abstract while computerized maintenance management system (cmms) enables maintenance managers and supervisors to access information about equipment, manpower and maintenance policies, there is still a need to facilitate getting data/information into the backend database where it can be utilized by the organization as information to make decisions regarding the operation of the organization. sig...

The problems identified by those supervisors and managers of application software maintenance who are closely involved in this type of work are shown in this paper to form into sets of patterns, with ties between them. The implications of these sets of patterns and associated ties differ in several important ways from what has been previously reported in the field. An analysis of the responses ...

Very limited funds are available for expenditure on drugs in the public health sector in most African countries. For example, in Zimbabwe during the 1994–95 fiscal year, about US$5 was spent in the public sector on drugs and supplies per person. Ensuring the optimal use of these limited funds is one of the major challenges facing health managers. The study described in this paper aimed to evalu...

Challenged by rising costs, higher registered nurse vacancy rates and declining staff morale, a Nursing Productivity Committee was formed to analyze productive and nonproductive hours and seek improvements in our staffing models and scheduling processes. The changes implemented led to lower nurse to patient ratios, better control of labor costs, elimination of agency staff, greater staff satisf...

This study aims to understand how individuals cope with a family member entering hospice care, how role dynamics and the formation of meaning reveal insights about the process of death, and how dying relates to the hospice organization, hospice administrators, managers, and supervisors, the patient, and surviving family members. The axioms of symbolic interactionism provide both a useful framew...

Building upon the social exchange theory, this paper hypothesized the direct effect of bases of power on job stress with mentoring as moderator. Power bases and job stresses were conceptualized as 7- and 3- dimensional constructs, respectively. One hundred and ninety-five Malaysian managers and executives working in large-scale multinational companies participated in this study. The results hav...

The science of evaluating the complex indoor air pathway is evolving. The following Ecology and Environment, Inc memo summarizes the different and sometime divergent approaches taken by the federal and state governments to evaluate the pathway. Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation is presently developing a policy for the evaluation of the indoor air pathway that is appropriate for co...