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entering into the third millennium and current information age, organizations andpeople are increasingly using technologies and networks. in recent decades,technological progresses have rapidly dominated the world. in this vein, theemergence of the internet in different aspects of life is considered to be the greatestdevelopment of the 21st century. the internet, along with technologicaladvance...

Successful organizations take action to ensure that they have the human resources to meet their current and future business needs. Organizations require much greater flexibility to account for individual needs than in the past and have to find new ways to manage resulting challenges. Talent Management (TM) will play a critical role in this context to help businesses succeed. Talent Managem...

Severe range degradation was critically extended in many region of Iran and caused many rangelands were restricted and interwoven with croplands in a complex system. Therefore, rangeland planning and inventory as an isolated activity has become almost impossible. Current landscape planning involves contributions of different social organizations often with different interests and with different...

According to the great management guru Peter Ducker "the organizations’ have only two functions, one is marketing and other is innovation." Rural markets are characterized with huge potential for marketers, but at the same time pose several challenges to serve them with similar set of marketing mix used in urban settings. The main challenges in rural marketing are: Physical distribution, Channe...

Rapid urbanization on the coast of China has attracted much attention. The objective of this study was to explore the differences in dynamics and related driving forces between urban and rural settlements. Applying the quantitative method, we demonstrate that substantial heterogeneity in settlement growth, landscape pattern metrics, change, land sources and driving forces is exhibited across th...

introduction today exploiting the participation and the abilities of local people, particularly rural population, toward rural development has been considered as one of the effective strategies toward sustainable and comprehensive development of rural areas. the most important tool to achieve this goal is establishing ngos based on the needs as well as abilities of different groups living in th...