محمدرضا خبازی راوندی

Developing the quality of employees’ work life results in the improvement of service delivery to the clients of the organizations. This research is ultimately intended to design a model for the quality of work life of employees of the Welfare Organization. Participants in this study included official and staff managers and employees of welfare offices in Tehran and its affiliated centers, from whom 20 people were selected as the sample by purposive sampling. Semi-structured and in-depth interviews were employed to collect the data. To analyze the data, Strauss and Corbin’s (1998) grounded theory of the systematic approach was used, wherein three methods of open coding, axial coding and selective coding are used. A table of the concepts and categories of quality of working life was derived by semi-structured interviews and the process of coding and analyzing qualitative data and by comparing the concepts obtained from the study group. In the analysis of the texts of the interviews in open coding, thematic similarities between the primary concepts were integrated into the secondary concepts. The axial categories in the axial coding stage, were based on the thematic similarities between the secondary concepts. In the selective coding, the central categories were clustered into a core or central category called “justice and legalism”. Afterwards, the relationship between the categories with one another were categorized in a paradigm model on the basis of the grounded theory called the “model of quality of working life of employees of the Welfare Organization”. 14 axial categories were identified in the form of causal conditions, contextual conditions, intervening conditions, strategies, and consequences. Justice and legalism are the central categories connecting all other categories.

Providing quality services to clients of the Welfare Organization requires attention to the quality of work life of its staff; But no research has been done on improving the quality of work life of welfare staff.

The purpose of this study was to determine the Effectiveness of training components of quality of work life on improving the quality of work life of staff and line staff of welfare organization in 2019.

The research method was quasi-experimental with Non-equivalent control group design. From the staff and line staff of welfare offices in Tehran and its affiliated centers in 2019, 30 persons were voluntarily selected and after controlling the entry and exit criteria, 15 employees in the experimental group and 15 others in the control group were randomly replaced. Training program of quality of work life extracted from Khabbazi research (2020), was conducted in 10 sessions for 120 minutes once a week as a group, and then the participants answered the Allameh questionnaire (1999) of quality of work life.

Data analysis using multivariate and univariate analysis of covariance showed that the difference between the experimental and control groups in terms of post-test score of quality of work life (P< 0/05) and all its components (P< 0/05) except the component of "staff awareness of managers performance" (P> 0/05) is significant.

Training programs of quality of work life improve the quality of work life of employees by creating development in the organization.

Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) creates a lot of problems for many children. It has negative effects on cognitive, social, emotional, and family function and later in their adulthood it also effects their job and marriage function. The population consisted of all mothers of boy students with this disorder in primary schools in kashan. Sampling method was voluntary and sample members were randomly replaced. Among 80 mothers who referred to the centers 36 had children with ADHD (based on Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders – forth edition and a Conner's Parent Scale) were randomly placed into 2 groups of experiment group (18 person) and control group (18person). In pre-test the Conner's Parent Scale was conducted on all mothers. The experiment group received eight sessions of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. After sessions, Conner's Parent Scale was again conducted to both groups. Results of covariance analysis showed that symptoms of ADHD decreased in children whose mothers were in experiment group more than control group. So it can be concluded that parental oriented Cognitive Behavior Therapy is effective in reducing symptoms of children’s ADHD.

Job burnout is a prevailed problem among employees. An Inventory that has been formed to assess counselor’s job burnout is Geldard Burnout Inventory. The aim of this research was to determine the factorial structure of this questionnaire, to prepare the short version that can be used for all jobs. Tools used in this study included the Job Descriptive Index and Geldard Burnout Inventory. The studied statistical population consisted of 460 subjects from male employee who were working at office jobs. Type of research method was correlation. To determine the questionnaire’s reliability and correlation, at the start 20 questions from 40 questions of Geldard Burnout Inventory were selected and both twenty-item and forty-item questionnaire were conducted on a group and correlation between two questionnaires was determined. To determine contemporary validity, correlation between prepared questionnaire and Job Descriptive Index was acquired. The obtained data were analyzed by inferential statistical tests (exploratory factor analysis, independent average comparison test and Pearson correlation test). exploratory factor analysis showed that short questionnaire of job burnout was consist on three factors: prevailed atmosphere on job environment, job mass and pressure and emotional exhaustion. Results showed that prepared questionnaire and it’s dimensions are positively significantly correlated with Geldard forty- item questionnaire and are negatively significantly correlated with Job Descriptive Index, so both results imply sufficient validity. Given the approval of the prepared twenty-item questionnaire, it is able to identify and distinguish those are at risk of job burnout; so the short version of the questionnaire can be used for organizational planning and preventive and identifying plans of job burnout at organizational and individual levels and also for individual and group researches.

Family businesses which have both high economic functions and high internal family coordination at the same time are among the most successful of this kind of business. This piece of research is aimed at exploring the relationship between family function and economic function in family businesses with a case study dealing with the machine made carpet industry in the cities of Kashan and Aran-o-Bidgol. The statistical population is composed of the managers of machine made carpet companies in Kashan and Aran-o-Bidgol from among whom 122 subjects were selected using the stratified random sampling method. The research method is of survey-correlation nature. Family function device (FFD) and economic function questionnaire (EFQ) were applied in data collection. The data were analyzed by means of Pearson correlation test, with the results suggesting a significant correlation between family function and economic function. Therefore, it is necessary for family businesses to promote and develop their family function and economic functions so as to grow more, maintain the ability for competition in carpet industry, preserve their invaluable heritages and transfer them to the next family generations, attempting to coordinate, interact and synergize family and business systems.