فصلنامه مشاوره شغلی و سازمانی
پیاپی 15 (تابستان 1392)

The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of group counseling based on cognitive information processing (CIP) approach in career decision making. After determination the psychometric properties of the career thoughts inventory (CTI) on 520 students of Azad university in Kerman, 40 students in social sciences were selected randomly and assigned to experimental and control conditions. Research design was semi experimental (pretest-post test). Participants in the experimental condition participated in 5 sessions of group counseling by cognitive information processing approach method. In order to determine dysfunctional career thoughts all the participants were assessed before and after group counseling sessions by career thoughts inventory. Differences of dysfunctional career thoughts scores compared between the experimental and control groups by MANCOVA and ANCOVA. Results indicated that dysfunctional career thoughts scores reduced significantly in experimental group. This reduction was in total score and its subscales including decision making confusion (DMC), commitment anxiety (CA), and external conflict (EC). These results were investigated again after 4 weeks and the results were the same. According to these results, cognitive information processing can be an effective method in reducing dysfunctional career thoughts.

The purpose of this study was to investigate teacher's perceptions and attitudes towards various aspects of professional development were provided in teacher training college. This study used a exploratory mixed methods approach involving 368 elementary and middle school teachers that engaged on the job professional development courses in teacher training college and 11 their educators from six teacher training college. The main purpose of the qualitative phase was to develop a background for a questionnaire and provisional model to be used in the quantitative phase. Structural equation modeling analysis during the quantitative phase provided a ten-factor model that shows the relationships of different factors regarding professional development in teacher training college. The result of study provided exploratory model to describe the relationship between teacher's motivation and participation in professional development, professional development strategy, context and environmental aspect of teacher training college, and positive and negative outputs of it.

Culture as values, insights, ideas and patterns of thinking has a main effect on all aspects of social, organizational and individual life. Furthermore, with respect to globalization and increasing effect of culture on international communication and business, it seems that sociology and psychology should be more attended to cultural factors. Evaluating different dimensions of culture, with respect to variability of cultural aspects across time, requires development of valid measure for evaluation of cultural dimensions. The purpose of present study is evaluation of psychometric properties of Hofsted questionnaire of cultural dimensions for Iranian population. In the present study, 300 university students (300 male and 500 female) participated in the study. Data were analyzed using SPSS software by exploratory factor analysis. Factor analysis revealed four factors for Iranian version of questionnaire. The results of Cronbach's alpha showed that reliability of questionnaire is acceptable.

In the current challengeable world, if people can’t experience joyful professional life, will confront with serious problems in mental health. The purpose of this research was determining of roles of spirituality and religiousness in the skills of Entrepreneurship among the staff of university. 117 persons of staff of Tehran university was selected using available sampling method and answered to The Spiritual Assessment Inventory (SAI), Faith at Work Scale (FWS) and the skills of Entrepreneurship questionnaire. Have received result from Pierson correlation and regression analyze showed significantt relationship between spirituality and religiousness with skills of Entrepreneurship and too strong predicting role of spirituality and religiousness for skills of Entrepreneurship. Also average of scores male and female stuff has significant difference and scores of female was higher than male. Founds emphasize on that regarding to spiritual and religious recourses of counselee in the career counseling can leaded to career health and at the end their mental health.

According to the development of higher education, the expansion of universities, cultural improvement, more attention women rights and their willing to go to universities, have increased. On the other hand about 60%of total Iranian studentpopulation are studying in human sciences so they need to work. Therefore, the issue of employment status of graduated people is very important. The aim of this study is to investigate the employment and unemployment status of graduated people who have completed their studies on the field of psychology, educational sciences,counseling and library of Al-zahrauniversity. This research is casual comparative. Its data has been gained from Researcher-made questionnaire, Spector’s Job Locus of Control and Sherrer’ General Self Efficacy Inventories were employed as research tools. Descriptive and inferential statistics (independent t-test, k-square, single variable regression) were used to analysis the data. Out of 1320 research population, 130 was randomly selected as a sample group who graduated between 1995-2007. Results showed that Tehrani angraduated found jobs more than others and 77.2% found jobs related to their education.There was not found significant difference between social and economical factorswhich was effective on the labor market, but there was found significant difference between cultural and psychological factors. Job control was predicted byself efficiency. In order to improve Job control and self efficiency of graduates regarding their cultural attitudes to the labor market, suitable trainings like job preparation and entrepreneurship are suggested by researchers.

