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INTRODUCTION: The present study aimed to locate new Red Crescent Society (RCS) road rescue and relief bases in the North Khorasan province in order to determine appropriate places for establishing new bases.
METHODS: In this research, first the desired criteria were selected based on previous researches and experts' comments on locating the RCS road rescue and relief bases. Then, the preparation and standardization of information layers were performed using the fuzzy method and Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP) method was used to weigh the criteria. Moreover, the combination of criteria was carried out by using the Weighted Linear Combination (WLC) method. Finally, new bases were located by taking into account the area and other criteria through satellite images.
FINDINGS: The results indicated that among all the sub-criteria, the distance from the accident-prone points had the most weight. After combining the criteria, highest priority and high-priority areas for locating RCS road rescue and relief bases were situated in the northwest, center, south, and east of the province. In this research, nine lots with a total area of 33864 square meters were located in the high-priority area.
CONCLUSION: Properly locating RCS road rescue and relief bases enhances their efficiency; therefore, the management will be able to provide a range of different services to citizens all over the country by taking appropriate measures.
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INTRODUCTION: Nowadays, quality as the heart of education has become the concern of education policymakers around the world. The present study was conducted with the aim of identifying and classifying factors for improving the quality of education in applied science higher education institutions in Tehran.
METHODS: This qualitative research was conducted by using qualitative content analysis. The statistical population includes articles, documents, and all the key informants of applied science higher education institutions in Tehran city. A total of 21 key informants were selected and studied using the purposive and snowball sampling method and maximum diversity technique. Data were collected by semi-structured interview, observation, review of documents and scientific texts and analyzed using MAXQDA-2022 and weighting of factors, criteria, and indicators with the Shannon entropy method and prioritization with RANK function in Excel. The validity of data was calculated by triangulation (examiner, methods and data) and reliability between two coders (0.72)
FINDINGS: The results demonstrated that the quality of education includes 33 factors.
CONCLUSION: Applied science higher education institutions are required to identify and improve the quality factors of education based on ethical, professional, competitive requirements, responsibility and accountability to the needs of students, parents and employers and attracting financial resources.
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INTRODUCTION: This study aims to present a model to explain the relationship between organizational virtue and three factors of organizational citizenship behavior, organizational justice, and organizational training in the Red Crescent Society (RCS) of Tehran province.
METHODS: This research is done based on standardized questionnaire. The questionnaire consists of four sections including a) Organ standard questionnaire for organizational citizenship behavior, b) the Niehoff standard questionnaire for organizational justice, c) Neefe standard questionnaire for organizational training, and d) Researcher-made questionnaire for organizational virtue. About 232 employees of the RCS in Tehran province were selected and studied during February to April 2023.
FINDINGS: The findings showed that organizational virtue have a significant and positive association with organizational citizenship behavior (coefficient=0.56), organizational training (coefficient=0.53) and organizational justice (coefficient=0.51) in the RCS of Tehran province.
CONCLUSION: According to the results, in order to promote and grow more and better the organizational virtue in the RCS of Tehran province, the officials should pay more attention to the improvement of all three variables of organizational citizenship behavior, organizational training and organizational justice among the employees.
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INTRODUCTION: Disasters are unavoidable situations that lead to financial and human losses. Iran due to its special situation is prone to natural and man-made disasters. Since hospitals face many injuries during disasters, managers must be prepared to deal with these conditions. Accordingly, this study aimed to determine the knowledge and attitude of public hospitals managers in Lorestan province about disaster preparedness.
METHODS: In this cross-sectional study, 158 senior managers of public hospitals in Lorestan province were selected by census method. The disaster preparedness knowledge and attitude questionnaire was completed by the respondents after the approval of the ethics committee and obtaining the necessary permits. Finally, data was analyzed with SPSS-21 and the significance level was P<0.05.
FINDINGS: According to the findings, mean score for knowledge of managers was 12.26 out of 25, and the mean attitude score was 66.18 out of 80. Among the studied variables, there was a significant relationship between age, disaster experience and knowledge. A significant relationship was also seen between the attitude and disaster experience. There was no significant relationship between knowledge, attitude and levels of management. Also there was no significant correlation between knowledge score and attitude.
CONCLUSION: The results showed that the knowledge of managers was moderate, and their attitude was good. Due to the important role of hospital managers during disasters, it is recommended that hold training courses in disaster preparedness, especially for young managers, to increase the .knowledge of healthcare managers, and trainings be held more practically.
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INTRODUCTION: The aim of this research is to provide a model for dealing with vandalism in sports environments in Iran.
