جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « social security organization » در نشریات گروه « علوم اجتماعی »

The Social Security Organization, as the largest pension fund in Iran, has unfavorable financial and demographic situation. Many researchers and policymakers have proposed increasing the retirement age as a solution to solve this problem, which is evaluated in the present study.

The method used in this study is the microsimulation model, in which a sample of 1 percent of the contributors and pensioners of the Social Security Fund is selected and the effect of increasing the official retirement age in a 100-year period (from 2019 to 2118) is investigated.

The results show that if the retirement age is increased by 5 years at the beginning of the simulation period, the contribution rate required to equalize the expenditures and cash incomes of the fund in 2043 will be 56% (instead of 63% in the case of no reform) and in 2118, it will reach 118% (instead of 125%).

The lack of significant effect of increasing the retirement age on the fund's financial balance can be due to the high population of people close to retirement, the absence of a minimum retirement age for hard and arduous jobs, and the 41% share of expenses independent of retirement age. In this way, in addition to plan for increasing the retirement age, it is necessary to take other measures such as reforming the rules of retirement in hard and arduous jobs and increasing the number contributors by encouraging voluntary contribution, reducing contribution evasion and increasing the working population.

Today, strategic agility is needed more than any other time, especially in the social security organization, which is considered to be one of the Islamic values with the Jihadi culture and spirit, and as a result, Jihadi management, and by using the tools of science and technology and the direction with God's will in the organization can be addressed. In the current research, the strategic agility model with jihadi management approach in the social security organization has been investigated. The purpose of this study is to investigate the strategic agility model with the jihadi management approach in the social security organization. . The type of research method is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive survey data collection in terms of method. The statistical population of the research to test the model was 30 experts, and to measure the variables of the research, the opinion of the senior managers of the Social Security Organization was used, whose number was 140. Jihadi, insight, strategic agility, Jihadi culture and spirit answered. The reliability and validity of the tools were examined using Cronbach's alpha coefficient and extracted variance, and the obtained results showed the acceptable reliability and validity of the tools. SPSS and SmartPls software were used to analyze and analyze the data. The research results showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between insight and strategic agility with jihadi management in the social security organization, and also between jihadi culture and spirit and strategic agility with jihadi management

The purpose of this research is to present a model for developing public relations performance in the Social Security Organization, with a strategic management approach using grounded theory based on Strauss and Corbin method. Specialists and experts of the Social Security Organization, as well as prominent university professors in this field, were selected as the statistical population, and the targeted interview with them continued until theoretical saturation was reached. The data were collected after the interview with the general guidance method in a structured way, and in order to obtain the credibility and validity of the data, two methods of review of the participants and review of non-participating experts were used in the research. The reliability of the model was obtained using Cohen's kappa coefficient 0.77 and it was placed at the level of valid agreement. Finally, the data was presented in the form of information after coding, model validation and processing. In this research, in the open coding section, the number of 104 open codes among 273 concepts; In the axial coding section, 104 primary codes were identified in the form of 33 categories. The Goodness of fit index, in the numerical quantitative part, is equal to 0.581, which is a strong index and shows the overall high quality of the model. The results showed that the intensity of the relationship between the variables was significant.

Increasing efficiency is one of the important goals of manufacturers. Social capital is one of the factors affecting efficiency. But the results of some studies have shown that social capital can be different in men and women, so the aim of this research is to investigate gender differences in relation to factors affecting efficiency with emphasis on social capital in in the Social Security Organization of Shiraz City.

the statistical society of this research includes official employees of Shiraz City’s Social Security organization and 200 people of employees (man and woman) has been sampled by random sampling method. Questionnaire was used to gather data. SPSS and AMOS software, Structural Equation Method, Levin Test and T test of two independent groups are used in order to analyze data and testing hypothesizes.

The results showed there is not significant difference in men and women’s social capital and between men and women's structural dimension and men and women's communication dimension of research. But there is a meaning different between men and women’s cognitive dimension. Also findings show that social capital and its behavioral dimension have a positive effect on men and women’s efficiency. while, cognitive dimension has no effect on women’s efficiency, this dimension has had most effect on men’s efficiency.The structural dimension has no effect on men's efficiency but has a positive effect on women's efficiency as well, the results show that social capital has positive and meaning effect on men and women’s efficiency indirectly through organizational creativity

The present article aimed at determining the relationship between social capital and mental well- being of headquarter employees in social security organization. The method of research was survey and 291 employees during 2017 were selected in ratio stratified method through Cookeran formula. The information was gathered through researcher made questionnaire with content validity and 0.95 reliability for mental well- being and 0.91 reliability for social capital. The theoretical framework of the study was based on Philips` quality of life for mental well-being, Seligman and Diener`s happiness theory, Bourdieu`s social capital theory and Poktsone`s theory in subjective and objective dimensions. The obtained results of multiple regression and path analysis revealed that social capital indexes specify 39% of employees` mental well- being among them social trust with = β 0.4 had the most rate; after that social solidarity with = β 0.35, social commitments with = β 0.25, participation and social interactions with = β 0.185; Social awareness with = β 0.064 had the least portion in predicting employees` mental well- being.

