Performance Evaluation
Seyed Rasoul Hoseini; Tooraj Sadeghi; Hosein Askari
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Purpose: The purpose of this study is to identify and prioritize the factors affecting the performance evaluation of librarians in public libraries in Mashhad.Methodology: The present study is an applied research that has been done by descriptive-survey method. In the present study, according to the ...
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Purpose: The purpose of this study is to identify and prioritize the factors affecting the performance evaluation of librarians in public libraries in Mashhad.Methodology: The present study is an applied research that has been done by descriptive-survey method. In the present study, according to the research literature, interviews with experts, the factors affecting the evaluation of the staff of the library department of public libraries have been identified. Then, using DEMATEL technique and Analytical Network Process (ANP), the data are analyzed. The statistical population of the study is all specialists, experts and decision makers in the field of evaluating the performance of the staff of the library department of public libraries in Mashhad, which is limited in number due to their background, skills, etc. The number of these specialists is about 45. Therefore, sampling is done by census. These specialists include the experts of Mashhad Public Libraries and the managers of public libraries in the city.Findings: The present study identified 9 performance evaluation criteria that include: personality, performance management, teamwork, commitment and ethical values towards the organization, communication skills, knowledge and information management, product design and services based on customer needs. Organizational citizenship, and ultimately perceptual skills. This study prioritized the criteria and sub-criteria affecting performance appraisal based on relative importance.Originality/Value: Managers are advised to consider people with high commitment, team spirit and willingness to participate in the affairs of the company to improve the performance of human resources in the library sector.
Performance Evaluation
Javid Ghahremani-Nahr; Hamed Nozari; Mohammad Ebrahim Sadeghi
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Purpose: In addition to playing an important role in creating economic security and investment development, insurance companies also invest. The country's insurance industry as one of the country's financial institutions has a special place in the investment process and special attention to appropriate ...
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Purpose: In addition to playing an important role in creating economic security and investment development, insurance companies also invest. The country's insurance industry as one of the country's financial institutions has a special place in the investment process and special attention to appropriate investment policies in the field of insurance industry is essential. So that the efficiency of this industry in allocating the existing budget stimulates other economic sectors. This study seeks to model investment in the performance of dynamic networks of insurance companies.Methodology: In this paper, a new investment model is designed to examine the dynamic network performance of insurance companies in Iran. The designed model is implemented using GAMS software and the outputs of the model are analyzed based on regression method. The required information has been collected based on the statistics of insurance companies in Iran between 2012 and 2019.Findings: After evaluating these units, out of 15 companies evaluated, 6 companies had unit performance and were introduced as efficient companies. The average efficiency of insurance companies is 0.78 and the standard deviation is 0.2. The results show that the increase in the value of investments is due to the large reduction in costs and in terms of capital and net profit of companies is a large number that has a clear and strong potential for insurance companies.Originality/Value: In this paper, investment modeling is performed to examine the performance of dynamic networks of insurance companies in Iran.
optimization
Sare Shakerian Hagigi; Zahra Nezhad Heydari; masoomeh raeiszadeh; Mahmood Qayumi
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Purpose: Selection of the best contractor by AHP and VIKOR method, a case study of an executive project in the dairy industry.Methodology: Choosing the right contractor plays an important role in the success or failure of a project. The specialization of the activities of various sectors of the industry ...
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Purpose: Selection of the best contractor by AHP and VIKOR method, a case study of an executive project in the dairy industry.Methodology: Choosing the right contractor plays an important role in the success or failure of a project. The specialization of the activities of various sectors of the industry is one of the indicators of the current business market, and the outsourcing of a part of the desired activities of the organization as a project and the selection of a contractor is one of the concerns of managers to compete in the business market, because the evaluation of contractors based on Defined criteria and ultimately the selection of qualified contractors will eliminate inefficient contractors from the bidding process. Failure to choose the right contractor will eventually lead to the loss of the organization's resources. In the completion of any project, complete satisfaction of the employer is important and vital, so that the project can be implemented according to the schedule, with the most appropriate cost and the most valid proposal. The contractor reached maximum satisfaction in the project. The purpose of this research is to select the best contractor in one of the projects of dairy companies in Fars province, after holding a tender and completing a questionnaire by project experts, using AHP and VIKOR methods, the contractors were weighted and ranked.Findings: The findings state that contractor C received the first rank, contractor B the second rank and contractor A the third rank, and finally the first rank contractor was approved by the people present in the project to start and implement executive activities.
