Volleyball is an increasingly popular team sport. As with any competitive sport, there is an inherent risk of injury that must be recognized and collaboratively managed. This article provides a practical approach to the management of volleyball injuries within a team or organization. A brief review of the epidemiological data is presented which establishes (i) ankle sprain, (ii) shoulder overus...

This introduction briefly summarizes the six articles that makeup this special issue on IT and process reengineering, and places them against a backdrop of the role of IT within the 21 century organization. Maintaining high-quality information technology (IT) is essential as organizations move toward a "system of systems" and a "team of team." Added to this milieu of managed change are emerging...

Registered advanced nurse practitioners (RANPs) are recognised as senior decision makers within the emergency department team (ED). The RANP employs a range of skills such as comprehensive health history, advanced physical examination, problem solving, clinical decision-making, and expert judgment to formulate diagnoses andmanagement plans for their patient’s health care needs (Gibbons, 2013). ...

Teamwork contributes to a considerable improvement in quality and quantity of the ultimate outcome. Collaboration and alliance between team members bring a substantial progress for any business. However, it is imperative to acquire an appropriate team since many factors must be considered in this regard. Team size may represent the effectiveness of a team and it is of paramount importance to de...

the venture capitalists are experts in the financing of high-risk and entrepreneurial start-ups. “exit” or “cashing out” is the normal end to any investment. there will come a day when a venture capitalist will want to decide to sell or decrease his shares. this decision is multi-criteria and the research is focused on identifying factors affecting vc’s exit process and attempts to determine th...

Initial stage of a disaster is managed with existing resources. The following stages of disaster response often involve assistance from outside of the disaster zone. This may consist of mutual aid from neighboring communities for small-scale incidents but in major disasters, the response is from federal or international agencies or often both. Rapid needs assessment after an incident is a colla...

BACKGROUND Trends in laboratory automation and critical project principles and design concepts are presented. APPROACH MDS AutoLab technology development and automation projects were reviewed. Successful methods and approaches were extracted. ISSUES Continued pressure on the laboratory to reduce costs and increase productivity has catalyzed dramatic development in laboratory automation. Tod...

Chris Kimble Abstract This article explores some of the challenges faced when managing virtual teams, in particular the role played by trust and identity in virtual teams. It outlines why teams and virtual teams have become a valuable part of the modern organization and presents ten short case studies that illustrate the range of activities in which virtual teams can be found. Following this, t...

Most mobile business processes are executed under uncertain and dynamic working environments. This makes the traditional centralized approach for the management of mobile tasks inappropriate to respond to the changes in working environment quickly as collecting the changing information from geographically distributed workforces in real time is expensive if not impossible. This raises the need o...

In software development, human technical skills and realization experience are the inputs for the success of the project. It requires the high level of human intensity to the allocated module which is finally integrated into a complete project. In spite of the hard work, many issues such as bugs and enhancement requests need to be tracked and managed. So, tracing system is used. It will increas...