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effective knowledge sharing as one of the basic aspects of knowledge management can be considered as one of the most important successes in changing and complicated contexts of sport organizations. the aim of this study was to study the effects of intrinsic and extrinsic motivations on knowledge sharing in employees of physical education organizations of isfahan. the research method used descri...

Quality improvement in health care has a long history that includes such epic figures as Ignaz Semmelweis, the nineteenth-century obstetrician who introduced hand washing to medical care, and Florence Nightingale, the English nurse who determined that poor living conditions were a leading cause of the deaths of soldiers at army hospitals. Systematic and sustained improvement in clinical quality...

Flawless execution rests in the hands of nurse managers. No one can work alone in health care any more. We are interdependent and know that the best outcomes happen when practices are organized around collegial supportive structures rather than autonomous competitive units. We are only as strong as our weakest link. If all managers see the big picture and look beyond their units for what is rig...

Growing concern about patient safety and healthcare quality has led some to borrow principles of reliability from industries with exceptional records of safety and reliability. Enhancing the quality of clinical decisions is fundamental to quality improvement. This paper argues that commitment to reliability enables the effective deployment of informatics tools that are, in turn, essential for e...

The availability of valid and reliable tool to assess turnover intent in any organization is essential. This study aimed translate intention scale Urdu for employees working diverse organizations (universities, banks, hospitals). For this purpose, forward backward translation methods were adopted. After determining cross language validation, factor validity was confirmed through Confirmatory an...

Halverson and Isham (2003) quote sources that report the accidental death rate of simply being in a hospital is "...four hundred times more likely than your risk of death from traveling by train, forty times higher than driving a car, and twenty times higher than flying in a commercial aircraft" (p. 13). High-reliability organizations such as nuclear power plants and aircraft carriers have been...

Due to high cost of fixing failures, safety concerns, and legal liabilities, organizations need to produce software that is highly reliable. Software reliability growth models have been developed by software developers in tracking and measuring the growth of reliability. Most of the Software Reliability Growth Models, which have been proposed, treat the event of software fault detection in the ...

the main purpose followed in this study was to analyze the factors influencing on rural women’s participation in post harvest activities in asara, karaj. the statistical population included all the rural women who inhabit asara and are over 15 years of age (n= 2810). a sample of 110 rural women was selected through stratified random sampling method. a questionnaire was designed to collect data....

performance evaluation is one of the most important management agendas as key to achieving continuous improvement in the ability to evaluate the ongoing performance of the organization. many organizations have realized the importance of ongoing evaluation of performance and performance appraisal systems employ a variety of organizations. in this regard between 1850 and 1975, only on the basis o...