نشریه رهیاری در مدیریت و توسعه بهره وری
پیاپی 1 (بهار 1401)

Organizations consider mentoring as one of the methods of human resource training in order to maintain their competitive position. This study was conducted to design and test a model of factors affecting the mentoring functions. By reviewing previous studies, a list of factors affecting the mentoring functions was identified and in order to localize and achieve the final list, the opinions of the decision team were counted using the Delphi technique. The decision team consisted of 19 experts with experience in the field of mentoring or human resources in the Khorasan Regional Electricity Company. The final list was classified by the decision team into three main categories: factors related to mentor, factors related to protege and contextual factors. Using the DEMATEL technique, a model of factors was designed and tested by distributing a questionnaire among a group of employees working in the Khorasan Regional Electricity Company. The results showed that the factors related to mentor directly affect the contextual factors and also the factors related to mentor indirectly affect the contextual factors through the factors related to the protege. In other words, the factors related to mentor are the independent variable, the contextual factors are the dependent variable and the factors related to protege are the intermediate variable in the model.

Nowadays, business owners and entrepreneurs are constantly looking for ways to increase the flexibility of their employees to meet the goals of their organization to respond the diverse needs of their customers. Optimizing service delivery in production systems and providing appropriate work patterns can ultimately simplify service delivery and increase employee satisfaction. While job rotation is a good way to improve an organization's agility in responding to a variety of demands, addressing this issue without the right attitude will lead to issues such as running costs as well as ergonomics and employee motivation. Hence, in this study, a multi-objective mathematical model of employee scheduling with the goal of minimizing scheduling costs and personnel allocation, enhancing employee satisfaction, and job ergonomics. The Epsilon constraint method is used to solve this multi-objective optimization problem. The results of this study showed that using appropriate multi-objective models can provide optimal results in terms of job rotation tailored to employees' working conditions. Scheduling can also ultimately reduce costs and increase motivation, considering job rotation.

The present study is applied in terms of purpose, quantitative in terms of data and descriptive-survey in nature. The statistical population in this study is Iranian insurance branches in Isfahan. Data were collected using a researcher-made questionnaire whose validity and reliability were confirmed (Cronbach's alpha 0.83). For this purpose, 355 questionnaires were distributed among the employees of insurance branches in the form of 27 statistical units and after completing them, the data were analyzed using the partial least squares method of PLS-SEM structural equation model. The results show that modest leadership directly has a positive and significant effect on psychological empowerment, psychological security, innovative work behavior and creativity of employees and organizational performance. Also, psychological empowerment, psychological security, innovative work behavior and creativity of employees have had a positive and significant effect on the performance of the organization. Modest leadership through psychological empowerment, psychological security, innovative work behavior and employee creativity has also indirectly had a positive and significant effect on organizational performance.

Supply chain integration is one of the most important solutions in solving supply chain management problems and challenges that has been used in humanitarian supply chain field recently. Therefore, this study aimed to measure the impact of humanitarian supply chain integration factors on performance outcomes; it has also examined the moderating role of resource scarcity and surplus on this relationship. This research, in terms of purpose is applied and in terms of research method is descriptive-survey. The statistical population of this study is the organizations of the Red Crescent in Isfahan province. Data were collected using a standard questionnaire with a reliability of 0.96. The present study was conducted using a questionnaire distributed among 43 managers of Red Crescent organizations in Isfahan province and data analysis was performed using structural equation modeling with Smart PLS.3 software. Findings have shown that resource sharing, operations standardization, supply chain coordination, teamwork and operations leadership have a positive and significant effect on the three dimensions of performance results. Resource scarcity also moderates resource sharing relationships, supply chain coordination, operations leadership with performance outcomes, but But it does not moderate the relationship between standardization of operations and teamwork with performance results.

Competitive advantage is a set of unique capabilities of an economic unit that allows it to penetrate arbitrary markets and outperform competitors. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of entrepreneurship orientation, market orientation, knowledge management orientation on sustainable competitive advantage and analyze the mediating role of new product development in a dairy company in Khorasan Razavi province. The present study is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-correlation in terms of nature and method. The statistical population of this study is all employees of this dairy company in Khorasan Razavi province, whose number was 600 people and the appropriate statistical sample was selected using Morgan table 234 people and non-random sampling method was available. The research data collection tool is Julio Standard Questionnaire (2018) and Mo et al. (2017). Cronbach's test was used for the reliability of the instrument, which was higher than 0.7 for all variables and the validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by content and structure validity. Structural equation method using LISREL software was used to analyze the data. The results showed that the Entrepreneurship orientation, market orientation, knowledge management orientation have an effect on sustainable competitive advantage. The impact of new product development on sustainable competitive advantage was also confirmed. Finally, the mediating effect of new product development between entrepreneurship orientation, market orientation, knowledge management orientation and sustainable competitive advantage was confirmed.

The goal of employee organizational pride represents a necessary but fundamentally undiscovered factor in achieving success. In detail, there are two types of organizational pride. First, employees can experience short-lived and lasting emotional feelings of pride based on their perception of a successful organizational event (emotional pride); Second, employees can have a cognitive and enduring attitude toward pride that results in an overall understanding of the organization (attitudinal pride). The purpose of this article is to investigate the effect of dimensions of organizational pride on the desire for creativity among the employees of Petrojam Asia. The statistical population included the employees of Petro Jam Asia Company, which included 82 people. The integer method was used for sampling. Some respondents did not complete the received questionnaires or did not answer the questions correctly. Leaving those questionnaires, 76 questionnaires remained and were analyzed. According to the results obtained from the model test, it has been observed that both the variables of attitudinal pride and emotional pride have a positive and significant effect on the tendency to creativity because the corresponding t-statistic is greater than 1.96. Also, according to the obtained results, it was found that the variables of attitude pride and emotional pride explain 29.6% of the variables of tendency to creativity.