The current research investigated cultural differences in emotional intelligence among top officers on board vessels of multicultural maritime companies. We found that Southeast Asian officers scored higher than European officers on the total Emotional Intelligence scale. When separating the EQ scale in its facets, higher scores for Asian officers were found on "Utilization of emotions", "Handl...

Bioethics has been the leading area of ethical focus and concern in the hospital industry. This focus on clinical operations and performance dominates the field of health care ethics. Much less attention has been paid to administrative ethics dealing with management concerns and overall organizational culture. This study examines what forces, both internal and external, cause hospital chief exe...

International new ventures (INVs) that pursue rapid internationalisation have received a growing amount of attention worldwide. This study, therefore, examined characteristics of INVs, and hence investigated empirically the relationships among the technological characteristics of INVs, the characteristics of their chief executive officers (CEOs) (i.e., global orientation), and their internation...

This study explored the impact of online talent management systems on personnel recruiting, attraction, retention, and overall company performance. It involved 135 graduates working in international companies 46 top managers chief executive officers (CEOs). Surveys interviews matters related to use were conducted. encompasses five stages is projected take from 2 4.5 years be put into practice. ...

C orporate strategy is heavily influenced by its military roots. The very language of strategy is imbued with military references – chief executive ‘‘officers’’ in ‘‘headquarters’’, ‘‘troops’’ on the ‘‘front lines.’’ Described this way, strategy is about confronting an opponent and fighting over a given piece of land that is both limited and constant. Traditionally, strategy focused on beating ...

BACKGROUND Decreasing hospital length of stay, and so freeing up hospital beds, represents an important cost saving which is often used in economic evaluations. The savings need to be accurately quantified in order to make optimal health care resource allocation decisions. Traditionally the accounting cost of a bed is used. We argue instead that the economic cost of a bed day is the better valu...

OBJECTIVES To identify the critical dimensions of hospital Chief Executive Officers' (CEOs) involvement in a quality and safety and to offer practical guidance to assist CEOs to fulfil their leadership role in quality improvement (QI). DESIGN Qualitative interview study. SETTING 20 organisations participating in the main phase of the Safer Patients Initiative (SPI) programme across the UK. ...

IT performance measurement is often associated by chief executive officers with IT cost cutting although IT protects business processes from increasing IT costs. IT cost cutting only endangers the company’s efficiency. This opinion discriminates those who do IT performance measurement in companies as a bean-counter. The present paper describes an integrated reference model for IT performance me...

Concern continues to be expressed about the rapid rise of health care costs in the United States, its present impact, implications for the future, and alternative policies aimed at moderating the increase. For example, a 1990 survey of 821 chief executive officers of businesses in Wisconsin revealed that 67 percent perceived health costs as "substantially out of control" with 96 percent respond...

Methods All 86 acute public Health Services in Victoria were funded to participate and submit three hand hygiene compliance audits per year. Education, resources and auditor training was provided. Healthcare worker hand hygiene compliance was assessed by direct observation using a tool based on the WHO 5 Moments. In 2009 an organisational hand hygiene compliance benchmark was included in the He...