We are developing a prototype of a simulation development tool to aid administrators in the process of redesigning organizational structures. The purpose of the system is to help organization designers to more precisely model their hypothetical designs, and, by simulation, to predict key facets of the overall behavior of their proposed organizational structures. The tool will help them to evalu...

Currently, there are several metamodels for business process and workflow process modeling. However, the limitations of these metamodels are twofold: First, the use of organizational structure aspects is limited and second they don’t support business (sub)process patterns based on organizational structure aspects. These limitations may restrict the accuracy, efficiency, and productivity of the ...

Inventions, innovations, and creativity are cornerstones of technology-based industries. Organizations working in technology-intensive industries must constantly balance creativity with order and innovation with efficiency. In this paper, I focus on organizational innovations as potential sources of competitive advantage. Strategic assets can be assessed with the VRIO framework. Strategic asset...

Business processes executed in organization are automated through a workflow system. Currently, there are several metamodels for business process and workflow process modelling. However, the limitations of these metamodels are twofold: First, the use of organizational structure aspects is limited and second they don’t support business (sub)process patterns based on organizational structure aspe...

This paper develops and empirically tests a research framework that models the role of technological, organizational and environmental factors in organizational intention toward E-procurement systems. The partial least square analysis of survey data of 211 firms in China demonstrates that technological factors including perceived efficiency benefits and perceived ease, organizational factors in...

A multi-agent system can be analyzed and specified as an organization consisting of roles and their relations. The performance of an organization depends on many factors among which the type of its organizational structure, i.e., the set of relations holding between its roles. This work focuses on the structure of organizations and addresses the issue of the analysis, evaluation, and comparison...

PURPOSE The purpose of this paper is to contribute to increased understanding of the concept agile and its potential for hospital managers to optimize design of organizational structures and processes to combine internal efficiency and external effectiveness. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH An integrative review was conducted using the reSEARCH database. Articles met the following criteria: first...

Background: Organizational cynicism is one of the important behavioral issues affecting employee performance, thereby reducing organizational efficiency. This study aims to design and evaluate a model for antecedents and consequences of organizational cynicism in employees of an industrial company in Iran. Materials and Methods: In this applied descriptive-correlational study, the statistical ...

The performance of hospital buildings depends to a large degree on the efficiency of maintenance execution. The research objectives were to examine the efficiency of maintenance under alternative maintenance policies and alternative sources of labour (outsourcing vs. in-house). The research focused on main-tenance of hospital buildings as a model for multi-system buildings operating in dynamic ...

BACKGROUND Several factors including emotional intelligence affect the efficiency of people. It seems that organizational behavior of each person is strongly influenced by emotional intelligence. Therefore, the present study is aimed to examine the relationship between emotional intelligence and organizational citizenship behavior in critical and emergency nurses in teaching hospitals supervise...