Management and Policy Making
Zahra Rajaei; Fatemeh Boskabadi; Hadis Mehmandoost
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The book "Topics in Advanced Organizational Behavior Management" is authored by Dr. Gholamreza Malekzadeh, a respected member of the Faculty of Management, Faculty of Administrative and Economic Sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. This book, which is the second edition was printed and bound by ...
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The book "Topics in Advanced Organizational Behavior Management" is authored by Dr. Gholamreza Malekzadeh, a respected member of the Faculty of Management, Faculty of Administrative and Economic Sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. This book, which is the second edition was printed and bound by Esfand Publishing House and Printing Affairs of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. This book is arranged into eleven chapters and it is a good example of how the central features of organizational research are affected by changes in the structures and features of contemporary organizations and what kind of dynamics and features are emerging in the new research fields are also explained. Considering the importance of case studies for a better understanding of course materials, it is necessary to address this topic. The purpose of this article is to review and criticize the book on advanced organizational behavior management. The method of evaluating and criticizing this work is documentary-analytical and in accordance with the proposed model of the Council for the Review of Texts and Books of Human Sciences in the framework of the general introduction, examining the form and content of the work. The most important part of the review of any book is its content evaluation. From this point of view, examining the strengths of this book, it is possible to mention that the learning objectives provide a summary and questions for self-examination at the beginning and end of the chapters, use the model in practice, and analyze the topics of organizational behavior management. Presenting related materials and practical questions in line with discussion and consensus in the class, closing the gaps in the discussed theoretical topics by referring to the real events in the environment of organizations, and using logical order in the order of placement of the researched items are all among the positive points of the book. Pointing out the weaknesses, the non-compliance and coverage of the presented headings with the headings approved by the Ministry of Science, neglecting the use of the list of figures, diagrams, and tables, the lack of a list of terms and keywords (glossary), the non-use of up-to-date Persian and Latin sources and the lack of mentioning some of the sources inside the text in the list of sources can be enumerated. In the end, it can be said that by adding new topics and new sources, fixing editing and writing points, and mentioning the excavations of Iranian organizations, we can add value to the richness of this book.
Management and Policy Making
Ehsan Abedi
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In the field of qualitative research, there are many reference books, each of which has gained good legitimacy and acceptance among readers for a reason. The book “Basics of Qualitative Research: Grounded Theory Procedures and Techniques” written by Strauss and Corbin and translated by Ebrahim ...
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In the field of qualitative research, there are many reference books, each of which has gained good legitimacy and acceptance among readers for a reason. The book “Basics of Qualitative Research: Grounded Theory Procedures and Techniques” written by Strauss and Corbin and translated by Ebrahim Afshar, is one of the most successful books that has been written in this field, published 9 times and has been used as a reference book for postgraduate students. In this article, the attempt was to review the book in a descriptive-analytical manner, by mentioning the evidence and documents and based on evaluation criteria which the Council introduced for Reviewing Books and Text on Human Sciences. Criticisms were presented from both formal and content perspectives. According to this, on one hand, the main strengths of the book are content comprehensiveness about grounded theory, a coherent and structured view of the subject, and providing practical examples. On the other hand, this work has also some drawbacks, the most important of which are the lack of sufficient attention to the stage of preparing and presenting the research report, outdated topics despite numerous editions of the book, and the lack of attention to other qualitative research methods.
Management and Policy Making
Elham Ebrahimi
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Researchers consider four foundations for employee compensation, including job status, individual status, membership, and performance. Building upon these foundations, the present article employs the methodology of critical realism and research implications to critique a prominent book in the field of ...
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Researchers consider four foundations for employee compensation, including job status, individual status, membership, and performance. Building upon these foundations, the present article employs the methodology of critical realism and research implications to critique a prominent book in the field of employee compensation. The selected book for review is “Handbook of Employee Reward Management and Practice” authored by Michael Armstrong and translated into Farsi as Compensation “Management”. This book holds significant importance as a teaching resource in the realm of management and management policy. This article delves into the four fundamental principles of compensation management while critiquing the mentioned work. It also presents actuarial implications and research alternatives in this field. The findings highlight the necessity of explicitly incorporating all four fundamental elements of compensation for the comprehensive coverage of educational research works on employee compensation management, avoiding any implicit treatment.