The main purpose of this study is to investigate the causal relationships of factors affecting the culture of strategic thinking in the Social Security Organization. Research method in terms of purpose, applied, in terms of data type, mixed (qualitative-quantitative) of exploratory type; In terms of data collection time, it is cross-sectional and in terms of data collection method or the nature and method of research, it is a survey. The statistical population of the qualitative part included experts and knowledgeable individuals in the field of strategic thinking (university professors and managers of the Social Security Organization), and the quantitative part included all managers and employees of the central headquarters of Social Security Organization of Tehran Province. The quantitative stage of the research includes a questionnaire consists of two parts: demographic information and a researcher-made questionnaire of managers' strategic thinking. The questionnaire consists of 72 items with a range of five Likert options that have been compiled by reviewing the theoretical foundations as well as the results of exploratory interviews (with open and central coding of exploratory interview texts). In the inferential section, to answer the research questions, tests such as Pearson correlation, one-sample t-test, structural equation modeling (confirmatory factor analysis) and exploratory factor analysis using SPSS-v21, Smart Pls-v3 software and Lisrel-v8.8 was also used. According to the results, among the factors affecting strategic thinking; Philosophical attitude and environment of the organization are in average condition and other components are in favorable condition.

Humans are always at risk of various diseases and inevitably incur high medical costs and hospital expenses for recovery and treatment. In order to help people in such cases, various health insurance plans are offered as basic and complementary, but separately by different insurance organizations and companies. The purpose of this study is to design a model for providing supplementary health insurance by the Social Security Organization of Iran to solve the insurance and medical problems of the target community and the organization in this area.

This research is applied in terms of purpose with a mixed approach, which has implemented based on the data-based method in the qualitative part and focusing on semi-structured interviews, and in the quantitative part based on the exploratory and inferential methods. Its statistical population includes managers and experts in the field of health insurance in the Social Security Organization of the country, whose sampling was done purposefully and continued in the qualitative section until the categories reached saturation (15 samples).

After gathering the data and extracting the concepts (225 concepts) and classifying them into 42 sub-categories and finally 17 main categories, the final model was designed and specified. In the quantitative part, based on the fit indicators, it was found that the data had a good fit with the factor structure of the theoretical basis of the research and were in line with them.

based on the dimensions of the model, the Social Security Organization is in need of implementing this plan, and it can implement the plan based on its unique capabilities and solve many problems of the insured and the organization in the field of health insurance.

Social justice as one of the most important human ideals has long been considered by thinkers and experts and inequality or the feeling of inequality is the most important cause of injustice. Therefore, under the influence of theories and the will of nations to reduce Inequality and the realization of justice, especially in the modern world, various institutions and organizations have been created. The purpose of this study is to examine the performance of the Social Security Organization in the realization of social justice. The research method is survey and the statistical population is all insured persons of the General Department of Social Security West of Greater Tehran. A sample of 385 people was determined using the Cochran's formula and selected by simple cluster and random sampling. The information collected using SPSS software has been analyzed based on 12 services of the Social Security Organization. The most important obligations and services of the Social Security Organization are pension, disability pension, survivors' pension, unemployment insurance benefit, wage compensation. Sick days are maternity pay, medical allowances, marriage allowances and burial allowances. Data analysis shows that 6.2% of the respondents know that the performance of the Social Security Organization is very bad, 17.4% of the respondents are moderately bad, 34.4% of the respondents are mediocre, 27.4% are good and 14.5% are very good. Are considered moderate. Inferential findings confirm the fact that the impact of the role and position of social security (provision of insurance and medical services) on each of the indicators of social justice are: support system and redistribution (0.77), equal conditions for Access to opportunities and resources (0.71) and entitlement (0.64).

Iran’s social insurance system including 18 pension funds, which are part of the social protection system, covers about 68% of the working population and about 46% of the elderly population. Today, since the country’s pension funds are one of the main players in the social and economic spheres of the country. Failure to adopt appropriate strategies for managing this crisis will pose very serious risks to the sustainability of the country’s economic, social, and political dimensions. However, what has become a major concern for policy makers in the field of social security is the worrying situation of pension funds, which has reached the level of concern and warning with the sustainability and has even crossed this border in some of these funds. With the aim of sustainability, this study examines the financial status of the Social Security Organization.

