Professor Mohammad Ali Sarlak
محمدعلی سرلک
Prof. Mohammad Ali Sarlak
Born	March 25, 1970 Iran
Education	University of Tehran
Occupation	Professor of Organizational Behavior Management
Employer	Payame Noor University
Notable work	The Organizational Rip Currents, The Commotion-Result Theory, Management by Reaction, The Organizational Climate Inversion, The Behavioral Entropy, and The Organizational Life Expectancy

Mohammad Ali Sarlak (born March 25, 1970, Iran) is a professor of organizational behavior management at Payame Noor University (PNU), and the former chancellor of this university as the largest public university in Iran.^[1] He introduced the concept of the organization’s face for the first time in a multi volume reference book entitled The new faces of organizations in the 21st century.^[2] Sarlak was honored by the Iranian house of humanities thinkers in 2019.^[3]

Education

• Ph.D: Organizational Behavior Management, University of Tehran, 2005.
• M.B.A: University of Tehran, 1995.
• B.S: Business Administration, University of Tehran, 1993.^[4]

Concepts

Much of prof. sarlak's works concentrated on Advancing the boundaries of management knowledge. Some of his new ideas and conceptualizations are as follows:

• The organizational Rip currents^[5]
• The Commotion–result Theory^[6]
• Management by Reaction^[7]
• The organizational Climate Inversion^[8]
• The Behavioral Entropy^[9]
• The organizational Life Expectancy^[10]

Positions

• The chancellor of Payame Noor University (PNU) (2014–2015).
• The head of Post Graduate Center of Payame Noor University (2007–2018).\^[1]
• A member of Executive Committee of AAOU (Asian Association of Open Universities) in 2015^[11]
• A board member of Iranian Academy of Management sciences (2016).^[12]
• A member of the Central promotion Committee of the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology (2015–present).^[13]
• A member of the National Committee of UNESCO (2015–present).^[14]
• The Establisher of a UNESCO Chair on Environmental Education^[15]
• A member of policymaking and scientific council of Iran Inventions Grand Prize^[16]

Journals Editor in chief

• Iranian journal of Management of public organizations ^[17](2013–present)
• International Journal of the Academy of Organizational Behavior Management, CANADA^[18](2012–2014).
• International Journal of E-Entrepreneurship and Innovation (IJEEI), IGI, USA (2010–2012).

Published books

• The New Faces of Organizations in the 21st Century (5 volumes), NAISIT, 2011, Canada
• E-Banking and Emerging Multidisciplinary Processes, IGI, 2011, USA
• Barriers of E-Commerce Acceptance in Export, Lambert, 2011, USA
• The Emerging Faces of Organizations in the 21st Century (4 volumes), Knowledge Reference Publisher, 2013, Iran
• The organizations in knowledge Era, Payame Noor Publisher, edition 2, 2012, Iran
• Advanced Management Information Systems, Payame Noor Publisher, second edition, 2011, Iran
• Healthy Organization in Practice, Knowledge Reference Publisher, 2014, Iran
• E-Government, Knowledge Reference Publisher, 2013, Iran
• Managing Organizational trauma, Mir Mah Press, 2016, Iran
• Trauma Management from Islam View point., Mir Mah Press, 2016, Iran
• The new era of management, (Richard L. Daft): Translated to Persian by Dr. Sarlak, Gostareh, Press, 2008, Iran

Research works

He has published over one hundred scientific papers^[19] and directed more than 250 master's thesis^[20] and doctoral dissertations.^[21]