nowadays, organizations are trying to maximize productivity by groups, but the results are not always completely satisfactory thereby causing some problems for organizations such as social loafing. social loafing reduces motivation and effort in team work compared to individual work. this study intends to achieve the necessary mechanisms to reduce social loafing, and reviews the effect of perce...

The literature’s analysis has identified three social mechanisms explaining the similarity between people connected in the network of social relations: homophily, confounding and social contagion. The article proposes a model for simulating mechanisms responsible for similarity of attitudes in networks of social relations; along with a measure that is able to indicate which of the three mechani...

this research was conducted with the purpose of analyzing improvement mechanisms of human resource development (hrd) in agriculture faculties. this survey research was descriptive-explanatory. the population of this research consisted of all agricultural faculty members of iran universities (n=1178). data was collected using multi-stage random sampling method. finally, 248 questionnaires were c...

development in the social aspects of each society is a very important academic and practical field. in the information revolutionage, information and communication technologies are penetrating all levels of societies and have catalyzed the process of development in every country and encourage many scholars to study how these technologies affect the social, political and economic aspects of each...