This study uses cohort methodology and demographic and economic data were used to estimate the financial capacity of the Social Security Organization.

The most important economic challenge of the Social Security Organization is known as the generous pension formula including low retirement age as well as non-payment of government share of contribution.

The reform proposals should be in the form of a pension formula adjustment through increasing the period of insurance and age of retirement as well as planning for the unpaid government share of contribution to be paid regularly.

This study aims at presenting a model for evaluating the effectiveness of implementing the Five-Year Development Plan Policies of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the Social Security Organization. As a combined method, quantitative methods (fuzzy inference system) and qualitative methods (interviews to determine fuzzy rules) have been used in different stages so that the implemented policies could be adequately evaluated. The statistical population of the study included the managers of the Social Security Organization and university professors who were selected through the purposive sampling method. The theoretical framework used to evaluate the effectiveness of the policies implemented in this organization was a combination of the two models of Matland and Hill and Hope. The results of the study showed that the level of conflict and ambiguity in the policies of the Social Security Organization was relatively high and the highest weaknesses were in terms of evaluation and accuracy in formulating the policies in this organization. The results of the dependence between the variables and the if-then rules indicate that if there are so many contradictions and ambiguities in the policies, if the level of using influence tools (use of force in the implementation of the policy), exchanging (use of bargaining and market-oriented view), and persuasion (cultural mechanisms) is too much, the policies will get ineffective. However, the final output of the Matland model indicated that due to the fuzzy nature of the model, the policies stood between the two functions of high and medium membership which shows low level of effectiveness.

The present article specified the relationship between modernity and mental well-being of headquarter employees of social security organization in 2017. The method of this research was survey correlation method and the statistical population was all headquarter employees in social security organization in 2017 who were 1196 employees. Among them 291 people were chosen as the sample group in stratified ratio sampling method through Cookeran formula. The data were collected through researcher’s self- made questionnaire with content validity and 0.95 as the reliability for mental well-being and 0.92 for modernity. The theoretical framework of mental well-being was adjusted by considering Durkheim and Giddens` happiness theories, Philips quality of life and Giddens` modernity theory. The obtained results of Pearson Correlation test revealed that: there was a significant relationship between modernity and mental well- being of employees. The results of multiple regression and path analysis revealed that modernity indexes can specify 17% of employees` mental well- being among which modern socialization with = β 0.392 has the major portion;  then modern identity elements with = β 0.247  and modern life style with= β - 0.194 come next. Keywords:</strong>Modernity, Mental well-being, Social Security Organization, Employees.

Mass media plays a crucial role in information distribution and thus in the political market and public policy making. Theory predicts that the information provided by mass media reflects the media’s incentives to provide news to different types of groups in society, and affects these groups’ influence in policy-making. A few empirical studies have tried to assess the effect of media on policy outcomes. Some key findings from this literature suggest that access to mass-media empowers people politically and, as such, increases their benefit from government programs. A review on researches published on public policy in media, reveals that the major subject is the dominant role of government in policy making. Ward (2008) describes media and television policy under intensive influence of government and the atmosphere of political regime in the country. He believes that the media firms do not act in a vacuum, but they operate in political and historical context which forms the nature of their activities and shape the structure of television and media. So, the political regime has a considerable effect on media industry and its operation. Graham (1992) argued that social responsibility of governments drives them to regulating and controlling the television and media industry and aims to select a method to dominate the public regulation on media market as a mechanism for pervasive distribution of media products with diversity and quality necessary for society. Smith (2009) investigates the media policy of British government against television. He believes that in past two decades media policy of British government against television has changed, and development of digital broadcasting caused to the emergence of a more complicated system of policy in the country, which involved new participators like stakeholders, media owners and political institutions and etc. Smith implies that new media policy of British government has changed from media government to media governance. Throw (2009) investigates governments' approaches toward media control, and introduces Authoritarian, Communist, Social Responsibility and Libertarian as approaches governments take, facing with the media. Vivian (2008) in a same perspective categorizes most common approaches of governments toward media in four liberalistic, totalitarian, capital democratic, and social democratic. In fact, he introduces a political tendency of parties as their approach to media policy
Mass media plays a crucial role in information distribution and thus in the political market and public policy making. Theory predicts that the information provided by mass media reflects the media’s incentives to provide news to different types of groups in society, and affects these groups’ influence on policy-making. A few empirical studies have tried to assess the effect of media on policy outcomes. Some key findings from this literature suggests that access to mass-media empowers people politically and, as such, increases their benefit from government programs. Considering media policy making for a variety of reasons, including facilitating decision-making, decision-making, information and communication technologies and the quality of communication and interaction of the social security organization with the main stakeholders and social partners are essential for the social security organization. Policy-making plays an important role in the sphere of public media and shapes the sphere of communications in any society. The content and structure of the media and particularly their understanding about the role they should play is under influence of the dominant policy with regards to compiling the rules and regulations pertaining to the country’s media; This policy determines the objectives and path for the media manager and thus understanding the policy is one of the most fundamental issues which need to be considered in media management. This research has a qualitative approach and using the Grounded Theory and interviewing tool and Purposive sampling, designed the media policy making model for Iran's Social Security Organization. Findings: The Politics of Media Policy provide a critical perspective on the dynamics of media policy and offers a comprehensive guide to some of the major points of debate in the media today. While many policy makers boast of the openness and pluralism of their media systems, policy-making plays an important role in the sphere of public media and shapes the sphere of communications in any society. The content and structure of the media and particularly their understanding about the role they should play is under influence of the dominant policy with regards to compiling the rules and regulations pertaining to the country’s media; therefore, the complicated and ever-changing governmental rules and regulations have significant consequences for the future of the media. Basically, policy-making orients the activities and objectives of the media in a country. Media management is in practice not possible without considering the major policy that governs the media sector. This policy determines the objectives and path for the media manager and thus understanding the policy is one of the most fundamental issues which needs to be considered in media management. The present research aims to conceptualize the idea of policy making in media and offer a theoretical framework to shed light on the components and the nature of such policy making. To reach this goal, in this research, using interviews with experts (who have been working in the field of media and communication and media sectors of the Social Security Organization for at least 10 years) and reviewing the literature, the media policy making model of the Iranian Social Security Organization was presented. policy making model of the Iranian Social Security Organization was presented. Since no comprehensive definition was found for media policy through review the literature, the first step was to use the scattered findings about this subject and conduct interviews with the related experts to provide a common definition of media policy that could also referred to the future studies. As the result of interviews, important criteria of the media policy making model include inputs, processes, and outcomes. Inputs are considered from the perspective of organizational capabilities and the nature of the challenge. The process in this model includes media policy actions that are influenced by the image of the organization and the environmental factors, and the results and consequences are categorized in six dimensions.

