Today, employees are one of the most important sources of success for organizations, and identifying the factors that affect employee performance has become one of the main tasks of managers. The purpose of this study is to investigate human resource management indicators that affect employee performance by using meta-analysis method with using CMA software. The statistical population of the study included all studies that examined the factors affecting the improvement of employee performance. A collection of studies was comprised of 252 studies. Aaccording to the standards of the meta-analysis approach, 165 studies were excluded and 87 studies were selected. The results of data analysis showed that job satisfaction, organizational commitment, compensation system, quality of work life, leader-member exchange, organizational justice, organizational support, performance evaluation system, organizational culture, Creativity and innovation, collaborative management, education and rehabilitation programs, meaningful job, human resource empowerment, job security, organizational climate, autonomy, career development and job motivation have a positive effect on employee performance improvement. The effect of organizational policy variables, role ambiguity, job redesign, job demands on employee performance improvements was not confirmed.

The main purpose of this research is to study the effects of ICDL courses on improvement of employees’ performance in management and planning studies institute. This current research has been used the descriptive method of assessment according to hypothesis and objective of research. Statistical population of this research was working personnel (employee, expert, directors) in management and planning studies institute. Based on Morgan's table the volume of sample of personnel was 169 persons from the size of population. We have used stratified random sampling for the election of the sample in question. All directors who directly watch over the personnel have been asked of their views on their subgroup personnel’s improvement function in relation to effectiveness of courses mentioned above and finally directors’ views were compared with personnel’s views. Regarding to analysis of data and the result of research hypothesis test, the courses of ICDL brings about increasing new skills, accuracy and effectiveness, rate and amount of performance and people's interests in executing work and increasing their career success and there is no meaningful difference between directors’ views with personnel in relation to the influence of the courses mentioned above on improvement of personnel’s performance.

With the development of Internet of things (IOT) technologies in recent years، the development of knowledge management systems based on them، as well as the role of these systems in different organizational areas such as staff performance management should be considered. The objective of this study is to design an application based on the IOT، and analysis of its role in staff performance improvement. The methodology of this study is action research based on the design of information systems with RAD approach and prototyping design method، and focus on one of the performance indicators of the Yazd municipality staff، namely daily working time. The proposed knowledge management based structure to control the entry and exit of staff in the case of study، and implementation of its prototype indicated that IOT can play roles in improving staff performance in six specific areas in two parts of data collection and management of entry and exit. In general، IOT could be used as a reliable basis to generate required data for knowledge management in knowledge based processes، especially knowledge discovery in physical and digital environments.

Seeking solutions for enhance of efficiency and employing maximum capabilities of the staffs to substantiate the organizational goals is one of the challenges of the managers and scholars of management. The aim of this research is to define practical and scientific framework for improvement of the performance of thestaffs in University of Tabriz based on workplace spirituality.
The present research is applied descriptive-correlation.The statistical population of this research consisted of 820 employees of University of Tabriz. Among all, 260 participants were selected randomly. The data were collected by questionnaire and analyzed by using structural equations modeling.
The results showed that workplace spirituality with standard coefficient (0.75) and significance (5.69) has a positive relationship with performance.
It can be concluded that workplace spirituality plays a positive role in improvement of the performance of the staffs in University of Tabriz.

Human capital management causes serious attention to the approach of knowledge development and knowledge transfer in knowledge organizations and systematically moves in the direction of the teaching and learning process. The purpose of this study is to present an appropriate model of human capital according to knowledge management components in order to Improving the performance of the staff of Imam Khomeini University of Nowshahr This study is based on the practical purpose and in terms of data collection in the field of descriptive and causal-survey studies. The statistical population of this study is 90 employees of Imam Khomeini University of Nowshahr who are active in various fields, especially education in the academic year of 1998-99. Using the sampling method, 83 people from this community as a sample in this study. Studies were selected. The required data were collected using a researcher-made questionnaire according to the Likert scale of 5 options. The reliability of this questionnaire was evaluated and confirmed using Cronbach's alpha coefficient. The collected data were analyzed using structural equation method. The results of data analysis of this study showed that human capital, organizational culture, knowledge management process and quality of education have an effect on improving the performance of staff at Imam Khomeini University in Nowshahr

The aim of this research is to identify On-The- Job Training(OJT) indices and determine their relationship with staff Performance Improvement(PI) among staff of Iran Forensic Medicine Organization(IFMO). This is a cross-sectional study which is done based on descriptive and analytical method. The study population is 2800 people working in IFMO in 2017 among which 338 persons were randomly selected based on Cochran's Formula using multi-stage clustering sampling among 15 selected provinces. Data was gathered via two researcher-structured questionnairs including OJT and performance improvement parameters. Face-related and constructive validity of the questionnairs were approved by elite and experts while using Cronbach's Alpha Coefficient showed an acceptable reliability calculated respective 0.89 and 0.87. Correlation Coefficient between 9 identified Indices of OJT with 3 identified factors of PI was approximately calculated 0.77 by which technology and individual performance showed the highest coefficient as 0.92 and 0.96 respectively. Findings showed that there would be a positively significant relationship between OJT's indices including need assessment, aims and priorities, content, planning and implementation, way of evaluation, executive management, facilities and equipments, technology and learners) with PI's factors including job performance, individual performance, and organizational performance. Also, findings showed that the best predictor would be modern technology for PI regarding OJT's indices.

In today's competitive era, improvement of performance could provide a better situation for the survival and improvement of the organizations. The role of universities as science sources, is very important, and the quality of work life among other factors can play an important role in the workplace. Therefore, the present study tries to investigate the relationship between quality of life work and improvement in the performance of employees of the organization. The statistical population included all employees of Public Health faculty in Urmia Medical Sciences University in which 50 individuals based on Morgan table participated. For data collection, two types of questionnaires have been used for quality of working life and improving performance. Their reliabilities were estimated to be 0.84 and 0.81 respectively by Cronbach's alpha test.The research is a descriptive, and correlational study. Data analysis is performed by SPSS software, using descriptive and inferential statistics. The results show that there is a positive correlation between the quality of work life and optimized performance such as ‘Fair pay with r=0.117’, ‘Safe working environment with r=0.119’, Providing promotion opportunities with r= 0.279’ and ‘Social ties with r= 0.223’ are related to the improvement of performance. Therefore it is highly recommended to administrators of universities that in order to achieve optimal performance, they should pay special attention to the quality of employees working life.