Manouchehr Jofreh’s research while affiliated with Islamic Azad University Central Tehran Branch and other places

The earth is facing with the environmental degradation such as climate change. To protect the earth, the environmental movements have been started around the world. The environmentalism has gotten a rapid growth in the societies by enrolment in various parts including colleges and universities. Human behaviour is known as the main responsible for the environmental degradation. Therefore, to protect the environment the term “Green Behaviour” has been introduced. This behaviour promotes the one which ables to reduce the damages done by human on the environment. This study reviews the concept of “Green Behaviour” and “Green Consumerism”. Furthermore, the aim is to investigate the influential factors on the behaviour of the respondents to perform green behaviour. Based on the review of other studies, it can be concluded that there are two groups of factors which can affect the intention to perform this behaviour. The first group concerns with the socio-demographic characteristic of the respondents such as age and gender. However, by the review of psychology literature, the second group contains the factors of “Environmental Knowledge” and “Environmental Attitude”.

Many publications to date, have describe the various adoption of e-commerce among firms small and large. However, although the e-commerce adoption growth has been significant, the e-commerce adoption rate among SMEs has mainly been among the industrialized countries. First objective of this research is to assess the usefulness and ease of using e-commerce perceived by SMEs in both service and manufacturing industries whether there are significant differences between Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand respectively. The second objective is to assess the important technical competencies in terms of technical knowledge and skills in e-commerce setup in both service and manufacturing industry across and to identify whether are there significant difference between Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. The relationship among variables has been studied through correlation test. Three dimensions have been analyzed. Technical knowledge related to e-commerce, perceive ease of use of e-commerce and perceive usefulness of e-commerce. From the statistical data analysis output, it is found that technical knowledge related to e-commerce is not significantly different between the countries in both the manufacturing and the service industry but both the manufacturing and service industry reckons that technical knowledge and skill poses to biggest challenge that effect the uptake of e-commerce similarly across the three countries.

In today's society with according to the importance of human resources in advancing the goals of the organization, improving the quality of work life become as one of the main goals of the organization. People can have high performance that will satisfy their needs partially. Given attention to the quality of work life can increase employee motivation and increase the performance of employees. If staff with their able and capabilities be considered as well, they can have a critical important role to achieve the organizational objectives. So, the use of different techniques and methods to improve the quality of working life can be effective. In this study, the relationship between quality of work life with the staff performance of the Iranian Gas Engineering and Development Company is considered and components of quality of working life and staff performance have priority.