Performance Evaluation
Samira Soltanieh; Nader Sheikholeslami Kandelousi
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Purpose: Organizations require effective human resource management to achieve productivity and results. Human resource management can influence organizational performance and cause the survival of organizations and competitive advantage in a dynamic environment. A high-performance work system is a coherent ...
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Purpose: Organizations require effective human resource management to achieve productivity and results. Human resource management can influence organizational performance and cause the survival of organizations and competitive advantage in a dynamic environment. A high-performance work system is a coherent set of related actions in human resources management that selects and develops effective workforces to achieve the organization's goals and objectives and keep and motivate them. This research aims to investigate the effect of high-performance work systems on organizational performance with the mediating role of organizational ambivalence in the future bank.Methodology: The research applied a descriptive survey regarding its statistical population. The sample size of 278 was selected by simple random method. The field method was used to collect primary data using a five-choice Likert questionnaire, while the library method was used to collect secondary data. The structural equation modeling method and Smartpls3.0 software were used to test research hypotheses.Findings: The research findings demonstrate that high-performance work systems have a substantial impact on organizational performance and organizational ambivalence. Additionally, organizational ambivalence significantly influences organizational performance, and high-performance work systems have a significant effect on organizational performance, with organizational ambivalence acting as a mediator. These results hold significant implications for the banking industry.Originality/Value: The research, conducted in the unique context of Eindeh Bank, contributes to the existing body of knowledge by investigating the effect of high-performance work systems on organizational performance, with a specific focus on the mediating role of organizational ambivalence.
risk evaluation
Abouzar Kaffashi; ُS. A. Edalatpanah; Faezeh Nejati
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Purpose: in this paper discusse about the effect of three factors of project management and construction management and risk management on the time, cost and implementation process of projects in general and on a case-by-case basis with regard to building mass construction projects.Methodology: at the ...
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Purpose: in this paper discusse about the effect of three factors of project management and construction management and risk management on the time, cost and implementation process of projects in general and on a case-by-case basis with regard to building mass construction projects.Methodology: at the beginning and in the first part of the construction projects, construction, dam construction, tunnel construction, road construction, mass construction of buildings, high-rise construction were considered as options and based on 10 common criteria extracted for management. Project and construction management and risk management were ranked using the AHP method. Findings: According to the results, dam-tunnel-road construction projects were ranked first to third, respectively. for the three options related to construction projects, respectively, mass-building projects - high-rise construction, and finally, ordinary buildings are in the first to third ranks in the group of construction projects. Accordingly, mass building projects had the highest weight and was more important among construction projects. for conducting a case study, building mass construction projects of high, medium and low importance were considered as options and ranked according to the same criteria. The results showed that low-importance mass production projects were in the first place, followed by high and medium importance projects in the second and third ranks, respectivelyOriginality/Value: in the discussion of mass construction in the country, the best way is to build a building at a medium level.
supply chain management
Mohammad Rasoul Eslamian Koupaei; Hadi Shirouyehzad
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Purpose: Today, supply chain management has become one of the main tools to control costs and improve the economic performance of the organization. In this study, we present a method to evaluate the key success factors of sustainable supply chain management using interpretive structural modeling.Methodology: ...
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Purpose: Today, supply chain management has become one of the main tools to control costs and improve the economic performance of the organization. In this study, we present a method to evaluate the key success factors of sustainable supply chain management using interpretive structural modeling.Methodology: The current research has been implemented in Golnor company in Isfahan. For this purpose, first by examining the research background, the main success factors of sustainable supply chain management are extracted. The final list of key success factors for sustainable supply chain management in Glenor company has been assessed in the form of a questionnaire. Then, by distributing two questionnaires among the experts to perform structural-interpretive modeling, the effective and influential factors in each of the extracted lists are identified and after analyzing and categorizing the information extracted from the questionnaires distributed in Golnor company, the situation the organization has determined by a pre-designed regional classification model that the score obtained for the sustainable supply chain is 3.0637.Findings: Then the results of the questionnaire related to identifying the key factors of sustainable supply chain, which includes 17 key success factors identified for sustainable supply chain is the influential factors identified based on the result of structural-interpretive modeling and the score obtained from the organizational questionnaire, and as a result, the availability of information is one of the main success factors of supply chain management as critical factors with the highest priority for improving sustainable supply chain management systems, that the organization can with capital putting these factors at a lower cost will further improve your management systems.Originality/Value: The method used to analyze the main success factors of interpretive structural modeling and to categorize the factors of the analytical technique was MICMAC.
