This article presents a case study of the transition of Unitech Systems from an entrepreneurship to a professionally managed firm. It also describes an approach to the development of a system for “performance optimization” that involves reconceptualizing the role of strategic planning as a tool for overall organizational development and strategic management as well as certain “experiments” with...

Caring and humanism in hospitals exist on both the organizational and the individual levels. This paper identifies key organizations and foundations that have succeeded in promoting or fostering caring environments in hospitals. These include the Picker Institute, the Baptist Healing Trust, Sage Consulting, and the Caritas Consortium. Exemplary, caring clinicians in hospitals are also described...

Research has shown that failing to recognize and understand organizational subgroups, their cultures, and their reward systems can result in a failure of system adoption. Infrastructure building projects for science are complex forms of collaborative work that involve many subgroups. As part of an ongoing research project, we use ethnographic methods to explore the roles, categories, and relati...

In this research, the factors affectinguniversity employees’ motivation and productivity are identified and classified in seven groups; the impact of each motivation factor on the productivity is presented by ANP fuzzy model.Eight universities in Iran were analyzed in this research work. The aim of this study is to explore the productivity of employees. This paper attempts to give new insights ...

This study aims to determine the effect of job characteristics and organizational citizenhip behavior on performance lecturers at Faculty Economics Business, Islamic University. The sample in this were 40 Business UIR. analytical method used is a structural equation model using SMARTPLS. results prove that have significant Riau Job are proven create psychological conditions, namely meaningful w...

20 Target What is againsharing program? On a tactical level, a gainsharing plan is simply a group incentive plan a pay for performance program under which employees as a group earn bonuses for cooperating to improve plant performance. On a strategic level, gainsharing is a key motivational/reward system which emphasizes using employee ideas and suggestions for imprOVing overall organizational e...

A key strategy for driving improvements in health care quality is providing comparative quality information to consumers. This strategy will not work, and could even be counterproductive, unless (1) consumers are convinced that quality problems are real and consequential and that quality can be improved; (2) purchasers and policymakers make sure that quality reporting is standardized and univer...

OBJECTIVE The study examined the self-reported psychosocial work environment for audiologists working in three practice types (public, completely private, and private but publicly funded). DESIGN A cross-sectional e-mail survey using the demand-control-support questionnaire, a short version of the effort-reward imbalance (ERI) questionnaire, and descriptive data. STUDY SAMPLE Five-hundred S...

introduction: due to the fact that nurses constitute the highest percentage of hospital staff and quality of health care is largely influenced by their performance, evaluation of the internal environment from their perspective can greatly indicate the improvement and the strength points of the hospital. this study aimed to clarify nurses’ view regarding the status of the internal environment co...

Some new constructions of parallelisms in PG(3, q) are given that produce parallelisms consisting of one Desarguesian spread and q + q derived Knuth semifield spreads and other types consisting of one Knuth semifield spread, one Hall spread and the remaining spreads are derived Knuth semifield spreads.