Management and Policy Making
Fateme Baratlou
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In the critical review of the book “Ethics of Management” written by Tomas Klikavar (2010), the present article has paid attention to the general approach of the author, the conceptual tools used, and the way of reasoning. According to the author, management, especially business management, ...
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In the critical review of the book “Ethics of Management” written by Tomas Klikavar (2010), the present article has paid attention to the general approach of the author, the conceptual tools used, and the way of reasoning. According to the author, management, especially business management, due to the importance it attaches to the survival of the organization, has placed its fundamental principle on increasing benefit and earning profit, therefore, morality is not its fundamental issue, and it can even commit immorality in some cases, according to the necessity of tendencies and dispositions . As a theoretician of management ethics, from a historical point of view, the author has tried to show that business management has always been associated with unethical experiences, an experience that has continued until the present day as a kind of modern slavery. He believes that management ethics as an inter-discipline, which is considered a branch of management knowledge in terms of its subject, must be more intertwined with philosophy in practice. Finally, although the author has been able to show the inherent contradiction of management, especially business management, with ethics and provide a solution based on this, the fact that the author has succeeded in presenting a different theory in the field of “management ethics” is a matter of doubt and reflection.
Management and Policy Making
Mojgan Roshannejad
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As a result of the growth and development of communication and information technologies, as well as the increasing use of smart tools connected to the Internet, a huge amount of digital data is produced every moment. Human resource (HR) analytics is necessary for the intelligent use of this data to improve ...
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As a result of the growth and development of communication and information technologies, as well as the increasing use of smart tools connected to the Internet, a huge amount of digital data is produced every moment. Human resource (HR) analytics is necessary for the intelligent use of this data to improve Human Resource Management (HRM) decisions. HR analytics has descriptive, diagnostic, and predictive types introduced as analytics maturity models. Considering the HR analytics maturity model and the five functions of Human Resource Management, this article uses the systematic implication research method to review and criticize the book “Data-Driven HR: How to Use Analytics and Metrics to Drive Performance” by Bernard Marr. This book is translated into Persian by Pirannejad and Faraji Jobedar. The implications show that the book can be improved by enriching the scientific theoretical foundations of HRM topics. In addition, this could be improved through closer attention to the levels of HR analytics.
Management and Policy Making
Ehsan Abedi; Paria Pourmansour
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Managers need information obtained from marketing research to know the needs and demands of customers, market position, technological changes and the extent of competition. Therefore, the marketing research team, with a systematic and objective study, identifies the problems related to marketing and ...
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Managers need information obtained from marketing research to know the needs and demands of customers, market position, technological changes and the extent of competition. Therefore, the marketing research team, with a systematic and objective study, identifies the problems related to marketing and takes steps to solve them.Considering the importance of marketing research, there are many reference books that have gained legitimacy and acceptance among readers; including the "Marketing Research (An applied Approach)" authored and translated by Dr. Davar Venus, Dr. Abdul Hamid Ebrahimi and Dr. Ahmad Rusta, which has been reprinted fifteen times, and is one of the most important teaching resources for postgraduate studies. For this purpose, in this article, through the descriptive-analytical method and the presentation of evidence and documentation based on the evaluation criteria introduced by the Humanities Texts and Books Review Council, a fair and impartial review of this work has been done from two structural and content points of view and its strengths and improvable points are stated. The results of the investigations show that this work has been able to cover comprehensive content with practical examples in the field of marketing research with a fluent text. On the other hand, not updatingthe topics despite numerous reprints is one of the things that can be improved.
Management and Policy Making
Gholamreza Malekzadeh; Zahra Rajaei
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The present article introduces, reviews and critiques the book Classics of organization theory: by GM Schafritz and Steven Ott, translated by Dr. Ali Parsaian which has been published by Termeh Press. The research method is qualitative. This book has been reprinted for the fifth time by Termeh ...
