Farnaz Einkhah; Ibrahim Salehi Omran
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The purpose of this research is to compare the organizational structure of Iranian and non-Iranian universities, the number of administrative employees, the number of faculties and defined groups. The steps of the research included data collection by document study and qualitative data analysis ...
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The purpose of this research is to compare the organizational structure of Iranian and non-Iranian universities, the number of administrative employees, the number of faculties and defined groups. The steps of the research included data collection by document study and qualitative data analysis by qualitative content analysis and mapping accumulation through document mining and statistical analysis of quantitative data in the quantitative section. The number of majors and departments, management positions and administrative staff and faculty members of 23 faculties from 3 selected non-Iranian universities and 95 Iranian faculties were investigated. Based on the results of the research, the number of managerial positions in Iranian universities is more and the number of administrative employees is less compared to non-Iranian universities. Ferdowsi has the best situation both in the number of administrative employees and in the number of management positions compared to other Iranian universities. University of Tehran has the lowest number of administrative employees and the most managerial positions and has a hierarchical and evaluation organizational structure compared to other studied universities. In the organizational structure of Mazandaran University, after Tehran University, the largest numbers of management positions are defined. The number of faculty members in departments and faculties in non-Iranian universities is also much higher than in Iranian universities. The number of courses in all non-Iranian universities is less than in Iranian universities. Oxford ranks highest among prestigious universities in terms of the number of administrative staff and the number of management positions.
mahdi amiri; mohammad ali Ghalandari
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between transformational leadership style and organizational creativity with the mediating role of organizational structure. The present research was based on the purpose of the applied type and in terms of quantitative method is of the descriptive-correlation ...
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between transformational leadership style and organizational creativity with the mediating role of organizational structure. The present research was based on the purpose of the applied type and in terms of quantitative method is of the descriptive-correlation type, which has been studied in a survey using standard tools in the field of research variables using the structural equation model. The study population included all primary school teachers in District 1 of Shiraz. Using Morgan table and regular random sampling method, 134 people were selected as the sample. The research tool consisted of three standardized questionnaires; Transformational leadership style, which includes four dimensions of mental motivation, ideal influence, inspirational motivation and personal consideration and the reliability of this tool with Cronbach's alpha method, is equal to 0. 95 and its face and content validity has been confirmed by experts; Organizational structure questionnaire which includes two dimensions of complexity and formality and the reliability of this method by Cronbach's alpha is equal to 0. 92 and its face and content validity has been confirmed by experts and the organizational creativity questionnaire includes two dimensions of sensitivity and self-confidence and the reliability of this test by Cronbach's alpha method is equal to 0. 88 and its face and content validity has been confirmed by experts. These tools were distributed among the sample of teachers and principals and finally 134 questionnaires were collected. The results showed that: There is a significant relationship between transformational leadership style, organizational structure and organizational creativity of teachers. Path analysis to determine the mediating role of organizational structure showed that organizational structure plays a negative mediating role for transformational leadership style in the sense that organizational structure is a competing mediating role between transformational leadership style and organizational creativity of employees. The general fit indices also showed the fit of the implemented model. In general, it can be said that the transformational leadership style of managers is a positive and meaningful predictor of the organizational structure of teachers' work environment and the transformational leadership style is a direct predictor of positive and indirectly mediated by the organizational structure.
