List of Articles Isfahan University of Medical Sciences

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  1 - Identifying the Dimensions and Components of Alienation in the Isfahan University of Medical Sciences
  Mohammad Mahmoudi Mandani Akbar Etebarian khorasgani Saeid sharifi Alborz gheitani
  10.30495/jhm.2023.72501.11120
  Introduction: The alienation has a great negative effect on the decline of performance of people. Therefore, the current research was conducted with the aim of identifying the dimensions and components of alienation in the Isfahan University of Medical Sciences. Method More

  Introduction: The alienation has a great negative effect on the decline of performance of people. Therefore, the current research was conducted with the aim of identifying the dimensions and components of alienation in the Isfahan University of Medical Sciences. Methods: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method qualitative. The research community was the experts of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences in 2021 year, which according to the theoretical saturation principle 20 people of them were selected as a sample by purposeful and snowball sampling methods. The research tools were included a demographic information form and a semi-structured interview, which the validity of the interviews was confirmed by the triangulation method and the reliability of the extracted codes was obtained by the two-week retest method 0.86. Data were analyzed with open, axial and selective coding methods in MAXQDA software. Results: Data analysis showed that alienation had 205 indicators, 29 components and 7 dimensions. The dimensions were included extra-organizational alienation (with 5 components of dehumanization at work, cultural and social anomie, impacts and values of industrial society, social alienation and cultural beliefs), organizational alienation (with 13 components of weakness in talent management, weakness of organizational socialization, unprofessional and weak managers, organizational alienation, weakness interpersonal communication in the organization, tension and conflict of organization, weakness rules and regulations, inefficient monitoring and control system, organizational disorganization, organizational culture based on construction, corruption and bribery-seeking, authoritarian management style and powerlessness at work), occupational alienation ( with 4 components of sense of meaninglessness at work, lack of job motivation, ambiguity in roles and duties and job and organizational frustration), individual alienation (with 4 components of inability at work, low self-esteem, psychological disorders and lack of employees ethical orientation), unfavorable behavioral and organizational attitudes (with 1 component), job fatigue (with 1 component) and dislike and hatred of work (with 1 component). Conclusion: The identified dimensions and components for alienation can have many practical implications for organizational specialists and planners, and they based on the identified dimensions and components can design and implement programs to reduce employees' alienation. Manuscript profile
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  2 - Organizing the Personal Information Managing of Faculty Members and its Affecting Factors
  Sona Imani- Tayebbi Nayere Sadat Soleimanzade Najafi Firoozeh Farashbandi
  Objective: It is imperative to consider how to manage personal information and how to apply this management to people with a large amount of information. The purpose of the present study was to identify various methods for organizing the personal information of the facu More

  Objective: It is imperative to consider how to manage personal information and how to apply this management to people with a large amount of information. The purpose of the present study was to identify various methods for organizing the personal information of the faculty members of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences and to explore the factors affecting it.Methodology:  This study was carried out using qualitative method and through semi-structured interviews. Interviews continued to reach the data saturation level and sampling was done purposefully. 21 people were interviewed. Data analysis was done by the content analysis method.Results: The research community organized their personal information collections into five thematic, noun, historical, linguistic and formal methods. From interviewers' point of view, the five factors that influenced the organization and management of personal information including factors related to personal information management, personal factors, career factors, computer related factors, and information related factors and sources of information were identified.Conclusion: Given the variables such as the nature of the job, the type of information, individual differences, and other conditions and abilities, each faculty member uses its own method and method of organizing information. These methods and practices are not necessarily identical to the general similarities and are different for each other. Also, several factors, such as individual, occupational, computer issues, information resources and self-management information, can affect the organization of individuals. Manuscript profile
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  3 - Evaluation of Awareness and use University of Medical Sciences Librarians of full-text database available in the home page of the Central Library of the university in 1390
  Shohreh Seyyed Hosseini Mohammad javad alemokhtar Fatemeh Anari
  Purpose: This research aimed to investigate the awareness and the usage of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences librarians who used the existing full-text databases in the homepage of the central library website. This study tried to find the problems and barriers whic More

  Purpose: This research aimed to investigate the awareness and the usage of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences librarians who used the existing full-text databases in the homepage of the central library website. This study tried to find the problems and barriers which resulted in the difficulties in using these databases as well as providing some new approaches to disseminate more and more information to the end users by librarians. Methodology: Survey method, with applied approach, was used as a research method. The population was all employed librarians of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences libraries. Researcher-made questionnaire was used as a data-collecting tool and SPSS 16.0 used to analyze data. Central and scatter index statistics has been used to answer the research questions. Findings: The findings showed that the average scores of the librarians’ familiarity with full text electronic databases was 51.52 (Std Deviation=26.4). T-test indicates that there was not any significant difference between the awareness score and the sexuality as well as the usability score and the sexuality; but there was a significant difference between the awareness score and the rate of the usability of full text databases. Also the spearman correlation showed that there was a direct significant difference between the education levels of the librarians and their awareness, familiarity and usability scores. In this case, Elsevier had the highest rank among English databases. Conclusion: The results showed that the rate of the awareness and the usage of the existing full-text databases by Isfahan University of Medical Sciences was more than average. It can be seen that the librarians’ sexuality didn’t have any impact on their awareness and usages but there was a significant difference between their academic disciplines and their usages and awareness. The highest rate of the awareness and usages belonged to the domestic databases. It can be concluded that there was a positive relationship between the periods of awareness of librarians toward these databases and their usages. Manuscript profile