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Ali Ahmadi Firoozjaei, Hasan Sedighi, Mohamad Ali Mohamadi,
Volume 6, Issue 23 (1-2007)
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Objectives: This study is to analyze which factors of social capital are more effective than others to ease and accelerate cooperation among members of Rural Production Cooperative in order to implement rural developmental programs in Mazandaran province of Iran. Method: This was a descriptive- correlation study is a survey type. The population in the study consisted of 5746 farmers in Mazandaran province, By a proportional stratified random sampling technique, 362 farmers of the population were chosen as our sample. A questionnaire was designed to gather data needed for the study. Finding: The finding of this study indicates that, there was a significant difference between members and non- members regarding bridging social capital components. Exchange of information between communities, trust to institutions, measure of awareness and formal relationship networks were the most important factors that distinguish two groups and make 71.2 % of population distinctive. Result: This reaearch shows that Members of Rural Production Cooperative have more bridging social capital than non-members.


Khalil Kalantari, Ali Asadi, Mehdi Rahimian, Yasser Mohammadi, Alireza Ansari, Abdolhassan Torfi,
Volume 11, Issue 42 (10-2011)
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Introduction: The aim of this study is to analyze the rate of social capital in rural production cooperatives and analysis of its related factors. Method: The statistical population of the study consists of 2820 members of 18 rural production corporations of Koohdasht County in Lorestan province which from 93 people were selected using Cochran formula. In order to increase the accuracy of the data, 100 members were selected by two-stage random sampling technique and were interviewed. The reliability of the main scales of the questionnaire was confrmed as Cronbach alpha coefficients were above 0.70. The questionnaire was validated through getting the comments and opinions of some faculty members and cooperative experts. Finally, the data were analyzed using SPSS (version 11.5). the Findings: There are significant differences between two with high and low social capital in the gender, marital situation, literacy level, income level, whole of land under ownership, membership precedence in corporation, cooperative principals , participation knowledge of production in productive activities, participation in decision-making meetings and participation in performed training periods. Conclusion: according to results of stepwise Discriminate Analysis, 5 variables of matrimony situation, whole of land under ownership, membership precedence in cooperative, knowledge of cooperative principals, and participation in productive activities, discriminated two groups with high and low social capital in the best way.
Ali Rabiee, Mohammad Taghi Amini, Zahra Pirayesh,
Volume 13, Issue 51 (1-2014)
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  Introduction: Duo to development in information and communication technology, Teleworking is an increasing interest to the organizations, to take advantage of its extensive benefits such as reduce commuting, performance improvement, and improve the balance between professional responsibilities and personal commitments of employees, and subsequently to obtain the benefits of balancing work-life. present article, while explain the relationship between Teleworking and improve the balance between work and Social life, The Factors affecting the successful implementation of Teleworking, such as Willingness of employees to Teleworking adoption, managers support of Teleworking, and the level of prepared needed resources for Teleworking have been investigated too, and the benefits of improving work-Social life balance caused by the use of Teleworking for organization and employees, such as having more stable workforce for the organization, and creating training opportunities and Career Development for the employees have been identified.

  Method: In this study, survey method is used. Statistical population, have been included Teleworker and non-Teleworker employees of Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare, which 297 questionnaires were completed by them. Collected data were analyzed by SPSS software, and the final results of the research questions were derived using single-sample t- test . To compare the views of Teleworker and non-Teleworker staffs, Independent-Sample t- test is used.

  Findings: The findings of this study indicate that, Teleworking would improve the balance between employees’ work and social life. The research results show that the organization’s employees are willing to adopt Teleworking, and necessary resources for Teleworking implementation are available, but organization’s managers are not supportive of Teleworking. The findings indicate that improve the balance between work and social life caused by the use of Teleworking, would help the organization to have more stable workforce, and also would help the employees to use training opportunities and Career Development. There is a significant association between “gender” and “education level” and improve the balance between work and social life caused by the use of Teleworking.

  Discussion: Retention of Staffs and maintaining organizational capital is one of the biggest challenges for Human Resource professionals. Also, employees are seeking to promote their academic and professional development. Adoption and implementation of Teleworking program in organizations, and improve the balance between work and social life, as one of the Teleworking adoption indicators, makes the organization and employees will benefit from its advantages, such as help to maintain the organization's workforce, and help to employees benefit from training opportunities and career development. This fact makes clear need to continue to use this new way of working.



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