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The aim of present study is to identify the characteristics of human resource management with a strategic thinking approach in the Organization for the Collection and Sale of Proprietary Property in Iran. In terms of aim, the present study is an exploratory study based on semi-structured interviews, and in terms of results, it is developmental. The statistical population of the study included executive experts who were fully familiar with the Organization for the Collection and Sale of Proprietary Property. The sampling method in the qualitative section was snowball sampling. A total number of 15 managers and officials of the Organization for the Collection and Sale of Proprietary Property of Iran, including members of the Board of Directors, consultants and managers, and deputies and heads of departments was selected in this section. The first step involved identifying human resource management indicators with a strategic thinking approach through interviews with experts and qualitative data analysis (thematic analysis). Also, to confirm the extracted themes and check the reliability of the interviews and reach a consensus on the extracted themes, a questionnaire was designed based on the findings of the thematic analysis and completed by experts and fuzzy Delphi analysis was performed. Based on results of research regarding the indicators for human resource management with a strategic thinking approach in the Organization for the Collection and Sale of Proprietary Property, five main indicators, including situational factors, stakeholders’ group, and selection of human resource policy, achievements and long-term results were identified.

The paper offers a distinctive reading of Popper’s work, suggesting that his Logic of Scientific Discovery (LScD) might be re-interpreted in the light of his Open Society. Indeed, Popper can be interpreted as criticising certain aspects of his first book, and as a result improving upon them, in his second. It suggests translating what Popper says about ‘conventions’ into his later vocabulary of ‘social institutions’. Looking back, I believe that Popper never intended the language of conventions and decisions to be read individualistically. I remain unsure whether Popper was himself quite as clear about this as he could have been.  My reading makes Popper a pioneer in the sociology of science. Scientific institutions are arenas of political power; but Popper did not discuss the structure and inter-relations of the social institutions of science, or offer a politics of science in the context of his methodology. What is missing from the skeletal sociology of LScD is the politics. We could put it in Popperian terms this way: scientific institutions are both open and closed. They are closed, firmly, to the inexpert, to the non-members; supposedly they are open to the qualified, provided the prerogatives of seniority and leadership are acknowledged. Despite these shortcomings, Popper’s critical and rational approach and his insistence on openness and intellectual honesty are still important today.

In this paper, I address the issue of the possible applicability of the ideas of Karl R. Popper’s social and political philosophy in the contemporary political life of postcolonial countries. Through reference to the reception of Popper’s philosophy in Central and Eastern Europe, I argue that Popper’s writings were effective in catalysing the political wholesale transformation by undermining Marxists’ pretensions to scientific status rather than through his anti-utopian and anti-revolutionary political recommendations. In the context of attempts to apply Popper’s ideas in postcolonial countries, especially Sub-Saharan Africa, I claim that the influence of Popper’s social thought on the politics of those countries may not be as effective as expected or desired.