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The present research examines the relationship between managers’ strategic thinking and employees’ resistance to preplanned changes in Telecommunications Company of Golestan Province. The research is a descriptive correlational study. The data were collected using two separate questionnaires including a ‘researcher-developed strategic thinking questionnaire’, and a ‘standard resistance to change questionnaire’. The reliability coefficients of the abovementioned questionnaires are 0.82 and 0.86, respectively. Cronbach’s Alpha test was used to measure the reliability coefficients. The content validity of the questionnaires was confirmed by asking for the opinions of strategic management, change management and organizational beha
Recent research on leadership has proven that self-awareness is an important factor influencing leadership. Having used an empirical research methodology, Avolio and Gardner espoused a comprehensive definition of self-awareness; they like other positivists, in general, assume empirical science to be the only valid scientific method for the study of self-awareness. Despite positivists’ beliefs and assumptions (ontology and epistemology) that science is a value-free enterprise, Avolio and Gardner consider morals and ethics as foundational resources for achieving self-awareness, thereby injecting values into studies of self-awareness. In our opinion, although Avolio and Gardner endeavored to explain self-awareness comprehensively, using stri
Recent leadership approach in the West affirms that the main factor for an effective leader is his personal exaltation and achievements called personal development process (PDP). Authentic leadership theory (AUT) is the main theory discussing PDP. PDP is the main factor affecting the behavior and actions of the leader and his followers. This process leads to successful leadership and productivity in our changeable world. This article aims to seek an answer to the challenges of authentic leadership theory from the perspective of Allameh Tabatabai. According to Allameh Tabatabai, empirical science is not enough to acquire knowledge about personal development. Also, moral/ethical foundations are not the only resources of the development proces
Current scientific approaches consider empirical science to be the only scientific method for achieving self-awareness. However, Western contributors could not provide a complete empirical explanation in spite of their endeavour. According to Islamic philosophers, especially Mulla Sadra and the like, when man sees only his immediate surrounding and imprisons himself within the limitations of selfishness, he cannot achieve his complete existence and attain perfection in the Truth. For Mulla Sadra and the like, man first gains the knowledge of God then he gains theknowledge of himself. Having inherited from previous Islamic philosophers,'Allamah Tabataba'i argued that man gains the knowledge of God and absorbs in the Truth in the cradle of so
The morale and emotional behavior of a manager has an important effect on organizational climate. Research shows that more than 70% of employees' perceptions of organizational climate result directly from a manager's morale and behavior, which stimulates employees' morale, emotions, and behaviors. The aim of this research is to study the relation between the emotional intelligence of managers and the organizational climate they create. Thirty managers were randomly selected as a sample, and the emotional intelligence of each manager and their organizational climates were measured by questionnaires using a 360-degree feedback approach. The managers' results were compared with those from another 140 supervisors, peers, and Regression analyses
Emotional intelligence refers to understanding and recognition of oneself and others' abilities, perception and attitudes. This mental ability has an important influence on other abilities (especially leadership) of a manager. In this essay, we consider two issues which emotional intelligence can have effect on.First, behavior of a manager has an influence on staffs' perceptions and attitudes which create organizational climate. Organizational climate is a perspective of outward features of a culture, resulted from employees' perceptions and attitudes in a special course of time. Great organizational climate improves efficiency of organization; great organizational climate decreases costs of turn over and health problems. Scientists believe