In This Issue:

Empowerment and Promoting the Capabilities of Non-governmental Sectors according to the Fifth Development Plan

Implementation of general policies of article 44 of Constitution Law is considered as an opportunity for growth and justice in the country, so its goals and dimensions must be followed comprehensively and completely. However, following each paragraph of these conveyed policies has its own positive effects, focusing on private and cooperative sectors in economic activities and lack of government presence in this regard - entitled as “strengthening and empowering the non-governmental sectors” - is the basic goal, due and result of above policies. Meanwhile…

Energy Geopolitical Developments in the Caspian Region

During the past few months, the Caspian Sea region witnessed many important developments in the field of energy, the most important of which are as follows: the inauguration of second gas exporting pipeline from Turkmenistan to Iran, re-supply of Turkmen gas to Russia, and the regional foreign events in Azerbaijan Republic which leads to its cooperation with Russia and Iran in the energy sector.

Why Economic Reforms aren’t always effective?

While economic reforms in the communist China have provided many achievements and changed this country to an emerging power, similar reforms in many countries like Latin American countries where the situation was much better than China and no communist bloc was seen, failed to accomplish the pre-determined purposes....

Disputes Economy

Common knowledge of economy has formed around economic exchanges which usually have been profitable for both sides and establishes the win – win situation; meanwhile some economists have recently inclined to a new dimension: military disputes in different levels as international, internal and external….

Energy Newsletter

According to Edison International, there is a promising partnership opportunity for extraction and development of Iran Dayer block which is located in the vicinity of Persian Gulf gas fields. The company has delivered more than 40 percent of its shares to one or more China, Iranian and several European countries and also assigned an investment room in Milan.

The World’s Planning Timeline

Monitoring the countries’ planning timeline shows that easy achievement to pre-defined aims of master plans is possible when the developmental principles and policies are more limited and definite for executives. However, gradual evolution of type, method and content of the governments’ programs as well as sudden shifts from imperative to guiding and leadership styles (especially in social development and infrastructure services) has doubled the speed and success rate of achievement....

South Korea to find its Global Position

There are many stories about economical miracles in Asia, but perhaps the most attractive and of course ignored one, is fastest growing economy in the South Korea. During the four decades after the Korean War, this country’s miserable conditions faded and it turned to one of the most powerful countries of the region. Today, Korea plays as an upgrading industrial country and has eradicated poverty, malnutrition and illiteracy…..

Parties’ Financing Issues and the Election: A Comparative Study

More comparative political studies indicate the importance of financing political parties in the recent years. The reason is the fact that some systematic regulations have been passed in connection with financing of elections and political parties, only in 1970s and 1980s. it’s noteworthy that the same trend has been executed in Sweden in 1960s ...

Learning Organizations, a New Thinking Style in Management Era

Organizational learning and learning organizations are concepts that have been introduced by Grace Arjis, the great scientist of management era and also the father of the organizational learning, just 20 years ago. Learning organization is a skilled and creative organization which captures the knowledge and transfers it all over the organization…

From theory to practice: Using New Scientific Concepts to Create Learning Organizations

Learning Organization is the common concept of management literatures during the past ten years. However, a few organizations have understood how to create necessary structures and processes to ensure continuous learning process. This article maintains that the problem can be attributed to mental models of governing leaders in the contemporary organizations…..

Knowledge Management and its Application in Industrial and Productive Institutions

In the recent years, organizational evolutions have grown substantially. Powerful forces in macroeconomics are currently involved in and will be more powerful over the next few decades. As the result, more organizations move toward reducing costs, improving the quality of products and services, and creating opportunities for development and productivity

From Data Management to Knowledge Management

Today, organizations have increasingly come to the point that nothing but the knowledge can give them niche in the competitive world. As a tool that can collect, organize and distribute the existing knowledge, the knowledge management can …..

Technologies in the Organization

Technology consists of physical machinery and equipments (hardware); techniques, methods and instructions (software); knowledge to use them with specific ways (mindware) which are used to increase the efficiency of converting inputs to outputs (conversion process) ….

Knowledge Continuity- Based Management: A New Approach in the Knowledge Era

Today, the organizations’ success in the economic area would be possible through their capabilities to acquire, encode and transfer the knowledge in a more efficient way, compared to the competitors. One of the new approaches discussed in the knowledge era is knowledge continuity- based management …..

Evolutionary Timeline of Science and Technology Foresight

Using results and knowledge acquired by Foresight for making decisions and policies is one of the benefits of this activity. Policies appointed according to this trend, are more successful because they support by the community. To have a successful Foresight....

Project Management System in Organizations

All organizations have written or unwritten goals for survival, improvement, growth and development and their plans would be set accordingly. The direct result of the planning is a set of projects and plans that should be implemented to empower the organizations for achieving their goals. Meanwhile, the companies’ main challenge is the loss of a unified system to manage these projects and plans….

Analytical Research of Political Behavior Management in the Organizations

In today’s world with all complexity, ambiguity, uncertainty, as well as conflicts and rivalries, the increasing role of effective and efficient management is highlighted. In such a situation, setting proper organizational policies and strategies would lead to potential consequences in objectives and interests of different organizational actors and deepen the coalition of power and influence, inside and outside of the organizations …..

Financial Ratios; Useful but Limited tools

Financial ratios can reveal some important facts about the operations and financial condition of a profit-making unit as well as its information. When creditors provide financial resources for profitable units, they consider the financial power of the unit to repayment of the granted credit. Banks and other financial institutions usually analyze the financial ratios before granting financial facilities ……..

Technology Transfer

In this article, processes and all necessary steps of an effective transfer of technology, as well as important barriers to it, and the necessity to create a technology management center for monitoring policy makings and coordinating similar efforts would be discussed. We also provide a conceptual model for technology transfer …..

E-commerce Models and Value Chain

In this paper, position and interaction of E-commerce on the value chain is studied and various models of e-commerce, characteristics, features and some samples of each has also been introduced ...

The Results of Personnel Empowerment in the Organization

This article includes a short definition of empowerment, a review of empowerment fields, analyzing the employee empowerment from Bandera perspective, pre-requirements to empower employees, ways to empower employees, three major strategies to empower employees; practical steps for empowering employees, three major keys empower work forces and ultimately, the factors affecting empowerment...

The Role of Individual Differences and Personality Characteristics of Employees in their Organizational Behavior

Although there are similarities between an organization’s managers and employees, they can be different from many viewpoints and this is the major challenge of employees’ management. More acknowledgeable management can coordinate employees better to reach organization’s goals, increase the personal and job productivity and ………