Iranian Journal of Management Studies
Volume:5 Issue: 1, Winter 2012

This article, by leaving pre-determined membership function of a fuzzy set which is a basic assumption for such subject, will try to propose a hybrid technique to select the most economic project among alternative projects in fuzziness interest rates condition. In this way, net present worth (NPW) would be the economic indicator. This article tries to challenge the assumption of large sample sizes availability for membership function determination and shows that some other techniques may have less accuracy. To give a robust solution, bootstrapping and fuzzy simulation is suggested and a numerical example is given and analyzed.

This study empirically examines the impact of indoor physical environment on academicians’ productivity in different higher education institutes of Khyber Pakhtoonkhawa (KPK) province of Pakistan. The study is based on primary data collected from one hundred and forty four educationists’ of various institutes in Pakistan namely, COMSATS Abbottabad campus, Hazara University, Mansehra campus, UET campus, Abbottabad, Hazara University, Havelian campus, Comwave university, Abbottabad campus and University of Peshawar. A structured questionnaire was used for data collection. The data was analyzed using the techniques of rank correlation coefficient and multiple regression analysis. All the findings were tested at 0.01 and 0.05 level of significance. The finding of this study shows that office design is very important in terms of increasing employees’s productivity. The study opines that comfortable and contented office design motivates and energizes the employees to increase their performance.

Many studies have already been conducted to understand the various dimensions of the burnout. The purpose of the present research is to investigate the moderating effect of demographic variables on the relationship between job burnout and its consequences among the staff of an Iranian public sector company. In this research, job burnout is considered as independent variable; organizational commitment, intention to leave and the employees’ job satisfaction are dependent variables; and the age, gender, marital status and educational level are moderating variables. The results of this study show that firstly, the job burnout of employees in organizations leads to the decrease of organizational commitment and job satisfaction, and the increase of intention to leave; secondly, the demographic variables in this research dont affect on the relationship of job burnout with its consequences.

Three major causes of the importance of entrepreneurship are making wealth, developing technology and creating productive employment. It is generally believed that a revolution is needed for entrepreneurship to take place in societies nowadays. Thus, the present study aims at investigation of the biographical characteristics and explanation of its relation to entrepreneurial spirit at Mazandaran university students. The data collection instrument was a related questionnaire with the reliability level of 0.90, and the collected data related to the examined variables were analyzed by using T-Student and ANOVA Tests. The results explained and determined that, except age, other biographical characteristics including gender, marital status, employment, birth arrangement, parents’ education level, did not have any meaningful relationship with the entrepreneurial spirit. Finally, it is the presented summary of implications for managers such as suggestions on how the managers and authorities can improve the entrepreneurial spirit among students

The effects and outcomes of organizational citizenship behavior in recent years have increasingly received attention by researchers and scholars of organization and management field. One of them can be named as creation and enhancement of social capital. Yet, a comprehensive research has not been done about it in public organizations of Islamic Republic of Iran.The researcher tries to offer and examine dimensions of organizational citizenship behavior and social capital, and identifies their indicators and then examines the relationship between the dimensions of organizational citizenship behavior and social capital, and ultimately studies the impact of OCB on increasing the social capital in public organizations of Qom province. At the end, based on the findings of the research, some suggestions are recommended for public organizations and researchers who want to study in this regard in future.

Because of the paramount importance of job satisfaction and due to its main consequences such as reduction of work absence and resignation, personnel promotion and society’s health, and more importantly, its role in achievement of organization goals, this study aimed at investigating the effects of six social factors including personnel’s belief, salary and benefits, participation in organizational decision-making, sense of job security, interaction with colleagues and meeting the basic needs of personnel on job satisfaction. The statistical population of this study was the personnel of Remedial Service Insurance Department in Sari and the questionnaire was distributed among them. The results showed that there is a significant and positive correlation among all these factors and they have meaningful effects on personnel job satisfaction based on multiple regression analysis. Furthermore, findings revealed that personnel’s belief about their job has the most effects on job satisfaction.

To rationalize the size of government, Act on adjusting a part of government’s financial rules is approved and the government is obliged to assign a part of its activities through (1) services by nonpublic sector, (2) partnership with nonpublic sector, and (3) assigning the management to nonpublic sector. There are many barriers in executing this law. The present study derived from a field study tries to provide a report on the performance of various organs in Qom province on executing this law and identifies the executive barriers and provides practical proposals to remove them