INTRODUCTION Nurses are involved in conducting research and incorporating evidence into their practice. However, barriers exist at the individual, unit, and organizational level related to understanding, conducting, and evaluating the evidence. The Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) conducted a study to understand levels of education in research, the extent of experience, and needs and barriers...

a salient organizational phenomenon in the Chinese bureaucracy is collusion among local governments in response to policies and directives from higher authorities; local governments often form alliances to compromise the original intention behind state policies. There are thus significant and persistent deviations and goal displacement in policy implementation. This article develops an organiza...

BACKGROUND Modern healthcare is characterized by high complexity due to the proliferation of specialties, professional roles, and priorities within organizations. To perform clinical interventions, knowledge distributed across units, directorates and individuals needs to be integrated. Formal and/or informal mechanisms may be used to coordinate knowledge and tasks within organizations. Although...

OBJECTIVES This paper aims at studying the influence of the organizational climate of a school on the occupational stress of the teachers. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study population were all secondary schools teachers in Tehran in 2007. Using a multi-stage random sampling method, a sample volume of 220 people was determined using the Cochran formula. Two main instruments were used to measure t...

The importance of systems that support coordination, collaboration and decision making between and within different working groups is increasing dramatically, especially in the area of office automation. CSCW is the paradigm providing these facilities in an organization-wide environment. The early stages of systems design are very important to the success of such systems. In this paper we discu...

Many factors influence leadership, and no one leadership style fits all situations. To gain insights into one's leadership behavior and to develop the skills to change one's style, management researchers suggest application of transactional analysis. HEINZ WEIHRICH Heinz Weihrich, associate professor of management and organizational behavior at Arizona State University, writes frequently on man...

The desire to increase domestic revenue mobilization has made tax reform a priority for governments in many developing countries. Addressing the tax problem, however, is often a complex process that involves reforming the tax system, as well as setting up effective administrative structures to administer that system. Many see the revenue authority (RA) model as the solution to these problems. D...

The study examined referral recruitment and workers efficiency: perspective of Nigerian Ports Authority. objective this is to evaluate the effect on efficiency. signaling theory was employed while staff Authority sample population. generated primary data through questionnaires distributed 350 345 were returned. Multiple regressions analysis used test hypothesis. Findings showed that, had positi...

Scholars have devoted increasing efforts to understanding crisis response networks (Denning 2006a, 2006b; Stephenson and Schnitzer 2006), especially in the case of networks comprised of disparate members who acknowledge no higher organizational authority. Coordination within disaster response networks is difficult for several reasons, including the chaotic nature of the crisis, a need for the v...