METHODS: In this qualitative approach, grounded theory method was used. About 15 people were selected and studied including journalists, experts, sports managers and faculty members in the field of sport and sociology by using purposeful sampling based on the theoretical saturation. The data collected using semi-structured interview and analyzed in three stages of open, central and selective coding through Maxqda-2020 software.
FINDINGS: According to the findings, causal conditions have 3 main categories including cultural and social contexts and psychological fields, and 8 subcategories. The background conditions have 6 main categories such as sense of anomie, improper government performance, weak management, marginalization in the media, feelings of anger and frustration in the spectators and external factors, and 15 subcategories. The intervening conditions also have 4 main categories including managerial and technical factors, political and regulatory factors, legal and team performance and teams’ behavior, and 11 subcategories. Also, the strategies include 6 main categories and 18 subcategories, and finally, the consequences include 5 main categories and 14 subcategories.
CONCLUSION: The results show that sports and sports environments have not been as effective as they should be, therefore, sports planners and policy makers must take measures in an expert, codified and continuous manner to control and reduce this phenomenon.
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INTRODUCTION: Crisis is one of the issues of human societies; the management of each of its stages requires a crisis management strategy; therefore, the purpose of the present research is to explain a model for the implementation of earthquake crisis management strategy in Bahabad County, Iran.
METHODS: In this study qualitative- quantitative research, Grounded Theory method was used in qualitative part. The statistical population in the qualitative phase included 12 specialists and experts who were familiar with crisis management. In the quantitative phase, a total of 53 ones were studied by using a researcher-made questionnaire who were responsible in the institutions subject to Articles 2 and 10 of the crisis management law of the country approved by the Islamic Consultative Assembly of Iran. About 47 ones were selected based on Morgan's table. The inferential statistics such correlation coefficient, regression coefficient, and multivariate variance analysis was used to find the relationship between the variables.
FINDINGS: In the qualitative part, 21 categories were separated after the theoretical saturation resulting from interviews with specialists and experts and then in the quantitative phase, these categories were divided into questions. The analysis of the neural network indicated that the significance of the components of strategy implementation in predicting the mentioned model in Bahabad County, Iran, so that "leadership" had the most impact and "data production, update, and processing" had the least effect on the model prediction.
CONCLUSION: Based on the presented model, the strategy implementation components are operationalized in each of the pre-crisis, during-crisis and post-crisis stages correspondingly through the three processes, including "tool-making", "flow-making," and "institution-making." According to the results, by upgrading these processes, the feasibility of the proposed model will increase as well.
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INTRODUCTION: The most basic problems in the field of in-service training for employees of the Red Crescent Society (RCS) can be seen in cases such as training efficiency, improving the performance of employees through training, planning training courses and not matching the content of the courses with the training needs of employees. The aim of this research is to present an effective training model for the RCS staff of Zanjan province.
METHODS: In this mixed methods research, the statistical population in the qualitative section was 12 experts and managers of the RCS of Zanjan province who were selected by available sampling method and studied through semi-structured interviews. In the quantitative section, a researcher-made questionnaire was designed and distributed among the RCS staff of Zanjan province (132 ones) using a simple random sampling method after extracting components and indicators of interviews. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used for data analysis through SPSS-24 and Lisreal-8.8 software.
FINDINGS: The findings indicated that 6 dimensions, 22 components and 140 indicators were extracted.
CONCLUSION: According to the results, avoiding job alienation, cradle sleep in organizations, lack of sense of duty and lack of meaningful feeling in the courses of in-service training are the problems that cause the loss of emotional connection, and the RCS should achieve this by improving the level of awareness and behavioral class of its staff.
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INTRODUCTION: Ethical principles and objectives are the standard of professional behavior in all circumstances and are of greater importance and sensitivity in incidents and disasters. The aim of the present study was to investigate the ethical dimensions of community-based crisis management.
METHODS: In this qualitative-descriptive research, all aid workers of Red Crescent Society (RCS) in Fars province were studied in 2023 and a total of 32 ones was selected through random sampling and participated in a semi-structured interview. After analyzing and coding, the obtained data were checked using Maxqda-2020 in qualitative phase and a researcher-made questionnaire was designed based on the indicators. Then, in the inferential part, the obtained data were analyzed using Lisrel-8.8 software.
FINDINGS: According to the results, achieving the dimensions of human ethics in relief work including chastity and integrity, sacrifice and selflessness, confidentiality, trustworthiness, patience and forbearance, benevolence, preservation of human dignity, non-negligence, sense of responsibility, and cooperation with a significant coefficient of 0.000.
CONCLUSION: According to the results ethical principles are a prerequisite for the performance of aid workers in all crisis situations.
