Ebadollah Hadipour; Kamran Mohammad khani; Amirhosein Mohammad Davoudi
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Purpose: Organizational vitality has an effective role on organizational performance and effectiveness, so the present study was conducted with the aim of identify and analyze the effective barriers on organizational vitality in government organizations.Methodology: The present study in terms of purpose ...
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Purpose: Organizational vitality has an effective role on organizational performance and effectiveness, so the present study was conducted with the aim of identify and analyze the effective barriers on organizational vitality in government organizations.Methodology: The present study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was qualitative. The research population was the documents of organizational vitality and faculty members and managers and deputies of the governmental organization of Mazandaran province in 2019 year. In addition to reviewing the documents of organizational vitality, number of 11 experts according to the principle of theoretical saturation was selected as a sample by purposive sampling method. For data collection were used from the methods of document review and semi-structured interviews with experts, which the its content validity was confirmed by two other researches and its reliability was calculated by Cohen's Kappa coefficient method 0.83. Finally, the data were analyzed by thematic analysis method in MAXQDA12 software.Findings: Findings showed that the effective barriers on organizational vitality in government organizations were included 120 concepts, 49 components and 9 themes. The managerial theme includes five components of authoritarian leadership style, distrust in work, strict monitoring, inefficiency of managers and negative attitude of managers towards employees, individual theme includes six components of negativity at work, self-censorship and organizational silence, introversion, job dissatisfaction, intergenerational gap in the organization and gender discrimination, organizational theme includes six components of injustice in the organization, tough working environment conditions, centralized organizational structure, job instability, controlled human relations and job stress, economic theme includes seven components of disorder in salary based on position, procrastination in repaying bonuses and benefits, inflation, high prices and unemployment in recent years, class gaps, misallocation of services and facilities among employees, payment of taxes disproportionate to salaries and disproportionate income to living expenses, political theme includes five components of restriction of political and individual freedom in the organization, distrust to the government's ability to improve the state of country, existence of corruption in the administrative and financial system, distrust of planning in the work of managers and lack of adherence of managers and supervisors to laws and regulations, physical environment theme includes five components of unsuitable environments for rest, lack of sports facilities and equipment, use of cold and inappropriate colors in the design of buildings, non-use of local symbols and principles in the architecture of buildings and inappropriate use of lighting in buildings, religious-value theme includes six components of procrastination in holding collectively national and religious celebrations, negligence in holding religious festivals and rituals, laxity in holding religious and spiritual activities, disregard for traditional cultures, bad temper with others as a value and distrust to divine judgment and predestination, technological theme includes four components of employees' relationship with new technology instead of human relations, reducing the need for human resources due to the use of technology, allocating a lot of time to use technology and using new technology (robot) instead of human and socio-cultural theme includes five components of lake of attachment and sense of belonging to the living area, lack of sense of identity and good memories of the living area, membership in certain groups and social organizations, lack of sense of freedom and security in society and lack of access to spaces, services and facilities in cities.Conclusion: According to the results of the present study, managers and planners of organizations can take an effective step to remove the effective barriers on organizational vitality, which for this purpose is necessary to provide conditions for improving the identified themes and components.
Social Sciences
Fatemeh Aghakhani; Afsaneh Saber Garakani; Alaedin Etemad Ahari
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Purpose: Vitality plays an important and effective role in improving and promoting psychological and academic variables in students. Therefore, the aim of this study was to presenting a curriculum model based on the vitality in primary school students.Methodology: The present research in terms of purpose ...
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Purpose: Vitality plays an important and effective role in improving and promoting psychological and academic variables in students. Therefore, the aim of this study was to presenting a curriculum model based on the vitality in primary school students.Methodology: The present research in terms of purpose and implementation method was applied and descriptive from type of quantitative, respectively. The research population was primary school teachers of Tehran city in the academic years of 2019-20 with number 11526 people who 374 people of them were selected as a sample based on the Krejcie and Morgan table with the multi-stage cluster sampling method. The samples responded to the researcher-made questionnaire of curriculum based on the vitality in primary school students (100 questions) which whose psychometric indicators were acceptable. Data were analyzed with exploratory factor analysis and structural equation modeling methods in SPSS and Smart PLS software.Findings: The findings showed that curriculum based on the vitality in primary school students in the main category i.e. curriculum based on the vitality were included of positive motivation and belief, social relations and academic engagement, in the category of causal conditions were included of educational goals, textbook text, educational methods and curriculum evaluation, in the category of contextual conditions were included of intra-classroom conditions and school conditions, in the category of intervening conditions were included of educational policy-making, environment and culture, in the category of strategies were included of decentralization and infrastructure and in the category of consequences were included of engagement and behavior. Also, the factor load of the main category, causal conditions, contextual conditions, intervening conditions, strategies and consequences was estimated higher than 0.50, their average variance extracted was estimated higher than 0.70, and their reliability with using Cronbach's alpha and combined methods was estimated higher than 0.80. In addition, the curriculum model based on the vitality in primary school students had a good fit and in this model the causal conditions on the main category, main category, contextual conditions and intervening conditions on the strategies, and strategies on the consequences had a direct significant effect (P<0.001).Conclusion: According to the results of this research, the designed curriculum model based on the vitality in primary school students can help planners and experts in designing and implementing programs to improve vitality in students.