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Purpose: Alienation has a great impact on the performance of people. Therefore, the current research was conducted with the aim of identifying the dimensions and components of alienation. Methodology: This study was applied in terms of purpose and qualitative in terms of implementation method. The research community included the experts on the alienation of Isfahan city in 2021, and according to the principle of theoretical saturation, 20 of them (employees of government organizations) were selected as a sample using targeted and snowball sampling methods. The research tools consisted of a demographic information form and semi-structured interviews, which the validity of the interviews was obtained by the verification methodology and the reliability of the collected codes was 0.88 obtained through the two-week retest method. Data were analyzed with open, interactive and selective coding methods in MAXQDA software. Findings: Data analysis showed that alienation had 205 indicators, 29 components and 7 dimensions. The dimensions included extra-organizational alienation (with 5 components of dehumanization at work, cultural and social anomie, effects and values of industrial society, social alienation and cultural beliefs), organizational alienation (with 13 components of weakness in talent management, weakness of organizational socialization, unprofessional and weak managers, Organizational alienation, weak interpersonal communication, tension and conflict in the organization, weak rules and regulations, inefficient monitoring and control system, organizational disorder, organizational culture based on construction, corruption and rentier-seeking, autocratic management style and powerlessness at work), job alienation ( with 4 components of sense of meaninglessness at work, lack of job motivation, ambiguity in roles, duties, job and organizational frustration), individual alienation (with 4 components of inability to work, low self-esteem, psychological disorders and lack of employees ethics), unfavorable behavioral and organizational attitudes (with 1 component), job fatigue (with 1 component) and aversion to work (with 1 component). Conclusion: The identified dimensions and components for alienation can have many practical implications for specialists and organizational planners who can design and implement programs based on the identified dimensions and components to reduce employee alienation.

Given that social institutions are the basis of any society, they must ideally operate in unison with functional necessities for any society to function and then flourish. The plethora of issues confronting Nigeria as a country may be traced back to weak, incompetent, and dysfunctional social institutions that have failed to alter the status quo. According to Talcott Parsons, society is analogous to the human body, and in order for the body to thrive, all of its elements must collaborate. For Nigeria to advance, all social institutions, including family, school, religion, politics, and the economy, must work together to create repeatable results. It is against this background that this paper sought to examine the role of family structure in Nigeria and their pro-activeness in propelling national development. Literature was extensively reviewed from relevant publications and journals and it revealed that the family structure in Nigeria is gradually becoming weak and dysfunctional. This is attributed to a lot of changes that are taking place in the institution of family which quite often poses a threat to the very survival of family system universally. It was then concluded that there is need for every family to hold with uttermost importance the place or morals, socialization and regulation of individual member of the family’s behaviour.

Purpose: The current research was conducted with the aim of designing the national identity curriculum model for the second elementary school. Methodology: According to the nature and scope of the research, various qualitative methods were used to achieve the research objectives, which include: a) grounded theory, to design the national identity curriculum model in the elementary school; b) Thematic analysis method to determine the characteristics of elements of national identity in primary school textbooks to achieve the curriculum model of national identity. In part A, the community was studied by experts in the field of national identity, including experts in social sciences and educational sciences and upper education documents. The method of gathering information from experts was through semi-structured interviews with 36 teachers and experts. Also, the interviews were conducted based on the grounded theory in three stages of open, central, and selective coding, and the obtained concepts were classified into categories and subcategories. Findings: National identity curriculum model was presented in two dimensions of why and the necessity of national identity curriculum and how national identity curriculum in the form of a conceptual model, including the necessity and need (needs assessment), goals (general goal and partial goals), content (principles of content organization, content selection), teaching methods, learning, teacher's role, and evaluation methods. Conclusion: Among the features of this model, we can refer to being native, attention to individual, social, ethnic and national characteristics, being scientific, simplicity, originality, educational outlook and active approach in teaching and learning.