BACKGROUND Small manufacturing businesses often lack important safety programs. Many reasons have been set forth on why this has remained a persistent problem. METHODS The National Machine Guarding Program (NMGP) was a nationwide intervention conducted in partnership with two workers' compensation insurers. Insurance safety consultants collected baseline data in 221 business using a 33-questi...

Implementing large strategic IS in the UK health sector has recently become the subject of much debate, as hospitals have undergone wide-reaching government-led institutional reforms involving the introduction of IT. Many of the developments have followed the patterns in the U.S. One such example is that of Case Mix, introduced strategically as part of the Resource Management Initiative and aim...

In the last decades, Knowledge Management has gained momentum as an important tool for competitiveness of organizations. A number of Knowledge Management approaches are described in the literature. Some authors focus in particular on the importance of Knowledge Audit, first, as a start point for any Knowledge Management initiative, and second, as a regular base for the measurement of Knowledge ...

The aim of this research is the analysis of management ability using accounting and corporate governance criteria and also artificial intelligence. The primary independent variables in this study include regulatory variables (characteristics of corporate governance and audit committee) and accounting variables (performance and risk criteria). We took advantage of Demirjian index to measure mana...

The paper proposes a knowledge audit methodology which has been particularly developed focusing on core processes approach. Organizational and knowledge management criteria are considered to select the core processes to be audited. The knowledge audit methodology proposed contains ten stages: Acquire organizational strategic information and identify organizational processes; Identify organizati...

Methods Baseline awareness surveys and hypothermia management audits were completed. A program was designed that was inclusive of patients, family and staff and was aimed at creating awareness and knowledge surrounding the importance of hypothermia prevention in the surgical patient. Patients were provided with preadmission information about keeping warm and staff educated regarding the human i...

According to a method of earnings management activities that administrators can manage reported earnings from the definition of real activity. In particular they can be located across time and activities in a way that accounting period to achieve a certain revenue target. Conservative attitudes of auditors in presenting their views about the independence of the auditor can considered as a remar...

in this study, the effect of audit quality on agency costs and information asymmetry has been examined. among the accepted companies 99 ones in tehran stock exchange were selected for statistical samples from 1385 to 1392 in order to attain the research purposes. to measure the audit quality, it has been used the observable variables such as the percentage of institutional investors, the type o...

In modern organizations, Information and Communication Technologies are used to support the organizations’ activities. To manage the quality of the organization processes, audit processes are implemented. Also, the audit processes can aim the quality of ICT systems themselves because their involvement in organization processes. The paper investigates the ways in which a quality management can b...