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        1 - Validation of Managers’ Promotional Assessment Center in Isfahan Gas Company
        Mahdiehsadat Khoshouei Hamidreza Oreyzi Afshin Jahanbazi
        The goal of this research was validation of manager’s promotional assessment center in Isfahan Gas company.In order to achieve the goal,  according to assessment center designed Isfahan Gas company (khoshouei, Oreyzi and Nouri, 2014) eight mid-level managers More
        The goal of this research was validation of manager’s promotional assessment center in Isfahan Gas company.In order to achieve the goal,  according to assessment center designed Isfahan Gas company (khoshouei, Oreyzi and Nouri, 2014) eight mid-level managers of companyas participant and thirteen experts with masters’ degree at industrial and organizational psychology as expert and assessorselected purposefully (homogeneous sampling). Then, experts were completed the training course effectiveness questionnaire and simulation exercise effectiveness questionnaire, assessors were completed the simulation exercise effectiveness questionnaire and behaviorally anchored rating scale and managers were completed the simulation exercise effectiveness questionnaire and managerial dimensional questionnaire (Khoshouei, 2012). Therefore, standardization (by survey of experts and managers), face validiy (by survey of experts and assessors), content validiy (by survey of managers), concurrent validiy (by correlation of simulations ratings and managerial dimensional questionnaire) and construct validiy (multi-trait multi-method analysis) were established.Reliability of assessment center were found to be confirmatory by inter- rater reliability, intra-rater reliability, reliability of same dimensions in different exersices, and behaviorally anchored rating scale reliability. Manuscript profile
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        2 - Investigating the relationship of managers’ communicational skills with employees’ organizational commitment in Tehran rahboard Software Company
        kamaleddin rahmani
        This study tries to investigate the relationship between the managers skills i.e. verbal, effective hearing, feedback skill and employees organizational commitment in Tehran rahboard Software Company. To do so the study, in addition to reviewing the available theories a More
        This study tries to investigate the relationship between the managers skills i.e. verbal, effective hearing, feedback skill and employees organizational commitment in Tehran rahboard Software Company. To do so the study, in addition to reviewing the available theories about the organizational communication, commitment and the characteristics of effective communication, has investigated the effect of managers’ communicational skill in the organization. The research methodology was descriptive survey. The statistical population was all the employees in Tehran rahboard software which included 46 manager and 450 employee.Throught simple random sampling the statistical sample was 300 people. By the use of questionnaire and interview the data was collected and the reliability of %75 was obtained using cronbach alpha. The results showed that there is a significant relationship between manager’s communicational skills and their organizational commitment. Manuscript profile
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        3 - The Relationship between the Performance of Managers and Employees Stress: a study on the employees of public organizations in Kerman in 2012
        Maryam Mohammad zadeh Behnaz Aflatoniyan Mahmod Nekoye Mogadam Behnoosh Aflatoniyan Tahere Mohamadi pour najib
        Organizational stress, in addition to threatening employees’ health,adversely affects the quality and quantity of their performance. The aim ofthis study was to determine the relationship between the performance ofmanagers and employees’ stress in Kerman pub More
        Organizational stress, in addition to threatening employees’ health,adversely affects the quality and quantity of their performance. The aim ofthis study was to determine the relationship between the performance ofmanagers and employees’ stress in Kerman public organizations. The studywas a descriptive-correlation study performed after stratified randomsampling. A total of 300 questionnaires were distributed among theemployees. To determine the correlation, Spearman correlation test, toanalyze the data log–linear analysis, and to compare the variables chi-squaretest were used. Data analysis was performed through spss18. There was asignificant relationship between employees’ stress and the performance ofmanagers. Stress was significantly higher among female, married, olderemployees, those with educational level of bachelor and higher and thosewith less than 20 years job experience. Regarding the importance of humanresources in the development of societies and in order to achieve the goals ofhealth system and sustainable development, policy makers and humanresource managers could implement strategies to increase the efficiency ofresource managers and their ability to benefit from available resources moreefficiently. Manuscript profile
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        4 - An Investigation of the Relationship between Quality of Work Life and Middle Managers’ Performance in Iran National Gas Company
        Hamid Rahimiyan Ali najafi
        This article studied the relationship between the quality of work life and middle managers’ performance. The statistical population included 180 middle managers, and Morgan table was used to select the research sample through stratified sampling technique. The sam More
        This article studied the relationship between the quality of work life and middle managers’ performance. The statistical population included 180 middle managers, and Morgan table was used to select the research sample through stratified sampling technique. The sample size was 123, including 113 men and 10 women. Two questionnaires (quality of work life questionnaire with 29 questions and organizational performance questionnaire with 21 questions) whith high validity and reliability were used for data collection. The research is of descriptive – correlational type. The Pearson correlation coefficient revealed a significant correlation between all the work life quality variables and the middle managers’ performance. The Friedman test ranked the 6 variables of the quality of work life as follows: the work space and work design, participation in decision making, democracy in organization, training and education opportunities, salary and benefits, medical and welfare services. The results obtained from Kolmogorov – Smirnov test showed a normal distribution for the population. Finally, the results indicated that 20 percent of the middle managers’ performance is due to the work life quality components. Manuscript profile
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        5 - The Effect of Management Styles and Managers’ Personality Features on the Psychological Health of the Employees of State Organizations and Offices in Tehran
        Mahmood Haggani Habib Azizi Abdol Hossein Rasoolinezhad
        This research deals with the effect of management styles and managers’ personality features on the psychological health of employees of state organizations and offices in Tehran. The main question is if there is a meaningful relation between management styles and More
        This research deals with the effect of management styles and managers’ personality features on the psychological health of employees of state organizations and offices in Tehran. The main question is if there is a meaningful relation between management styles and managers’ personality features and the psychological health of employees of state organizations and offices. The research method is a descriptive one. The research population includes all the managers of state organizations and offices in Tehran. The research samples were chosen by Morgan Chart. The questionnaires used in this research are Lotans management style, personality features (NEO) and psychological health (GHQ), which have suitable validity coefficient. Finally, the hypotheses were tested by regression multi-hypothetical statistical model. The results show that there is a positive meaningful relation between management styles and personality features like conscientiousness and pleasantness and employees’ psychological health. Also, there is a negative meaningful relation between the neurotic feature and employees’ pychological health ( α = 0.01 ). Manuscript profile