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laleh Ensanimehr; Abdolrahim Kasaei esfahani; Kianoush Zahrakar
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Introduction Adolescence is one of the most important stages of human life. At this stage, a person must make various choices, including the choice of field of study and occupation, which is one of the most important decisions for the individual. Regarding individual decision making about the right field ...
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Introduction Adolescence is one of the most important stages of human life. At this stage, a person must make various choices, including the choice of field of study and occupation, which is one of the most important decisions for the individual. Regarding individual decision making about the right field of study and career, many things need to be considered, including career identity, academic aspirations, career, and a positive attitude about future education and career. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between academic aspirations, career aspirations and adolescent career identity along with the mediating role of attitudes toward academic and career future.Method The method of the present study was bootstrap correlation.The statistical population consisted of all male and female high school students in the second district of Tehran province (1355 students). The statistical sample was 299 students that were selected by multistages random sampling method. instruments included career identity scale Dellas and Jernigan, academic aspirations DiPierro, career aspirations O'Brien, and attitudes toward academic and career future Jamali and Ghaleh Noei. Data analysis was performed structural equation modeling, using SPSS-23 and AMOS-23 softwares.ResultsFindings showed that job aspirations have a positive effect on attitudes toward academic and career future (p <0/01), on direct job identity (p <0/05) and in general (p <0/05). Academic aspirations also have a direct positive effect on attitudes toward academic and career future (p <0/05) but do not have a direct and overall effect on career identity. Regarding indirect relationships, the results showed that both predictor variables have a positive and significant effect on career identity through perspective on the future (p <0/01).DiscussionThus, teachers, counselors, and professionals during adolescence can help develop students' career identities by addressing their aspirations for education and employment.
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Roudabeh Ahmadi; Zohreh Mousavi; Abolghasem Nouri
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IntroductionThe present research was conducted with the aim of identifying and explaining the dimensions of job competencies of the security employees of Isfahan University in order to present a conceptual model. The research method is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-exploratory in terms ...
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IntroductionThe present research was conducted with the aim of identifying and explaining the dimensions of job competencies of the security employees of Isfahan University in order to present a conceptual model. The research method is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-exploratory in terms of data collection. Method The statistical population of the research included students, employees, and security managers of Isfahan University. To achieve the purpose of the research, the data collection instruments was a semi-structured interview with students, employees, and security managers of Isfahan University. Also, in order to analyze the data to identify the dimensions of competency indicators from the text of the interviews, themes analysis was used by NVivo 8 computer software. Results Based on the findings, the final competency model was designed in three dimensions: individual knowledge and skills, specialized knowledge and skills, and general knowledge and skills, and the indicators of each dimension were calculated from the interviews. DiscussionConsidering the importance of educational organizations and also the importance of identifying employees' competencies, the mentioned model will be used and effective for promoting and improving the performance of employees in the field of security.
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Rahim Moradi; Homan Maleki; Mitra Mirzaei; Sanaz Haji Miri Qeshmi; Habibeh Bashirnezhad dastjerdi
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Introduction Job burnout in teachers is a chronic psychological phenomenon of apathy, which may be effective in this field during the Corona epidemic because of compression of educational programs. Among the factors that cause effective adaptation to risk factors and can play an effective role in reducing ...
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Introduction Job burnout in teachers is a chronic psychological phenomenon of apathy, which may be effective in this field during the Corona epidemic because of compression of educational programs. Among the factors that cause effective adaptation to risk factors and can play an effective role in reducing job burnout are resilience and psychological well-being. Therefore, the present study was conducted with the aim of predicting the job burnout of teachers during covid-19 based on the role of resilience and psychological well-being.Method The current research is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive in nature. The statistical population included all second-secondary teachers working in education in one Bandar Abbas district, and 357 teachers were selected as the research sample using the random sampling method and based on Morgan's table. Due to the closure of schools, the questionnaires were made available to the statistical sample through virtual networks with the distribution of online links.Results To collect data, Job Burnout Questionnaire, Resilience Scale and Psychological Well-Being Questionnaire were used. Simultaneous multiple regression analysis was used to test the hypotheses. The research findings showed that both predictor variables, i.e. resilience and psychological well-being, have a negative and significant relationship with the criterion variable (job burnout). DiscussionIt can be concluded that the higher the level of resilience and psychological well-being, the lower the level of teachers’ job burnout during Covid-19.
