Organizations operating on market and trying to work and make progress successfully have to act globally. Last decade of last century proved that the period of global competitiveness started, which is identified by penetration of standard of the world’s market and international orientation of organizations. Introduction of management quality system according to requirements of standard ISO 9000...

Knowledge Management (KM) is a process that focuses on knowledge-related activities to facilitate knowledge creation, capture, transformation and use, with the ultimate aim of leveraging organisations’ intellectual capital to achieve organisational objectives. Organisational culture and climate have been identified as major catalysts to knowledge creation and sharing, and hence are considered i...

In today’s highly dynamic business environment, organisational creativity is one of the most important sources of competitive advantage. Although the unpredictability of creativity makes it difficult to plan for, it may still be possible to facilitate it given that we understand what affects it. In the first argumentative part of this paper, the author criticises the demand for organisational c...

Despite the growth of interest in the field of CSCW, and the increasingly large number of systems which have been developed, it is still the case that few systems have been adopted for widespread use. To gain such adoption involves migrating systems which currently exist as research prototypes out of the laboratory and into the wider environment, requiring developers to address problems such as...

The utilisation of social media in the workplace has attracted much speculation in the business community in relation to its risks and benefits. However, intra-organisational dimensions affecting such ustilisation are yet to be holistically considered. Grounded in the scholarly literature, a survey questionnaire was operationalized and empirical data collected and analysed using PLS. The result...

This paper presents an exploratory and qualitative work of a novel model for the selection of the most adequate logistics providers to compose virtual organisations. It includes a performance measurement model and a supporting methodology that considers the intrinsic dynamics, autonomy and temporality of virtual organisations, involving both intra and inter-organisational strategic indicators. ...

The potential of Information Age technology to support collaboration at a distance invites military forces to create agile mission groups, which can form, adapt and re-form rapidly and sympathetically to changing circumstances. Managing such an agile capability will require agile headquarters, as part of a wider Information Age Command and Control concept. This paper explores the implications o...

The influence of organisational factors on the quality of hospital coding using the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Health Related Problems, 10th Revision, Australian Modification (ICD-10-AM) was investigated using a mixed quantitative-qualitative approach. The organisational variables studied were: hospital specialty; geographical locality; structural characteristics o...

OBJECTIVE This study aims to identify individual and organisational determinants associated with the use of ergonomic devices during patient handling activities. METHODS This cross-sectional study was carried out in 19 nursing homes and 19 hospitals. The use of ergonomic devices was assessed through real-time observations in the workplace. Individual barriers to ergonomic device use were iden...

this study is carried out to determine effective risk factors for early death and their causes in those who died due to intra cerebral hemorrhage within 30 days.materials and methods: from patients who have been admitted in neurologic ward of imam khomeini hospital in tabriz, we enrolled 100 patients with intra cerebral hemorrhage and the causes and risk factors effective in early death were ev...