Theoretical developments in the analysis of organizations have recently turned to an “organizational becoming” perspective, which sees the social world as enacted in the micro-context of communicative interactions among individuals through which meaning is negotiated. According to this view, organizational change is endemic, natural and ongoing; it occurs in every-day interactions as actors eng...

T otal compensation for senior medical managers in HMOs increased, on average, 5 percent last year — similar to growth rates of previous years. According to a study by the Tampa, Fla.-based Physician Executive Management Center, a physician executive search firm, compensation for these people (medical directors, vice presidents for medical affairs, and physicians with similar titles) varies lit...

Drug development is time consuming, resource intensive, risky, and heavily regulated. To ensure that it makes the best drug-development decisions, Bayer Pharmaceuticals (Pharma) uses a structured process based on the principles of decision analysis to evaluate the technical feasibility and market potential of its new drugs. In July 1999, the biological products leadership committee composed of ...

Presents a preliminary framework for making sense of and managing change in organisations that have adopted information systems and e-commerce as a core element of their business strategy. Argues that the relatively low level of organisational benefits realised by typical strategic information technology interventions over the past decade is often a product of poor adoption and implementation p...

OBJECTIVES Interest in costing health care delivery on an individual case basis has increased in recent years as concern with overall health care costs has heightened. Costing exercises have been largely oriented around medical classification systems. Measures to incorporate the contributions of allied health activities such as occupational therapy are relatively recent. The objective of this s...

Several studies have demonstrated the effect of an organization's culture and climate on the delivery of services to clients and the success of clinical outcomes. Workers' perceptions are integral components of organizational social context, and in order to create a positive organizational culture and climate, managers and frontline staff need to have a shared understanding of the social contex...

Aims: Personality of managers affects their managerial style and their conflict management method. This study was performed with the aim of investigating the relation between personality traits, leadership styles and conflict management methods in a military unit. Methods: This cross-sectional correlation study was performed on 200 senior managers of a military unit in Qom who were selected by ...

Digital disruption introduces technology-enabled changes at a pace and scale that fundamentally shifts established ways of life and work. This paper addresses the ever changing world of digital disruption but more importantly how it affects the IT people that design and manage the technological changes that lead to digital disruption. The paper draws on i) situational awareness theory to identi...

In this study, we have a research of the information system development research based on the middle managers competency evaluation. According to the different factors like work contents, nature and positioning, the enterprise human resources can be divided into three main categories of senior managers, middle managers and general staff, among which middle managers, as backbone elements of the ...