Performance Evaluation
Vajiheh Torkian; Mohammad Ali Zarghami; Mehrzad Navabakhsh
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Purpose: The construction industry is one of the most important industries that must be addressed professionally, and every country must strive to provide the best equipment and conditions for this industry. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficiency of provincial municipalities in issuing ...
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Purpose: The construction industry is one of the most important industries that must be addressed professionally, and every country must strive to provide the best equipment and conditions for this industry. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficiency of provincial municipalities in issuing building permits based on land condition using data envelopment analysis.Methodology: The output-oriented BCC model with the assumption of variable return to scale has been used to evaluate the relative efficiency of municipalities of 31 provinces of the country for the first six months of 1399.Findings: The results of the present study show that among the municipalities of 31 provinces of the country, 19 units have efficiency number one.Originality/Value: The issuance of building permits has prevented illegal construction and increased municipal revenues, which are spent on urban development projects.
Performance Evaluation
Vahid Mahdavikho; Mohsen Imeni; Seyed Ahmad Edalatpanah
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Purpose: Economic conditions in times of boom or recession have different effects on working capital and the performance of companies. The purpose of this research is to investigate the relationship between the cash conversion cycle and the current and future performance of companies listed on the Tehran ...
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Purpose: Economic conditions in times of boom or recession have different effects on working capital and the performance of companies. The purpose of this research is to investigate the relationship between the cash conversion cycle and the current and future performance of companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange.Methodology: The statistical sample of the present paper, which consists of 113 firms, has a 9-year period from 2012-2020. In this research, to test the hypotheses, multiple regression analysis using the panel data method was used to analyze the data. In addition, the Return On Equity (ROE) profitability measure was used as a performance index of firms. In the present paper, performance was studied in four periods of the current year (t), next year (t+1), (t+2) and (t+3).Findings: The results show that the length of the cash conversion cycle has a negative and significant relationship with current profitability (t); While the relationship between this variable and future profitability (t+1) has been positive. In addition, the results showed that there is no significant relationship between the research variables in the years (t+2) and (t+3). Also, the negative relationship between the length of the cash conversion cycle and current (t) and future (t+1) profitability is dependent on the size of the company; While no relationship was found with future profitability (t+2) and (t+3).Originality/Value: Based on the results of this research, it can be said that attention to the issue of cash conversion cycle can have a significant effect on the current and future performance of companies, and companies with an optimal level of working capital can formulate their appropriate operational strategies.
Performance Evaluation
Meysam Kaviani; Seyed Fakhreddin Fakhrhosseini
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Purpose: The purpose of this research is to introduce the function of duration criterion in the management of assets and liabilities and to analyze its impact on the performance of banks, and it refers to a process in which total assets and liabilities are simultaneously and integrated. They can be under ...
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Purpose: The purpose of this research is to introduce the function of duration criterion in the management of assets and liabilities and to analyze its impact on the performance of banks, and it refers to a process in which total assets and liabilities are simultaneously and integrated. They can be under control and management.Methodology: It is an applied research method that is carried out using the results of basic research in order to improve and perfect the behaviors, methods, tools, devices, products, structures and patterns used by human societies, and its purpose is to develop practical knowledge in a specific field. Therefore, this research, while analyzing the overall balance sheet management, asset and debt management, which includes strategic planning and implementation and control processes has led to the development of knowledge through the impact of volume, composition, maturity, interest rate sensitivity, quality and liquidity on bank assets and liabilities.Findings: The findings show that a proper assessment of a bank's ALM situation requires a correct understanding of the nature of assets and liabilities, customers, the economy and the competitive environment that governs that bank, and its duration criterion can be of great help. To asset and debt management as well as interest rate risk management in the banking system of our country it is also possible to realize its role in the performance of banks due to the importance of managing this sector.Originality/scientific added value: In line with this topic, the current research deals with the analytical approach to the management of assets and liabilities through the duration criterion and its effect on the performance of banks.
Abbas Ghaedamini Harouni; Mehrdad Sadeghi De Cheshmeh; Samaneh keldani; Ghulam Reza Maleki Farsani
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of organic and mechanical structures on organizational performance with the moderating role of organizational culture.Methodology: The present study was conducted by descriptive correlation method. The statistical population of the present ...
