Professor Naoki Ikegami’s “Fee-for-service payment – an evil practice that must be stamped out” summarizes many of the failings of alternatives to fee-for-service (FFS) payment systems. His article also offers several suggestions for improving FFS systems. However, even powerful arguments against many of the alternatives to FFS, does not make a convincing argument for FFS systems. In addition, ...

teleworking as an innovative way has many benefits in governmental, organizational and individual levels, but it faced with different variables in plan and implementation which is caused to low acceptance rate in organizations. by identifying and controlling these variables, managers and decision-makers can use teleworking programs in their organizations. the aim of this study is to investigate...

introduction: increase of environmental challenges inevitably changes our methods; challenges such as rapid change, diversity of workforce, globalization, evolution and transformation of business and family roles, lack of skills and emergence of service sector affect not only the organizational structure but also the nature and functional role of business. in response to these environmental cha...

keeping and retaining of professional staff in organizations and increase their performance have always been the concern of many organizations and companies in competitive situation.  achievement of these objectives, depends on many factors such as perceiving organization and supervisor supports by the staff. in this research, the effect of perceived organizational and supervisor support on org...

customer knowledge management (ckm) has been a subject of much attention in recent years. the attractiveness of this subject is the result of its benefits for organizations; but despite the benefits of ckm implementation, many projects aimed at implementing ckm in organizations fail due to companies’ negligence with respect to its implementation factors. meanwile the majority of organizations u...

In the developed countries, many organizations are regarded a...

information accompanied with the technology supporting it is valuable asset in many organizations. as organizations are highly depended on it, implementing it effective governance is necessary for them. it governance areas affecting business are strategic alignment, risk management, performance management, resource management and providing value.  successful performances need a mix of structure...

Leaders play crucial roles in their enterprises. Most modern organizations today, such as corporations and government departments, have no leaders. About 80% of all top structures, are run by inertia leaderless organizations. These pretense-pseudo structures filled roles, CEO, Department Head/Secretary, EVP, VP, others, but this non-accountable system mostly harms than benefits the organization...