this paper explored the multiple relationships between intellectual capital (ic) and knowledge management (km) in an iranian university. for intellectual capital, three components were studied including: relational capital, structural capital and human capital. for knowledge management, five processes were considered, namely creation, acquisition, codification, sharing and application. the rela...

Control and evaluation are major secrets of an organization's survival.Universities, as research and educational organizations, need to be evaluated in order to survive. The results of educational activities encompass a vast spectrum including the graduates, researchers and planners, scientific publications, as well as satisfaction of students, parents, profossors and staff (Ramsden, 1996).Th...

we argue that the field of health policy and management (hpam) ought to confront the gap between theory, policy, and practice. although there are perennial efforts to reform healthcare systems, the conceptual barriers are considerable and reflect the theory-policy-practice gap. we highlight four dimensions of the gap: 1) the dominance of microeconomic thinking in health policy analysis and desi...

knowing and applying the basic management functions of planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling, as well as their permutations and combinations, are vital to effective delivery of public health services. presently, graduate programs that prepare public health professionals neither emphasize teaching management theory, nor its application. this deficit puts those who become man...

background: since 2009, evaluation of scholarship in teaching activities of faculty members is considered for their promotion in iran. until now, policies regarding the minimum obligatory scholarship score required for promotion have changed dramatically. the effects of changes in policies on the scholarship activities of faculty members of mashhad university of medical sciences (mums) are eval...

aims: there are several structured self-management education programs which are available nationally for patients with diabetes in the uk. this study was aimed to determine the factors influencing participation of patients with diabetes in the programs. patients and methods: a cross-sectional survey through semi-structured questionnaire distributed to 550 patients attending primary or secondary...

this research seeks to determine the dimensions of organizational forgetting management and prioritize them in university. current research in terms of purpose is applicable. in terms of data, it is quantitative. in terms of method, it is a descriptive-survey research. in this research, for determining the validity of measurement tool, content validity has been used and for calculating the reli...