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Rahim Yousefi; Behnam Yousefi
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IntroductionOne of the important issues in the field of employee differences in terms of the tendency towards counterproductive work behaviors is the personality traits. Individual and organizational performance has a direct relationship with the behaviors and personality traits of employees. The purpose ...
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IntroductionOne of the important issues in the field of employee differences in terms of the tendency towards counterproductive work behaviors is the personality traits. Individual and organizational performance has a direct relationship with the behaviors and personality traits of employees. The purpose of the present research was to study the role of dark personality traits (Machiavellianism, psychopathy, narcissism, sadism and spitefulness) in predicting counterproductive work behaviors (misuse, production deviance, sabotage, theft, withdrawal). MethodThe statistical population was the employees of the governmental and non-governmental offices and organizations of Khoy City, 200 employees were selected as statistical sample through a convenient sampling method. Instruments included Dark Personality Traits and the Counterproductive Work Behavior Questionnaires. Data were analyzed using correlation and stepwise regression methods through SPSS 23 software. ResultsThe results showed that dark personality traits, including; Machiavellianism, psychopathy, narcissism, sadism and spitefulness are related significantly with counterproductive work behaviors (misuse, production deviance, sabotage, theft, withdrawal) and psychopathy have relationship to all counterproductive work behaviors. Regression analysis showed that the misuse behaviors (R2=0.22) by Machiavellianism, psychopathy and narcissism; The production deviance (R2=0.24) by psychopathy, sadism and spitefulness; The sabotage (R2=0.12) by psychopathy and sadism; The theft (R2=0.08) by psychopathy; And finally, the withdrawal (R2=0.13) was predicted by psychopathy and narcissism. DiscussionPersonality traits and especially abnormal personality traits are in the first row of influential factors in ineffective and counterproductive work behaviors. In this way, they can be considered as strong predictors of different forms of deviant behaviors in the workplace. It can be concluded that personality traits are one of the most important predictors of counterproductive work behaviors. One of the important applications of the findings is that through these personality analyses it is possible to identify personality patterns that are effective in counterproductive work behaviors that leads to some costs for organizations and industries.
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Ghazaleh Hayavi; Jahangir Karami
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IntroductionThe purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of perceived organizational support on job engagement and organizational citizenship behavior with mediating role of psychological capital. MethodThe research population included all employees of Oxin Steel Company in Ahvaz in 2016, ...
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IntroductionThe purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of perceived organizational support on job engagement and organizational citizenship behavior with mediating role of psychological capital. MethodThe research population included all employees of Oxin Steel Company in Ahvaz in 2016, from which 300 people were selected by simple random method. The research instruments included Perceived Organizational Support Questionnaire (Eisenberger et al., 1997), Psychological Capital Questionnaire (Luthans et al., 2007), Work Engagement Scale (Schaufeli et al., 2012) and Organizational Citizenship Behaviors Questionnaire (Podsakoff, et al., 1990). The research design was correlational through structural equation modeling (SEM). Evaluation of the proposed model was done using SPSS and AMOS version 22 software. In order to determine the significance of mediation effects in the proposed model, the bootstrap method was used in the preacher and Hayes (2008) Macro program. ResultsThe results of the study showed that the proposed model has a good fit with the data. The direct effects of perceived organizational support and psychological capital on job engagement and organizational citizenship behavior were significant. Findings also showed that perceived organizational support has direct effect on psychological capital (the mediator). Results of indirect effects supported the mediating role of psychological capital in the relationship between perceived organizational support and job engagement and organizational citizenship behavior. DiscussionWhen employees perceive organizational support, it enhances their psychological capital and the result is more job engagement and also organizational citizenship behaviors. On the basis of this results, for increasing perceived organizational support, recommended to to announce employees frequently that desirable practices which organization prepare for them like promotions and rewards, job safety, and autonomy, leads to decreasing organizational and job stressors, arising from discretion of the organization to improve employees' well-being at work setting. In other words, there is not any external power to force the organization to create pleasant working conditions. To practice this, top managers should focus their concern toward employees' well-being. It should also contain development of a kind of organizational culture that supervisor support be rewarded and noticed and a part of supervisor's performance appraisal be assigned to the quality of supervisor-subordinate relationship.
