this study is aimed at investigating the impact of training moral, spiritual and cultural intelligence on the dimensions of women’s familial functioning. the research method is quasi-experimental with a pretest-posttest design and a control group. the population consisted of all the women attending counseling centers in islamabad gharb, iran in the year 2014. using the availability sampling tec...

the purpose of this research was develop a structural equation model based on the classification of managers' communication skills and cultural intelligence in isfahan sports organizations. hence this study method was structural equation modeling. the study population consisted of isfahan’s sport managers. in this research 550 sport manager’s as a statistical society was considered. the sa...

Article history: Received 13 December 2012 Received in revised form 11 October 2013 Accepted 11 October 2013 Available online 4 November 2013 While a large body of research has examined the outcomes of emotional intelligence, relatively little is known about the antecedents of emotional intelligence. Prior research suggests that emotional intelligence has different effects on management outcome...

nowadays, organizations need the tools which identify,gather and analyze the required information from the externalenvironment in order to use the obtained intelligence in makingstrategic decisions. in this regard, the organizational externalintelligence provides the analyzed information for the organizationaldecisions. despite the effectiveness and importance of these tools (i.e.the organizati...

the primary objective of this research is to evolve “a model for organizational intelligence in iranian universities”. based on the literature review, the dimensions and components of organizational intelligence in public universities were identified using expert panel opinions and delphi technique. a novel model for organizational intelligence in iranian universities is investigated by using d...

Cultural psychology ultimately aims to increase intercultural understanding, but it has also been accused of reifying stereotypes. Can learning about cultural psychology research cause students to increase their cultural sensitivity, or does it increase stereotyped and rigid thinking about cultural others? Students in an undergraduate cultural psychology course (N = 34) were compared to student...

This study was designed to explore the relation pattern of cultural intelligence, cultural identity, autonomy, and self-efficacy and second language achievement of Iranian EFL learners. The participants were 247 undergraduate students. Data were collected nationwide, from different parts of Iran; that is, from Kerman, south of Iran; Hamadan, west of Iran; Mashhad, east of Iran; and Gorgon, nort...

the advent of new information technology has radically changed the end-user computing environment over the past decade. to enhance their management decision-making capability, many organizations have made significant investments in business intelligence (bi) systems. in order to achieve increased and sustainable business results, organizations need to use suitable strategy to engage personnel. ...

The process of globalization entails the acquisition of a construct, cultural intelligence, with which EFL students can function appropriately in intercultural situations. This study was, first, intended to find the relationship between cultural intelligence and the use of expressions of gratitude by Iranian EFL learners. Second, it sought to determine whether there were any significant differe...