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Purpose: The emergence of a new economy based on knowledge and information has increased researchers' interest in intellectual capital. This field, which has attracted the attention of many researchers, uses intellectual capital to determine the organisation's value. In the knowledge economy, unlike the industrial economy, knowledge or intellectual capital plays a significant role in generating wealth compared to other assets, gaining a competitive advantage, and advancing organizational goals. Knowledge management is the most valuable and strategic resource for organizations, and organizational performance is one of the critical steps in achieving success and excellence. The present study was conducted to investigate the impact of intellectual capital on organizational performance and knowledge management operations in the governorate of Hamedan city. Methodology: This research is practical in terms of purpose. The research method was descriptive of the correlation type, and the study's statistical population included all the employees of the Hamedan city governorate in 2022-2023, which consists of 65 people. In this research, using Morgan's table and considering the limited number of the statistical population, the number of research samples was selected as 56 people, and the sampling method is a simple random method. Also, the reliability of the questionnaires is confirmed using Cronbach's alpha coefficient and composite reliability. The path analysis method was used to analyze the research data using SPSS 26 and SmartPLS 4 software. Findings: The final results of the hypotheses test showed that intellectual capital does not significantly affect the organizational performance of Hamedan governorate employees; intellectual capital has a significant effect on knowledge management operations of Hamedan governorate employees. The operation of knowledge management significantly affects the organizational performance of Hamadan governorate employees. Originality/Value: In the studied organization, intellectual capital did not significantly affect the performance of Hamadan governorate employees, but it did affect the organizational performance of employees through knowledge management operations. Therefore, it is necessary to plan to improve the status of knowledge management operations (knowledge sharing, knowledge creation and acquisition) in the Hamedan governorate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Supply chain management emerged as the ultimate management strategy to ensure the competitive advantages of companies in their markets. Suppliers are considered as inevitable sources of external risks in modern supply chains. In this respect, resonance is essential for the ability to adapt in resonance to disturbances and to restore in choosing suppliers. As suppliers of critical resources are vulnerable, choosing better suppliers to create resilience, and thereby reducing the risks in the supply chain as a whole. In recent years, emphasis has been placed on supply chain resilience and resilient suppliers, but few studies have been conducted on the evaluation and selection of resilient suppliers with multi-criteria decision making models. The main purposes of this study are a broad review of the literature on the resilient factor, factorization, efficiency of key factors in the reliance of suppliers and the ranking of resilient suppliers using the combined approach of SWARA and WASPAS. For this purpose, after a comprehensive review of Literature interview with the experts of petrochemical upstream industry, six key factors and overall resilience of suppliers were identified in eighteen factors. Then the weight of the dimensions was determined by using the SWARA method. The output of the method showed that supplier accountability and key performance factors were the most important factors in assessing the resilience of suppliers. Using the supporting method, five resilient suppliers were evaluated based on six dimensions and the final ranking of suppliers was determined. With this ranking, the industry will be a major step towards improving supply chain and increasing suppliers' resilience to address disruptions and risks, improve supply and achieve competitive advantage and satisfy the consumers' needs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the strategic decisions of any organization is decision making about manufacturing strategy. Manufacturing strategy is a perspective distinguishing a company from other present companies in that industry and creates a kind of stability in decisions and gives a special direction to organizational activities. SIR (SUPERIORITY& INFERIORITY Ranking) method and their applications have attracted much attention from academics and practitioners. FSIR proves to be a very useful method for multiple criteria decision making in fuzzy environments, which has found substantial applications in recent years. This paper proposes a FSIR approach based methodology for TOPSIS, which using MILTENBURG Strategy Worksheet in order to analyzing of the status of strategy of the Gas Company. Then formulates the priorities of a fuzzy pair-wise comparison matrix as a linear programming and derives crisp priorities from fuzzy pair-wise comparison matrices Manufacturing levers (Alternatives) are examined and analyzed as the main elements of manufacturing strategy. Also, manufacturing outputs (Criteria are identified that are competitive priorities of production of any organization. Next, using a hybrid approach of FSIR and TOPSIS, alternatives (manufacturing levers) are ranked. So dealing with the selected manufacturing levers and promoting them, an organization makes customers satisfied with the least cost and time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Environmental management systems have been established and developed based on ISO 14001 in order to assess and improve the organization's environmental performance via providing a framework for evaluation and monitoring of the processes for all aspects related to the environment. This article aimed at ranking the key success factors of implementation of the environmental management systems in Mazandaran Steel industry. After reviewing the literature, the most important success factors were identified and classified into 9 categories. Then this factors analyzed by Grey DEMATEL technique. To complete the questionnaire, used the opinions of five experts. The results showed that the key factors respectively are: managerial commitment and support, coordination and integration, education, participation and effective management of human resources, financial and non-financial resources and cost-benefit analysis, environmental goals and policies and documentation control. The key success factors in the implementation of the environmental management systems should be seriously considered by this industry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Century 21, due to the wide variety of environment and continual changes, effective individual and organizational management is encountered with considerable challenges. One of the challenges is procrastination phenomenon in organization. Latin term of procrastination is consisting of origins of "pro and "crastinus, meaning "put off till tomorrow". This term is equal to postponing, delaying, or putting off. Various factors are effective on procrastination in the organization. The present study aimed to evaluate the effective factors on employees' procrastination in the organizations. The recent researches considered the effective individual, environmental, and organizational factors on procrastination. The main approach of the present study is the evaluation of effective organizational factors on employees' procrastination. The results of the study showed that the most important effective organizational factors on procrastination are unsuitable structure, extreme bureaucracy, evaluation system of unsuitable performance in the organization, having procrastinator managers and employees and the lack of supervision and control. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Total Productive Maintenance or TPM is a philosophy to enhance an organization's productivity and produce high quality goods by minimizing waste thereby reducing costs. TPM is designed to maximize equipment efficiency by determining an extensive productive maintenance system covering the whole life of the equipment, extending across all equipment-related fields and with participation of all employees from the top management to the shop-floor workers, to advance productive maintenance through voluntary small group activities (Tsuchiya 1992). Most of the automotive manufacturing industries are focusing on strict quality standards in their production process and implementing a quality program called Total Productive Maintenance. With the fast development of the maintenance, it becomes critical to set up a TPM Evaluation criteria system. Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process is a new multi-criteria evaluation method evolved from Saaty's AHP. So, this paper aimed to find out and rank the key factors and obstacles that affect success in TPM in Gas industry using fuzzy AHP approach, and give an evaluation method for TPM in order to help researches and managers to determine the drawbacks and opportunities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]