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The present article introduces, reviews and critiques the book Classics of organization theory: by GM Schafritz and Steven Ott, translated by Dr. Ali Parsaian which has been published by Termeh Press. The research method is qualitative. This book has been reprinted for the fifth time by Termeh Publications in 2017 and has 1054 pages. The book is in a good condition in the appearance, page layout and page quality. This book includes articles from management figures such as Fayol, Taylor, Simon, Follett and so on which distinguishes it from other books in the field of organizational theory. In this book, the presentation of generalities at the beginning of every chapter by Schafritz and Steven Ott along with the presentation of related articles in every viewpoint and presentation of the sources in the end of every article will help to better summarize the content for readers. The disadvantage of translating the book is that its references were from 1896 to 1990. The newer editions of the English book is available and although two chapters and a collection of articles have been added to the new edition, the translation of the book needs to be updated.
Management and Policy Making
Elham Ebrahimi
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Familiarity with research methodology is a requirement for any research project. What is seen in most works of writing or translating is a mere focus on teaching one or more research methods. The “Handbook of Mixed Methods in Social and Behavioral Sciences Research” has a different approach ...
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Familiarity with research methodology is a requirement for any research project. What is seen in most works of writing or translating is a mere focus on teaching one or more research methods. The “Handbook of Mixed Methods in Social and Behavioral Sciences Research” has a different approach and has been written by pursuing the three goals of explaining philosophical tendencies, methodological formulation, and method, and finally the application of mixed research. This distinction, which makes the book stand out from other works in the field, was the reason it was chosen for critique. The Persian translation of the book, by Tashakkori and Teddlie was investigated based on the evaluation criteria of the Council for Reviewing Books and Texts on Human Sciences in two areas of structural and content criticism. The main strengths of the book are, focusing on the four bases of research paradigms i.e., ontology, epistemology, axiology, and strictly methodology of mixed research, multiplicity, and diversity of views and using the pioneers in the field of research methods in writing chapters and also providing primary valid sources, examples and case studies. At the same time, the effect has points for improvement, the most important of which are the overlap in the content of some chapters, the naming and arrangement of chapters, and the literal translation of some sentences.
Management and Policy Making
Karim Esgandari; Ahmad Fathi Abdollahi; Lotfollah Taghizadeh
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The purpose of this study is to critically review the book “Theories and Schools of Finance and Accounting”. In this research, the method of critical philosophical exploration was used to review the book. The tools used included the textbook and academic review worksheets of the Humanities ...
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The purpose of this study is to critically review the book “Theories and Schools of Finance and Accounting”. In this research, the method of critical philosophical exploration was used to review the book. The tools used included the textbook and academic review worksheets of the Humanities Textbook Review Council. In the preface of this book, the authors introduce it for the benefit of students and the book is introduced as a source by some professors in the master's degree in accounting. On the other hand, in the Supreme Council of the Ministry of Science, among the main topics mentioned for the accounting theory course are empowering students to understand the nature of theory and reasoning methods. The results of qualitative content analysis showed that not much material was provided on these issues and the book is slightly in line with the topics of the Ministry of Science. Also, since accounting and financial theories deal mainly with controversial issues such as interest, profit and ownership, the inadequacy of clear explanations and examples and the very little use of theories of different schools, especially the school of Islam regarding financial and accounting issues and practical issues are other weaknesses of the book. In general, the book is relatively creative and innovative in terms of collecting and categorizing theories, but it has major weaknesses in terms of application in teaching.
Management and Policy Making
Marjan Ebrahimi; Jafar HosienporSadatabadi; Esfandiyar DoshmanZiyari; Mojtaba Moazami; Bibisadat Miresmaeili
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The present study was conducted to present the technological leadership model of virtual education to promote primary school curricula with a combined approach. The research was a series of exploratory ones. The statistical population in the qualitative sector includes experts familiar with technological ...
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The present study was conducted to present the technological leadership model of virtual education to promote primary school curricula with a combined approach. The research was a series of exploratory ones. The statistical population in the qualitative sector includes experts familiar with technological leadership. These individuals were purposefully selected for qualitative interviews on the subject of research (16 interviews with 16 people and continued to the point of theoretical saturation), and in the second (quantitative) part, a questionnaire was constructed among the primary school principals of the city, distributed in Tehran to 235 public school principals and 215 non-profit school principals. To analyze the coding in the qualitative part and the method of structural equations in the quantitative component was used. In the qualitative section, it was found that the categories were identified in the form of 9 types and 37 concept codes, and in the heart of the six dimensions of the paradigm model as causal causes (3 categories), the main category: virtual leadership technological education (1 category), strategies (1 Category), contextual conditions (1 category), intervening conditions (2 categories) and consequences (1 category) were included. In the quantitative part, it was found that all 6 main research components have a good fit. When selecting managers, relevant managers are advised to pay attention to their technological attitudes and capabilities.
