This paper suggests that the Irish experience of social partnership does not fully overlap with mainstream employment relations literature on the topic. Three features in particular distinguish the Irish case. One is the importance attached to a procedural consensus that allows advances to be made on partnership at work without full agreement between employers and unions about the substantive e...

Introduction: Learning procedural skills is one of the essentialaspects of undergraduate medical education. However, learningprocedural skills in clinical settings is less widely considered.This study aimed to explore the Iranian undergraduate medicalstudents’ perception of learning procedural skills and its outcomesin three universities of medical sciences in Iran...

the purpose of this study was to investigating the effect of organizational justice and organizational citizenship behavior mediated by the quality of work life. population of the study was all male and female staffs' mazandaran university (n=419). research sample was included 156 persons who were selected with random sampling method across staffs' mazandaran university. for data gath...

Decision support often focuses on substantive rationality (what to choose). The procedural rationality (how to choose) of the process of long-term strategic decision making is then often neglected. In strategic decision making, supporting the decision process is more important than supporting the search for an ‘‘optimal’’ solution to the problem, especially since for most policy problems a well...

This article offers a critical assessment of Jürgen Habermas’s discourse theory of democracy. It suggests that the main thrust of a discursive account of legitimacy is the attempt to show how the demands of maximal democratic inclusion might be reconciled with a politics of reasoned agreements. While this aim is endorsed, the thrust of the argument is that a critical theory of democracy require...