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A company's knowledge is one of its most valuable assets. In this regard, project-based companies operating temporarily with constantly changing project members try hard to manage their knowledge, an important asset that also provides them with a competitive advantage. One of the biggest challenges of project-based organizations is how to facilitate the processes of sharing knowledge which enables the organization to capture and implement its knowledge successfully. In this study, the governance mechanisms of innovation ecosystems are used to support the effective use of knowledge-sharing mechanisms across projects and subgroups of the organization.This study analyzes Kayson holding as its... 

The current thesis argues about employee Performance Appraisal System (PAS) of damavand project which is one of the MAPNA Combined Cycle Power Plant Construction and Development Co (MD-2) projects.A few studies have been done in the field of human resource management in project structure and project-based organizations in comparison with classic organizations structure. the PAS might have a different role in project structure as a function in human resource management.In this research the required data has collected via interview with employees and some top managers of MD-2 Company.and Theme analysis has been used to analyzing the data. this study has described the effect of organizational,... 

The present study was performed aiming to identify the ethical dilemmas human resource managers confront with in Iranian project-based organizations as well as to trace out the underlying causes. “Ethical dilemma” refers to a decision making situation in which ethical considerations render all the alternatives inapt, thence making the decision making process ethically complex. First of all, a theoretical framework was developed based on the preceding research; then, the study was further conducted utilizing a qualitative research method with an exploratory approach. The data were collected using in-depth interviews and analysed using the theme analysis method. The corresponding interviewees... 

According to a novel approach of National Petrochemical Company to deployment of quality concepts on petrochemical projects and effort to develop the excellence models & paragons in various fields like managing contractors of petrochemical project and plans, “Project Based Organizations Excellence Model” presented by Project Management Research and Development Center of National Petrochemical Company as a new pattern of performance improvement in this companies. Implementation of this model in organization also required many infrastructures as knowledge and wisdom, managerial concept, dynamic and process vision that appear gradually. The purpose of this thesis is the development and also... 

In this study, factors which lead in failures in reengineering processes in project based companies have been investigated. The research used qualitative methods, and finally using theme analysis to identify the main factors.Consequently, the main causes of failure of re-engineering projects have been identified and classified in six basic categories including: organizational leadership, planning, human resources management, mental models causing resistance, culture and organizational climate and communication. That each of these themes includes some subset of the agents it represents. In this study, a suitable pattern for organizations which intend to perform reengineering has been... 

Rewarding system is one of the most important and basic subsystem of human resources and it is one of the main concerns of the managers in any organization, since an appropriate bonus payment system increases motivation and efficiency of individuals and vice versa an inappropriate rewarding system provokes frustration in staff .Rewarding system is more important in project-oriented organizations because the most influential factor in the success and profitability of the organizations is motivated employees. The basic question in this study is that what kind of payment reward a project-oriented organization should have in order to get its employees motivation and ultimately make the... 

Knowledge is an organization asset that if used in the direction of organization’s strategic mission, can provide values for the organization. Therefore, many organizations such as NASA, Siemens; and Microsoft have invested in order to improve their knowledge management practices. Many organizations have not been successful in implementing appropriate knowledge management and incurred by huge expenses, while others can use and improve their locations among their competitors in the business. The reason behind many of these organizations were ignoring factor(s) that have direct undeniable effect on result from organization’s knowledge management.
The framework of knowledge management is a... 

Customer relationship management is a comprehensive strategy for managing the relationships with customers. Customer relationship management involves technology for automation, organizing, and adaptation of business processes, including sales activities, marketing and customer service. Main purpose of CRM is finding and attracting new customers, maintaining current customers, attracting the organization's former customers, reducing marketing costs and customer service. Most studies in this area are related to B-C organizations and few studies are related to B-B and especially project based organizations. This study aimed to identify the factors affecting the implementation of customer... 

In this thesis, first the mission, goals, and general activities of Mazandaran Technical and Vocational Office are presented. Then it is shown that this office is a project based organization and the short comings of its present management system is expained. Next it is justified that Project Based Organization’s Excellence Model, prepared by National Petrochemical Company of Iran, is a suitable guide for improving the management system of Mazandaran Technical and Vocational Office. The implementation of the leadership section of this model is the main chapter of this thesis.

 

Although, planning and control systems improved, but most of projects have some Problems such as long time and high cost. In project oriented organizations which Perform several projects have more problems. An important reason of these Problems is lack of skill and competency of executive factors and project managers In planning and control. These persons are chosen base on organization Relationship, not systematically. One way to become successful in projects is Chose and assessment of project managers and executes in right way. "System of Competency and assessment of project manager" is offered to solve this problem. According to this system, at first projects are defined and grouped base... 

