@article { author = {Zarei Matin, Hassan and Razavi, Hamid Reza and Azimy, Lateef and Emamgholizadeh, Saeid}, title = {Is stress management related to workforce productivity?}, journal = {Interdisciplinary Journal of Management Studies (Formerly known as Iranian Journal of Management Studies)}, volume = {7}, number = {1}, pages = {1-19}, year = {2014}, publisher = {University of Tehran}, issn = {2981-0795}, eissn = {2981-0795}, doi = {10.22059/ijms.2014.36200}, abstract = {The purpose of the study was to determine the relationship between stressmanagement and workforce productivity of Amol Industrial Park located inMazandaran Province. The total population size in the research was 250 from topmanagers, middle managers and supervisors responsible in the before-mentionedIndustrial Park and the sample size was determined through Morgan samplepopulation volume table (n=150). For data collection, Background Informationquestionnaire, Stress Management and Workforce Productivity questionnaires wereused. As for analyzing the data gained after collecting the questionnaires;Descriptive and inferential statistics were used. Pearson Correlation Test, OneSample T Test, Independent Samples Test and Regression Tests were used forhypothesis testing.The results from analyzing the Sub Hypotheses of the research demonstrated thatthere was a positive and significant correlation between respectful and responsiblemanagers (P=0.005), Managing and communicating existing and future work(P=0.002), Managing the individual within the team (P=0.01), Reasoning/managingdifficult situations, (P=0.004) and workforce productivity in this research. As foranalyzing the Main Hypotheses of the research, the results demonstrated that therewas a positive and significant correlation between stress management and workforceproductivity in this research. The results also demonstrated that there was nosignificant difference between the opinions of male and female managers about thelevel of workforce productivity and stress management being put in practice in thebefore-mentioned Industrial Park. And finally the results indicate that the level ofworkforce productivity and stress management being put in practice in the beforementionedIndustrial Park is not under the influence of any of Individualcharacteristics of managers (e.g. Age, Education Level, Job Title, EmploymentBackground and Employment Status).}, keywords = {workforce productivity,Stress Management,Respectful and responsible manager,Managing and communicating existing and future work,managing the individual within the team,Reasoning/ managing difficult situations}, url = {https://ijms.ut.ac.ir/article_36200.html}, eprint = {https://ijms.ut.ac.ir/article_36200_a2b91073fec0a5e5995796ff890812d3.pdf} } @article { author = {Jafari, Seyed Mohammadbagerher}, title = {Strategic Cost-Cutting in Information Technology: toward a Framework for Enhancing the Business Value of IT}, journal = {Interdisciplinary Journal of Management Studies (Formerly known as Iranian Journal of Management Studies)}, volume = {7}, number = {1}, pages = {21-39}, year = {2014}, publisher = {University of Tehran}, issn = {2981-0795}, eissn = {2981-0795}, doi = {10.22059/ijms.2014.36201}, abstract = {The increasing dependency of many businesses with information technology (IT)and the high percentage of the IT investment in all invested capital in businessenvironment ask for more attention to this important driver of business. Thelimitation of capital budget forces the managers to look for more wise investment inIT. There are many cost-cutting techniques in the literature and each of them has adifferent impact on the organization. This study is one of the first steps in providingmore insight on this issue via proposing a conceptual framework for strategic costcuttingin IT. The literature review revealed that the strategic role of IT inorganizations, IT costs structure, firm’s IT structure, senior management support andorganizational learning are the important factors that affect the cost-cuttingtechnique selection in IT. The proposed framework focuses on the strategic role ofIT in business to suggest which cost-cutting techniques are the best to be applied inan organization in order to save costs while ensuring high-quality service andsupport for business growth and maximizing business value from IT spending.}, keywords = {Conceptual Framework,Cost-cutting Techniques,IT business value,IT Costs,IT Strategic Role,IT Structure}, url = {https://ijms.ut.ac.ir/article_36201.html}, eprint = {https://ijms.ut.ac.ir/article_36201_d18f61a333704e7b455111fbc5d22478.pdf} } @article { author = {Zare, Hamid and Haghgooyan, Zolfa and Karimi Asl, Zahra}, title = {Identification the components of quality of work life and measuring them in faculty members of Tehran University}, journal = {Interdisciplinary Journal of Management Studies (Formerly known as Iranian Journal of Management Studies)}, volume = {7}, number = {1}, pages = {41-66}, year = {2014}, publisher = {University of Tehran}, issn = {2981-0795}, eissn = {2981-0795}, doi = {10.22059/ijms.2014.36202}, abstract = {The goal of this research is to measure the rate of quality of work life of facultymembers in University of Tehran. The research type in regard to goal is appliedinvestigative and in regard to data collecting method is descriptive investigative andof measurement