There are a number of requirements by which animals should be managed so that the best performance is achieved in a way acceptable to those responsible for the care of the animals and to the community generally. These requirements are the keys to good management and may be used to test the management of a poultry enterprise in relation to the standard of its management. These requirements are a...

Purpose – To present a case study of a hospital nursing unit that has evaluated and approved a 2bin “e-kanban” replenishment system based on passive HF RFID technology. Design/methodology/approach – The case study analysis is based on both qualitative and quantitative data that was collected using (i) semi-structured interviews, (ii) on-site observations and (iii) experience from previous imple...

In this paper we try to discuss the issues that are related to individual and shared learning, as well as support of didactic practices in case of changes in organisations. We approach this from the knowledge management point of view and briefly introduce the context we are investigating in organisations, namely change management processes. Then we explore the learning, realisation, and integra...

The performance measurement revolution started in the late 1970s with the dissatisfaction of traditional backward looking accounting systems. Since then the literature in this field is emerging. Most of the focus was on designing performance measurement system (PMS), with few studies illustrating the issues in implementing and using PMS. Although Management Information Systems (MIS) and change ...

climate change has direct and indirect consequences on crop production and food security. agriculture and cropproduction is one of the factors which depend on the weather conditions and it provides the human requirements inmany aspects. the objective of this study is to assess the impacts of future climatic change on irrigated rice yieldusing the ceres-rice model in the southern coast of caspia...

Worldwide most health systems are facing a series of common challenges characterized by the increasing burden of chronic diseases and multimorbidity, and the accelerated pace of biomedical and technological innovations, on the other side. There is a growing recognition that many changes are needed at the macro, meso and micro management levels to tackle these challenges. Therefore, knowing if h...