because of the paramount importance of job satisfaction and due to its main consequences such as reduction of work absence and resignation, personnel promotion and society’s health, and more importantly, its role in achievement of organization goals, this study aimed at investigating the effects of six social factors including personnel’s belief, salary and benefits, participation in organizati...

Background This study aimed to examine Strategic Collaborative Quality Management (SCQM) impact on employee job satisfaction.   Methods The study presents a case study over six years following the implementation of the SCQM programme in a public hospital. A validated questionnaire was used to measure employees’ job satisfaction. The impact of the intervention was measured by comparing the pre-i...

abstract: the aim of this research is to study factors affecting teachers’ job satisfaction in agricultural applied scientific centers in tehran and alborz provinces. research population included all the teachers in the mentioned centers (n=156), 72 of them were selected by stratified random sampling method. the main tool for data collection was a questionnaire whose content validity and reliab...

Background & Aims: Sexual satisfaction has been considered as one of the basic physiological needs, with significant impact on the health of individuals and society. In order to understand this concept better and dealing with crises and issues arising from it, the development of a specific questionnaire for measuring sexual satisfaction among Iranian couples is required. The present study aimed...

Many current spoken dialogue systems for search are domainspecific and do not take into account the preferences of the user and his opinion about the proposed items. In order to provide a more personalized answer, tailored to the user needs, in this paper we propose a spoken dialogue system where user interests are expressed as scores in modular ontologies and his sentiment about the system pro...

Previous information systems (IS) research has paid little attention to the determinants of users’ discontinuance and the consequences of that behaviour. This study investigates the influence of different discontinuance reasons on post-discontinuance word-of-mouth (WOM) communication in the context of mobile location-based services (LBS). Based on existing literature, a theoretical framework is...

one of the main goals of designing urban space is that the urban public spaces provide a place for all age, employment and gender groups. designing an effective model for consolidation and the presence of actors as active citizens is not possible without identifying features and their needs. therefore, this study is conducted to evaluate the adaptation of urmia urban spaces to the needs of wome...

background: in today's competitive world, organizations' survival and success depends on satisfying customer needs and ex­pec­tations. this is particularly important in health care sector where quality of service and customer relations are the key suc­cess factors. the purpose of this research was to determine whether there was a relationship between patient satisfaction and loyalty to the serv...