The problem of desertion the effective and efficient staff and specialist staff is one of serious problem has been created for the organizations managers that seek to maintain, improve and utilize their human resources. Researchers believe that staff desertion will have a negative impact on the organization and not only reduce the organizational performance, but also increase the direct and ind...

OBJECTIVE The objective of the present study was to gain an understanding of the organizational characteristics and processes in two child-care centres that may influence adoption of the Alberta Nutrition Guidelines for Children and Youth (ANGCY). DESIGN In-depth qualitative case studies. Data were collected through direct observations, key informant interviews and field notes. Diffusion of I...

This study details the empirical development of a seven-factor contingency model of simulation success. The seven factors are software characteristics, operational cost characteristics, software environment characteristics, simulation software output characteristics, organizational support characteristics, initial investment cost characteristics, and task characteristics. This exploratory model...

The authors developed and meta-analytically examined hypotheses designed to test and extend work design theory by integrating motivational, social, and work context characteristics. Results from a summary of 259 studies and 219,625 participants showed that 14 work characteristics explained, on average, 43% of the variance in the 19 worker attitudes and behaviors examined. For example, motivatio...

a culture conducive to information security practice is extremely important for organizations since information has to be critical assets in modern enterprises. thus for understanding and improving the organizational behavior with regard to information security, enterprises may look into organizational culture and examine how it affects the effectiveness of implementing ism. this study aims to ...

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between job stress with personality characteristics and organizational commitment. This study is descriptive and correlational. The study population comprised all nurses in 13-Aban hospital of Ghods city. The sample group consisted of 120 nurses who were selected through convenience sampling. Research instruments were HSE job stress ques...

BACKGROUND The resource-based view of the firm suggests that organizations must obtain valuable resources from external sources to obtain lasting benefits. Professional associations today exist in every industry and offer resources to assist their affiliates' organizations and individual members. Today, there are more than 23,000 national and 64,000 state, local, and regional professional assoc...

As an exploratory step toward integrating differing views in the field of top management succession, this study takes an open system’s perspective and examines the effect of top management succession on organizational performance, in particular decision-making accuracy, under conditions where various organizational and environmental factors can interact. Through a formal computer simulation mod...