Hamed Mohammadi
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The purpose of this study was to Employee perception analysis of the effectiveness of on-the-job training courses in Mazandaran Regional Water Company. To assess the educational courses’ effectiveness at the study company, Kirkpatrick's four-level model has been applied and the study questions ...
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The purpose of this study was to Employee perception analysis of the effectiveness of on-the-job training courses in Mazandaran Regional Water Company. To assess the educational courses’ effectiveness at the study company, Kirkpatrick's four-level model has been applied and the study questions have been formulated based on the very model. The tool to collect data has been interviewing some company managers and employees and the researcher built questionnaire which has been developed. The results show that Employee perceptions of the effectiveness of training courses in the three dimensions of reaction(3.45), learning(3.38) and behavior(3.25) in the company under study have a higher than average score, and then the calculated average results(2.75) are below average. In other words, it can be acknowledged that Employee perceptions of the effectiveness of the training courses were significantly higher than the average, but the findings regarding the results from the managers did not show a good effect.
Hamed Mohammadi
Abstract
The main purpose of this paper was to investigate and analyze the content of articles in the field of public administration in prestigious journals of this field in Iran. Selected public administration journals are research journals that carry out the mission of developing public administration knowledge ...
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The main purpose of this paper was to investigate and analyze the content of articles in the field of public administration in prestigious journals of this field in Iran. Selected public administration journals are research journals that carry out the mission of developing public administration knowledge in the Iran, inform which the present paper focused on Tehran University Public Administration Journal, Shahid Beheshti University Perspective Public Management Journal and Public Organization Management Journal of Payame Noor University. The present study applied content analysis method and the statistical population of this study consisted of 656 articles published in the selected journals between 2011 and 2018, using the census. Given the political nature of the field of public administration, the main finding of the present paper is that the selected journals should consider the political approach in producing articles to address issues facing government agencies and help improve the functioning of the country's administrative system, On the other hand, the findings of the study show that the articles produced in selected journals have shown the least attention to development management, comparative management, ethics and citizenship in administrative systems. The findings show that most articles have a applied purpose and have used statistical methods to analyze the data, while most articles have a positivist approach.
