فهرست مطالب shapour amirmohseni

Innovation has been one of the important competitive advantages of organisations. Therefore, the organisations try to develop their innovation performance to preserve their competitive positions. The aim of this paper is to study the effect of knowledge on innovation performance of the organisation. As a result, the influence of three main stages of knowledge management process on two types of organisational innovations was investigated. The community of this research includes 270 of managers and experts in the studied organisation that 150 of them were chosen for the research. The research results show that knowledge management has a positive relationship with both sides of the organisational innovation and implementing knowledge management helps the development of innovation in the security organisations. Some recommendations are presented to the managers and researchers based on these principles.

One of the fundamental activities of ministry of education and parent–teacher association is the realization of active participation of parents in school affairs. The current study aimed to investigate the parents’ participation rate in schools and offer practical tactics to increase their participation so as to determine the reasons for the decline of their participation. The population of the study consists of 173 educational managers and 360 parents, from Mallekan town, who were randomly selected in the study. The data collection instrument was two researcher-developed questionnaires dealing with school affairs. To analyze the research data, Chi square, t-test and Pearson Coefficient were used. The research findings suggested that there was a significant relationship among parents’ ignorance from the benefits of participation, income, age, vocation, evidence, parents’ ignorance from their rights, and educational managers’ attitudes, poor functions of educational personnel and participation rate. However, it was indicated that there wasn’t any significant relationship between parents’ sex and participation rate.

This article intends to consider the use of information technology and modern and comprehension communications (ICT) teaching and learning processes. Based on empirical study, using interviews and document analysis and documents related to the application of information technology and communications in higher education (ICT) in Shahid Sattari University, some important and influential factors on the employment of the information and communications in higher education are analyzed. The findings suggest that the university benefits from sufficient financial resources, required technical infrastructures and proper supportive structures regarding the use of information and communications technology. However, its attempts to link ICT capabilities to issues such as research and educational activities, organizational development and human resource management have not been very successful. Therefore, if it ICT is to play a more effective role in teaching and learning processes in Shahid Sattari Aeronautical University of Science and Technology, there needs to be a better link between pedagogy and various aspects of human resource and organizational development established.

Although there abounds literature in terms of any categories associated with culture and innovation, there are limited number of texts to consider specifically the relation of these two domains. “Innovation” is a complex and multidimensional phenomenon affected by various factors. These factors may exist in the form of an environmental or cultural force in an organization trying to create value and prosperity. From an organizational perspective, “culture” consists of several factors which can serve as a complement for organizational capabilities for innovation. Recently, further studies have been carried out in this regard and even some experts, merging the two concepts culture and innovation, have proposed the phrase “culture of innovation”. In other words, they consider these two as complementing each other and inseparable. Accordingly, cultural typology conducted in this article, cultures such a strong culture, compromising, flexible, team-work, participatory, adhocracy, market, value, scientific cultures are appropriate with innovation atmosphere and encourage it; however, other cultures are not suitable for contexts requiring creativity and innovation. In this paper, using theoretical and empirical models, a holistic and comprehensive framework is designed and presented. The resulted framework includes leadership, vision, national culture, structural, strategic factors and culture-oriented factors which are always dynamic and contented. This article aims at presenting a schematic view of the relation of culture and innovation blended together and their impact on creating a lasting competitive advantage and finally it provides a broad and inclusive framework covering interconnected dimensions which develop the culture of innovation.