in today's complex, tension - striken and tumultuous world, the profession and private life of individuals are so comingled to each other, - and even the profession life often have dominated their private life - that made the organizations to pay more attention to the quality of their employees' profession life. so one of the most important objectives of individuals is to find a reput...

Organizations survive or disappear primarily thanks to the quality of management that leads them. Decision-making is not the only, but the basic function of management that contributes most to the success or failure of the organization.  e manager is the one who makes decisions and decision-making is the essence of planning. Planning is the fi rst and most important function of management as a...

To succeed in the global marketplace, companies must reposition themselves to tap the sources of sustainable growth. After failing to connect information technology investments with business performance, successful senior managers today know that ‘effective use of information’ does not equal merely a new IT solution. Instead, business performance can only be improved with an excellence at using...

Implementing an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system project is a difficult and high cost proposition as it places tremendous demands on organization’s time and resources. The ERP implementation literature contains many case studies of organizations that have implemented ERP systems successfully. However, many organizations do not achieve success in their ERP implementation projects. Much ...

The growing importance of Information System (IS) to support business operation demands for adequate IS planning. Good IS planning enables organizations to closely align the IS and strategic business objectives. Such alignment ultimately ensures organizations to gain competitive advantages from IS-related investment. Despite extensive works to understand SISP practices in large organizations, w...

A recent survey of the state of strategic planning among healthcare organizations indicates that planners and executives believe that healthcare strategic planning practices are effective and provide the appropriate focus and direction for their organizations. When compared to strategic planning practices employed outside of the healthcare field, however, most healthcare strategic planning proc...

in order to survive in today's competitive world, organizations are looking to increase their efficiency and effectiveness. therefore, they should focus on inputs that are more important than the rest of the inputs in their success. this paper aimed at ranking 7ms (management, man power, marketing, material, machinery, methods and money) and their sub-criteria of production in iran. by imp...

the effect of organizational knowledge creation on organizational adaptive capacitycase study: employees of university of tabrizabstractnowadays, organizations success depends on their ability to adapt to the changing environmental factors. in other words change in today’s world is rapid and successful adaptation is an important part of success in today’s era. accordingly, adaptability capacity...