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Iranian Journal of Information Processing and Management (22518223) 28(3)pp. 660-679
The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between information transparency, improve accountability and enhance the reliability and accuracy of the use of information technology (telephone, fax, computer and electronic banking services) to reduce corruption in Saderat Bank Branches in Isfahan. The method of this study is Solidarity-Survey. This study uses Cohen, Morgan and Krejcie table and selectes 269 samples randomly among the 900 employees of Saderat Bank Branches. The data were obtained from the two questionnaires with content validity that confirmed by experts and stationary with Cronbach's alpha coefficients for the 0.96 and 0.92. Results were analyzed statistically with the use of descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation coefficient, multiple regression analysis and path analysis. Results showed that information transparency, improve accountability and enhance the reliability and integrity of information technology, including telephone and fax, computer and electronic banking services and have a direct relation with the reduction of corruption.
International Journal of Business Innovation and Research (17510252) 33(2)pp. 215-235
The current study aimed to design the leadership model for knowledge-oriented enterprises in Isfahan province via the mixed-research methodology and the use of the grounded theory in qualitative section. To this end, a group of primary themes was collected during a coding process and some categories were extracted besides performing open interviews with 17 senior managers of knowledge-based enterprises and academic experts. Then, the link between these categories was explained in the form of causal conditions, axial phenomenon, underlying conditions, intervening conditions, and strategies and consequences in the framework of coding paradigm and a theory was created. In the quantitative section, the governing relations and benefits of all major factors of the proposed qualitative model were evaluated and confirmed via structural equation modelling by means of AMOS software. © 2024 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.. All rights reserved.
International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management (17410401) 71(6)pp. 2558-2581
Purpose: This study aimed at developing and testing a model to evaluate employee performance in Isfahan municipality. Design/methodology/approach: A mixed-method design is applied in this study. To extract the model, a semi-structured interview based on the thematic analysis approach was employed. The qualitative data were obtained using a researcher-made questionnaire from a sample of 12 municipal experts selected based on purposive sampling. In the quantitative phase, the sample consisted of 76 managers and interim managers. The validity of the questionnaire was determined by the content validity index, while the structural validity was tested based on structural equation modeling using SmartPLS software. The reliability of the questionnaire was confirmed using Cronbach's alpha and composite reliability indices. Findings: The factors obtained in the qualitative model included performance evaluation criteria, the desired time interval for performance evaluation, results announcement, performance evaluation approach, performance evaluation method and evaluator-related variables. There should have been an agreement between evaluators and those who were evaluated in all components of the model. In the quantitative section, performance evaluation criteria, evaluators, the evaluation method and time interval were confirmed with coefficients of 0.871, 0.815, 0.646 and 0.615, respectively. Practical implications: The novelty of this study is that it uses a mixed-method research approach to extract a performance evaluation model that is specific to the Isfahan municipality. Originality/value: The novelty of this study is that it uses a mixed-method research approach to extract a performance evaluation model that is specific to the Isfahan municipality. © 2021, Emerald Publishing Limited.
Human Systems Management (01672533) 40(1)pp. 65-80
Purpose: The present study aimed to both develop and validate a model for servant leadership in a military context. Design/methodology/approach: The exploratory sequential mixed methods design with two phases was used. Firstly, in the qualitative phase, the process of servant leadership in a military context was developed using a systematic approach of grounded theory. Secondly, in the quantitative phase, the relationship between the components of servant leadership was explained and the developed model was validated. Findings: The result of the qualitative phase show certain personal, organizational and social antecedents form the ideology of sacrifice in leaders which include: spiritually, intelligent and developed personality (personal antecedents); organizational culture, models and incentives (organizational antecedents); and reference groups and social events (social antecedents). The ideology of sacrifice resulted in choosing special behaviors of servant leadership by leaders. These behaviors include: creating service climate; developing standards; building trust; empowering followers comprehensively; and effective persuasion which cause positive personal and organizational outcomes. According to the results of quantitative phase, the proposed model has an appropriate fitness. Practical implications: The results of this research can be used to develop certain criteria for selecting servant leaders. Accordingly, certain training programs can be developed to promote competencies in organizational leaders. Originality/value: To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to develop a model for servant leadership in a military context using a mixed methods design. © 2021 - IOS Press. All rights reserved.
