter it had been employing the most efficient methods and knowledgeable human resources.