in new management approaches, in the organizations with inflexible structure, existing of red tapes and interruptions caused by limitations and also non-compliance with environmental changes, create demotivation among staff. with regard to the influence of job motivational potential and its relationship to the type of organizational structure( enabling and dissuasive), the goal of this research...

the major aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between iq, eq and test format in the light of test fairness considerations. this study took this relationship into account to see if people with different eq and iq performed differently on different test formats. to this end, 90 advanced learners of english form college of ferdowsi university of mashhad were chosen. they were ask...

abstract previous studies on willingness to communicate (wtc) have shown the influence of many individual or situational factors on students’ tendency to engage in classroom communication, in which wtc has been viewed either at the trait-level or situational level. however, due to the complexity of the notion of willingness to communicate, the present study suggests that these two strands are ...

this exploratory study aimed to investigate a possible relationship between learners’ beliefs about language learning and one of their personality traits; that is,locus of control (loc). both variables, beliefs and locus of control, are assumed to influence the language learning process. the internal control index (ici) and the beliefs about language learning inventory (balli) were administered...

  The Ef fect of Microwave Radiation Emitted by Mobile Phones on Human Short Term Memory     S.M.J. Mortazavi [1] , M. Nazer [2] , A.R. Sayyadi 2 , H. Karimi [3]     Received: 15/08/07 Sent for Revision: 26/10/08 Received Revised Manuscript: 26/11/08 Accepted: 11/01/09     Background and Objectives : The widespread use of cell phones has made the researchers focus on its health effects. However...

Abstract: Introductin: The purpoe of this study was to study of the effectiveness of training program based on acceptance and commitment approach on motivational beliefs and future time perspective for students with academic self-defeating behaviors in valiasr University of Rafsanjan. Method: The research was a semi-experimental design with pre-test and post-test design with control group. ...

until now many studies have been done over recent decades throughout the world to show the right age to start english. in iran, research is still at an early stage in terms of evaluating teachers’ beliefs about teaching children english. the problem of at what age to start teaching english and how to teach english to elementary school children has not been solved neither in this country nor els...