background: high-risk unsafe behaviors (hrubs) have been known as the main cause of occupational accidents. considering the financial and societal costs of accidents and the limitations of available resources, there is an urgent need for managing unsafe behaviors at workplaces. the aim of the present study was to find strategies for decreasing the rate of hrubs using an integrated approach of s...

Recognizing that the strategic performance of a business can not be evaluated using traditional financial measures alone, the balanced score card (BSC) complements financial measures with non-financial measures in the expectation that the non-financial performance will drive the financial success of the business. However, when the BSC is deployed at the departmental level, the commonly used hie...

Although many employers offer some components of worksite-based population health management (PHM), most do not yet invest in comprehensive programs. This hesitation to invest in comprehensive programs may be attributed to numerous factors, such as other more pressing business priorities, reluctance to intervene in the personal health choices of employees, or insufficient funds for employee hea...

The use of nonfinancial measures in management control systems of firms has generated considerable interest among practitioners as well as researchers. The principal rationale presented to justify the use of nonfinancial measures for performance evaluation has been that nonfinancial measures are leading indicators of financial performance (Kaplan and Norton 1992; Ittner and Larcker 1998b). Most...