Planning and Productivity Improvement
In line with the implementation of the program of reforming the administrative system based on the policies of the Supreme Leader, the law for management of country’s services and roadmap of correcting the administrative system approved (h50642t/127675) has been established for specialized committees related to the administrative and management methods based on the 200/93/13427 circulars on December 28th, 2014. The structural and management committees and performance management committee are guided by the secretary of the office for the implementation of the programs for correcting the administrative system. In this respect, two engineering programs of role and structure of the government and public services in the competitive space have been put on the agenda of the structure and management technologies committee. In addition, planning has been made, and proper measures have been taken to have access to policies of dynamism, service providing and making the administrative system logical to realize the goals of the vision:
Given the fact that the complete realization of organizational goals depends on the abilities of staff in performing their duties and complying with the environment, teaching and improving the human resources can lead to effective follow-up and increase of activities by these individuals proportional to organizational and environmental changes. Therefore, organizational learning is of paramount importance, and designing extensive measures to increase this type of learning is prioritized in educational planning. As a young organization, the Vice-Presidency for science and technology affairs has emphasized the provision of equal learning opportunities for its employees.
Accordingly, the long-term goal of the plan is promoting the spirit of organizational learning and increasing the productivity of employees in sharing organizational knowledge and creating a dynamic information current in the organization.
Therefore, novel educational programs have been defined to update the organizational knowledge of employees and to hold specialized education with the cooperation of top universities of Tehran. On the other hand, with regard to the importance of education, new areas have been expressed to promote the active components of innovation ecosystem with the cooperation of specialized units and to provide specialized education to activists of this field.
Moreover, some of the activities of this office include designing a management system for service performance on qualitative and quantitative dimensions, correcting the specialized joint processes, and designing and guiding the management models (e.g., recommendation systems and establishment of recommendation system in the Vice-Presidency).
This office is also responsible for designing and documenting the services presented by the Vice-Presidency and registering them on the portal of the Vice-Presidency properly to provide access to electronic services to the beneficiaries.
On the other hand, other measures taken by the office include regulating tables related to the budget rows of the Vice-Presidency based on the mechanism of performance-based budget, and seniority budget for implementation of the program of public services in the competitive space with the goal of dynamism.
Concluding contracts with universities, science and technology parks, knowledge-based companies and other centers related to science and technology, preparing and negotiating cost financing agreements, and ownership of the capital assets and their exchange in the exchange agreement, and allocating facilities to companies through research and technology funds with the guidance of the Vice-Presidency are also carried out in the office.
The accurate and updated information and statistics are recognized as important tools for planning, policy-making, and assessing the adopted policies. Therefore, providing and assessing reliable information are important and necessary activities in the decision-making process. Organizing, regulating and applying proper and scientific methods in the process of producing statistical data are unavoidable. Therefore, the office has taken measures to establish an information and statistic center and provide services to domestic units.