Assessment Of Structural Factors And Environmental Non-Governmental Organizations Performance, From Member Viewpoints: Case Of Khuzestan Province

Document Type : Research Paper

Author

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to assess structural factors and environmental non-governmental organizations performance. It is a descriptive – surveying. Statistical Population was consisted of all members of environmental non- governmental organizations in Khuzestan province (N=359), using Cochran formula, 90 members were chosen and examined through the proportional stratified random sampling method. The instrument validity confirmed by faculty members of university of Tehran and its reliability was measured by Cronbach's Alpha coefficient. Research findings showed that all components including organizational structure, organizational culture, financial resources, organizational learning and leadership had significant positive correlation with organizational performance. Results of regression analysis indicated that variables of organizational culture and financial resources explained 64.2 percent of variance in organizational performance

Keywords

References

  1. Amini, F. (1999). Investigation of the role of environmental nongovernmental organizations in achieving Public participation in order to protect the environment and provide strategies to improve,  Master's thesis,  Department of Environment, Tehran university, (In Farsi)
  2. Allameh, M. & Moghadami, M. (2009). Investigating Relationship between organizational learning and organizational performance; the case of study: units the driving force of  Iran khodro company .  journal of administrative management, 10(1), 75-100 (In Farsi)
  3. Ahmadi, A. & Hajinejad, A. (2010). The environment destruction is obstacle for sustainable development. 4th international congress Islamic world Geographers.
  4. Abdel-Kader, M., & Billy, W. (2011). Performance Management in NGOs: Evidence from Kenya, available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract, pp1-33
  5. Chaharsogh Amin, H & Daraei, SH. (2002). Explaining the importance of NGOs in  Conservation, restoration, development and sustainable exploitation of natural resources. 55, 19-25. (In Farsi)
  6. Dukell, J., & Edet, G. (2012). Organizational culture as a determinant of Non-Governmental Organization performance: primer evidence from Nigeria. International Business and Management, 4(1), 66-75.
  7. Elenkov, D. (2000). Effects of leadership on organizational performance in Russian companies. Journal  Business  research 5, 467-480.
  8. Faghihi, A. A. & Paktinat , A.  (2006). Affecting factors of effectiveness of iran youth  non -governmental organizations and presentation a effective method.   Management extensional scientific journal , 3(3) (In Farsi)  
  9. Faham, E., Mokhtarnia, M., Darvish, A. K., & Rezvanfar, A. (2008). Member opinion of  non -governmental organizations natural resources about fields Participation in extension and development of natural resources. Iranian Agricultural Extension and Education Journal 3(2), 85-95. (In Farsi)
  10. Hedjazi, Y., & Arabi, F. (2009). Factors Influencing Non Government Organizations’ Participation in Environmental Conservation. International Journal of  Environmental Research, 3(1):129-13
  11. Kazemi, M.  (1999). Recognition of non-governmental organizations: designing conceptual model of efficient management of resources with the participation of NGOs. Administrative and Development Conference, 4-32. (In Farsi)
  12. Kuang Chi, H., Ren Yeh, H.  & Huei Yu,  C. (2008). The effects of transformation leadership, organizational culture, job satisfaction on the organizational performance in the non-profit organizations. International Journal of Business and Management, 427 – 440.
  13. Lahijanian , A. A., Arjmandi,  R., Moharramnejad,  N., & Jamshidi  Delju, M. (2010). Investigating structure and performance of environmental non- governmental organizations and their roles in civic development process in Tehran province. Environment technology and sciences, 12(3)  (In Farsi).
  14. Moghimi, S., & Alambeigi, A. (2012).  Organizational learning as the requirement of forming entrepreneurship in environmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Iran.  International Journal of  Environmental Research, 6(2):409-416
  15. MacIndoe, H., & Barman, E. (2013).  Non profit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly How Organizational Stakeholders Shape Performance Measurement in Nonprofits: Exploring a Multidimensional Measure, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 42(4), 716 –738
  16. Namazi, M. B., Arjomandnia, A., mohtashami, H., akhtari, s. h., Abbas Gholizadeh, M.,  Motiee, N., Mohajerani,  M., & Mahdavi, H. (2000). Non-governmental organizations in the Islamic republic in Iran: a situation analysis. UNDP-Iran Technical papers. (In Farsi).
  17. Nasirpour, A., Gohari, M. R., & Moradi , S.( 2010). The relationship of centralization, organizational culture and performance indexes in teaching hospitals affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Acta Med Iran, 48(5), 326-31.
  18. Peterson, W., Gijsbers, G., & Wilks, M. (2003). An Organizational Performance Assessment System for Agricultural Research Organizations: Concepts, Methods, and Procedures, International Service for National Agricultural Research, pp 1-56
  19. Tavallaei, R. (2007). New approach to assessment of organizations performance. Journal Police human development. 4(12) ((In Farsi).
  20. Yilmaz, C. & Ergan., E. (2008). Organizational culture and firm effectiveness: An examination of relative effects of culture traits and the balanced culture hypothesis in an emerging economy. Journal of World Business,43 pp 290-306

Zehira, C., Ertosunb, O., Zehir, s.,  & Muceldilid, B. (2011). The effects of leadership styles and organizational culture over firm performance: multi-national companies in stanbul. procedia social and behavioral sciences ,24,  1460–1474 .

Iranian Journal of Agricultural Economics and Development Research
Volume 47, Issue 2
December 2016
Pages 355-362

Files

Share

How to cite

Statistics