While many researchers devoted numerous articles to the organizational culture, relatively few articles have been contributed to culture and performance research. The purpose of this study is to shed light on the role of organizational culture on performance. To achieve this goal and in order to measure organizational culture, Denison organizational culture model was used. The components of thi...

Here the study focuses on motivation as one of the most important factors that may contribute to employee performance has been examined in relation to the nationalized banking sector in India. It will be observed in this study that the most important factors that motivate employees are, respectively, "salary equitable and promotion", "health benefit extended facilities and other social" and "wo...

This study examines strategic behavior in “360-degree” performance appraisal systems, in which an employee is evaluated by her supervisor as well as her colleagues. Using proprietary data from a mid-sized Chinese public accounting firm, we find that employees manipulate their ratings of peers (i.e., colleagues within the same hierarchical rank of the company). Specifically, they downgrade ratin...

BACKGROUND To improve workers' health and well-being, workplace interventions have been developed, but utilization and reach are unsatisfactory, and effects are small. In recent years, new approaches such as mobile health (mHealth) apps are being developed, but the evidence base is poor. Research is needed to examine its potential and to assess when, where, and for whom mHealth is efficacious i...

Problem statement: Two methods for performance appraisal that are discussed in this study and they are Management By Objective (MBO) and Assessment Centre techniques. Employees are appraised for several reasons, the most important of which is to realize the best use of human resources and to plan for future needs; reward and punishment are secondary. Assessment Centre evaluation or appraisal is...

The performance appraisal is a relevant process to keep and improve the competitiveness of companies in nowadays. In spite of this relevance, the current performance appraisal models are not sufficiently well-defined either designed for the evaluation framework in which they are defined. This paper proposes a performance appraisal model where the assessments are modelled by means of linguistic ...

the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between strategic thinking and performance of employees who worked in libraries’ employees of ilam university. research method was descriptive –correlational in which especially structural equation modeling was used. all of libraries’ employees of ilam university (n=200) was made the population of study and via morgan’s table 127 sub...

introduction: medical records department (mrd) is important for evaluating, planning and prioritizing health care services. the major aim of this study was to evaluate the performance of the mrds of hospitals using multi-criteria decision-making approach in the selected hospitals of isfahan city, iran. methods: this was an analytical and cross-sectional study that was conducted in spring 2008 i...