International Journal of Business Information Systems (17460972) 30(2)pp. 177-202
Social commerce is a new trend in e-commerce powered by social media. In this type of commerce, individuals share their knowledge, information, and experiences about different products and services. This paper employs the stimuli-organism-response model to investigate the factors affecting social commerce intentions among users of social networks a total of 514 persons on three favourite social networks in Iran (i.e., Telegram, Facebook and Cloob) were investigated. Analysis of the results applying the PLS-SEM approach disclosed that firstly website or application quality, perceived interactivity, and subjective norms act as stimuli to influence, relationship quality, social support, and attitudes toward social commerce as organisms, respectively; furthermore, the latter two organisms are also impacted by social commerce construct, which is a stimulus; and perceived interactivity impacts attitudes toward social support secondly social support, relationship quality, and social attitude as organisms together with subjective norms are positively associated with social commerce intention as the response; and finally social support has a significant positive impact on relationship quality which in turn influences attitudes toward social commerce. Copyright © 2019 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
International Journal of Business and Systems Research (17512018) 13(1)pp. 21-46
In human resource management (HRM) system, there are many factors that can affect organisational empowerment. Human resource practices are some of these important factors, which were mainly studied at individual level and were rarely explored at the organisational level. Focusing on power industry in Iran, the current study sought to develop and test an organisational empowerment model based on human resource practices. A mixed methods approach was utilised, including a grounded theory study that was followed by a quantitative phase. The qualitative phase was conducted to develop an organisational empowerment model based on human resource practices. The hypotheses developed in the qualitative phase were tested through quantitative phase, including structural equation modelling. The results revealed that views and attitudes towards human resources as causal factors had significant effects on human resource practices; and human resource practices, contextual factors, as well as intervening variables had significant impacts on organisational empowerment strategies. Copyright © 2019 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
International Journal of Business Innovation and Research (17510252) 17(2)pp. 266-291
This study provided a framework to select organisational empowerment (OE) project portfolio based on human resource practices utilising a mixed methods approach. Participants consisted of senior managers, middle managers and HR experts of Hormozgan Electric Distribution Company (HEDC) in Iran. In qualitative phase, a grounded theory study was conducted to design an organisational empowerment model. A total of 25 senior managers, middle managers, and HR experts of surveyed company were selected through purposive sampling and snowball method. Data were collected using semi-structured interviews and were analysed through the constant comparative method. Improvement projects were extracted based on the designed model. Goal programming (GP) and fuzzy hierarchical analysis process (FAHP) were used in quantitative phase. The proposed framework was presented to help managers and planners of organisation for strategic decision-making and the improvement of organisational empowerment considering effective factors in either the success or failure of a project. Copyright © 2018 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management (17466474) 13(2)pp. 201-218
The aim of this study is to propose an integrated approach of the subjects of Kansei engineering and revised Kano model. Customers' Kansei term, i.e., requirements, emotions, and affections about automobile have been identified and screened by Kansei engineering, and then each of the Kansei terms has been asked from customers using a Kano questionnaire, and in the next stage the collected data has been analysed and classified based on both the traditional and revised Kano's models and evaluation tables, and finally the obtained results have been compared. Findings imply that while classifying various Kansei terms in respect of Kano major dimensions, i.e., must be, one dimensional, and attractive, seems similar based on the traditional and the revised approaches of Kano model, it seems that the revised Kano model provides more accurate information than the traditional Kano model, and this can be effective and profitable to those organisations that compete for higher customer satisfaction Copyright © 2014 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
World Applied Sciences Journal (discontinued) (18184952) 28(12)pp. 2091-2096
The changes in the global economy and efforts undertaken by World Trade Organization (WTO) for globalization of economic and increasing competition have brought various countries, including developed and developing to the belief that in order to presence and survival in the regional and global markets even domestic ones, they must enhance the competitiveness capability of their industries and organizations. Organizational excellence models or business excellence are used as powerful tools for assessing the deployment of systems in different organizations. The Business excellence diamond model as a prescriptive model provides development and promotion in all aspects of an organization based on a systematic approach by assessing the level of excellence and organizational injuries and providing therapeutic strategies. Given the advantages of the excellence diamond model, it is used as a model to examine the barriers and problems of Pars Tableau Company to achieve the organizational excellence. To achieve the company's situation, the standard questionnaire of excellence diamond model was used. The results of the analysis showed that the priority criteria for action are: leadership, information management, staff and service strategy, respectively. Finally, 13 organizational injuries were identified in the company. Ultimately, some suggestions have been proposed to resolve the injuries. Some of them are: creating an open space for employees to express their ideas, IT and automation development, modification and redesign of the organizational structure, marketing research troubleshooting and etc. © IDOSI Publications, 2013.
