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Purpose: One of the elements of success in each organization in achieving its goals is the competency of organization managers who can be effective in creating innovative behaviors. Therefore, the aim of this study is examination of the effects of the managers in training departments. Methodology: This paper has applied objective and descriptive-survey and correlational methodology. The statistical population of the study consisted of 355 managers of educational departments of Fars province universities. Using Morgan table, 185 people were selected by simple random sampling as case study. The data collection tool on dimensions of competency and entrepreneurial behavior was developed by a researcher-made questionnaire whose validity was measured by confirmatory factor analysis with factor load of more than 0.4 as well as face validity (expert approval) and reliability by Cronbach's alpha more than 0.7 (managers’ competency questionnaire with 0/93 and entrepreneurship behavior questionnaire with 0/87 validity). Findings: Data were analyzed by SPSS and PLS software. The composite validity amount, the extracted variance and factor load have been achieved based on modeling for elements of competency and entrepreneurship behaviors. Conclusion: The results of structural equation modeling showed that there is a meaningful relationship between dimensions of managers' competency including communicative skills, encouragement and innovation, leadership skills, applying professional positive capabilities, team empowerment and decision-making and entrepreneurial behavior.

Purpose: The purpose of the study was to examine teachers’ perceptions towards research by first investigating teachers’ conceptions about research and second, by examining the extent to which teachers read and do research. Methodology: To this end, the participants of the present study were 98 English language teachers from language institutes and schools. Utilizing Borg’s (2009) questionnaire, at first, the questionnaire responses were analyzed to determine the teachers’ view of research; in this section, the teachers were asked to point out to what extent they felt the activities described in 10 scenarios were or were not research. Findings: The results indicated that three scenarios were considered to be “probably research” and scenarios 4, 5 and 6 were regarded as “definitely research” by the participants. On the other hand, two scenarios were recognized as “definitely research”. The results of the second research question showed that among 98 English teachers only 24 teachers “often or sometimes” read published research which is a very high index. Teachers’ reasons for the answers to the second research question were lack of time, knowledge, access to resources, and institutional support. The findings of this research indicate that teachers’ conceptions of research are very near to conventional scientific theories. Only 12.2% of the teachers mentioned that they “do research”. Conclusion: the findings of the present study may be useful for teachers who want to promote their English teaching as such findings are suggested to improve their level of engagement in research activities, and consequently the quality of their research.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the dimensions and components of organizational agility based on human resource development to provide a model of organizational agility in the Islamic Azad University of Tehran. Methodology: The present study was a mixed type (quantitative and qualitative) and at the same time it was an applied research. In this regard, the statistical population of the study includes all employees of the Islamic Azad University of Tehran in 2015- 17, which was about 6735, and using Morgan table and Cochran's formula and multi-stage cluster sampling method and relative 386 employees of the university as The sample size was considered. Data collection method was based on a researcher-made questionnaire, research literature and semi-structured interviews. And Cronbach's alpha coefficient of research tool was calculated 0.919. After distributing and collecting the questionnaires, reviewing the information and testing the hypotheses was done using structural equation modeling and SPSS, LISREL software. Findings: Finally, the research findings confirmed the five dimensions, strategic, information technology, human, organizational and cultural, as dimensions affecting organizational agility based on human resource development. The results showed that the strategic dimension of the highest average and dimensions of information technology and human, organizational and cultural are in the next ranks. Finally, confirmatory factor analysis showed that the dimensions of organizational agility based on human resource development up to 71.282%, the variance of existing indicators of organizational agility based on human resource development explains. Conclusion: From the perspective of the studied sample, respectively, dimensions: strategic, information technology, human, organizational and cultural in the scale of measurement (1 to 4) have been important to a large extent and very much in organizational agility based on human resource development.