Employee Ability to Innovate: How Can Organizations Recognize It

Adaptive developmental plasticity: what is it, how can we recognize it and when can it evolve?

Developmental plasticity describes situations where a specific input during an individual's development produces a lasting alteration in phenotype. Some instances of developmental plasticity may be adaptive, meaning that the tendency to produce the phenotype conditional on having experienced the developmental input has been under positive selection. We discuss the necessary assumptions and pred...

Motivations to Innovate in Public Organizations

Motivation is a central issue in many theories of the behavior of public officials (see, for controversy surrounding efforts to model the motivations of public officials is the extent to which their behavior is driven by self interest in contrast to altruism (Mansbridge, 1990). Some theories argue that the behavior of public officials can be understood as narrowly self interested. Others conten...

The meaning of "socialization of health" to Iranian policymakers and how it can be implemented

Complex nature of health and disease, the impact of various socioeconomic factors on the health system arrangements and health of the society, and also the impact of health on the social and economic conditions of the society require a social approach to health. This necessity has led to the creation of new policies and programs, under the name of socialization of health, to strengthen the soci...

How IT and the Rest of the Business Can Innovate Together

Employee Poaching: Why It Can Be Predatory