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        1 - A Diagnostic Approach to Organizational Training: Using a Trichotomy Model
        علی اصغر محمودی کوچکسرایی مهدی فراهانی آرش  رسته‌مقدم
        The influential factors of organizational training in a holding company affiliated to the ministry of energy examined by a diagnostic trichotomy model. Using a descriptive research inquiry a content analysis of organizational characteristics was applied. The sample was More
        The influential factors of organizational training in a holding company affiliated to the ministry of energy examined by a diagnostic trichotomy model. Using a descriptive research inquiry a content analysis of organizational characteristics was applied. The sample was included all managers and experts that worked at the training and development department of all 90 affiliated companies which are under the holding company's directions. The means of gathering data was a series of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured/open questions and interviews. In order to content analysis, after extracting relevant concepts, themes, and contents, each items classified into one of the three (structural, behavioral, environmental/context) dimensions of the model. The results show that structural component has a more influential effect on explanation of strength and weakness of training and development activities than the other two components. In this regard, the article concluded that structural/process aspect of organizational training met with more difficulties than behavioral and context so need to pay more attention. Finally, it seems that the trichotomy model of analysis is a useful diagnostic approach to the organizational pathology and could lead to appropriate applied results. Manuscript profile
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        2 - Studying Pathology of In-service Training Courses for OTC Group Employees according to the CIPP Model
        Bahareh Mansouri Kasvaei Mehdi Shariatmadari
        This research has been done with the aim of studying pathology of in-service training courses for OTC group employees, according to the “CIPP” model. It is an applied research and in terms of data collection, it’s among the survey research. For studying pathology of in- More
        This research has been done with the aim of studying pathology of in-service training courses for OTC group employees, according to the “CIPP” model. It is an applied research and in terms of data collection, it’s among the survey research. For studying pathology of in-service training courses according “CIPP” model, various studies have examined and components that experts had expected a greater emphasis on, have been chosen. Thus, four aspects are measured using a researcher-made questionnaire: context, input, process and output. The study population included all OTC group employees who have participated in 1393 in-service training courses, that their total number are 1770 persons and the sample is 317 persons, using Morgan (sampling) method. To analyze the data, descriptive statistics, including frequency percent, the mean and standard deviation and inferential statistics including Chi-Squared Test, Umann Whitney, Kruskal-Wallis were used. Research results suggest that the quality of in-service training courses in four dimensions of CIPP evaluation model in context, input, process and output may have caused the participants to provide satisfaction. Manuscript profile
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        3 - A Pathology and Effectiveness of the Transfer of Training to Workplace
        Gholamreza  Shams Morkani Hamed Abbasi kasani
        This study aimed at investigating the pathology and effectiveness of the transfer of raining to workplace. Research method was applied and developmental in terms of purpose, and was mixed (quantitative and qualitative) one in terms of data collection. The review documen More
        This study aimed at investigating the pathology and effectiveness of the transfer of raining to workplace. Research method was applied and developmental in terms of purpose, and was mixed (quantitative and qualitative) one in terms of data collection. The review documents and semi-structured interviews were used as data collection tools. In order to analyze the data, the content analysis for classifying method was used. 13 documents were investigated and interviews were conducted with 23 counselors, teachers and principals, who were selected purposefully. The results showed that there were 36 damages in the Individual, Educational and Organizational Areas of the Transfer of Training to Workplace. Then, evaluated the effectiveness of the transfer of training to workplace, through a questionnaire with 0.93 reliability administered on counselors, teachers and principals. To do so, 297 counselors, teachers and principals in Field of Humanities of Tehran secondary schools were selected through stratified random sampling technique. To evaluate the effectiveness of the Transfer of Training to Workplace, one-sample t test, t independent groups and ANOVA were applied. Finally, it was found that secondary factors, motivational elements, environmental factors and the ability factors of the transfer of training to workplace among teachers of Field of Humanities in Tehran secondary schools in Tehran were desirable. Manuscript profile
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        4 - Identification and Prioritizing the barriers to effective utilization of Mechanisms of ‎United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)‎‏ ‏by Emphasizing on organizational training based on the Three-Dimensional Model
        Somayeh Oryan Seyed Mohammad  Shobeiri Mehran Farajollahi
        This study aimed at investigating‏ ‏and prioritizing the pathology of organizational training on financial and ‎non-financial mechanisms of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) by a ‎diagnostic trichotomy model. This study was exploratory resea More
        This study aimed at investigating‏ ‏and prioritizing the pathology of organizational training on financial and ‎non-financial mechanisms of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) by a ‎diagnostic trichotomy model. This study was exploratory research and its methodology was developmental ‎and applied research method. In terms of data collection was combined (quantitative and qualitative) ‎research. The review documents and semi-structured interviews were used as data collection tools. In order to ‎analyze the data, the content analysis for classifying method was used and interviews were conducted with 40 ‎elite and specialists, who were selected purposefully. At the first stage, After extracting 212 barriers and ‎removing repeated elements, 44 relevant concepts and contents classified into one of the three (structural, ‎behavioral, environmental/context) dimensions of the model as a questionnaire.‎‏ ‏Through Lawshe content ‎validity, 36 barriers were selected and reliability by 0.812 Cronbach coefficient alpha‎ were confirmed. ‎Thereafter, this obstacles were prioritized by Fuzzy Delphi method. At the third stage, it was examined how ‎each barriers related legal, economic, political, administrative and environmental conditions‏ ‏influenced each ‎other’s through ISM and MICMAC techniques.‎‏ ‏The results demonstrated that after international and national ‎laws and legal issues, educational process was second effective item. Need assessment for different levels and ‎stakeholders, lack of instructors familiar with the subject and lack of appropriate educational contents as the ‎priority issues had been recognized.‎ Manuscript profile