Javadi, H. ,
Mehrabi, J. ,
Beedel, M. ,
Tanhaei, M.H. Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences (19918178) 6(9)pp. 148-153
Anyone who wants to make a right decision needs information. This information has a very strong effect in financial market where managers and stock holders rely on this information in order to make important decisions. Usually a large amount of information not only can not help decision makers, but also make them confused and nervous. Information systems can be helpful to solve this problem.In this paper we examine if information systems and accounting soft wares effect the financial statement transparency. To do so, we asked 86 brokers from 110 brokerage active in Tehran Stock Exchange. Analyzing the results comes from the questionnaires shows that the information systems and accounting soft wares have a significant effect on three main characteristics of financial statement transparency which are being relative, reliability and comparability.
Javadi, H. ,
Amirosadat, S.N. ,
Balochiyan, R. ,
Liravi, F. Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences (19918178) 6(9)pp. 78-84
Consumers are living within a media saturated environment, which limits the effectiveness of advertising. This has led to advertising clutter, most prevalent in traditional mass media. The advertising clutter has resulted in marketers moving their advertising focus toward less cluttered mediums, such as mobile advertising. Mobile advertising allows companies to specifically target the right consumers by looking at age, gender and geographic regions etc. Being able to advertise to such a specified target group is an advantage for companies, however the question remaining is how consumers perceive this form of specific targeting advertising. This study was conducted with the aim of identifying the customers' attitudes toward mobile advertising and factors affecting their attitudes.Quantitative data has been collected through a questionnaire. The statements used in the questionnaire are based on previous studies and theories. The data retrieved through the questionnaire has been analyzed using SPSS and Amos. findings shows attitude towards advertising has great impact on attitude towards mobile advertising.
Javadi, H. ,
Mehrabi, J. ,
Balouei jamkhaneh, H. ,
Samangooei, B. Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences (19918178) 6(9)pp. 378-384
The main objective of the present survey was to study the impact of emotional intelligence and spiritual intelligence on organizational entrepreneurship. Statistical population of the survey includes employees working in manufacturing companies of Sari County in 2011 that one-hundred eighty seven (187) persons have been studied as the research sample using simple random sampling method and Wang and La'semotional intelligence questionnaire and King's spiritual intelligence questionnaire. Validity of the model was measured by structural equations modeling method and the relationship among variables was confirmed based on results of path analysis. Results reveal that emotional intelligence and spiritual intelligence are effective on organizational entrepreneurship. Also research findings demonstrated that the research model has a suitable goodness.
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences (18770428) 15pp. 3616-3619
The major purpose of the study was to discover to what extent selected educational systems were using specified management science tools and techniques in their decision making processes. The familiarity of the administrators and the employees with such techniques, and which of the models were used the most were also studied. Finally, the purpose of study was to discover economic and managerial benefits provided by using MS. methods. The results indicated that although academic administrators of Southern California universities used management science models and techniques, but the models were used less than industrial and business organizations.© Published by Elsevier Ltd. © 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
Procedia Computer Science (18770509) 3pp. 1296-1303
The objective of the present research is to assess roles of management information system implementation on personnel and managers resistance causes in Isfahan Power Plant Management Corporation in Iran. The research questions were based on effects of management information system implementation on individual, group - social and organizational resistance causes of personnel and managers. With regard to this matter, in this research, the researchers intended to study the effects of management information system implementation on the resistance causes of personnel. Thus the research methodology has been of descriptive with survey research. The findings of research indicated that management information system implementation created individual resistance causes in personnel. But has not created group - social and organizational resistance causes on personnel. Thus, overall it was concluded that management information system implementation created personnel resistance causes. On the other hand, research findings showed that management information system implementation did not created individual, group - social resistance causes on managers. But created organizational resistance causes. Overall, it was concluded that management information system implementation did not create managers resistance causes. © 2010 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
Procedia Computer Science (18770509) 3pp. 1243-1248
The purpose of performing of this research is to determine the importance and effectiveness of major factors on electronic customer relation management (ECRM) capabilities in System Group branches. Also it is specified which changes should be created by this company to implementing such system and which capabilities should be stressed in order to gain success based on the existing circumstances in each of the branches. A hierarchical model based on six major dimensions and sixteen indexes has been applied in this research to evaluate preparation of System Group branches for accepting of electronic customer relation management. In this research AHP method is applied to analyze data and Expert Choice software is used as analysis tool. Research results revealed that strategy has the most importance and priority among major factors of preparation for implementing of electronic customer relation management system. Also among the branches of the group that are called hereinafter as "Base", Tehran North Base has the priority in implementation with regard to main dimensions and indexes. © 2010 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