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of organic and mechanical structures on organizational performance with the moderating role of organizational culture.Methodology: The present study was conducted by descriptive correlation method. The statistical population of the present study included Toka Foolad (public joint stock) investment companies with 24 companies with 5340 employees, which was extracted by stratified sampling method with a volume of 363 samples. In order to determine the sample size, Cochran sampling formula was used. The collection tool of this research is standard questionnaires including; the organizational structure was Vega and Januzas in 1979, Denison's organizational culture in 1999 and the organizational performance of Nadi and Hazeghi [1]. The content validity of the questionnaires was confirmed by the supervisor and several thematic experts and the face validity was confirmed by several members of the statistical community 0.839, 0.820 and 0.868 were estimated. Analysis of research data at two descriptive levels using statistics such as mean and standard deviation and inferential using structural equation model, etc. was performed by SPSS 26 and warp pls 6 software.Findings: The results showed that Mechanical and organic structures affect organizational performance with coefficients of -0.37 and 0.32, respectively, but organizational culture does not moderate these relationships.Originality/Value: In this research, the effect of organic and mechanical structures on organizational performance with the moderating role of organizational culture has been studied and analyzed.
Performance Evaluation
Abolfazl Sherafat; Farahnaz Karimi; Sayyed Mohammad Reza Davoodi
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Purpose: One of the best approaches to creative management is the Amabel creativity model, which has weaknesses that prompted researchers to use a standard questionnaire to assess the atmosphere of Amabel's organizational creativity and measure organizational creativity to provide a new model for developing ...
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Purpose: One of the best approaches to creative management is the Amabel creativity model, which has weaknesses that prompted researchers to use a standard questionnaire to assess the atmosphere of Amabel's organizational creativity and measure organizational creativity to provide a new model for developing the Amabel organizational creativity model.Methodology: The research is descriptive and structural equation modeling. Its statistical population was completed by 392 people in all companies under the industry and 78 questionnaires. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling using SPSS and Smart PLS software were used to design the model. Descriptive methods, as well as the weighted mean and Friedman test, were used to analyze the data obtained from the creativity test.Findings: The findings are presented in four topics. The first three topics are related to the development of the organizational creativity model of Amabile. The fourth chapter assesses organizational creativity at the level of the industry under study, which evaluates the results of organizational creativity at a medium to near level.Originality/Value: Among the six factors of organizational creativity, the status of the two factors of unit productivity and single/working group support was evaluated better and higher than the other factors and the status of the two factors of creativity and organizational support was slightly weaker than other factors.
cross efficiency evaluation
Vajiheh Torkian; Shahrooz Bamdad
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Purpose: Due to climate diversity, Iran is able to produce all kinds of edible mushrooms, which, due to the need for low initial investment, the possibility of cultivation in all seasons and medicinal value, are of great importance. However, growing mushrooms produces waste that is problematic for humans ...
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Purpose: Due to climate diversity, Iran is able to produce all kinds of edible mushrooms, which, due to the need for low initial investment, the possibility of cultivation in all seasons and medicinal value, are of great importance. However, growing mushrooms produces waste that is problematic for humans and the environment as well. The purpose of the current research is to evaluate the cross efficiency of oyster and button mushroom cultivation units using data envelopment analysis and considering the undesirable residual output. Thus, it provides the ability to analyze efficiency according to the amount of waste.Methodology: The current research is functional in purpose and the cross efficiency method with the assumption of variable return to scale has been used to evaluate the efficiency of edible mushroom cultivation halls in Iran, considering compost waste as an undesirable output. This research is analyzed by GAMS software and the input and output data is extracted from the Iran Statistics Center in 2020.Findings: The results of the analysis of the research show that seven units have an efficiency of one among mushroom cultivation units in the provinces of the country and the reduction of undesirable output increases the number of efficient units according to the number of variables considered.Originality/Value: This research is a more comprehensive analysis in continuation of research and expanding its scope. In the previous studies, there was no adverse outcome in the discussion of mushroom cultivation, and in this study, the waste amount was considered for this purpose.
supplier selection
Hossein Azizi
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Purpose: The success of a supply chain is highly dependent on the selection of the best suppliers. These decisions are an important component of production and logistics management for many firms. Little attention is given in the literature to the simultaneous consideration of cardinal and ordinal data ...
