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A Organic or Mechanical Survey of the
Organizational Structure of Nowshahr
and Chaloos Islamic Azad University
to Determine the Preferred Structure
Srom the Employee's Perspective
Hassanali Aghajani*
Ramazan Alizadeh**
Abstract
To show the significance and necessity of organizations in a
community, Etzioni maintains that the contemporary community is
essentially an organizational one due to the fact that the contemporary
man lives in organizations from birth to death. However, considering
the importance and the role of structure on the effective performance
of organizations, it is necessary to determine what a suitable structure is.
There are many situational variables that affect the determination of
effective structure so much so that it is almost impossible to investigate
all of them simultanuosly. However, considering the great importance
of the situational variable of the personel in an organization, we have
decided to focus on this variable in this investigation.
In this article, after literature review, via survey research, both
the existing organizational structure and the preference of Islamic
Azad University of Nowshahr and Chaloos were analysed. The analysis
is based on Burns and Stalker's famous classification of organizational
structure, that is, Mechanical and Organic structure from the employees'
point of view. It is concluded that the existing organizational structure
of the university is a middle structure (that is, a state between
mechanical and organical structure) but the preferred organizational
structure of University is a mechanical one. In other words, there is a
discrepancy between the existing organizational structure and the
preference in Islamic Azad University of Nowshahr and Chaloos.
Keywords:
Mechanical structure, Organical structure, Existence structure,
Prefered structure
* Assistant Professor of Mazandaran University
** Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Azad University of Noshahr and Chaloos
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A Survey on Communication Skills of
the Faculty Deans and Relation With
Organizational Health of Faculteis in
Ferdowsi Universiyt
Mohammad reza Ahanchian *
Ramzanali Monidary**
Abstract
The main purpose of this survey is to understand the relationship
between managers' communication skills and organizational health.
To conduct this study, all faculties of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
were selected. The researcher subsequently aimed to discover any
possible relationship that might exisit between the two main variables.
Based on the communication skills which included four items
(verbal skill, effective listening skill, writing skill and information
science skill) and the seven dimentions of organizational health, the
Faculties are divided into four groups including Literature and Human
Sciences, Agricultere, Pure Sciences and Engineering.
Main research questions are as follows:
1- How are the Faculty Deans' communication skills related to the
mark of communication skills questionnaire?
2- How is the organizational health of the Faculties related to the
mark of organizational health questionnaire?
3- Are there any significant differences between the marks of the
four groups?
4- Are there any significant differences between the marks and the
organizational health of the Faculties in the four groups?
By counting methods, a research sample was determined with
73 administrators in the University. After gathering data by two
questionnaires, the data was statistically analysed by Pearson Correlation
and one-way variance analysis (ANOVA).The main results areas follows:
1- There is a significant relation between managers' communication
skills and organizational health, with 99% confidence.
2- There is not a significant difference between the mean of the
managers' mark of communication skills.
3- There is not a significant difference between the mean of the
Faculties related to mark of organisational health.
Keywords:
* Assistant Professor of Ferdoosi University
**MA in educational Management
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A Study of the Effective Factors
in Creating Stress and its Roles
in Personnel’s Efficiency in a Company
Hassan Ali Sinaei*
Abstrac
This study aims to investigate the most important interfering
factors which create stress and the relationship between of the factors
and personnel performance. The facrors are divided into two general
categories: organizational and environmental.
The most important factors which are considered include role
ambiguity, role conflict, role overload (quantitative and qualitative),
progress route and responsibility. Results show that the factors have a
positive correlation with stress. Furthermore, there is a correlation
between circumferential factors.
Also the results of the study show that the correlation between
organizational factors and stress is more strong.
This study focuses on the organizational factors and their
relationship with stress. It also considers the effect of stress on the
personnel efficiency.
Key words:
Stress, Role ambiguity, Role conflict, Role overload.
* Assistant Professor of Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz
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A Study of the Determining Factors in
Technical and Vocational Trainees
Entering Workplace
(Case Study: Mazandaran Province)
Ebrahim Salehi*
Abstract
Human resources are one of the essential factors of economical and
social development and growth in any society. It is obvious that
educational investment specially Technical & Vocational trainings
related to human resources and their employment is one of the basic
indicators in determination of its development. Lack of coordination
between these trainings and employment will cause crisis. This article
not only attempts to review the employment status of technical and
vocational trainees in Mazandaran provice but also analyzes the
obstacles and effective factors for their employment in the labour
market.
Researche results have shown that skilled trainees cannot find their
appropriate job in industrial and agricultural sectors (specially in
relation to women). The reasons are: They are not known to
employers appropriately, loss of appropriate relation with employers
and financial problems. In addition, quality improvement of skills
training courses has an important role in their employment.
Key words:
Technical and Vocational Training, Employment.
* Assistant Professor of Mazandaran University.
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The Identification of Customers, Needs
of IRAN- KHODRO DIZEL CO. By Using
Fuzzy AHP (Case Study: C457 bus)
Mehrdad Madhoshi *
Amir Ashari**
Abstract
In our competitive world, all organizations are trying to increase
their share and also endeavor to capture the market of production by
producing goods which address customer needs. The activities and the
benefit of such organizations depend on the customer. Therefore, it is
necessary that the customer requirments be determined and prioritized
in general, and the voice of the customer (VOC) be gathered.
Though he voice of the customer can be collected by several
instruments, the most important of such instruments include: comment
cards, surveys, focus groups, customer visit, interview, claimants,
basic need, etc. But the employment of any one of the above research
tools depends on the conditions and restrictions of the organization
involved. After gathering the requirments by the tools which are
specifically designed for VOC, the requirments must be categorized to
select the requirments that predominate.
At the stage of analysis and survey of the requirments mentioned,
tools of information analysis and such quality tools as Kaono model,
Pareto diagram, Affinity diagram, voice of customer table can be
used. Subsequently, the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) technique
that is a multiple criteria decision making method can be used in
prioritizing customer requirments. But considering the purpose of this
research, the FUZZY AHP has been employed. Finally, customers'
requirments of C457 bus was identified and prioritized.
Key word:
Fuzzy Analytic heirarchy process (Fuzzy AHP), voice of customer
(VOC), C457 bus, customers, needs.
* Assistant Professor of Mazandaran University
** Master student of Industrial Engineering
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A Survey of the Relationship Between
Employee Job Satisfaction and
Management Style of the Hospital
Managers at Isfahan Medical
University Hospitals in 2003
Mosadegh Rad*
Abstract
Employee job satisfaction is one of the most important factors
contributing to the development of organizational effectiveness,
efficiency, productivity and commitment which, in turn, are affected
by the management and leadership style of mangers.The objective of
this research is to investigate the relationship between management
style of mangers and employee job satisfaction at Isfahan Medical
University Hospitals (IMUHs).
This is a descriptive and cross-sectional research study. The study
population includes all the employees and managers of IMUHs (6405
persons). Employing a classified random sampling, the data was
collected through the distribution of two questionnaires (leadership
style and employees job satisfaction questionnaires) among the 814
employees: first line, middle and senior managers of the hospitals. The
management style of managers at all levels (first line, middle and
senior managers) was found to be a participative management one.
The mean of employees' job satisfaction was 3.21±0.53 from 6 credit
(medium scale).There was a statistical relationship between managers'
management style and employees job satisfaction (p=0.00). The
employee job satisfaction depends upon the management style of
managers. However, the application of the participative management
style depends on the organizational maturity level of employees and the
education level of managers in order to apply this management style.
Key words:
Employees job satisfaction, management style of managers , Hospital
* Assistant Professor of Esfahan University