BACKGROUND Disparate health care provider attitudes about autonomy, teamwork, and administrative operations have added to the complexity of health care delivery and are a central factor in medicine's unacceptably high rate of errors. Other industries have improved their reliability by applying innovative concepts to interpersonal relationships and administrative hierarchical structures (Chandle...

______________________________________________________________________________ High Reliability Organizations (HROs) are organizations with processes that have extremely low failure rates, because the costs of failures are extremely high. According to Weick, et al. (2008) key aspects of HROs are: preoccupation with failure, reluctance to simplify, sensitivity to operations, among others. While ...

today’s world economy situation forces enterprise organizations toward more soft and flexible organization, management, and production processes. they need to explore the most suitable knowledge management (km) tool not only to identify gaps and overlaps but also to maintain and support innovation cross organizations. in this study, a multiple-experts-multiple-criteria decision making model is ...

health status of individuals and organizations allows expected to have higher performance. due to the fast moving world of today's globalization managers to have a healthy organization must be equipped with a weapon called cultural intelligence. cultural intelligence as an ability to function effectively in different cultural environments is defined.this study examines the effects of cultu...

This article explores the critical factors and issues that impede the performance of software reliability modeling science. The literature review indicates that software reliability models have not delivered the desirable deliverables that they are intended to realize. The current work suggests that the reasons for such performance incompetence of the software reliability modeling are attribute...

The use of highly iterative software development methodologies, such as Agile and Lean, have been growing. However, these methodologies do not explicitly provide practices for managing and measuring software quality. This deficiency may prevent software development organizations in critical domains from transforming from traditional development to highly iterative development. These organizatio...

INTRODUCTION Reliability or its square root, accuracy, is often reported by breeding organizations and required by Interbull along with estimated breeding values. In theory, reliability is calculated as a function of genetic variance and elements of the inverse of the coefficient matrix of the mixed model equations that are used to estimate breeding values. In practice, approximation methods ar...

we compare two approaches for a markovian model in flexible manufacturing systems (fmss) using monte carlo simulation. the model which is a development of fazlollahtabar and saidi-mehrabad (2013), considers two features of automated flexible manufacturing systems equipped with automated guided vehicle (agv) namely, the reliability of machines and the reliability of agvs in a multiple agv jobsho...