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        1 - Educational Need Assessment and Investigating the Needed Skills of Independent Auditors, Financial Managers and Financial Analysts in Iran Based on Katz Model
        Saber Sheri Anaghiz Nezam Aldin Rahimeian Jamshid Salehi Sadaghiyani Abotaleb Khorasani
        The present study was conducted to investigate the needed skills of independent auditors, financial managers and financial analysts in Tehran Stock Exchange. In this research, a "Katz skills model", which includes technical, human, and conceptual skills, is used to asse More
        The present study was conducted to investigate the needed skills of independent auditors, financial managers and financial analysts in Tehran Stock Exchange. In this research, a "Katz skills model", which includes technical, human, and conceptual skills, is used to assess the required skills. This research is a descriptive-survey method. The statistical population consists of all independent auditors, financial managers and financial analysts employed in the accepted companies of Tehran Stock Exchange between 1382 and 1392. The sample size was 456 people. The research instrument was a questionnaire whose reliability was calculated by SPSS software and Cronbach's alpha coefficient was 92%.The results of the research showed that in first question, the need for the population of research in technical is more than other needs. In the second question, there was no relationship observed between education and the skills of people. The results of the third question showed that there was no relationship between the years of service and the skills of people. Also, the results of question 4 indicated that there was no relationship between the field of professional activity domain and the skills of people. Manuscript profile
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        2 - Identifying Key Indicators Affecting Educational Needs Assessment through Realizing Organizational Strategies: A Network Analysis Process Method
        Ghasem Khajehvandi Seyed Reza Seyed Javadin Mojtaba  Amiri Kavehmohammad  Cyrus Naser  Sharifi
        The present study attempts to answer the question in terms of the indicators and the criteria affecting the educational needs assessment with the approach of realizing organizational strategies in Abadan Oil Refining Company. Therefore, this study aimed to identify and More
        The present study attempts to answer the question in terms of the indicators and the criteria affecting the educational needs assessment with the approach of realizing organizational strategies in Abadan Oil Refining Company. Therefore, this study aimed to identify and rank the indicators and the criteria affecting the educational needs assessment accordingly. Descriptive research method of Delphi was used in this study. To this end, a field survey was used to identify the effective criteria on educational needs assessment with the approach of realizing organizational strategies. These criteria were provided to 15 experts to be scored based on the research setting. Next, the extracted results yielded six indicators and 33 components. DEMATEL method and network analysis process were used to analyze the data. The results show that managerial factors were the most effective (7.46), and environmental factors were the most affected ones (6.59). The results also showed that environmental factors were the most important (0.240), and structural factors were the least important ones (0.106). Manuscript profile
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        3 - Identifying Barriers to the optimal implementation of educational needs assessment in National Gas Company of Iran and providing solutions for its improvement
        omid oshaghi Mitra Ezati keyvan salehi
        Considering the increasing importance and role of educational needs assessment as the first step in the process of optimal training of employees and lack of attention to the comprehensive identification of Barriers to this value-creating process, in the present study, a More
        Considering the increasing importance and role of educational needs assessment as the first step in the process of optimal training of employees and lack of attention to the comprehensive identification of Barriers to this value-creating process, in the present study, an attempt was made to use a qualitative approach, while deeply analyzing this phenomenon, to identify the Barriers of the educational needs assessment process in The National Gas Company of Iran is identified and solutions for its improvement are suggested. For this purpose, the method of focus groups was used. The field of research was National Gas Company of Iran and the participants were selected fropm among the employees of the training and equipping unit of human resources using the Purposive sampling method. Data collection was done using the focal interview technique and the data saturation level was reached in the fourth focal interview (including 20 people). Data analysis using the theme analysis method resulted in the identification of 207 conceptual propositions, 19 basic themes and 4 main themes. The main themes include individual Barriers, organizational Barriers, managerial Barriers and environmental Barriers. According to the findings of the research, it is necessary to pay attention to the identified Barriers in order to optimally implement the educational needs assessment process in the National Gas Company of Iran; Therefore, at the end, solutions were presented in order to reduce the impact of obstacles on the optimal implementation of the educational needs assessment process and its improvement. Manuscript profile