In this research the relationship between Emotional Intelligence (EI) and Cognitive Intelligence (CI) with education progress and their role has been reviewed. The research samples are Tehran high school students, grade one during year 2010-2011. 16486 samples of students were selected according to Morgan table and 420 students were selected as a research sample via cluster random sampling. The data was collected by using 2 standard instruments: Rion adult's intelligence test and bar-N intelligence test. Data were analyzed by using t-test, Pearson correlation test, x2 test and the below results were gained. Also, the Emotional Intelligence in comparison with Cognitive Intelligence had a more effective role in the student's education progress. Moreover, there is a significant difference between feminine and masculine students in the case of (EI).

The purpose of the peresent study is to investigate the relationship between Cultural intelligence with job adjustment and Organizational trust among Shiraz University faculty members during the Academic Year 2009-2010. The research is descriptive of correlational type. The statistical population of the study covers the whole 350 faculity members of Urmia University among whom 178 subjects were selected as sample size through using Morgan table. The Statistical analysis used in the study is descriptive and inferential (frequency, percent, cumulative percent, charts, Pearson, s correlation cofficient, variance and Regression analysis). The results of the findings indicate that there are significant relations between cultural intelligence and job adjustment. Also, the results indicate that there are significant relations between cultural intelligence and organizational trust, and significant relations between job adjustment and organizational trust. But the relation between behavioral aspects of cultural intelligence and organizational trust was not significant. Based on the findings of the present study, job adjustment among the academic members can be predicted around 26% by the independent variables of cultural intelligence and trust.

The importance of teacher's job attitude and its role in academic achievement is highlighted in different research. But very few studies have looked at the casual impact of teachers’ sense of efficacy and job satisfaction. Through testing a hypothesized model, in the current study, role of teachers’ sense of efficacy (as an exogenous latent variable) and teachers’ job satisfaction (as an indigenous latent variable) in academic achievement were investigated. In doing so 184 chemic teachers of high schools in Lorestan province were completed "Teachers’ Sense of Efficacy Scale" (TSES) (Tschannen-Moran & Woolfolk Hoy, 2001) and "Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire" (MSQ) (Weiss, et al., 1967). Mean scores of students of sample teachers in chemic national exam were used to measure academic achievement. After reliability and construct validity analysis, research hypotheses were tested with Pearson correlation coefficient, standard multiple regression and path analysis. Results showed that there is a significant correlation between sense of efficacy, job satisfaction and academic achievement. Also the results of regression analysis showed that subscales of sense of efficacy (efficacy in student engagement, instructional strategies, and classroom management) and subscales of job satisfaction (intrinsic, extrinsic and general satisfaction) has significant explanation from academic achievement. Result of tested hypothesized model revealed that sense of efficacy can influence academic achievement directly and indirectly through significant mediating role of job satisfaction. This model has a good fit with observed data. Results of this study draw attention to the importance of strategies to promote teachers’ sense of efficacy. Some implications were proposed in the final section of the article.

The research was to examine the relationship between organizational climate and Entrepreneurship Morale among the working staff of the Iran Khodro Dizel Corporation. The research applied a descriptive correlational method to study 196 participants chosen from among the staff personnel of the Corporation through the stratified random sampling. Two questionnaires were used as the main instruments of the study. The first one (the entrepreneurship morale questionnaire) designed by the researcher based on the basic theoretical and scientific principles of designing items for the variable entrepreneurship morale. The validity of the questionnaire was determined with respect to the views of a number of faculty members in administration and Cronbach Alpha analysis was applied to ascertain the reliability of the questionnaire. The second questionnaire was the standard questionnaire of the organizational climate (Sam deep & Lyle Sussman) which is based on the ideas and investigations made by Halpin & Croft. The collected data were analyzed through both descriptive and inferential statistics (Pearson Correlation, Multiple regression One_ Way analysis of variance and Schefe test). The results of this research showed that there is a significant relationship between organizational Climate and intrepreneurship Morale of the participants. In addition, a significant and positive relationship was found between the components of the two variables. In other words participants with BS and above degrees showed higher levels of entrepreneurship morale than those with lower degrees. Finally, there was no significant relationship between working experience and the participant’s entrepreneurship morale. This is to say that participants with greater working experience were not necessarily higher in entrepreneurship morale.