introduction: the main purpose of this study was to assess fulfillment of goals about “health transformation plan (htp) of ministry of health, treatment and medical education” from the perspective of managers, which is as one of the most important management challenges in the health system reform plan. these goals included six packages determined by the ministry of health, treatment and medical...

recently, women’s participation has increased in the workplaces. therefore it is a challenge for contemporary managers to help employees to balance their work and family responsibilities. this paper aims to identify factors affecting the work-family balance. sample included 261 women employed at a number of universities in tehran. data is collected from the questionnaire. correlation and multip...

PURPOSE The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of the quality of senior management leadership on social support and job design, whose main effects on strains, and moderating effects on work stressors-to-strains relationships were assessed. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH A survey involving distribution of questionnaires was carried out on a random sample of health care employees in ac...

Background: Middle managers within healthcare hold a unique position between senior leadership and frontline staff, and may hold a pivotal function in the implementation of quality improvement (QI) projects. This review aims to explore what is known about healthcare middle managers’ role in implementing QI initiatives, and to determine if consensus around their role exists amongst middle manage...

This case study, divided here into parts (A) and (B), describes one firm's experiences as it adopted a process perspective to managing its business, examined the implications for its information systems needs, decided to acquire SAP, an integrated, enterprise-wide software package, and embarked on the SAP implementation. Dow Corning Corporation (A): Business Processes and Information Technology...

We examine how organizational structure influences strategies over which corporate leaders have significant discretion. Corporate philanthropy is a strategic activity commonly managed through a specific, differentiated organizational structure—the corporate foundation—that formalizes and constrains the influence of individual senior managers and directors on corporate strategy. Our analysis of ...

BACKGROUND Despite universal recognition of the importance of hand hygiene in reducing the incidence of healthcare associated infections, health care workers' compliance with best practice has been sub-optimal. Senior hospital managers have responsibilities for implementing patient safety initiatives and are therefore ideally placed to provide suggestions for improving strategies to increase ha...

BACKGROUND Evidence-based practice aims to achieve better health outcomes in the community. It relies on high quality research to inform policy and practice; however research in primary health care continues to lag behind that of other medical professions. The literature suggests that research capacity building (RCB) functions across four levels; individual, team, organisation and external envi...