BACKGROUND Today, the concept of organizational learning has attracted the attention of many managers and researchers in scientific and research circles as well as those in the organization-related studies. Taking the organizational learning into account might offer a means of organizational effectiveness that has gone unnoticed. Thus the present study aimed at investigating the relationship be...

BACKGROUND Even if a large proportion of physiotherapists work in the private sector worldwide, very little is known of the organizations within which they practice. Such knowledge is important to help understand contexts of practice and how they influence the quality of services and patient outcomes. The purpose of this study was to: 1) describe characteristics of organizations where physiothe...

One of the dominant themes in the management literature today involves the role of leadership in assuring organizational effectiveness. While less significant in the sociological literature on organizations, the literature on organizational psychology, management, and particularly the popular literature, has elevated the leader/manager into one of the prime determinants of organizational succes...

Leaders develop in the direction of their dreams, not in the direction of their deficits. Yet many coaching interactions intended to promote a leader's development fail to leverage the benefits of the individual's personal vision. Drawing on intentional change theory, this article postulates that coaching interactions that emphasize a leader's personal vision (future aspirations and core identi...

This article presents a framework for creating a shared vision between an organization’s CIO and its top management team (TMT). Such a vision is the key to aligning the organization’s information systems (IS) strategy with its business strategy. We describe how this shared vision is facilitated by six visioning mechanisms and identify five distinct configurations of visioning mechanisms being u...

Perceptual organization refers to the ability to impose organization on sensory data, so as to group sensory primitives arising from a common underlying cause. The existence of this sort of organization in human perception, including vision, was emphasized by Gestalt psychologists. Since then, perceptual organization ideas have been found to be extremely useful in computer vision, impacting obj...

OBJECTIVE To investigate organizational strategies to promote personal health records (PHRs) adoption with a focus on patients with chronic disease. METHODS Using semi-structured interviews and a web-based survey, we sampled US health delivery organizations which had implemented PHRs for at least 12 months, were recognized as PHR innovators, and had scored highly in national patient satisfact...

Heathcare policy makers look to information technologies (IT) to play a key role in addressing problematic issues such as access, cost, and quality. High expectations for solutions that IT might bring to healthcare along with government mandates, increased funding for IT initiatives, and dramatic expansion of IT capabilities are stimulating ambitious projects in a variety of settings, especiall...

Oceans play an important role in human existence. They are a huge source of natural resources (oil, food, minerals, etc.). Nevertheless, humans are not adapted to the underwater environment. Hence, technology developments have been traditionally used to carry out underwater exploration. First manned submersibles were used mainly for scientific campaigns. Nowadays, ROVs are the workhorses being ...