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Purpose: The success of a supply chain is highly dependent on the selection of the best suppliers. These decisions are an important component of production and logistics management for many firms. Little attention is given in the literature to the simultaneous consideration of cardinal and ordinal data in the supplier selection process.Methodology: This paper proposes a new Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach with efficient and inefficient frontiers that is able to identify the best supplier in the presence of both cardinal and ordinal data.Findings: Utilizing this approach, an innovative method is proposed for prioritizing suppliers by considering multiple criteria. Applicability of the proposed method is illustrated using a data set that includes specifications of eighteen suppliers.Originality/Value: The advantage of our approach is that it identifies the best supplier using interval efficiency values which are computed from the optimistic and pessimistic perspectives and are integrated as an efficiency interval called the overall performance efficiency interval based on DEA with efficient and inefficient frontiers.
Crisis Management
Elham Fazeli Veisari; Seyed Mahmood Norashrafodin; Mehran Fazeli Veisari
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Purpose: The present study thematically examines the factors affecting strategic preparedness for crisis management as well as its impact on productivity and the role of organizational agility and mental health of employees.Methodology: In terms of practical purpose and in terms of how to collect descriptive ...
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Purpose: The present study thematically examines the factors affecting strategic preparedness for crisis management as well as its impact on productivity and the role of organizational agility and mental health of employees.Methodology: In terms of practical purpose and in terms of how to collect descriptive information is correlational. In this regard, four components under the heading of research variables of strategic readiness, organizational agility, mental health of employees and productivity were examined in the form of six hypotheses. This study tested the claim that increasing organizational agility and mental health of employee's increases It deals with strategic preparedness in crises and also examines the relationship between employee mental health and organizational agility with productivity.Findings: The findings first confirm the validity of the hypotheses and show that there is a significant relationship between organizational agility and strategic readiness for crisis management, also mental health and strategic readiness for crisis management and finally between mental health. The employees and the agility of the organization showed a significant relationship.Originality/Value: In this study, by identifying the challenges in the Azad universities of Mazandaran province, the effect of employees' mental health on organizational agility and the impact of both of them on the strategic readiness of organizations in the face of crises is examined and analyzed.
Performance Evaluation
Mohammad Sharifzadegan
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Purpose: It seems necessary to create flexibility in methods, processes, products and organizational decision-making in order to respond in time to discrete and continuous environmental changes. In this research, it examines the management relationship on marketing performance with the mediating role ...
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Purpose: It seems necessary to create flexibility in methods, processes, products and organizational decision-making in order to respond in time to discrete and continuous environmental changes. In this research, it examines the management relationship on marketing performance with the mediating role of innovation in the organization and the moderating role of environmental disturbance in Khuzestan Steel Company. Turbulence and extreme market fluctuations in attracting customers and competitiveness highlights the role of creativity in creating new ideas in organizations.Methodology: The statistical population of the research includes the managers of Khuzestan Steel Company in the number of 33 people who used the judgmental sampling method to collect data from a standard questionnaire and to test the hypotheses of the research using the structural equation method and pls software.Findings: The results of the research show that managerial relationships have a positive and significant effect on organizational innovation, managerial relationships on marketing performance, and organizational innovation on marketing performance. Also, managerial relations through organizational innovation have affected marketing performance and environmental disturbance, the relationship between managerial relations and organizational innovations.Originality/Value: despite resource limitations, management relationships helped to improve marketing performance in the company by creating appropriate platforms in providing support systems in empowering material and human resources to create new ideas in the conditions of turbulent markets and customer diversity.
risk evaluation
Hossein Ghasemi; Ida Tayebian
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify and analysis the human errors of control room operators of the second refinery of South Pars using the « hierarchical task analysis», «systematic human error reduction and prediction.Methodology: This study was conducted in the central ...
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify and analysis the human errors of control room operators of the second refinery of South Pars using the « hierarchical task analysis», «systematic human error reduction and prediction.Methodology: This study was conducted in the central control room of the second refinery in South Pars, the necessary data was collected using SHERPA and HTA methods. A Hierarchical Task Analysis (HTA) was used in the first phase, and then, in the next step in order to the identification and assessment of the human errors, SHERPA method was performed.Findings: Of all the errors identified in the refinery (143 errors) from the analysis of SHERPA worksheets, 102 errors (71.33%) are related to functional errors, 35 errors (24.47%) are related to visit errors, 3 errors (2.1%) are related to Regarding communication errors, 3 errors (2.1%) related to retrieval errors and 0 errors (0%) related to selection errors were reported. Also, according to this study, 14% of the types of consequences caused by errors were very severe consequences. The most obvious errors were related to performance and visit errors. With regard to preventing and reducing the occurrence of each of the identified errors and limiting their consequences, suitable control measures were provided in the form of changes in equipment design, type of training, changes in work methods, revision, formulation and updating of work instructions.Originality/Value: in this regard, the present study investigates identify and analysis the human errors of control room operators of the second refinery of South Pars using the hierarchical task analysis, systematic human error reduction and prediction.