Management and Policy Making
Ali Aqa Safari; Abdullah Tavakoli
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Contingency management claims that there is nothing as the best universal principle in management. Considering the outcomes of the contingency approach, its epistemology must be analyzed from the perspective of the Quran using the interrogative/ cross-examination [istintaqi] method to express the propositions ...
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Contingency management claims that there is nothing as the best universal principle in management. Considering the outcomes of the contingency approach, its epistemology must be analyzed from the perspective of the Quran using the interrogative/ cross-examination [istintaqi] method to express the propositions of the revelatory word in rejecting, confirming, correcting, and completing the epistemology of contingency management as we can eliminate its epistemological shortcomings relying on them. The research findings indicate that epistemology in contingency management is based on objective and sensory knowledge and ignores supernatural causes and factors in explaining natural propositions. The Quran, while pointing to the shortcomings of contingency management, considers the subject of knowing God, human-being, nature, and understanding how they are interdependent, and emphasizes that human-being and the environment affect and influence each other visibly and invisibly, and the,refore human-being must take his/her advantage using networking tools by combining a horizontal view of the relationship between phenomena and a vertical and longitudinal view and their relationship with their creator. The results indicate that the Quran, in addition to reason and empirical findings, emphasizes that the best methods that lead to greater efficiency cannot be presented without revelation.
Management and Policy Making
Mohammad Javad Naeiji
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Although researchers generally agree on the nature and importance of strategic entrepreneurship (SE), various definitions have created confusion. Also, most exiting measures do not take into account the unique characteristics of this construct. The purpose of this paper is to criticize and redefining ...
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Although researchers generally agree on the nature and importance of strategic entrepreneurship (SE), various definitions have created confusion. Also, most exiting measures do not take into account the unique characteristics of this construct. The purpose of this paper is to criticize and redefining SE and its measures. By conducting a systematic review of previous research, we identify similarities between definitions of SE. Balancing is the core of SE concept and successful SE capabilities stressed on balance between corporate entrepreneurship and strategic management, opportunity exploration and exploitation, and radical and incremental innovations. In this way, the main section of the papers which are published in the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal (SEJ) has paid attention to balance strategy and entrepreneurship. This paper reviews three questionnaires that were developed to measure SE. However, only a few studies have used these questionnaires and further studies should be conducted to develop instruments to measure SE.
Management and Policy Making
Saeed Azadeh; Ali Akbai Farhangi; Seyed Mohammad Zahedi
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According to the concept of trust in management since the 1980s and over the last few decades, different angles and approaches have been studied. Trust is an essential factor for individual and organizational success. Trust among individuals and employees is a result of stability, unity, and intra-organizational ...
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According to the concept of trust in management since the 1980s and over the last few decades, different angles and approaches have been studied. Trust is an essential factor for individual and organizational success. Trust among individuals and employees is a result of stability, unity, and intra-organizational cohesion, performance upgrades the efficiency and effectiveness of groups and grounds of cooperation, participation, and communication. This study aimed to design a model of intera-organizational trust through collective action in the education of Tehran. This research is applied research in terms of purpose and is survey-exploratory and qualitative research. The population of the study consisted of senior managers of the department of education in Tehran university professors, and advisors, who were interviewed in depth. The selection of experts and interviews with them continued until theoretical saturation and then stopped. In this research, since the grounded theory method was used, the main tool for data collection was in-depth interviews with experts. Finally, after three open, axial and selective coding, the conceptual model of research was designed. So far, no study has been done on this connection in the department of education in Tehran. This model is classified as causal, axial, contextual, strategic, and consequential variables. The findings showed that education of Tehran, in order to enhance intera-organizational trust, can leverage the collective action within and between layers of the structure of your organization.
