فصلنامه مدیریت نظامی
پیاپی 36 (زمستان 1388)

Efficient human resource is taken as one of the major resources in every organization. The Army of the I.R. of Iran pays a lot of price in order to recruit and train efficient personnel, especially officers. They gain valuable experiences following their appointment in various command and staff positions and they, as educated and experienced staff members, get retired due to termination of official service period. The Army faces true issues, loss of valuable resources and lack of growth opportunities of the other personnel if they do not get retired. This paradox requires sound measures in order to take the advantages of their 30-year old experiences.

Quick economical and high quality trainings aimed at boosting combat power of the personnel of the Army is of crucial significance. The affiliated officers’ upgrade to senior position goes through passing advanced specialized courses offered at special training centers that participation in them requires transfer to and residence of several months in the city in which the center is located. This study is an attempt to develop and propose a model for electronic education given the available potentials in the Army. To meet the objectives, relevant infrastructures, components of various electronic educator models, organizational strengths and weakness pertinent to implementing virtual training were investigated and finally practical proposals as to the application of the proposed model are raised.

Courage is of crucial significance for the cadets of Imam Ali Military University, who are supposed to function as the wouldbe commanders and leaders of the army of the I.R of Iran and protect the territory and sovereignty of country. To this end, this study was an attempt to investigate the factors which may affect their courage to conduct this descriptive study, a questionnaire was distributed among the participants composed of both descriptive and inferential statistics revealed that four factors including family setting, personality factors, organizational training and atmosphere are fundamental in boosting the courage.

As the final objective of a management activity, performance is always changeable with terms such as efficiency, effectiveness, productivity and alike. However, introducing any clear-cut framework and criteria to this end and improvement of performance has always required contemplation. Majority of managers are devoid of any clear perspective on the performance of their employees. To assess the performance of the target staff, a questionnaire was administered to collect required data. Respective statistical analyses including both descriptive and inferential were run. The findings sustained that criteria like quantity, time, expense, discipline and accountability scored higher than the mean score, enjoying 3.99, 3.81, 4.2, 4.1, and 3.8, respectively. Nevertheless, the hypothesis in support of quality was rejected and average performance being 3.94 proved higher than the mean score.

War is a necessary phenomenon. When sovereignty, life, property or dignity of people is threatened by foreigners, defense against such an invasion becomes unavoidable. Study of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh proves his good command of military skill such that he could accurately depict war scenes and events. Examples of the principles reported in Shahnameh are not different from the current principles of war, but what makes the difference is just the situation in that either one tactic or a mixture of some might be employed. For example, regarding the principle of security, dispatching messenger, appointing observer, and intelligence and as to the principle of surprise issues like concealment, ambush, pretend, cloaking, and false attack are noticeable. Comprehensive thought and floating vision of a commander augment his resistance against troubles and looming situations. Emergence of unexpected circumstances makes him resort to unconventional and indirect approaches to decision-making and defense. As a descriptive analytic attempt, this study first elaborates its purposes and significance, and then certain war tactics mentioned in Shahnameh are compared with the current principles of war. Finally, the study offers a conclusion.

In the contemporary sophisticated organizations creativity is receiving a particular and increasing importance to the extent that creativity and innovation are considered as the most determining factors of the organizations survival. Then, offering creative solutions should receive much more attention of the authorities and managers. Nowadays, successful organizations are those which constantly apply initiative ideas and divers approaches proposed as to strengthening creativity, which is made possible by creative managers and staff members. This study addressed the impacts of nature of official position on the creativity of education managers of Imam Ali University. The findings of this descriptive and correlational study revealed that there is a positive correlation between the variables. Beside multi factorial regression analysis indicated that independence and occupational challenge as the two sub factors of nature of occupation enjoyed the highest impacts on creativity.

As a key parameter in knowledge management cycle, knowledge organization refers to storage, record and maintenance of knowledge in an integrative form so that, given to its liability to be retrieved; it can be used by the staff. As an attempt to investigate knowledge organization in Imam Ali Military University, this study tried to explore areas of strength and weakness in this field so that sound suggestions could be made as to knowledge organization upgrade. Methodologically, this study is an applied and descriptive research for which library resources, internet and questionnaire were employed in order to collect the required data. The findings sustain an acceptable status quo in that staff sense of necessity of knowledge organization was scored %89.10 and insufficient number of information banking sustains was scored %23.5 in that few banking sustains are available for the staff. Establishment of an automatic knowledge organization sustain can be highly effective in both organizing and facilitating an easy access to required knowledge.