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        5 - Pathology of Human Resource Training System in Higher Education: Codification and Validation of a Model
        Khaled Mirahmadi Abasalt Khorasani Mohammad taghi  Nazarpour Gholamreza Shams Murkani
        The present research aims to conduct a pathological study of Human Resource Training in higher education and, thereby, proceed to codify and validate a model for it. The methodology was practical and developmental. A combined sequential exploratory (heuristic) method of More
        The present research aims to conduct a pathological study of Human Resource Training in higher education and, thereby, proceed to codify and validate a model for it. The methodology was practical and developmental. A combined sequential exploratory (heuristic) method of the modelling type was utilized for data collection. Drawing from multiple data synchronization in two stages, a primary theoretical framework was codified and, accordingly, it was validated in the form of a model. For the pathology of the staffing system, the first stage, qualitative case study was used according to which the perspectives and experiences of 11 experts, managers and specialists were taken into account with a purposeful approach through theoretical saturation criterion. It should be noted that semi-structured interview was utilized at this stage and the gathered data were analyzed by drawing from Thematic Analysis technique. At the second stage, applied a survey method and the components extracted from an ascertained questionnaire given to 98 staffing managers and experts in public universities under supervision of Tehran Ministry of Science, Research and Technology were analyzed based on a relative class sampling method. In order to analyze the gathered data and validate the codified framework, partial least squares analysis was utilized by drawing from Smart PLS software. After coding the data derived from analysis of documents and interviews, 215 codes were defined and categorized as 34 components and 14 perspectives as follows: jobs and Competency analysis, Need assessment, Design and planning, Implementation of training, Evaluation and monitoring, Transfer of training, systematic, Knowledge and experience management, Human resource culture, Upstream laws and documents, Finance and budget, orientation and awareness, Organizational and human resources structure and technology. According to identified defects, the pathological model for staffing system in universities was codified and validated. Evaluation and monitoring, Design and planning and Transfer of training as variables played the highest role (coefficient of determination calculated to be 0.83, 0.79 and 0.79 respectively) while Knowledge and experience management, Upstream laws and documents and Finance and budget factors (coefficient of determination calculated to be 0.41, 0.49 and 0.51 respectively) had the lowest role in determining the pathological model of the Training system. Manuscript profile
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        6 - Pathology of training and improvement of human resources : The case of the insurance organization
        Talat Diba Vajari Frouz Nouri
        The purpose of this article is to develop the model and identify the damages of training and improvement of human resources and provide improvement programs in the Agricultural Insurance Fund. The research approach is mixed and in this research quantitative and qualitat More
        The purpose of this article is to develop the model and identify the damages of training and improvement of human resources and provide improvement programs in the Agricultural Insurance Fund. The research approach is mixed and in this research quantitative and qualitative approaches are used. The method of this study is evaluation. The interview has been used to identify and select indicators. The selection of participants in the interview process was conducted using a targeted sampling method. Structural Interpretation Modeling Software (IMS) was used for weighting the pathology axes. After determining the axes, they were placed in the pathology model of the MTM. After planning and organizing the pathology, an assessment of human resources training and improvement processes was performed and improvement programs for repair or reduction of injuries were determined and using the RPN technique, Prioritized Manuscript profile
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        7 - An Investigation and Pathology of Organizational Training for Engineers in Water and Electricity Industry Based on ADDIE
        zainab sharaf Mohammad reza Nili Ahmadabadi Mohammad Javad   Liaghatdar
        Organizational training could play a significant role in keeping the knowledge, skills and attitudes of employees updated, if it is conducted based on scientific principles and methods and considered as an empowering factor. In this regard, the present study seeks to ev More
        Organizational training could play a significant role in keeping the knowledge, skills and attitudes of employees updated, if it is conducted based on scientific principles and methods and considered as an empowering factor. In this regard, the present study seeks to evaluate and identify the limitations of the organizational training of engineers in the water and electricity industry. To this aim a mixed method was used including survey method in the quantitative phase and phenomenology in the qualitative phase. The research tool in the quantitative part was a researcher-made questionnaire and in the qualitative part it was a semi-structured interview. The participants in the quantitative part included trained engineers, 900 individuals in the year 2021, and in the qualitative part there were teachers and employers in the water and electricity industry. In the quantitative section, 269 individuals were selected by simple random sampling using Morgan's table, and in the qualitative section, 20 individuals were interviewed based on the theoretical saturation level. For analyzing the quantitative data, SPSS software was used and for qualitative data analysis, thematic analysis method was used. According to the findings of the quantitative part of the research, the current state of organizational training of engineers in the water and electricity industry in all 5 dimensions of education is at the average and below average levels. On the other hand, based on the findings of the qualitative part, the main limitations of the organizational occupational training system include process limitations, motivational, cultural and administrative structure. The results revealed that the organizational training of the water and electricity industry does not meet the desired quality levels; cultural problems and inattention to the academic degrees, lack of motivational incentives, structural-administrative problems and process problems and non-compliance of organizational trainings with scientific and logical approaches could be mentioned as some of the factors leading to the current situation. Manuscript profile