Management and Policy Making
Elham Ebrahimi
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Today, thinkers and policymakers envision new roles for human resource management, one of the most important one is “competency-basing” in all functions of human resource management from planning and selection as input processes to the development and maintenance and output processes of human ...
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Today, thinkers and policymakers envision new roles for human resource management, one of the most important one is “competency-basing” in all functions of human resource management from planning and selection as input processes to the development and maintenance and output processes of human resources. The purpose of this article is to review the Competency-Based Human Resource Management book by David Dubios et al. The book is reviewed and criticized based on two methods of formalist critique that focuses on form - elements such as structure and writing- and research critique that gives originality to the content, and also based on the criteria of the Iranian Council for Reviewing Books and Text on Human Sciences. Findings showed that the main strengths of the book are having a theoretical and practical perspective, paying attention to the organizational context in the application of competencies and confronting and comparing traditional with competency-based human resource processes. This work also has points for improvement, the most important of which are the lack of up-to-date references despite the reprint of the book, issues unrelated to or less related to the main concept of the book, and the need to explain new methods of human resource management processes in the competency-based approach. In the end, based on the findings, suggestions were made in two headings of form and content.
Management and Policy Making
Alireza Banagar; Zahra Saeedi Ramiani; Nadi Alizadeh; Faranak Paydar
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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 ...
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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.
Management and Policy Making
Mohammad Hassanzadeh; Behrouz Rasouli; Somayeh Jafari
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Many researchers, professionals, and managers believe that knowledge is one of the key assets of organizations and businesses in the current era. In this regard, the term knowledge strategy has been considered in order to clarify the knowledge assets for the organization, which ultimately improves the ...
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Many researchers, professionals, and managers believe that knowledge is one of the key assets of organizations and businesses in the current era. In this regard, the term knowledge strategy has been considered in order to clarify the knowledge assets for the organization, which ultimately improves the efficiency and effectiveness of the organization by implementing knowledge management and formulating a knowledge management strategy. The book Knowledge Strategy and Knowledge Management seeks to explain two main concepts, namely “Knowledge Strategy” and “Knowledge Management Strategy” in four chapters. This book is one of the first works in the Persian language to focus on the concept of knowledge strategy. Although the book addresses an important issue that is one of the key needs business managers, the distinction between strategic management, knowledge strategy, strategic knowledge management, etc. is not clearly stated. The purpose of this article is to review the book Knowledge Strategy and Knowledge Management from different aspects.
Management and Policy Making
Rasoul Ranjbarian; Zainab Delrobaei
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One of the best ways to maintain knowledge and efficiency of knowledge capital is knowledge management. Knowledge management is a management tool and the process of creating value from the invisible assets of the organization. The purpose of this article is to critically review the book Fundamentals ...
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One of the best ways to maintain knowledge and efficiency of knowledge capital is knowledge management. Knowledge management is a management tool and the process of creating value from the invisible assets of the organization. The purpose of this article is to critically review the book Fundamentals and Theory of Religious Knowledge Management and its Applications by Hassan Ali Nemati Shamsabad. In this article, an attempt was made to critically and unbiasedly critique the book with a descriptive-analytical approach, citing evidence and documents based on the evaluation criteria introduced by the Council for the Review of Humanities Texts and Books. The tool of critique of the worksheet was the critique of the textbooks and academic books of the Council for the Review of Humanities Texts and Books. Criticisms were presented in both form and content. Accordingly, the main strengths of the book are the comprehensiveness of the content, systematic approach, coherent and structured view of the issues, compatibility of the work with Islamic wisdom and modeling in scientific-academic sources according to Islamic sources. One of the shortcomings and points that can be improved in the book is that it has a theoretical rather than practical effect. This article tries to add to the richness of the book's topics by looking critically at the formal and content dimensions of the work and relying on research citations.
Management and Policy Making
Elmira Shakeri; Karim Esgandari; Shadi Orafaye Jamshidi
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Critique of academic books causes due care to be taken in their proper organization. Accordingly, the purpose of this article is to critique the book of The Basics of Neuroleadership: Organizational Leadership by Neuroscience, by Kiumars Ahmadi and published in 2018 by the Termed Press. The method of ...