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leila hosseini tabaghdehi; Mohammad Reza Faghani Makrani
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IntroductionSince organizations need to develop and apply professional ethics standards for their dynamism and survival, organizational virtue is one of the consequences of professional ethics in the organization and one of the structures affecting the psychological well-being of employees, so the aim ...
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IntroductionSince organizations need to develop and apply professional ethics standards for their dynamism and survival, organizational virtue is one of the consequences of professional ethics in the organization and one of the structures affecting the psychological well-being of employees, so the aim of this study was to investigate the mediating role of professional ethics in the relationship between organizational virtue and psychological well-being of employees. MethodThe research method was descriptive-correlational based on structural equation modeling. The statistical population of the study was all 420 employees of the General Department of Education of Mazandaran Province. The sample size was 201 based on Krejcie and Morgan table and was selected by simple random sampling method. To collect the data, three questionnaires of organizational virtue of Cameron et al., Ryff and Singer psychological well-being and Cadozier professional ethics were used. SPSS and Amos24 softwares were used for data analysis. ResultsThe results showed that There is a positive and significant relationships between organizational virtue with professional ethics and psychological well-being and between professional ethics and psychological well-being of employees and organizational virtue have direct and significant effects on professional ethics and psychological well-being of employees. Also, the indirect effect of organizational virtue on psychological well-being was mediated by professional ethics with the Sobel test at a confidence level of 0.95. DiscussionTherefore, it can be said that organizational virtue based on professional ethics can be effective regarding psychological well-being of employees. In other words, organizational virtue, by arousing positive emotions in employees and ethical and beneficial behaviors, creates positive images of the organization in the minds of individuals and strengthens trust and a sense of loyalty in them and empowers employees to perform better tasks, and prepares employees regarding the benefit of the whole organization.
Research Article
mohammad Parvaresh; Hamid Davazdahemami; Saeed Sharifi
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Introduction
One of the main goal of any organization is to satisfy customers by providing good quality services. The purpose of this research was to present a model for customer respect in the judiciary of Isfahan, which used a mixed research method. This study was qualitative and quantitative research.
Method
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Introduction
One of the main goal of any organization is to satisfy customers by providing good quality services. The purpose of this research was to present a model for customer respect in the judiciary of Isfahan, which used a mixed research method. This study was qualitative and quantitative research.
Method
The qualitative method included grounded theory (GT) and the quantitative method a survey method. The statistical population of this research consists of knowledgeable experts in the field of criminal justice, judges, lawyers and employees. In this research, 33 in-depth and semi-structured interviews were conducted, and with this number of interviews, a research reached information saturation, and also theoretical sampling and snowball technique were used. In order to evaluate the credibility, the conducted interviews were returned to them and approved. Also, validity of the structure, was done with AMOS software. The results of this analysis showed that the obtained factor loadings are all higher than 0.6, which indicates the construct validity of the mentioned questionnaire and no category is removed from the questionnaire.
Results
Causal conditions including good treatment, organizational structure and characteristics of employees, context including environmental and cultural conditions, intervening conditions including speed in the process and employees’ respect, strategies including strengthening infrastructure facilities, personnel evaluation system, empowerment, correct application of the law, optimal management of referrals, education and cultural building and the consequences include social peace, social trust, and advancement of affairs.
Discussion
According to the present research, it can be stated that paying attention to all the factors affecting customer respect, including technical infrastructure, characteristics of employees and managers, environmental laws and regulations, culture building, motivation, empowerment, and social trust can develop customer respect in the Justice Department.
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Mohsen Shokoohi-Yekta; Negin Motamed Yeganeh; Ameneh Shakeri
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IntroductionEarly findings that urban bus drivers are liable to suffer from mental health problems as a result of high levels of job stress, remain true today. The research needs to concentrate on practical interventions that are systematically implemented and evaluated to improve the mental health of ...
