OBJECTIVES This study describes a computer simulation model that has been developed to explore organizational changes required to improve patient safety based on a medication error reporting system. METHODS Model parameters for the simulation model were estimated from data submitted to the MEDMARX medication error reporting system from 570 healthcare facilities in the U.S. The model's results...

the purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of domestic marketing on the organizational innovation through mediation of the staff self-efficacy. the statistical population of this study includes 150 members of emersam company where the sample members were selected randomly. in order to collect the research data, three questionnaires have been used. these include the questionnaire of...

the aim of this research is to study the relationship between organizational culture and the new measure to evaluate the organization' performance. powerful organizational culture has significantly related with organizational’ performance and it is going to be expected to create value in the organization. but, when the cultural values support organizational adaptation to environmental, the...

in today’s leading organizations, employees’ empowerment is considered as a significant issue in human resource management cycle and it has become a central theme of management functions and practices. the present study aimed to investigate the relationship between empowerment of staffs and organizational commitment with organizational health mediation. the results showed that there is a relati...

the purpose of this article is to examine the relationship between organizational culture and leadership styles. organizational culture is important factor that can be influence organizational performance and also leadership is one of the key parts that can be affected organizational success. however, recognition about the relationship between these two effective factors on organizational perfo...

. Perceived organizational support has been raised as work backbone of employee in the organization and the psychological contracts are also a set of promises that top managers give to support their employees. Therefore, violation of this contract not only involves depriving organizational support, but also reduces the employee's belongings. The main purpose of this paper was to examine the imp...

The emergence of cloud computing services has driven fundamental changes in IT services, and such services are exploding in popularity throughout the world. Cloud computing services enable user access to a range of technologies and applications by increasing business agility and reducing the cost and complexity of providing IT, which in turn improves business efficiency. However, the use of clo...

Alignment between IT systems and the business they support has been considered as a key issue for several years by both researchers and professionals. As [Lufman04] [Reich03] [Tallon02] [Watson97] or [Brancheau96] already showed it, strategic alignment between IS and business objectives is a top priority for CIOs and IT executives. There is also, a large corpus of empirical and theoretical evid...

We use a series of case studies to motivate the analysis of the organizational impact and performance associated with information systems and workflow design topologies. Our study places a special emphasis on processes involving information intensive tasks that require information sharing and extended information access. The role of various information technologies is examined in the light of t...

Web-enabled applications for business-to-business (B2B) procurement are not only expected to reduce the cost of purchasing process but also to alter the activities of purchasing, transform the purchasing process from an operational into a strategic activity, and provide opportunities for improving market coordination by reducing asset specificity and by making additional partners available. Fro...