the purpose of this paper is to study the degree of job satisfaction of the employees of khorassan general administration for technical and vocational training and the related factors. the study has been carried out using the sampling method, with the statistical society of the survey consisting of 690 persons, and the sample size of 512 persons. the results shows that independent variables rel...

is more subtle, more deeply intertwined and more strangely integrated than any of our pictures of her. It is not merely that our pictures are not full enough; each of our pictures in the end turns out to be so basically mistaken that the marvel is that it worked at all. List of Papers This thesis is based on the following papers, which are referred to in the text by their Roman numerals. Dixon ...

The paper examines the nature of academic work in engineering in the context of the many stakeholders to whom universities are accountable and the multiple foci on which university staff concentrate their activities. The distinctive characteristics of academic work are identified, and analogies drawn between the processes of innovative thinking in universities and research and development in en...

Since their discovery by Mandelbrot (The Fractal Geometry of Nature, Freeman, New York, 1977), fractals have experienced considerable success in quantifying the complex structure exhibited by many natural patterns and have captured the imaginations of scientists and artists alike. With ever-widening appeal, they have been referred to both as ‘‘fingerprints of nature’’ (Nature 399 (1999) 422) an...

Along with the recognition that human work involves dignity, employment relationship of workers should be viewed in terms state. Indeed, essence employment-based is employee’s responsibilities are never entirely precise. Thus, employee gives up his freedom to another entity. This entity can only state, exercising its powers through workplace.