Manpower productivity
Abbas Ghaedamini Harouni; Mehrdad Sadeghi De Cheshmeh; Majed Maharani Barzani; Javad shah Mohammadi
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between talent management and employee productivity in Isfahan governorate.Methodology: The research method was applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-correlational in terms of data collection. The statistical population of the ...
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between talent management and employee productivity in Isfahan governorate.Methodology: The research method was applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-correlational in terms of data collection. The statistical population of the present study consisted of all employees and managers working in Isfahan governorate in the number of 416. 370 people were selected as a sample through Cochran's sampling formula through simple random sampling method. Goldsmith (1980) and Armstrong talent management questionnaire (2006) that the validity of the questionnaires were examined based on content, face and structural validity and after the necessary terms the validity was confirmed and on the other hand the validity of the questionnaires by alpha method. Cronbach was estimated to be 0.91 for manpower productivity and 0.86 for talent management, and the data were analyzed at both descriptive and inferential levels including pearson correlation coefficient and multivariate regression.Findings: The results showed that talent management has a significant positive relationship with human resource productivity among Isfahan provincial staff (p <0.05) and also showed that the dimensions of talent absorption, retention of talents and talent development with human resource productivity among Isfahan Governor's staff has a significant positive relationship (p <0.05) and the dimensions of talent retention and talent development can predict the productivity of human resources among Isfahan Governor's staff.Originality/Value: The results of this study provide completely accurate, correct and clear information about the relationship between talent management and employee productivity. These results can be a roadmap for Isfahan provincial managers to strengthen and improve staff productivity through talent management.
Performance Evaluation
Bijan Rahmani Parchkolaei
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Purpose: Considering the crucial and fundamental role of hospitals in maintaining the health of society and the gradual and effective improvement of patients, the performance of hospital nurses has been evaluated.Methodology: The hospital nurses were examined using data envelopment analysis. To establish ...
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Purpose: Considering the crucial and fundamental role of hospitals in maintaining the health of society and the gradual and effective improvement of patients, the performance of hospital nurses has been evaluated.Methodology: The hospital nurses were examined using data envelopment analysis. To establish the empirical principle, the number of units greater than or equal to three times the sum of inputs and outputs, an index of input, and an index of output is combined and considered as an output, and their efficiency is calculated and ranked based on DEAHP.Findings: The results show that Unit 12 was the most efficient and used its resources well.Originality/Value: The investigations are related to private hospitals in Tehran.
Constructive Genetic Algorithm
Hamid Reza Yousefzadeh; Mahdi Masumi
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Purpose: In order to solve the problem of assigning teachers to schools, in the form of a mathematical model using an innovative approach based on Constructive Genetic Algorithm (CGA), we seek to increase teachers' satisfaction.Methodology: In this paper, using the Constructive Genetic Algorithm (CGA), ...
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Purpose: In order to solve the problem of assigning teachers to schools, in the form of a mathematical model using an innovative approach based on Constructive Genetic Algorithm (CGA), we seek to increase teachers' satisfaction.Methodology: In this paper, using the Constructive Genetic Algorithm (CGA), in a reasonable time, in addition to the appropriate allocation of teachers to schools, also increases their satisfaction. This type of algorithm includes several new features such as population consisting of schema, recombination between schema, dynamic population size, mutation in chromosomes, and possibility of using schema discoveries or chromosome representation. Schemas, unlike chromosomes, do not contain all the information about the problem data. By combining schemas, new schemas or chromosomes are created. New schemas are evaluated based on a predetermined assessment test, and if they are valid, they have the conditions to survive and are added to the population. Unlike other evolutionary algorithms in which the evaluation of individuals is defined on the basis of proportionality function, in CGA, this process involves the use of two functions, f and g.Findings: The proposed algorithm is superior to the traditional method in terms of time, execution time and efficiency as well as flexibility of the problem. This algorithm selects the solution with the highest number of attributes as the final solution among several optimal solutions. One of the advantages of the proposed algorithm is its generalizability and flexibility, which can easily produce suitable various solutions by changing the existing constraints on the problem.Originality/Value: The proposed algorithm for assigning teachers to schools for one academic year was implemented for the first time on the case study of boys' high schools in Torbat-e-Jam city.
