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        1 - Assessing the Current Situation of Training Courses and Providing a Qualitative Model for Improving the Effectiveness of training courses (case study: State Tax Organization)
        Mitra  Ezati Alireza Youzbashi Karim Shateri
        This research tried to assess the situation of training courses and provide a qualitative model for improving the effectiveness of State Tax Organization, using a mixed method approach. First, the current situation of training was investigated and training courses were More
        This research tried to assess the situation of training courses and provide a qualitative model for improving the effectiveness of State Tax Organization, using a mixed method approach. First, the current situation of training was investigated and training courses were assessed. In quantitative part, statistical population included all state audit assistants, assistants, and lead auditors who were selected by cluster sampling method in the some provinces as research samples. Regarding intended training courses, it was specified to assess tax-training courses which were held for experts in the last two years. To collect data, a researcher-made questionnaire was used. The validity of questionnaire was confirmed by educational experts and by using Cronbach’s alpha, reliability was reported equal to 0.96. Data analysis indicated that current situation of training courses need-assessment, goals of training courses, content of training course; instructors of training courses, organizing training courses, assessment of training courses, motivation were moderate. Given the above results and interview with tax experts, the results indicated the major training system damages of State Tax Organization included need-assessment (systematic, non-scientific, non-comprehensive, non-functional, and lack of cooperation of staff in need-assessment), goals of courses (lack of information, general, inappropriate content), content damages (the extent of topics, lack of specified team to formulate content, and theoretical content), instructors (incompetence, improper payment, poor teaching method, and faulty system of selecting instructors), environment and condition of holding courses (poor facilities and equipment, and inconvenient time of holding courses), damages of implementing courses (lack of trainees’ separation i.e. co-educational system, lack of managers’ support, time of courses, and non-executive courses), training evaluation (not caring about training effectiveness, unreal assessment scores, and lack of supervisors’ cooperation regarding assessment), motivation (lack of mechanism to encourage and punish trainees, trainees’ insufficient incentive, instructors’ insufficient motivation), cultural problems (supervisors do not believe in training and inappropriate attitude of senior managers to training), manpower(lack of manpower and incorrect use of expertise in training). Manuscript profile
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        2 - Analysis of factors affecting student absenteeism in organizational training programs and providing exit solutions
        Mohammad  hooman doosti Milad Javanmardi
        Introduction: In spite of the attention, sensitivity and concern of the custodians of learning and development to identify and cooperate with the professors and also to spend a lot of expenses on conducting training courses, the rate of participation in class-based trai More
        Introduction: In spite of the attention, sensitivity and concern of the custodians of learning and development to identify and cooperate with the professors and also to spend a lot of expenses on conducting training courses, the rate of participation in class-based training programs is low, hence The purpose of this study was to investigate the causes of student absenteeism in courses and outline strategies. Method: The research method in this study is a mixed type of exploration (a design tool for collecting data). Explain that in the data collection sequence, qualitative data and then quantitative data were collected. In the qualitative section, the deep interview method and the focused group were used and in the quantitative section, researcher-made questionnaire was used. The content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed with the help of five experts and professors in the field of education and its reliability was calculated 0.84 using Cronbach's alpha. The study population consisted of all employees of one of the industrial companies of Isfahan province, based on the Morgan table, 196 were calculated. Results: The results of the present study showed that the impact of all three groups of individual, educational and organizational factors in the absence of learners was more than average. Also, the results of the interview showed that lack of incentive, non-payment of mission and work overtime due to training, lack of calculation of educational privilege, lack of relevance of education records in other human resources systems, high work volume, lack of knowledge transfer mechanisms, limited support of knowledge transfer due to the type of managerial thinking, personal and familial problems are other factors affecting the increase in absenteeism rates and thus reducing the rate of participation in training courses. Conclusion: According to the participants in the research, organizational factors have had the greatest impact on the absenteeism, which is necessary to correct this problem in salary systems. Also, in the educational dimension, it is necessary to improve the design and planning of courses, which it is suggested to use modern teaching methods, classes with less number and relatively strict policies against absenteeism in the classroom. Also, at the individual level, it is suggested that the sense of belonging to the courses in the learners be strengthened through peer mentoring. Manuscript profile