A great rise in the number of projects undertaken simultaneously within organizations and consequently, a further increase in the complexity of managing them, has led to emerging innovative forms of organizational structures. There are new concepts developing in project management literature such as program management, portfolio management and project management offices (PMOs). PMOs have recently been used as a means for managing large projects, based on the need for an overall, coherent approach. Project offices are established to coordinate portfolios of projects and achieve project management oversight, control and support. Based on the structure and definition proposed by Hill (2004), it... 

The Study of antecedents and considering the status of Project-Based Organizations (PBOs) in our country such as MSA, Azarab, Sadad Machine, etc indicates that they are facing lots of problems in different aspects. This bad situation is in a way that amendment of part of sections guarantees the continuity of bad performance of these companies and we have to apply Business Process Reengineering and establishing a radical change in these firms. So the present research according to managers and experts opinions, several year observations of the writer and review of the literature of BPR, Project Management (PMBOK) and PBOs; and based on a library research, introduces the processes of PBOs in 3... 

Communications is considered as a large part of project managers’ activities. Communications is one of success factors in the projects. A project manager in addition to have a good sight on project knowledge areas needs to know how to use them in order to reach a suitable point with integrating them by using communications. A survey on communications can predispose lots of dissertations in this field & subsequently causes improvement & continues development.
In this thesis, different areas of project body of knowledge have been explained & effect of communication on them has been described. In next step, this study depicts how to manage communications in projects & project-oriented... 

Development of science and technology has been a main focus of Iranian policy makers in recent years. Knowledge based companies have been considered as a key player in this respect. However, Iranian policy making system is suffering from a lack of sophisticated understanding rooted in empirical evidences of critical factors influencing the performance of domestic knowledge based companies. This dissertation aims to provide an initial ground by studying the organizational capabilities which have influenced the success of such firms and comparing them with organizational capabilities which are mentioned in the related literature. For this purpose, four companies which are supposed to be... 

MAPNA is a leading project oriented company in the field of power, water, oil and transportation in Iran. MAPNA has the policy of using quality management principles and tools to improve the company and in this regard has chosen EFQM excellence model as a tool to move towards excellence. EFQM requires a set of indicators to measure performances of the processes and their results. These indicators should be tailor made for the company.
The subject of this thesis is to evaluate the present indicators used in implementing EFQM in MAPNA and considering MAPNA’s characteristics propose any changes required. The study is limited to indicators for key results and customer results for certain... 

To actualize and making the outputs of a project effectual, it is necessary to conduct an effective management during a project. This case may not be possible without accurately planning for activities, management and controlling all phases of a project ignoring the risk management of that project. If risks of a project cannot be detected before conducting a project, it is possible to challenge the performance and even effectiveness of the project. In current conditions, the most important problem of managers and executives of construction projects through the country is risk management of projects, not acknowledging with definitions of risk, models of risk management and lack of a model for... 

Nowadays, the selection and updating the projects portfolio in project-based organizations is mentioned as one of the most challenging issues. Project based organizations used to try to shape their portfolios according to their strategic direction. Portfolio management is especially attended for project based organizations in IT industry in which there is a lot of project proposals with different objectives and scales. On one hand, the best approach for corporate strategy implementation in these kinds of organizations is based on project and portfolio management and on the other hand, the portfolio management in these organizations will affect the strategic direction. In the Persian... 

Embedded system Project management , because of lots of unstable parameters in design and also diversity of the technical knowledge ,requires a complex and agile project management methodology. Whereas in these projects , different knowledge fields are applied (such as electronics ,telecommunication ,control and robotics) and software is an evitable part of these systems ,project managers can not be familiar with all aspects of the technical and professional in deep manner. Considering that usually ,the project managers of such projects are elected from professionals of hardware or mechanical sections and not in deep inception of software project management , this thesis focus on a new model... 

A company's knowledge is one of its most valuable assets. In this regard, project-based companies operating temporarily with constantly changing project members try hard to manage their knowledge, an important asset that also provides them with a competitive advantage. One of the biggest challenges of project-based organizations is how to facilitate the processes of sharing knowledge which enables the organization to capture and implement its knowledge successfully. In this study, the governance mechanisms of innovation ecosystems are used to support the effective use of knowledge-sharing mechanisms across projects and subgroups of the organization.This study analyzes Kayson holding as its...