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Critique of academic books causes due care to be taken in their proper organization. Accordingly, the purpose of this article is to critique the book of The Basics of Neuroleadership: Organizational Leadership by Neuroscience, by Kiumars Ahmadi and published in 2018 by the Termed Press. The method of evaluation and critique of this work is citation-analytical and in accordance with the model proposed by the Council for the Study of Humanities Texts and Books in the framework of general introduction, form and content study of the work. According to the findings, the strengths of the book include the innovation in the subject and its interdisciplinary and typography, quality of printing, the content congruence with the principles and Foundations of religion and Islam. Shortcomings of this book includes that the text is not that much fluent and eloquent. There are some necessary headlines completely missed in the text. Overall, in spite of its Excellency, the book is needed to be revised and edited in order to be applied as an educational textbook.
Management and Policy Making
Mohammad Sheikhzadeh
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One of the serious harms of management education in Iran is the weakness of the content of textbooks and the lack of attention to the practical dimension and skill-building in writing them. The purpose of this article is to review and compare management textbooks in the field of organizational behavior ...
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One of the serious harms of management education in Iran is the weakness of the content of textbooks and the lack of attention to the practical dimension and skill-building in writing them. The purpose of this article is to review and compare management textbooks in the field of organizational behavior at home and abroad. After reviewing various books on organizational behavior that are taught in management schools in the country and abroad, four common textbook titles , two domestic book titles from SAMT Publication and two foreign book titles from McGrawHill Higher Education Publication were selected. Then by using the comparative case study method, the similarity and difference of these four books were analyzed and compared based on appearance and content indicators. The research findings show that the two domestic textbooks are mainly written with a theoretical approach and their content is not up to date, while the two foreign textbooks are compiled with a practical and skill-building approach and have flexible, up-to-date and integrated content. Then, the content of one of these books (as a benchmark) was examined in more detail. Finally, a framework for compiling and reviewing management textbooks in Iran was presented.
Management and Policy Making
Layla Anbarsetani; Rashid Zoalfaghari Zafarani; BiBi Sadat Miresmaeili; AbasAli Ghayomi
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The present study was conducted with the aim of developing and validating a quality management model in order to implement the educational goals of the document of fundamental transformation of education and upbringing with a combined approach. In terms of applied purpose, the present research method ...
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The present study was conducted with the aim of developing and validating a quality management model in order to implement the educational goals of the document of fundamental transformation of education and upbringing with a combined approach. In terms of applied purpose, the present research method was a combination of consecutive exploratory type and data collection method in the qualitative part, field using interviews and in the quantitative field using a questionnaire. The statistical population in the qualitative section includes professors of educational management familiar with the document of education and training as well as familiar with quality management, who were purposefully selected as a standard for qualitative interviews on the subject of research (19 interviews with 19 people and up to The theoretical saturation limit continued) and in the second (quantitative) part, after collecting information from qualitative research, a questionnaire was constructed. Therefore, in general, it was found that the categories of strategic quality management model in order to implement the educational goals of the document of fundamental transformation of education and training, in order of importance, including infrastructure, evaluation, finance, human resources, participatory education, communication, human, organizational structure, program is planning and training. The directors of education in the country are recommended to use the results of the present study to achieve the educational goals of the document of fundamental change in education.
Management and Policy Making
Hadi Karami; Davood Kiakojouri
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Analysis of Public policy is a new trend of public administration in prestigious universities that studies the role of analysts in formulating and implementing public policy and providing different styles of analysis. Policy analysis is a way to formulate and identify problems in order to search for ...
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Analysis of Public policy is a new trend of public administration in prestigious universities that studies the role of analysts in formulating and implementing public policy and providing different styles of analysis. Policy analysis is a way to formulate and identify problems in order to search for possible solutions. For this purpose, the book Analysis of Public Policy: Concepts, Approaches, Models, and Processes, Tehran: University of Tehran Press. 2018. 272 p. ISBN 6-7092-03-964-978 has been selected and criticized. This research is of content analysis type and is applied in terms of critical implementation. In this regard, first, the creator and descriptive form and content of the work are introduced and then evaluated and analyzed in three dimensions of appearance, structure and content. The evaluation shows that this book, while having its own advantages and strengths, needs to be reviewed and corrected in the above three dimensions, especially the production of appropriate content with general policy analysis.
