OBJECTIVES Although most health care interactions in the developed world occur in general practice, most of the literature on patient safety has focused on secondary care services. To address this issue, we have constructed a patient safety toolkit for English general practices. We report how practice and respondent characteristics affect scores on our safety climate measure, the PC-Safequest, ...

We conducted a survey to determine how two professional sectors in Belgium, horticulture professionals and nature reserve managers (those directly involved in conservation), view the issues associated with invasive plant species. We developed and utilized a questionnaire that addressed the themes of awareness, concept and use of language, availability of information, impacts and, finally, contr...

Functional neuroimaging studies of decision-making so far mainly focused on decisions under uncertainty or negotiation with other persons. Dual process theory assumes that, in such situations, decision making relies on either a rapid intuitive, automated or a slower rational processing system. However, it still remains elusive how personality factors or professional requirements might modulate ...

It appears that tomorrow is here today. We need to change the rules of the game and play catch-up ball. Managers need information not computer-based information systems. The latter is a means to the former end. Managers need flexible access to relevant data and the ability to analyze that data. Computer systems are intended to provide the means to make this possible, economic, and easy for mana...

the purpose of this research was to survey the general health and social relationships of active and inactive governmental employees in isfahan city. this research was causal-comparative. the statistical sample included 384 employees of governmental organizations in isfahan who were selected by cluster random sampling manner. a general health questionnaire (ghq 28) and a researcher-made questio...

Empowering employees in specialized and general qualifications fields is required for urban management organization (Tehran Municipality). Planning and establishment of comprehensive system of electronic learning is considered the main goal of human resource and educational managers. . This study tried to investigate the feasibility and execution of electronic learning courses for in-service st...

as a source of motivation for efl teachers in their work environment, their satisfaction with their manager’s behavior comprises the basis of the present study. through triangulation and employment of two types of interview, a regular one and an innovative adaptive type, we elicited iranian efl teachers’ perception of their managers’ management skills in the private sector. the two data were th...

this study investigated effective parameters in the leadership and management among commanders of the army ground force, hierarchy of each criterion and ultimately proposal of a desirable leadership and management model from the respective commanders and senior managers’ perspectives. characterized as an applied and field study, the research employed the participation of the 100 commanders and ...