organizational commitment has been defined as the extent that an individual accepts, internalizes, and views his or her role based on organizational values and goals. the three components –affective commitment, continuance commitment, and normative commitment– form the basis of a new conceptualization of organizational commitment. job stress has become one of the most serious health issues in t...

while many researchers devoted numerous articles to the organizational culture, relatively few articles have been contributed to culture and performance research. the purpose of this study is to shed light on the role of organizational culture on performance. to achieve this goal and in order to measure organizational culture, denison organizational culture model was used. the components of thi...

background transferring research-based knowledge into practice would help to maximize the quality of health care. however, the role of knowledge producers and the organizational roles related to knowledge transfer have been largely ignored. objectives this study was accomplished with the aim of describing the organizational activities needed to transfer the findings of nursing research from the...

One of the most significant current discussions in Knowledge Sharing (KS) is security. Security is an important component in KS, and plays a key role in reducing the risks in KS. However, relatively little study has been performed on KS security in the public and private sectors, and even less in the developing countries. This research intends to find the relationship between organizational con...

The creation and development of theory and methods used in the study of organizations is predominantly carried out grounded in the positivist paradigm – epistemological and methodological assumptions similar to those of the natural sciences. This essay looks at the limitations of that paradigm for the study of human organizations and the benefits of relativist, humanist and post-modern assumpti...

Acknowledgements I would like to thank the editors and Charlotte Karam for their helpful comments on an earlier version of this manuscript. The section on ‘The Problem of the Nature and Inclusion of Higher Level Units’ has been adapted from Fischer, R., Ferreira, M. C., Assmar, E. M. L., Redford, P., & Harb, C. (2005). Organizational behaviour across cultures: Theoretical and methodological iss...

Companies face increasing challenges in research due to higher costs and risks. The intensifying technology complexity and interdisciplinarity require unique know-how. Therefore, companies need to decide whether research shall be conducted internally or externally with partners. On the other hand, research institutes meet increasing efforts to achieve good financing and to maintain high researc...

One of the biggest challenges facing human service organizations is the proliferation of information from inside and outside the agency that needs to be managed if it is to be of use. The concepts of tacit and explicit knowledge can inform an approach to this challenge. Tacit knowledge is stored in the minds of practitioners (often called practice wisdom) and the explicit knowledge is often fou...