The aim of the present research is to design the policy-making model in social security organization with post-modernism approach. The research is of the mixed, exploratory type. Therefore, the approach in this research is qualitative- quantitative (mixed). The statistical universe of the first phase (qualitative) and the second phase (quantitative) of the research consisted of academic experts familiar to the literature of social welfare and policy making, and specialists in social security. In the first phase, 23 individuals were selected employing targeted sampling with snowball sampling technique while in the second phase, 30 individuals were selected employing targeted sampling with judge mental sampling technique. In the first phase, data was gathered through questionnaires, instructing essentials and in the form of semi-structured, while in the second phase, it was gathered through half-open questionnaires with 61 items. In the first phase, data was analyzed through lab ling obtained from theorization (data-based), employing Atlasti software. In the second phase, the model test, obtained from the first stage of research was used in the form of modeling structural equations, using PLS software and descriptive statistics, central indexes and the percentage of consensus on model. 93 percent of participants had consensus on the conceptual model of the present research, so that all dimensions of the data-based extracted model were explained.

The field of social security in this study is a sphere for interaction between different organizations, among which the Social Security Organization (SSO) is one of the most important. The position of this organization in the structure of social policymaking in Iran, along with its pervasiveness and financial resources which is a result of delay between the payment of the copayment of the insured and delivering the organization’s responsibilities in return, have given it a special position which attracts powerful actors to the field of social security, with the hopes that they can lead these resources, assets or policies towards their own benefit or decision-making. In such a situation, implementing social policies, reaching social goals, or attempting to avoid risks regarding the resources of the organization, all depend on the understanding of the main actors and their means for enforcing power. Therefore, the aim of the current study is to find the identity of the key actors in this field and their dynamics and means towards the SSO. The study was a qualitative research done through a documentary as well as a field method. Qualitative content analysis and interviews were used to collect and compare data, and critical examination in data analysis and also the technique of unipolar field analysis were used for both parts. Findings showed that the most important actors in the field are the institutions of parliament, state, employees, employers and the SSO, and each of them have their own different and specific means for interaction in the field which is explained in detail in the article. The field of social security in Iran does not follow the tripartitist approach in practice, and this issue, more than anything, is a result of the decline of the employee and employer institutes. The implication of this issue is the reinforcement of the parliament as a mediator, causing the advanced tripartite discussion to go in further decline.
The problem is to know who the main actors are and how they act. The method is qualitative. There are some technics in this research such as qualitative content analysis and conversation for gathering data and critical study and one-pillar field analysis for analysis of data.
The results show Parliament, state, labors and employers institutes and SSO are important players in the field. Their mechanism are noted in the article.