A Model of Main Challenges of Tehran Municipal Employees Productivity Enhancement: A Case Study of the Department of Urban and Environmental Services
Promoting productivity is an essential prerequisite for organizational survival in today's highly competitive and dynamic contexts. Hence, a vital managerial task concerns the efficient use of resources that can guarantee achievement of goals and attainment of predicted outcomes. A necessary c...
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doaj-4036492b6732455b8c70ddf6e2cffb782020-11-25T03:44:57ZfasIslamic Azad University, Tabriz Branchمدیریت بهره وری2716-99792476-72982019-11-01133(50) پاییز194910.30495/qjopm.2019.668703668703A Model of Main Challenges of Tehran Municipal Employees Productivity Enhancement: A Case Study of the Department of Urban and Environmental ServicesMehdi Rahmani0Vladimir Harutyunyan1Mehdi Mortazavi2Ali RajabZadeh Qatari3Ph.D. Graduate, Department of Management and Economics, Yerevan State University, Armenia.Professor of Management and Economics, Department of Management and Economics, Yerevan State University, ArmeniaAssociate Professor, Department of Management Studies, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, IranAssociate Professor of Management and Economics, Department of Management and Economics, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, IranPromoting productivity is an essential prerequisite for organizational survival in today's highly competitive and dynamic contexts. Hence, a vital managerial task concerns the efficient use of resources that can guarantee achievement of goals and attainment of predicted outcomes. A necessary condition for improving sustainable productivity is identification and optimizing challenges and issues that are closely associated with organizational productivity. Therefore, the current exploratory, applied and mixed-method study presents a model of the main problems in improving productivity among employees in Tehran Municipality. Initially, the data obtained from structured interviews with 10 human resource management experts in the field were analyzed via Theme Analysis and Structural Equation Modeling and the effective factors were coded and categorized as a model. Further, the model was operationally tested quantitatively using the views of 384 managers and experts in the Department of Urban and Environmental Services of Tehran Municipality. To this end, the three-layer confirmatory factor analysis was undertaken using the PLS software. The results of the data analysis showed five main categories of factors effecting employee productivity including individual, managerial, organizational, cultural and technological factors. Any improvement in the productivity of human resources in this organization relies on prerequisite enhancement of status quo of these factors.http://jpm.iaut.ac.ir/article_668703_1f4acc87496780d4b35669dc8543ee87.pdfcultural factorsindividual factorsmanagerial factorsorganizational factorsproductivityproductivity issuestechnological factors |
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Mehdi Rahmani Vladimir Harutyunyan Mehdi Mortazavi Ali RajabZadeh Qatari A Model of Main Challenges of Tehran Municipal Employees Productivity Enhancement: A Case Study of the Department of Urban and Environmental Services مدیریت بهره وری cultural factors individual factors managerial factors organizational factors productivity productivity issues technological factors |
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Mehdi Rahmani Vladimir Harutyunyan Mehdi Mortazavi Ali RajabZadeh Qatari |
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A Model of Main Challenges of Tehran Municipal Employees Productivity Enhancement: A Case Study of the Department of Urban and Environmental Services |
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A Model of Main Challenges of Tehran Municipal Employees Productivity Enhancement: A Case Study of the Department of Urban and Environmental Services |
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A Model of Main Challenges of Tehran Municipal Employees Productivity Enhancement: A Case Study of the Department of Urban and Environmental Services |
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A Model of Main Challenges of Tehran Municipal Employees Productivity Enhancement: A Case Study of the Department of Urban and Environmental Services |
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A Model of Main Challenges of Tehran Municipal Employees Productivity Enhancement: A Case Study of the Department of Urban and Environmental Services |
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model of main challenges of tehran municipal employees productivity enhancement: a case study of the department of urban and environmental services |
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Islamic Azad University, Tabriz Branch |
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Promoting productivity is an essential prerequisite for organizational survival in today's highly competitive and dynamic contexts. Hence, a vital managerial task concerns the efficient use of resources that can guarantee achievement of goals and attainment of predicted outcomes. A necessary condition for improving sustainable productivity is identification and optimizing challenges and issues that are closely associated with organizational productivity. Therefore, the current exploratory, applied and mixed-method study presents a model of the main problems in improving productivity among employees in Tehran Municipality. Initially, the data obtained from structured interviews with 10 human resource management experts in the field were analyzed via Theme Analysis and Structural Equation Modeling and the effective factors were coded and categorized as a model. Further, the model was operationally tested quantitatively using the views of 384 managers and experts in the Department of Urban and Environmental Services of Tehran Municipality. To this end, the three-layer confirmatory factor analysis was undertaken using the PLS software. The results of the data analysis showed five main categories of factors effecting employee productivity including individual, managerial, organizational, cultural and technological factors. Any improvement in the productivity of human resources in this organization relies on prerequisite enhancement of status quo of these factors. |
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cultural factors individual factors managerial factors organizational factors productivity productivity issues technological factors |
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