فهرست مطالب maryam hassanpour

Writing by which students can be assessed plays an important function in the education process. Hence, investigating the impact of graphic organizer strategy on improving Iranian intermediate EFL learners’ writing complexity was the main goal of this study. Forty female intermediate EFL learners were selected as the participants of the study based on convenience sampling and the results of the Preliminary English Test. After that, they were randomly assigned to two experimental and control groups. To assess the initial writing complexity of the participants, both groups were given a pre-test prior to the treatment. After employing traditional method in the control group and the graphic organizer strategies in the experimental group, both groups received a post-test to examine the effect of the treatment. The design of the present research was quasi-experimental. To analyze the obtained data, the researchers conducted an independent samples t-test, and to examine the progression in the experimental group, a paired samples t- test was employed. The findings of the study indicated that graphic organizer strategies improved the learners’ writing complexity. The results have some implications for EFL/ESL teachers, students, test and materials developers, and syllabus designers.

Organizational health is the ability of an organization to reach its goals effectively in order to achieve growth and development. Organizational health refers to the permanence and survival of the organization in its environment and adaptation to it and the promotion and expansion of its ability to further adapt to the environment. Therefore, investigating the factors affecting organizational health needs special consideration. Thus, the purpose of the current study is to study the relationship between spiritual health and organizational health among the Staff of the Qom University of Medical Sciences.

The research method is descriptive-correlational and the statistical population includes 150 staff of Qom University of Medical Sciences. In order to collect the necessary data, 108 respondents were determined as the minimum number of the sample size using Krejcie and Morgan’s table. To collect data, two standardized questionnaires were used for measuring spiritual health and organizational health after confirming the reliability and validity. Further, for data analysis, correlation coefficients were used. In this study, all ethical considerations were observed and no conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

The findings showed that there is a significant relationship between spiritual health and organizational health. Further, the results show that the statistical population enjoys a moderate level of organizational health and high level of spiritual health.

In summary, it can be claimed that spiritual health is one of the factors which can predict organizational health. Therefore, in order to improve the level of organizational health, managers of organizations can pay attention to spiritual health to achieve competitive advantage.