Re-engineering
Habibeh Nazif
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Purpose: This paper aimed to more studies regarding the subject of Business Process Re-engineering) BPR) works in the logistics industry. BPR is the central reconsideration and thorough restructuring of business procedures to enhance the critical and contemporary aspects of performance like the expense, ...
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Purpose: This paper aimed to more studies regarding the subject of Business Process Re-engineering) BPR) works in the logistics industry. BPR is the central reconsideration and thorough restructuring of business procedures to enhance the critical and contemporary aspects of performance like the expense, quality, service, and speed. Also, it is a key factor for guaranteeing businesses' achievement. Hence, this study investigates the Systematic Literature Review of BPR for logistics companies, leading the managers and writers active in BPR, and making them aware of the present, past, and future trends in this discipline.Methodology: The proposed BPR in logistics research classification framework is based on a comprehensive literature review, which concentrates on peer-reviewed journal papers published until 2020. A total of 22 academic sources have been retrieved and analyzed in terms of research purpose and nature, the employed method, theoretical approach, and analysis level.Findings: The findings of this paper showed that BPR companies outperform the non-BPR ones regarding information computing, technology uses, organizational architecture, coordination, and all key logistics procedures. The results can motivate non-BPR logistics organizations to reassess the feasibility of these plans.Originality/Value: This paper fulfills an identified need for a comprehensive classification framework of BPR in logistics studies. It essentially provides both academics and practitioners with a conceptual map of existing BPR in logistics research and points out future research opportunities.
Performance Evaluation
Vahid Yadollahnejad; Jafar Gheidar-Kheljani; karim Atashgar
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Purpose: Evaluating the performance of employees is one of the most critical requirements for senior managers in organizations. One of the challenges in this regard is the assessment of the performance of staff personnel. Due to the nature of their activities, defining quantitative indicators alone cannot ...
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Purpose: Evaluating the performance of employees is one of the most critical requirements for senior managers in organizations. One of the challenges in this regard is the assessment of the performance of staff personnel. Due to the nature of their activities, defining quantitative indicators alone cannot provide an acceptable evaluation. Therefore, this research focuses on presenting an applied fuzzy model for the evaluation of staff personnel.Methodology: This study involves developing a hierarchical fuzzy performance evaluation system composed of both qualitative and quantitative indicators simultaneously. The indicators consist of 7 quantitative and 5 qualitative ones, identified and fuzzified with the input of 11 senior managers of the organization. Considering all indicators simultaneously in a system would require a very large number of fuzzy rules. Therefore, a step-by-step model with continuous and hierarchical fuzzy systems is used in this article, significantly reducing the number of rules. Finally, the developed model is implemented in Simulink, a Matlab tool, using the Mamdani method.Findings: The results of the `evaluation of the developed model closely matched expectations with good accuracy, providing a suitable basis for employee assessments. The advantages of this model include its relatively good accuracy compared to traditional models, higher employee satisfaction, and reducing subjective assessments resulting from bias, relationships, etc. It also enables faster and simpler evaluations for supervisors and managers.Originality/Value: The presented model is a practical approach that has been implemented in a real organization. It offers the possibility for other organizations to conduct employee evaluations by adjusting some indicators according to their activities, thereby adding value to the scientific field.
Performance Evaluation
Mohammad Baghbani; Voreia Farrokhi Kurd; Najil Haidari
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Purpose: The purpose of this research is to determine the indicators for evaluating the performance of human resources, weighting the indicators and investigating the correlation between the indicators in the assembly lines of disposable razors and toothpicks in Shahab Baran Pardis Falak Company.Methodology: ...
