Designing organizational excellence model for cellulose industry of Iran


Seyed Abbas Kazemi, Jamshid Salehi Sadaghani, Gholam Hosein nikokar and Mohsen Mohammad Sadeghi


Nowadays organizational excellence is regarded as the world’s most effective and progressive issue and many countries and organizations are attempting in the way of applying excellence. In this way, they attempt to improve such models and according to culture and sociopolitical conditions of each country, they attempt to design several models. The present research has been conducted with principal goal of designing organizational excellence model at cellulose industry of Iran. The study determines its components and aspects, priorities the aspects and components and analyzes relationship among different aspects of organizational excellence model at cellulose industry of Iran. The present research is an applied research with respect to goal and it is a descriptive-analytical method in terms of method. Statistical population of the present research covers all experts in the field of cellulose industry of Iran in which on this basis, the number of statistical sample was 207 people from managers to specialists. Results of research indicate that organizational excellence pattern of cellulose industry is a mixture of different aspects of technical, economic, inner environment, outer environment, motivation and behavioral processes.


DOI: j.msl.2011.09.017

Keywords: Organizational excellence ,EFQM ,TQM ,LISREL ,Cellulose Industry

How to cite this paper:

Kazemi, S., Sadaghani, J., nikokar, G & Sadeghi, M. (2012). Designing organizational excellence model for cellulose industry of Iran.Management Science Letters, 2(1), 107-112.


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