branch. The statistical population is faculty members of Universityof Tehran’s paradises and colleges. In this research, after identification quality ofwork life criteria and indexes, the rate of quality of work life of faculty members inUniversity of Tehran based on this criteria and indexes, has been measured. Forinformation collecting in fields of: theoretical bases, research literature compilationand scales and aspects identification the library studying method was used. Theidentified aspects are: factors related to job content, work economic factors, worksocial factors, balance between work and life. Also in order to measure the status ofthese aspects among faculty members of University of Tehran, a questionnaire wascompiled that its admissibility and permanence was confirmed. Then a questionnairein a considered sample was distributed. In data analysis for examination the scalesand aspects status the statistical test (T-test) is used. The results of this test showedthat balance between work and life has middle status, the status of work economicfactors is undesirable and the factors related to job content and work social factorshave desirable status.}, keywords = {balance between work and life,factors related to job content,faculty members of Tehran University,work economic factors,Quality of work life,work social factors}, url = {https://ijms.ut.ac.ir/article_36202.html}, eprint = {https://ijms.ut.ac.ir/article_36202_d32ab738823a6edd8bac7989ac5d3151.pdf} } @article { author = {Attar, Hooman and Shahabi, Seyed Mohammad Reza}, title = {Beyond ‘Funnel’ and ‘Fireworks’: ‘Water Ribbed Balloon’ as a New Metaphorical Approach to Innovation-in-Practice}, journal = {Interdisciplinary Journal of Management Studies (Formerly known as Iranian Journal of Management Studies)}, volume = {7}, number = {1}, pages = {67-93}, year = {2014}, publisher = {University of Tehran}, issn = {2981-0795}, eissn = {2981-0795}, doi = {10.22059/ijms.2014.36203}, abstract = {Product innovation success has very much to do with the development of models ormetaphors that are able to guide actors. One can observe two traditions in thisregard: rational and non-rational models. Apparently in the former the model, suchas “development funnel”, is regarded as a mechanism and rigid applicable, picturinginnovation as an orderly, goal-oriented, value-neutral, and systematic process. Thelatter account offers a few non-rational models that depict product innovation aschaotic, messy, and stressful which involves jagged lines of activity, much like“fireworks”. This paper draws on the work of Donald Schön to develop a moresocio-politically informed yet pragmatic approach to innovation in organisation i.e.‘ribbed water balloon’. This model outlines product innovation as a non-rational andsocio-technical practice, one that not only reveals politics, uncertainty, unsteadiness,setbacks, and reversals with which actors grapple but also considers rituals, normsand organization’s behavioral world in its understanding.}, keywords = {fireworks,funnel,innovation models,Metaphor,water ribbed balloon}, url = {https://ijms.ut.ac.ir/article_36203.html}, eprint = {https://ijms.ut.ac.ir/article_36203_4e45f0485204b4616d86ad925480e791.pdf} } @article { author = {Karimi Mazidi, Ahmad Reza and Amini, Alireza and Latifi, Meisam}, title = {The impact of information technology capability on firm performance; a focus on employeecustomer profit chain}, journal = {Interdisciplinary Journal of Management Studies (Formerly known as Iranian Journal of Management Studies)}, volume = {7}, number = {1}, pages = {95-120}, year = {2014}, publisher = {University of Tehran}, issn = {2981-0795}, eissn = {2981-0795}, doi = {10.22059/ijms.2014.36204}, abstract = {Employee-customer-profit(ECP) chain is one of the guidelines for organizations‘success in their life cycle. Strong relationships have been found betweenemployees' attitudes and behaviors, employees' behaviors and customers'impressions, and customers' impressions and revenue growth. Out of this chain,there are some factors that can influence the processes through which these factorsinteract. One of these factors is information technology (IT) capability. In thisresearch, we modeled the effect of IT capability on ECP chain using structuralequation modeling (SEM). Service process innovation (SPI) was also used as amediating variable between IT capability and ECP chain. This was accomplishedbased upon quantitative data gathered from a sample of 212 employees of theTechnical and Vocational organization in Mashhad city. Results revealed a strongsupport for the proposed model. In particular, the association between IT capabilityand SPI with ECP chain and their leverage effect facilitate the organizations'movements along with the chain which was significantly confirmed.