West Azerbaijan

Purpose: The aim of this study was to predict the effective variables of empowerment on human resource efficiency of the Sports and Youth Organization of West Azerbaijan Province using the TOPSIS technique. Methodology: The method of the present study was descriptive-analytical, applied. The statistical population of the study, in the first part included the experts of the sports and youth departments of West Azerbaijan province in the winter and spring of 1397-1397 and in the second part all the employees of the sports and youth departments of West Azerbaijan province. In the first part of the research, the researcher ranked the research options with a survey of 15 experts and in the second part, using Morgan table, 150 people were estimated as a research sample, which was done by random sampling among the staff of the Sports and Youth Department of Azerbaijan province. It was western. In the first part, with the exploratory approach and extraction of components, 8 indicators and 39 items were extracted, which were used for design in the model design stage, and in this part, according to the sample size, which was less than 200. In this study, in order to describe the data from descriptive and inferential statistics and from TOPSIS statistical software for the best and worst desired situation in evaluating the options, SPS24 and the partial least squares technique with the help of Smart Cup software. S2 was used. Findings: The results showed that 8 extracted indicators (organizational culture, 0.79, organizational support 0.76, technical factors 0.74, individual factors 0.653, job-related factors 0.646, educational factors 0.60, Systemic factors (0.495 and environmental factors (0.367, respectively) indicated empowerment and productivity of human resources from the perspective of respondents. Conclusion: Empowering employees on organizational performance of employees significantly increases organizational performance.

Purpose: The spread of consumption in this day and age has gone so far that today it is considered an indicator of lifestyle and even some  find modern life without consumption meaningless and unthinkable. In this regard, since the consumption of smuggled cosmetics in West Azerbaijan province has an increasing trend, so in this study, the communicative and social determinants and factors affecting the consumption of smuggled cosmetics in West Azerbaijan province are investigated.Method: The research method is an applied type as regards purpose and has been carried out using a survey method.  The statistical population includes citizens over 15 in West Azerbaijan province, 674 of whom have been selected by multi-stage cluster sampling. Data was collected using a questionnaire and research variables are above 0.7, which indicates the acceptable reliability of the variables. Statistical data analysis was done using SPSS and Lisrel software.Findings: The findings showed that the consumption of smuggled cosmetics and toiletry products is more than average among the respondents and the use of domestic media is less than average and the use of foreign and virtual media is above average. The results of explanatory analyses in the quantitative phase of the research showed  the variables of gender (in favor of women), socio-economic status (in a positive direction), rate of using internal media (in a negative direction), rate of using external media (in a positive direction), The use of virtual media (in a positive direction), health literacy (in a negative direction) and tendency towards differentiation (in a positive direction) have a significant impact on the consumption of smuggled cosmetics and toiletries. It is explained that the impact of foreign and virtual media is greater than other variables.Conclusion: As a result of lack of content management and inaccuracy in advertising in the virtual sector and social media, the possibility of emergence and escalation of social issues and all kinds of deviant trends related to consumerism in the field of cosmetics and toiletry products increases. Also, domestic mass media can be effective in reducing the consumption of cosmetics by not broadcasting commercial advertisements at intervals.

The present study seeks to examine whether the measurement of political and social participation is effective on political trust in the elections in the province of West Azerbaijan from 2011 to 2019? It seeks to examine the hypothesis that there is a significant relationship between civic participation, forgiveness and the spirit of volunteerism, political participation and religious participation with political trust. Survey research method was used to test the hypotheses; The statistical population of this study includes all citizens of West Azerbaijan province, both men and women (urban and rural); Who are over the age of 18 and are eligible to vote by law. According to the latest information and statistics of the Management and Planning Organization of West Azerbaijan Province, there are 2,284,359 (two million two hundred and eighty-four thousand three hundred and fifty-nine) people. In this study, simple random sampling method was used and 384 samples were selected. Research questionnaires have been prepared from standard questionnaires in two parts related to dependent variable (political trust) and independent variable (social and political participation). The inferential statistics method used in this section includes tests such as: factor analysis test, Pearson correlation coefficient test, regression test, path analysis test. To analyze the data of the present study, SPSS software version 24 was used and according to the results of the research, the research hypotheses were confirmed.