Management and Policy Making
Amir Reza Konjkav Monfared
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The purpose of this article is to review and critique the book Strategic Management and Business Policy by Thomas L. Wheelen and J. David Hunger. 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 Council ...
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The purpose of this article is to review and critique the book Strategic Management and Business Policy by Thomas L. Wheelen and J. David Hunger. 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 Council for the Study of Humanities Texts and books. In this regard, the formal and content dimensions of the book have been studied and criticized with an analytical approach. The technical characteristics of the work such as cover design, page layout, font type, are considered desirable and appropriate, at the same time, the quality of some tables and diagrams is undesirable. The results of evaluating the qualitative content of the book showed that some words need to be revised in translation. Due to the main goals of the book, it was not necessary to present topics in a separate chapter. On the other hand, some issues such as mission statement, vision, and practical tools in the process of analyzing the environment and formulating strategy have not been considered. Considering the strengths and weaknesses of the book, it can be said that the content of the book meets the scientific and practical needs of the country. So, scholars can use its content to increase knowledge related to strategic management.
Management and Policy Making
Mehdi Golverdi
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Public administration studies governments, government institutions, and structures, as well as the actions of individuals in the public sector. Numerous books have been written and translated in the field of public administration. Few of these books have gained legitimacy and acceptance among readers. ...
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Public administration studies governments, government institutions, and structures, as well as the actions of individuals in the public sector. Numerous books have been written and translated in the field of public administration. Few of these books have gained legitimacy and acceptance among readers. The book Managerial Movements in Public Sector by Dr. Hasan Danaeefard is one of the most comprehensive books written in the field of public administration and therefore has been considered as a textbook for teaching in public administration courses and the main source of study for the graduate entrance exam for recent years. In this article, the attempt was to review the book in a descriptive-analytical manner, by mentioning the evidence and documents. The book was critiqued from four dimensions: formal, structure, writing and content. According to this, on one hand, the main strengths of the book are the use of credible sources, comprehensiveness and up-to-datedness of the content, accurate citation method, and use of practical examples. On the other hand, this book has also some drawbacks, the most important of which are lack of observance of writing symbols, inconsistency of some sentences, lack of image quality of the cover design and its incompatibility with the subject of the book and lack of structural and content coherence in some sentences.Keywords:
Management and Policy Making
Gholamreza Goodarzi; Mansooreh Moeini Korbekandi
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Organizations are one of the main foundations of today’s society, and management is the most important factor in the life, growth, and development or death of organizations. The manager guides the process from the current situation to the desired situation and strives at every moment to create ...
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Organizations are one of the main foundations of today’s society, and management is the most important factor in the life, growth, and development or death of organizations. The manager guides the process from the current situation to the desired situation and strives at every moment to create a better future. The past has happened with all its nature and learning, and with all the impact it can have on the future, and no human force can recreate it in a different way, but the future is on its way and an important part of it has to do with what is happening today. This article examines and critiques the book Organizational Change (Themes & Issues) by Jim Grieves, translated by Dr. Parviz Ahmadi and first the book is evaluated in terms of form and then it is considered in terms of content and structure. Also, the book’s expandable points are mentioned to make it richer.
Management and Policy Making
Yaghoob Maharati; Fatemeh Beygi Nasrabadi
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Theory analysis and critique is the first step in a thorough and in-depth understanding of the theory and the entry into the theorizing in a particular field. This study aims to emphasize the extension of criticism culture in the organization and management literature. In this article, Bryson’s ...
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Theory analysis and critique is the first step in a thorough and in-depth understanding of the theory and the entry into the theorizing in a particular field. This study aims to emphasize the extension of criticism culture in the organization and management literature. In this article, Bryson’s strategic planning theory select for the critic as a sample of theory criticism. Since Bryson's strategic planning model is one of the most well-known studies in the field of strategic planning in the world and a large number of research and practices have used this model. This study used a combined criticism method to analyze and critic this theory, based on content, methodology, historical point of view, and also the personal and professional life of the theorist. The results discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the theory, especially in terms of content and methodology, and explain the impact of the theoretical, intellectual, social, and historical context of the theory and discuss the application of the theory in Iranian organizations.
