Management and Policy Making
Alireza Banagar; Zahra Saeedi Ramiani; Nadi Alizadeh; Faranak Paydar
Abstract
The purpose of this article is to review and critique the book entitled Measuring and Managing Organizational Culture Tools and Methods for Improvement the Work of Mahdi Ebrahimi Blani, Vida Rashidi and Saeed Shahbazmoradi. This work has been written in the field of management and organizational culture ...
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The purpose of this article is to review and critique the book entitled Measuring and Managing Organizational Culture Tools and Methods for Improvement the Work of Mahdi Ebrahimi Blani, Vida Rashidi and Saeed Shahbazmoradi. This work has been written in the field of management and organizational culture and has been set up in four chapters and a preface. In the process of critique and evaluation of this book, the criteria and indicators of critique are used in accordance with the model provided by the Iranian council for reviewing books and text on human sciences. In this regard, this book is evaluated in terms of method and then in terms of content and structure. Also, book improvements are charged to enrich the book and opening the other fields of research. The result of studying this work showed that the authors of the book can increase the credibility of the work by observing the principles of reference in the expression of texts and tables and also by combining the work with Islamic texts and by structural and content review of the work can add to the richness of the work.
Educational Science
Mohammadreza Nili Ahmad Abadi; Ali Dana
Volume 17, Issue 7 , January 2018, , Pages 219-233
Abstract
Textbooks have different features and dimensions that reviewing their quality requires studying, criticism, and evaluation from different perspectives. Therefore, this study aimed to provide some criteria for critical assessment of academic textbooks based on principles of educational messages. This ...
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Textbooks have different features and dimensions that reviewing their quality requires studying, criticism, and evaluation from different perspectives. Therefore, this study aimed to provide some criteria for critical assessment of academic textbooks based on principles of educational messages. This is a qualitative library research in which the scientific resources such as books and articles have been studied inductively, and then, the topics were categorized and new criteria for critical assessment of textbooks were presented. The research population of this study included all information resources, books, and indexed articles in the accredited national and international journals published from 2001 to 2017. Moreover, the sampling method of this research was purposive non-random sampling. The results indicated that in the criticism of academic textbooks, other than regarding the formal, structural, content, and writing dimensions, there also exist two more dimensions of a high importance, i.e., the educational and research dimensions. Finally, it can be concluded that in the criticism of academic textbooks, the first purpose of which is the transmission of an educational message, if the educational and research dimensions are ignored, the critique of the book would stay inapplicable and would not satisfy its goals.
