AIM To develop a model for high reliability in health care quality and patient safety. BACKGROUND A high-reliability health organization (HRO) has measurable near perfect performance in quality and safety. High reliability is necessary in health care where the consequences of error are high and the frequency is low. KEY ISSUES Despite a decade of intense focus on quality and safety since a ...

This paper reports findings from an ongoing study to understand the dynamics of operational reliability. Previously, the study identified weaknesses in organizational settings that inhibited learning opportunities, specifically the ability to learn from failure (Sullivan et al., 2008). Effective organizational learning strategies are critical in promoting operational reliability, specifically r...

the purpose of this paper is to design entrepreneurship model of agricultural extension in the context of agricultural sustainable development. in fact the purpose of this paper is to identify the prerequisite (the influential factors of entrepreneurship), process (development of entrepreneurial program in organization); context (extension perspective in the context of agricultural sustainable ...

Despite the increased importance of the role that reliability plays in commercial product development, most companies are still unable to produce reliable software. The practice of software reliability is rare with few techniques that are compatible with commercial schedules and staffing capabilities. Should organizations wait for the next generation of tools, programming languages and developm...

In this article, we extend strategic human resource management (SHRM) thinking to theory and research on high reliability organizations (HROs) using a behavioral approach. After considering the viability of reliability as an organizational performance indicator, we identify a set of eight reliability-oriented employee behaviors (ROEBs) likely to foster organizational reliability and suggest tha...

strategic alliance is a cooperation contract between two or more organizations who want to improve their competitive situation and performance through resource sharing. one of the common types of strategic alliances is the alliance between two organizations working in the same industry. one of those industries which alliances occur most likely is the casting industry. in this regard, this resea...

Mainstream organizations typically struggle in their quest to combine effectiveness with efficiency, or reliability with flexibility. Experimentation and trial-and-error are regarded as important processes for organizational learning, but do not always lead to an organizational-wide optimum in terms of efficiency. Certain organizations, so-called High Reliability Organizations (HROs), exist tha...

This paper examines the problem of risk mitigation in virtual organizations (VO's). We begin by discussing risk propensity in virtual organizations, and draw on a variety of research to suggest processes important in obtaining high levels of reliable performance Collab-U CMC Play E-Commerce Symposium Net Law InfoSpaces Usenet NetStudy VEs Página 1 de 32 Risk Mitigation in Virtual Organizations ...

Employee satisfaction in public health service organizations is meeting the expectations of employees with respect to psychological, structural and environmental factors. Many authors have studied employee satisfaction in different context in different organizations. This study tries to determine factors affecting employee satisfaction in PHSOs; to know the reliability and validity of items & f...