during the recent decades, urban management in iran has increasingly confronted numerous challenges due to different kinds of social, cultural, political, executive, financial, and legal factors. the present study is going to specify and analyze the aforementioned challenges in the domain of the urban environment in order to determine how far they have been effective, how they have been priorit...

background and objectives: quality of work life is an increasingly important organizational factor in health facilities. most studies on quality of work life in hospitals have been conducted in developed countries. the few studies performed in developing countries have targeted low- and middle-performance hospitals, and they have not explored the relationship between quality of work life and ot...

To test how practice interruptions affect worker productivity, we estimate how temporal breaks affect surgeons' performance of coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). Examining 188 surgeons who performed 56,315 CABG surgeries in Pennsylvania between 2006 and 2010, we find that a surgeon's additional day away from the operating room raised patients' inpatient mortality by up to 0.067 percentage ...

background and objectives:job burnout is a major source of healthcare human resources inefficiency with severe negative impact on patient care, physical-psychological health of staff, and healthcare costs. psychological empowerment is a relatively new concept showing promise in boosting different aspect of human resources management. in this study, we pursued the question of whether psychologic...

An Implementation Model for Courses in Human Resource Training M. Sami'ee Zafarghandi, Ph.D. To arrive at an effective model for implementing courses in human resource training different approaches to this task were critically reviewed and their constructive aspects reutilized. The new approach was then tested to identify any probable defect. The final model consists of basic elem...

introduction: human resources development is one of the most important components of any organization and detecting important factors influencing human resources management plays an essential role in the success of the firms. in this study, we investigated different factors influencing human resources productivity of shiraz university of medical sciences staff. method: the present research was ...