Providing an Effective Model for Optimum Performance of the Islamic Councils of Cities (Case study of Tabriz Islamic City Council)

Subject Areas : Business Management

Gholamreza Memarzadeh Tehran ¹ , Nader Bohlouli ²

1 - Assistant Professor of Management, Tehran Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Ph.D. in Public Administration, Science and Research Branch of Tehran, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2008-04-23 Accepted : 2009-05-27 Published : 2009-08-23

Keywords: effectiveness, Intra-organizational Activities, Inter-organizational Activities, Extra-organizational Activities, Individual Activities, Inter-genous Independence, Exogenous Independous, Freedom of movement,

Abstract :

The present article primarily provides an effective model for optimum performance of the Islamic councils of cities according to fuzzy theory. In this dissertation, the Islamic councils of cities have been supposed as an open organizational system which has four main activities as follows: intra-organizational, inter-organizational, extra-organizational and individual activities. In fact, the proposed model is an optimized  proportion of these  activities which maximizes the satisfaction of council beneficiaries (clients as direct  recipients of services and society as indirect receiver of services).(Of course the 4th activity has been assumed as the research limitation, so it has not been studied). In the proposed Model, at first a fuzzy system has been offered  for acquiring the favorable satisfaction  of council beneficiaries (outputs) on the basis of the types of activities and  their combination (inputs); then different  types of city Islamic councils' functions have been considered using different tools for gathering the information of Tabriz Islamic Council according to the available theoretical framework  and conforming to diverse activities mentioned before have been estimated in the form of the rate of concentration upon activities and satisfaction of clients of the councils. At the end of the present dissertation, on the basis of the optimized model and the real function of the council, the gap between available and ideal situation has been figured out, and finally, suitable suggestions have been offered for the improvement of the existing conditions.

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