Change, Lack of Change, and Creating Optimal Change Out of Chaos

Change, lack of change, and creating optimal change out of chaos.

Once again, we consider how to effect practice change at the local and national levels. This issue includes several articles that relate to quality improvement. Some physician actions seem resistant to change, as do the underlying social determinants and processes that lead to what are thought to be avoidable hospitalizations, but we also find that concerted effort, along with standardized orde...

a synchronic and diachronic approach to the change route of address terms in the two recent centuries of persian language

terms of address as an important linguistics items provide valuable information about the interlocutors, their relationship and their circumstances. this study was done to investigate the change route of persian address terms in the two recent centuries including three historical periods of qajar, pahlavi and after the islamic revolution. data were extracted from a corpus consisting 24 novels w...

Creating Change without Chaos: Preparing Libraries for the 21st Century

Library planning and management must change significantly if services are to survive and thrive in the future. Current issues and pressures present complex challenges for managers, including the difficulties of coping with the economic and electronic imperatives, and judging the pace of change. We need a strategic management framework to transform our visionary dreams into concrete actions. Thi...

Wind of Change: Brexit and European Rehabilitation

Antecedents of Employee Readiness for Change: Mediating Effect of Commitment to Change

The study attempted to look at the influence of individual factors (creative behavior and practical intelligence), process factors (participation in decision making and quality of communication) and context factors (trust in management and history of change) on employee readiness for change to transformational changes. Commitment to change and its three dimensions- affective, continuance and no...