background : work-family conflict has many negative outcomes for organization and career and family life of each person. the aim of present study was to determine the relationship between work-family conflict and the level of self-efficacy in female nurses. methods : in this cross-sectional descriptive research, the relationship between work-family conflict and the level of self-efficacy in fem...

Integrating significant e-business applications into an established environment is a complex task for which existing project management techniques have not explicitly catered. This paper examines the strategies employed for managing the integration of an Internet Management System (IMS) into an organisation’s virtual private network. Electronic business application integration projects are inhe...

Outsourcing information systems on a large scale is a difficult challenge. The public sector has seen some spectacular information systems (IS) outsourcing failures. Public officials have come under fire for sloppy management of IS outsourcing engagements and legislators are demanding higher standards of outsourcing practice and more accountability from public sector managers. This paper analyz...

Contract monitoring is carried out to ensure the Quality of Services (QoS) attributes and levels specified in an electronic contract throughout a business process enactment. This paper proposes an approach to improve QoS monitoring based on the aspect-oriented paradigm. Monitoring concerns are encapsulated into aspects to be executed when specific process points are reached. Differently from ot...

A new contract for general practitioners (GPs) was introduced in the UK on 1 April 2004 which has implications for secondary care. In particular, the contract means that GPs can opt out of out-of-hours care, and accident & emergency services have voiced their concern that their workload may increase as a result. The new contract provides the potential for a rise in GPs' salaries by two means: t...

Smart contracts on a blockchain behave exactly as specified by their code. To be sure that a smart contract behaves as expected, the end-user has to either analyze its code or trust a potentially anonymous developer or auditor to do so. This approach proposes a smart contract deployment and management platform that can execute development tools and code quality tools in a trusted way and uses t...

Partnerships have recently been advocated as the way to gain a 'competitive advantage' in many industries. Strategic behaviour of partners, each having his own objectives and information, is an important factor for the management in a partnership. In this paper, we discuss these elements and illustrate their importance for inventory management of spare parts. We present the case of an airline c...

Psychological contract is one of the most well-known terms in the field of human resources management. Used by many as an analytical tool to describe the employment relationship or a theoretical platform to understand employee responses to workplace changes, it is nonetheless an intriguing theme. Going through the relevant literature, the paper focuses not only on the internal working of the ps...