This paper reflects on work-based mobile learning in the Canadian healthcare system for registered nurses’ ongoing skills development and continuing professional development. It calls on distributed leadership to address the organizational contextual factors for making this mode of learning sustainable.

Growing private and public concern with the environment is pushing businesses to increase their awareness and action. Using the Nordic bank Nordea as a case study and a Green IS organizational response model developed on the basis of extant literature, we investigate how Green IS initiatives become part of a firm’s overall strategy and part of the organizational sustainability process. We find ...

It has been suggested that memory impairments found in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) are mediated by organizational problems in encoding that are caused by primary executive dysfunction. Performance on different nonverbal memory and executive skills was tested in 68 subjects (35 non-depressed OCD sufferers and 33 healthy controls). Multiple regression models were performed to analyze the ...

Workforce diversity is one of the cornerstones of Indian Information Technology (IT) sector’s success as companies need to leverage the skills and talent of a diverse pool of employees. Diversity initiatives and programs in organizations are essentially implemented in order to improve the overall organizational diversity climate. Studies undertaken on diversity climate have revealed that a heal...

One of the dominant themes in the management literature today involves the role of leadership in assuring organizational effectiveness. While less significant in the sociological literature on organizations, the literature on organizational psychology, management, and particularly the popular literature, has elevated the leader/manager into one of the prime determinants of organizational succes...

This paper addresses a crucial issue which is central to technology management since it focuses on the role of R&D-related capabilities as determinants of export performance. Empirical evidence from 202 R&D intensive SMEs indicates that the more advanced stages of internationalization require broader, more aggressive and externally oriented R&D capabilities. Results suggest that more advanced e...

In this paper, we present Moles and Mini Moles, a combination of learning software tools that serve in bridging the gap between inside and outside classroom learning experiences. Secondary school students use these tools for hypothesizing, transferring, and testing lessons learned in the classroom into their physical environment. In particular, students use Moles and Mini Moles to create intera...

A large body of empirical studies shows that religion often serves as a factor promoting positive, healthy outcomes in the lives of American adolescents. Yet existing theoretical explanations for these religious effects remain largely disjointed and fragmented. This article attempts to formulate a more systematic, integrated, and coherent account of religion's constructive influence in the live...

While most newly qualified physicians are well prepared in the science base of medicine and in the skills that enable them to look after individual patients, few have the skills necessary to improve care and patient safety continuously. We apply a systems analysis from the field of human error to identify ways in which medical school education can increase the number of graduates prepared to re...