}, keywords = {ECP Chain,Customer Services,firm performance,IT capability}, url = {https://ijms.ut.ac.ir/article_36204.html}, eprint = {https://ijms.ut.ac.ir/article_36204_83395279d6d8dd176a16af32853ae517.pdf} } @article { author = {Azizi, Shahriar and Jamali Kapak, Shahram and Tarhandeh, Farid}, title = {Physical Distribution Service Quality through Iranian Convenience Stores Retailers Perspectives: a Mixed Method Approach}, journal = {Interdisciplinary Journal of Management Studies (Formerly known as Iranian Journal of Management Studies)}, volume = {7}, number = {1}, pages = {121-150}, year = {2014}, publisher = {University of Tehran}, issn = {2981-0795}, eissn = {2981-0795}, doi = {10.22059/ijms.2014.36205}, abstract = {Due to the importance of Physical Distribution Service Quality (PDSQ) in logisticsystems, the purpose of this paper is to design a practical scale for measuring theconstruct through the perspectives of Iranian convenience store retailers. A mixedmethodapproach was employed for the study; in- depth interviews were first carriedout with 16 Iranian experienced retailers who actively had worked in the industry;then content analysis was employed to identify the key underlying factors of PDSQ.Using the cluster sampling technique, 100 respondents from a retailing sector of 4regions out of 22 regions of Tehran were selected for testing the measurement modeland determining the importance and satisfaction level. 10 important PDSQ factorsthrough perspective of Iranian convenience retailers were extracted and categorizedin three dimensions including: Coordination of distribution agent (3 factors),Ordering condition (3 factors), and Behavioral features of distribution agents (4factors). IPA diagram was drawn finally.}, keywords = {Behavioral features,convenience store,coordination,Delivery,Iran,physical distribution service quality}, url = {https://ijms.ut.ac.ir/article_36205.html}, eprint = {https://ijms.ut.ac.ir/article_36205_cf787bcdd263d9b039d3058c858aea5f.pdf} } @article { author = {Gholipour, Rahmatollah and Jandaghi, Gholamreza and Rajaei, Reza}, title = {Contractor selection in MCDM context using fuzzy AHP}, journal = {Interdisciplinary Journal of Management Studies (Formerly known as Iranian Journal of Management Studies)}, volume = {7}, number = {1}, pages = {151-173}, year = {2014}, publisher = {University of Tehran}, issn = {2981-0795}, eissn = {2981-0795}, doi = {10.22059/ijms.2014.36206}, abstract = {Contractor selection is one of the most important problem in supply chain and itsstrongly effect on firm`s performance. Because a significant amount of auniversity`s budget assigns to construction contracts, contractor selection is animportant problem for the financial status of universities. Since Contractor selectionis a multi-criteria decision making problem (MCDM), lots of methods proposed toface this problem. Selection is a broad comparison of contractors using a commonset of criteria and measures. Analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and other traditionalmethods widely used for contractor and vendor selection by researches regarding tolots linguistic variables and both qualitative and quantitative criteria and to tackleambiguous nature of contractor selection problem, although there is someInsufficiency about them. In this article we use FAHP that is a fuzzy extension ofAHP to handle the fuzziness of the data involved in deciding the preferences ofdifferent decision variables. The linguistic level of comparisons produced by expertsfor each comparison is tapped in the form triangular fuzzy numbers to constructfuzzy pairwise comparison matrices. We priorities Tehran university`s constructioncontractor about each criteria and determine the best one about all of them.}, keywords = {Analytic Hierarchy Process,Contractor selection,fuzzy set theory,multi-criteria decision making problem}, url = {https://ijms.ut.ac.ir/article_36206.html}, eprint = {https://ijms.ut.ac.ir/article_36206_f914564bec61d56a5ebda81904a96191.pdf} } @article { author = {Ghafoorian Yavar Panah, Hadi and Ahmadanuar, Melati and Norhan, Nik Intan}, title = {Inputs and Outputs in Islamic Banking System}, journal = {Interdisciplinary Journal of Management Studies (Formerly known as Iranian Journal of Management Studies)}, volume = {7}, number = {1}, pages = {175-188}, year = {2014}, publisher = {University of Tehran}, issn = {2981-0795}, eissn = {2981-0795}, doi = {10.22059/ijms.2014.36207}, abstract = {Evaluation of performance and productivity is among the fundamental concepts inmanagement. In order to achieve their goals, organizations must evaluate theirperformance. One of the important stages of performance appraisal is evaluation oforganization’s efficiency. Banks, financial and credit institutions are among the mostimportant organizations of every economic system, because every activity whichentails asset acquisition and financial resources undoubtedly requires mediation ofbanks and financial organizations. One of the most vital issues in banks’ efficiencyevaluation is identification of input and output variables. Identification of thesevariables helps to create an appropriate model in order to evaluate the efficiency.The purpose of this paper is clarifying of the importance of the input and output inIslamic banking with the use of the content analysis method. In this paper variousapproaches that were selected by researchers are reviewed and classified. Then theinput and output variables in the Islamic banking is analyzed. The result show thatthe intermediation approach is the acceptable approach among scholars furthermore,labors and deposits are best inputs while, loans and investment are best outputs.}, keywords = {Islamic bank,Efficiency,Inputs and Outputs,Data Envelopment Analysis}, url = {https://ijms.ut.ac.ir/article_36207.html}, eprint = {https://ijms.ut.ac.ir/article_36207_8c1be0066711b53f66d9619cbe668de0.pdf} }