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Purpose: The purpose of this research is to determine the indicators for evaluating the performance of human resources, weighting the indicators and investigating the correlation between the indicators in the assembly lines of disposable razors and toothpicks in Shahab Baran Pardis Falak Company.Methodology: This research is analytical and correlational. In the first stage of this research, specialized meetings were held with the managers of the organization in order to determine performance evaluation indicators, and first, 17 indicators related to employee performance evaluation were proposed, in the next step, the suggested indicators were discussed with experts and some of them were integrated with each other, and finally, the number of indicators Performance evaluations were reduced to 12 items. In the next step, with Pairwise comparisons of Indicators by 10 experts, the weight of each of them was determined by using the modified analytic hierarchy process. In the next stages, the performance of the production line employees was evaluated by the production manager during three working months using the weighted indicators, and finally, the correlation between the performance evaluation indicators of the human force was studied.Findings: The research results showed that there is a significant positive relationship between some performance evaluation indicators and a significant negative relationship between some of them.Originality/Value: The current research seeks to weight performance evaluation indicators with a scientific method based on the opinion of evaluators and seeks to determine the relationship between performance evaluation indicators.
Performance Evaluation
Meisam Ashbah; Sayyed Ali akbar Ahmadi; , Mohammad Ali Sarlak
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Purpose: The current study examines the human abilities of managers in the organization and performance in a joint-stock insurance company.Methodology: This article was carried out in a descriptive-correlational way and a field form. The statistical population of the research is 68 people, of which 57 ...
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Purpose: The current study examines the human abilities of managers in the organization and performance in a joint-stock insurance company.Methodology: This article was carried out in a descriptive-correlational way and a field form. The statistical population of the research is 68 people, of which 57 people from Morgan's table were selected as a sample. To collect data, three questionnaires, organizations, functions, and human skills are used, the reliability of which is determined using Cronbach's alpha for each of them respectively (α = 0.77, 0.98, and 0.81) and to check the normality of the research Kolmogorov-Smirnov test was used.Findings: Referring to descriptive and inferential statistics, regression analysis, correlation test, ANOVA, and using SPSS software, it can be concluded that human abilities have factors affecting emotional (P=0.046) but not continuous (P=0.726), and human skills have an effect. It does not affect performance (P=0.9633), and the organization affects employee performance (P=0.000).Originality/Value: The human skills of managers have been investigated and analyzed on organizational and performance in Iran Insurance Joint Stock Company, the branch of Hamadan province.
Performance Evaluation
Maya Jamshidi; Hadi Shirouyehzad
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Purpose: This paper aimed to evaluate the performance of vaccination in Asian countries for managing Covid-19 isease in two areas: control of disease transmission and prevention of deaths (control of death rate) using a two-step Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA).Methodology: In the first phase, efficiency ...
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Purpose: This paper aimed to evaluate the performance of vaccination in Asian countries for managing Covid-19 isease in two areas: control of disease transmission and prevention of deaths (control of death rate) using a two-step Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA).Methodology: In the first phase, efficiency values are calculated based on the country's population and the number of people who have been fully vaccinated to provide a basis for analysis concerning transmission control (contagion rate). In the second phase of performance evaluation, considering the total number of confirmed infection cases, preventing deaths of people suffering from this disease has been done to evaluate the effectiveness of vaccination in Asian countries.Findings: The countries are classified into four categories using area charts, and for each category, some suggestions and analyses are presented. The results of this study indicate the vaccination performance in the field of contagion control and death prevention. Once the efficiency situation is determined, the policies and executive actions of efficient countries can be appropriate models for other countries to move towards proper efficiency and improve the situation of the pandemic.Originality/Value: The approach presented in this paper is to provide insight to measure the effectiveness of vaccination in future pandemic crises.
risk evaluation
Meysam Kaviani; Mustafa Turk Lashkanari
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Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the behavior of systematic, unsystematic and total risk in different life cycles of companies and seeks to answer the question whether the risk behavior of companies at different stages of the life cycle is different?Methodology: To answer the above ...
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Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the behavior of systematic, unsystematic and total risk in different life cycles of companies and seeks to answer the question whether the risk behavior of companies at different stages of the life cycle is different?Methodology: To answer the above question, 153 companies in the Tehran capital market were selected by screening as a statistical sample. The data collected over an 8-year period between 2011 and 2018 is considered.Findings: The results of regression analysis show that unsystematic risk fluctuations in the introduction phase are more than the growth phase and also companies that face more cash flow fluctuations, in the introduction phase are faced with more unsystematic fluctuations than the growth phase. Finally, the results showed that companies in the introduction and decline stages do not face more total risk and market than the growth and maturity stage.Originality/Value: This article evaluates the risk behavior under different life cycles of companies with a corporate risk management approach.