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IntroductionEarly findings that urban bus drivers are liable to suffer from mental health problems as a result of high levels of job stress, remain true today. The research needs to concentrate on practical interventions that are systematically implemented and evaluated to improve the mental health of bus drivers. The current study aims to investigate the effectiveness of psycho-social skills training on interpersonal forgiveness and social anxiety of urban bus drivers in Tehran.MethodThe training project of the bus drivers of Tehran bus driving company started in 2013 and it is implemented in different phases on drivers who are aplicants of employment in bus driving company in Tehran. This study utilized a quasi- experimental research method with pre-test & post-test design. 41 urban bus drivers with an average age of 43.95 (SD = 9.87) were trained in the areas of anger management, revenge driving, effective communication, and stress management over 9 sessions, 80 minutes each. To evaluate the effectiveness of the training program, Interpersonal Forgiveness Inventory (IFI) and Social Interaction Anxiety Scale (SIAS) were used. ResultsStatistical analysis showed that the training program has a positive effect on the levels of recomunicating and controlling revenge, resentment control, realistic understanding and also on the overall forgiveness score, and had a significant impact on increasing the ability of drivers to control their resentment (P> 0.05). Also, our results showed that the intervention had a significant effect on reducing social interaction anxiety in bus drivers (P> 0.05). DiscussionTraining in psycho-social skills could be used as part of the well-being program to improve the mental health of urban bus drivers. It is also expected that these trainings by focusing on cognitive and behavioral components will have a positive effect on improving the performance of bus drivers, as well ad the efficiency of the transportation system.
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yaser haji aghanezhad; Ahadullah Angazi Quds
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Introduction
In today's era, one of the most important basic challenges of the human resource managers is to maintain capable employees in order to create the success of the organization and to use them optimally. This research was conducted with the aim of investigating the relationship between the ...
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Introduction
In today's era, one of the most important basic challenges of the human resource managers is to maintain capable employees in order to create the success of the organization and to use them optimally. This research was conducted with the aim of investigating the relationship between the participative work climate and organizational commitment of employees in a military unit.
Method
The statistical population was the employees of the headquarters area of a military unit, and 184 people were selected as a statistical sample through a simple random sampling method. Instruments included Cooperative Climate Questionnaire (Djokovic et al., 2018), and Organizational Commitment Questionnaire (Meyer & Allen, 1991). Data were analyzed using structural equation modeling and SPSS and AMOS software.
Results
The results showed that the cooperative climate and its dimensions (participation culture in the organization, support of work groups, employees' attitude and continuous monitoring) have a positive and significant effect on the organizational commitment of a military unit.
Discussion
As long as a military unit has a culture of participation, help, and cooperation, it can be expected that organizational commitment will spread to other employees as well. To the extent that team building and support of work groups are done well in this military unit, this climate of cooperation of work groups will make organizational commitment effective in this department.
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Heyfa Bereyhe Bereyhi; Iman Mombeini
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IntroductionOne of the factors that must be considered by management to empower employees is the type of leadership style. Leadership is necessary and essential for effective social and organizational performance. Transformational leadership style is one of the most popular and studied leadership styles. ...
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IntroductionOne of the factors that must be considered by management to empower employees is the type of leadership style. Leadership is necessary and essential for effective social and organizational performance. Transformational leadership style is one of the most popular and studied leadership styles. Transformational leaders change the thoughts and attitudes of their followers and motivate them for higher levels of effort and performance. These leaders have the ability to orientate around a shared vision and encourage followers to work harder to implement and complete it. Therefore, the research was conducted with the aim of investigating the relationship of transformational leadership with job well-being, subjective occupational success, and adaptive performance in employees of Aghajari Oil and Gas Exploitation Company. MethodThe sample of the current research was 174 people (124 men, 50 women) from the employees of Aghajari Oil and Gas Exploitation Company. The instruments used in this research included General Transformational Leadership, Job Well-Being, Subjective OccupationalSuccess, and Adaptive Performance questionnaires. In order to evaluate the proposed model, structural equation modeling method was used with AMOS version 21 software. ResultsThe results showed that the final model has an acceptable fit with the data. Also, the results showed that the direct paths of transformational leadership to job well-being (β=0.21, p<0.001), transformational leadership to subjective occupational success (β=0.67, p<0.001), and transformational leadership to adaptive performance (β=0.55, p<0.001) are significant. DiscussionAccording to the results of this research, it is suggested that transformational leadership style training for managers should be considered in the educational programs of organizations.
