A key enabler of environmental projects is the ability of the project champion to gain commitment to the project from other stakeholders in his or her organization. This paper develops a model of commitment-gaining success that is based on intra-organizational influence theory. The model also includes the project payback, customer pressure, government regulation, top management support and the ...

In this study, we have a research of the information system development research based on the middle managers competency evaluation. According to the different factors like work contents, nature and positioning, the enterprise human resources can be divided into three main categories of senior managers, middle managers and general staff, among which middle managers, as backbone elements of the ...

BACKGROUND The theory of middle managers' role in implementing healthcare innovations hypothesized that middle managers influence implementation effectiveness by fulfilling the following four roles: diffusing information, synthesizing information, mediating between strategy and day-to-day activities, and selling innovation implementation. The theory also suggested several activities in which mi...

The role of middle managers in agriculture and agribusiness has been neglected by applied—as well as disciplinary—research, while gaining increasing importance in practice. This study provides an overview of middle management research and analyzes middle managers’ authority in human resource decision-making and human resource management practices based on in-depth interviews analyzed through a ...

background and objectives: evidence increasingly highlights the impact of emotional intelligence in managers on the productivity and performance of their organizations. given the importance of decision-making in the management process, this study explored the relationship between emotional intelligence and decision-making quality in hospital managers. methods: a cross-sectional questionnaire-ba...

the study aims to review library administrators, role in strategic planning to improve staffs, practice in sari universities. it is a descriptive-survey study. the statistical population includes 41 library administrators and staff in sari province but 35 subjects responded to the questionnaire used to gather the data. the data indicate that there is a significant relationship between administr...

Escalation of commitment to a failing course of action has been studied in the IT literature, where IT managers are shown to continue committing resources to bad project instead of terminating them. We make a case that escalation of commitment can be considered as the problem of not exercising an option to abandon a project at the correct (optimal) time. The value of a real option is time sensi...

Leadership, affective organizational commitment, and job satisfaction have become important processes among the contemporary human resource functions in today’s businesses. This research aims to determine how charismatic leadership of managers affects level commitment white-collar employees whether has any mediation effect this relationship. Based on this, data were collected through questionna...

Background: One of the most important issues in the empowerment and development of managers is to pay attention to organizational commitment and its effect on organizational commitment and productivity in organization managers. Therefore, this research compares the effectiveness of organizational commitment training on the productivity and organizational commitment of managers and project manag...