Seyed Ahmad Hashemi , seyed Mehdi Mirdamadi and Abolfazl Abbasi

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This study aims at Comparison of the rate of usage of characteristics of learning organizations in Islamic Azad and State universities of Fars province in academic year 2013-2014 . This survey has applied purpose and is a kind of descriptive survey. The population of this study is all of the faculty members of Azad (2300 persons) and State (930 persons) universities of Fars province, in 2013-2014. The sample of this study consisted of the 353 persons selected by Cochran’s formula and random stratified sampling method. The information gathered through a researcher made questionnaire based on Mar quart’s
systematic model which used after determining the validity and reliability (0.87). The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics methods (frequency, percent, bar chart, mean, and standard deviation) and inferential statistic methods such as two independent samples t-test, two-way analysis of variance, and Freidman test at 0.05 level of significant. The results show that there is no significant difference between Islamic Azad and State universities in the degree of being a learning organization.

Key Words: Learning organization, Islamic Azad Universities, State Universities, and Fars province

Seyed Ahmad Hashemi, Seyed Moslem Hashemizadeh, Ali Kimiaie, Masoud dastpak, Masoumh Asadiyanpoor

Lamerd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Lamerd, Iran

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One of the ways to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of higher education learning is being learnable. Using the view of the components of the learning organization by Marquardt (Knowledge management, capacity building, technology application, the dynamics of learning and organizational development) is among such methods. The principles of the university as a learning organization
and development of quality processes of higher education have the great impact. This paper describes an analytical method for studying the effects of student organizations of the university and tries to analyse the basic concepts of a learning organization in connection with the Higher Education and offer some recommendations to improve its learn able rate.

Keywords: knowledge management, organizational transformation, the dynamics of learning, educational technology, enabling

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The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between organizational climate and organizational health and job performance of administrators of Lamerd city schools in Iran. The research method is descriptive of survey kind. The statistical community of the study consists of all the managers in both girls and boys in schools, guidance schools, and high-schools in the year 91-92 in Lamerd. There were 110 people in the study. In order to determine the sample size Morgan table was used and 90 managers were chosen randomly. Also three questionnaires were used as data collection tools: Hal pin and Craft’s
organizational climate (1963), Tamiminejad’s organizational health (2007), and Naidel’s job performance (2007). Their reliability are 0.796, 0.814, and 0.869 respectively. The research methods used in this study are the correlation matrix, simple and multiple regression using a stepwise and also path analysis. The results are as follow:
1. The relationship between organizational climate and organizational health with a correlation of 0.32 in 0.01 is meaningful.
2. The relationship between organizational climate and job performance of 0.532 in 0.01 is meaningful.
3. There is a positive relationship between dimensions of organizational climate and organizational health and job performance.
4. There is a positive relationship between organizational climate and organizational health and job performance.

Key words: Organizational climate, organizational health,job performance

Seyed Ahmad Hashemi

Lamerd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Iran

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The present study aims to investigate the relation ship between organizational climate and organizational commitment and organizational effectiveness of the managers of the secondary schools in Fars. The research method is descriptive of correlational type and the statistical community consists of managers working in secondary school in the year 2012-2013 (1500 people). The sample size is 306 people based on Morgan tables. The managers were chosen randomly from a number of schools in Fars. Data collection tools were three questionnaires on Halbyn and Craft organizational climate (1963), Porter et al organizational commitment (1974), Fayol, Freedman, and Lailz (2001 were used which their reliability coefficient is 0.81 0.81, and 0.88, respectively. For data analysis, inferential statistic methods were used (Pearson correlation and multiple regression) using SPSS 19. The results othe study show that there is a significant relationship between organizational climate and commitment and effectiveness and also between support components cooperative and friendly and organizational commitment and also between instructional components and effectiveness. Moreover, threatening and collaborative dimensions have more ability to predict organizational commitment and supportive, instructional, and threatening dimensions have more ability in predicting the effectiveness.

Keywords: Organizational Climate, Organizational Commitment, Effectiveness, School Managers

Eisa Amiri , Seyed Ahmad Hashemi and Abolfazl Abbasi

Department of Education, Lamerd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Iran
Lamerd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Iran
Educational Management, Shiraz University, Iran

A.Abolfazl1369@yahoo.com

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The present research investigates the development of obstacles to the informational literacy of faculty member in Islamic Azad Universities, and presents the proposed methods to improve this skill. The present research appraises the technological, economic, cultural, structural and human obstacles in university environments. The present research is survey-descriptive and Statistical population consists of 2131 faculty members of region1 Islamic Azad Universities in 2011-2012. The sample consists of 325 professors based on Morgan’ s table. We selected them using cluster random sampling, so we selected several universities and appraised their professors. The data collected by a questionnaire that is made by researcher based on liker’s spectrum. This questionnaire was used after the determination of its validity by specialists and its stability was conformed using Cronbach Alpha coefficient (Alpha: 0.941). The analysis of data carried out using descriptive statistics methods (frequency, the percent of frequency, mean and standard deviation) and SPSS software. The results of research show that economic and technological obstacles are the most important obstacles of the informational literacy of faculty members.

Keywords: informational literacy, faculty member, region1 Islamic Azad Universities, information and communication technology