introduction: one of the reasons for the maintenance of each organization to increase its productivity is having the consistency in values and beliefs and its overall organizational culture. therefore, for any organization that seeks to achieve some kind of advantage, it must be ensured to the existing organizational culture and also, attention to practical solutions for creating coherence in i...

To the extent that knowledge is the most strategically important resource for sustainable competitive advantage, organizations must consciously and systematically manage their knowledge asset. In this paper, we explore how social media and social capital at the organizational level help organizations benefit from their knowledge management initiatives in turn improving organizational knowledge ...

We examined the role of social embeddedness in creating positive perceptions of organizational support among managerial and staff employees (n= 72) of a large manufacturing firm. We operationalized social embeddedness as the size, density, and quality of employees’ networks of multiplex, reciprocated exchange relationships with colleagues. After controlling for support from supervisors and uppe...

This paper proposes the use of cognitive schemata to model metacognitive social phenomena, characterizing the reciprocity between micro and macro dimensions in an organization. The main idea that rationalizes this research is that explicit modeling of social cognitive constructs might improve the understanding of organizational culture and learning processes. In this sense, organizational actor...

In this paper, we study relation and impact of social capital on organizational commitment among staffs of Islamic Azad University, Branch of Ayatollah Amoli. The data required were collected by using field (survey) research method and the questionary tool. Statistical population was included 152 subjects that 108 subjects were selected based on Morgan table. The descriptive results show that c...

the aim of this study was to investigate relationship between social capital and organizational excellence. initially, about excellence, history and the concept of social capital and its components are described. then, the organizational approach to social capital was examined and the impact of social capital on organizational performance was evaluated. on the basis of the conceptual model, the...

This thesis explains grassroots implementations of decision support systems by project teams implementations driven by the members of a project team working at the operational level from the perspectives of the three main stakeholders that are involved in managing the life-cycle of a decision support system: project team members, technology managers of project-based companies, and developers of...

one of the organizations’ concerns is their awareness about the degree of readiness for implementing social intranet. in response to this problem, a 48 item questionnaire was developed. fars regional electric company consisting of 820 human resources was selected as statistical population. by systematic random method, 262 personnel were determined as sample and the developed questionnaire were ...