This article presents a tool for evaluating whether living organ donor systems are exploitive or fair to donors. The exploitation/fair dealing scale introduced in this article relies on broadly accepted notions of exploitation and fair dealing from U.S. bioethics literature and U.S. jurisprudence. The 10‐factor/14‐point scale derived from those concepts is then applied to Iran as an illustrative example. It is our hope that the scale will be useful for evaluating living organ donor policies around the world.
In today's challenging and complex world, organizations success depends on productivity, continuous improvement in all dimensions and reforming the pattern of resource utilization. Therefore, organizations, while considering restrictions, should focus on the most effective factors or so-called critical success factors. This paper intends to identify and prioritize the critical success factors, among other, factors influencing success of the organization, using hierarchical analysis and application of tools and related software. Analytic Hierarchy Process provides the possibility to compare the factors via creating matrix of paired comparisons. The case study in this research includes identifying the critical success factors and prioritizing them in Iran Argham Company. Finally, among the results presented, five critical success factors are identified from the forty influential factors. These five factors account for about seventy percent of the organization's success. It should be noted that most studies conducted in this area focuse on the certain processes and special systems rather than study on the organization as a whole unit. This model can also be generalized to all organizations, including SMEs, and would provide remarkably valuable approaches, especially in competitive markets. Keywords: key success factors, strategic management, critical success factors, AHP. JEL Classification: M10, M14, L21, C44
El objetivo del estudio fue predecir la autoeficiencia en el desempeño familiar en niñas de estudiantes de secundaria. El diseño fue un estudio correlacional-descriptivo y la población estadística estuvo compuesta por todas las alumnas de secundaria de Shiraz en el año académico 2016-2017. 150 estudiantes fueron seleccionadas por muestreo de conglomerados. Los instrumentos fueron el cuestionario del dispositivo de evaluación familiar y el de autoeficacia de Scherer. Se utilizó el software SPSS para analizar los datos. Los resultados de la correlación de Pearson indicaron una relación positiva y significativa entre los aspectos de las subescalas de desempeño familiar y la autoeficacia. El análisis de regresión múltiple mostró que las dimensiones de la resolución de problemas, la comunicación, la participación afectiva, el control del comportamiento y el desempeño principal pueden predecir de manera positiva y significativa las autoeficiencias.
Speeches articulated by politicians are often vehicles towards achieving their ultimate goals. That's why there is always tendency to find out the potential ideologies indicated by the discursive strategies and rhetorical devices which these politicians employ to express their political viewpoints. This study adopted a critical discourse analysis (CDA) approach to cognitively analyze the typical discursive characteristics underlying Iranian and American presidents' speeches at the UNGA (2013). The findings revealed that the most frequent of the strategies employed by Obama were polarization, self-glorification, positive self-presentation, negative-other presentation and victimization while the most prominent ones used by Rouhani were metaphor, vagueness, negative-other presentation and national self-glorification. The intricate, undeniable relationships existing between language, power and ideology is also what had been clear through the analysis of the lectures transcription.
Purpose – The purpose of this study is to identify and rank the effective factors on customer values from the perspective of banking customers.
Design/methodology/approach – This study is a practical and descriptive survey. In order to rank the factors affecting customer values, a fuzzy analytical hierarchical process has been used. The data were gathered through Delphi method and questionnaires.
Findings – The results of this study indicate that the factors affecting customer values include costs, relational benefits, brand perceptions, and services quality. These factors influence customer values, respectively. The results also indicate that financial costs among costs, operational benefit among relational benefits, trust in employee behavior in customer brand perceptions, and finally confidence in service quality dimensions have the highest priority.
Research limitations/implications – The proposed model and research findings will greatly help researchers and practitioners understand the factors influencing customer value using a fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) in the banking industry.
Originality/value – In this study, for the first time, factors influencing customer value are studied by using a FAHP in the banking industry. The use of this method in this study has a certain authenticity.
