BACKGROUND Root cause analysis (RCA) originated in the manufacturing engineering sector but has been adapted for routine use in healthcare to investigate patient safety incidents and facilitate organizational learning. Despite the limitations of the RCA evidence base, healthcare authorities and decision makers in NHS Scotland - similar to those internationally - have invested heavily in develop...

BACKGROUND One of the basic prerequisites of efficient organizational management in health institutions is certainly monitoring and measuring satisfaction of employees and their commitment to the health institution in which they work. The aim of this article was to identify and test factors that may have a predictive effect on job satisfaction and organizational commitment. METHODS We conduct...

ing leaders to create a forum to address the enormous challenges that face the profession now, and will continue to do so over the next several years. Many in the profession have been addressing these challenges, typically within the confines of the organizations that employ them. There has been no focused forum where nurse leaders themselves have an intellectual space for dialogue and planning...

Like Artificial Intelligence, the scientific discipline of Gaming/Simulation studies intelligent systems. It has proven its use in domains like organizational change, defense tactics, and calamity fighting. CE Delft has taken up the rich methodology of Gaming/Simulation to investigate and communicate environmental policies. This paper demonstrates three types of applications: policy simulations...

1. Vision problems can and often do interfere with learning. 2. People at risk for learning-related vision problems should be evaluated by an optometrist who provides diagnostic and management services in this area. 3. The goal of optometric intervention is to improve visual function and alleviate associated signs and symptoms. 4. Prompt remediation of learning-related vision problems enhances ...

ion of the real problem amenable to mathematical and computational tools at hand. However, since there are manifestly a great many complex interactions and effects present In real manpower planning situations, a comprehensive and satisfying model recognizing all of them is probably beyond Investigation by known mathematical methods alone. Thus the second of our approaches is to simulate on a co...

Organization wrongdoing can be viewed from two contrasting perspectives: one which views organizational wrongdoing as an abnormal phenomenon and one which views it as a normal phenomenon. Further, the causes of organizational wrongdoing can be understood from two approaches: a dominant outlook and an alternative one. Finally, there are eight different specific explanations of wrongdoing. Below ...

The central argument of the paper is that knowledge management practices fail to adequately address the complexities of organizational ignorance. The paper begins with a brief overview of knowledge management and an account of how this management technique can lead to the neglect of the unknown as well as the creation of ignorance. The nature of ignorance and its relation to knowledge is then c...

Addresses briefly five complex issues in higher education: professional development spanning all categories of staff; the role of a centre of professional development (CPD) in context; the philosophical framework and models within which a centre might operate; the role of a centre in strategic planning and policy formation, and the contribution that a CPD might make in assessing and enhancing q...