Research Article
fatemeh ahmadian; hamid rahimi
Volume 9, Issue 1 , April 2022, Pages 203-226
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Introduction
Teachers play an important role in the education of human capital of any society, and the education of human capital is one of their most important duties, therefore, addressing the issue of their psychological well-being and improving it is considered one of the essential issues. Therefore, ...
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Introduction
Teachers play an important role in the education of human capital of any society, and the education of human capital is one of their most important duties, therefore, addressing the issue of their psychological well-being and improving it is considered one of the essential issues. Therefore, it is expected that the leadership style used in organizations and its related components are effective in communication, morale, motivation, satisfaction and psychological well-being of teachers. Thus the purpose of this research was to investigate the teachers'' perception of visionary leadership style and it’s effect on psychological well-being with the mediating role of mental toughness.
Method
The current research was descriptive-correlational and the statistical population included 3252 teachers of Kashan in the academic year of 2021-2022, by using stratified random sampling method, 334 teachers were selected as research sample. In order to collect data, three standard questionnaires of visionary leadership style, psychological well-being, and mental toughness were used. Data analysis of the research was done using SPSS and Amos statistical software at two descriptive and inferential levels.
Results
The results showed that the mean of teachers'' perception of visionary leadership style (3.56) is higher than average (3), psychological well-being mean (65.82) is higher than average (63) and mental toughness (45.93) is higher than average (42). The path analysis coefficients of the variables showed that the total effects of visionary leadership on psychological well-being was 0.96, visionary leadership on the mental toughness of 0.50, and mental toughness on psychological well-being was 0.95.
Discussion
In order to develop a visionary leadership style in educational organizations according to environmental conditions and requirements, it is necessary to provide preparation among the organization''s human resources.
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Hasan Rangriz; Mahmood Zarchi; Hossein Abbasian; Iraj Soltani
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IntroductionChange is one of the important characteristics of efficient and effective organizations. Organizational culture plays an essential role in this transformation. The purpose of this study was to provide a model for the development of excellence-based organizational culture in Mobarakeh Steel ...
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IntroductionChange is one of the important characteristics of efficient and effective organizations. Organizational culture plays an essential role in this transformation. The purpose of this study was to provide a model for the development of excellence-based organizational culture in Mobarakeh Steel Industry. MethodIn order to achieve research goal, a qualitative methodology based on the data theory method was used, including three stages of open, axial and selective coding, using the systematic approach of Strauss and Corbin. In order to collect data, unstructured interviews were used and targeted sampling method was used to reach the participants, and theoretical sampling method was used during data collection to complete the theory. That is, using people to take advantage of theoretical ambiguities and gaps. The statistical population of this research includes all managers who are experts in the field of excellence and special experts in Isfahan steel industry, which reached theoretical saturation with the number of 17 employees. To achieve the concepts, categories and categories, the data obtained from the interviews were analyzed based on open, axial and selective coding and organized with using the MAXqda software. ResultsCausal conditions include developmental factors, individual factors, organizational factors, background conditions including culture and environment, organizational structure and process and maturity, intervening conditions including community-related factors, organizational justice and monitoring and evaluation, strategies including participatory management, motivation management, infrastructure development and empowerment and the resulting outcomes including personal growth, organizational development and social development were obtained. In order to validate the obtained model, the Kendall correlation coefficient was calculated with the help of experts and by Delphi method. DiscussionAccording to the findings of the present study, it is suggested that the effective role of organizational culture be seriously and deeply reviewed by the managers of organizations; Because organizations understand the importance of knowledge and are looking for ways to create it.
