This paper reviews the role and importance of small-scale industries together with the issue of occupational health problems and their causes in Iranian hand-woven carpet industry as a typical informal small-scale industry in an industrially developing country. The objective of this paper is to review health risk factors and related occupational health and ergonomic problems in the carpet indus...

Agricultural sector accounts for about 1/3 of the Iranian GDP and 1/4 of the country workforce. More than 90% of the Iranian food requirements are produced in the country. Animal agriculture covers over 40% of the agricultural activities. More than 57% of the available animal units in the country are sheep and goats. Desertification, deforestation, water shortage, erosion, low efficiency and ou...

Aluminium is the world’s second most-used metal after steel and the aluminium production industry is the largest, in volume of metal produced, in non-ferrous metal industry. In this study, results of the material flows (country and global scales) related to the production and use of aluminium and energy consumption in 1980 to 2012 were separately analysed. Also, overview of the current status o...

Aerospace industry is a value-added and technology integrated industry. Sheet metal parts are important portion of aerostructures. The sheet metal production line combines five different routing types together. This study tries to make a comparison between job shop layout and cellular layout with lean concept. According to precedence diagram of sheet metal fabrication process, the model and mea...

dynamic game theory is applied to analyze the timber market in northern iran as a duopsony. the nash equilibrium and the dynamic properties of the system based on marginal adjustments are determined. when timber is sold, the different mills use mixed strategies to give sealed bids. it is found that the decision probability combination of the different mills follow a special form of attractor an...

the iranian banking sector has undergone huge and substantial reform in the last decade; privatization, establishment of private banks and development of modern technologies (it). this paper investigates the competitive condition of the iranian banking industry over the period 2005-2010 using the h-statistic proposed by panzar and rosse. the properties of this non-structural methodology make it...

Talent Management is one of the most recent development in HRM which many human resource specialists in the world are working on it. Successful implementation of TM has a great impact on strategic human resource management. Iranian oil industry, with its considerable economic and technological importance, has a great capability to use this system.  In this paper, based on deep interview with oi...