a vast number of organizational projects as well as complexity of decision making process can cause particular challenges for project management and its leadership. in order to use organization assets and opportunities efficiently, it is necessary that manager implement a comprehensive multidimensional project portfolio management system that considers economic, social and technical details of ...

nowadays, with increasing service industries, service marketing and service quality have become an important challenge to organizations. the attempts of organizations in this situation are witnesses to this matter. in the past years, the organizations tried to reach service quality appropriation and satisfaction of self-external customers by concepts and approaches of external marketing. one of...

background: a cross sectional study conducted to identify the organizational factors associated to the occupational stress among lecturers in selected community colleges, peninsular malaysia. methods: study was conducted by using cluster-sampling method and 189 self-administrated questionnaires were distributed. a validated malay version of job content questionnaire (jcq) was used to obtain the...

The experience of job insecurity has been related to several organizational outcomes, both immediate and long-term. However, since the strength of these effects have been found to vary across studies, it is essential to identify factors that could influence the relationships. The current study examines interaction effects between job insecurity and organizational justice (distributive, procedur...

the results of studies conducted show that one of the main challenges of iranian agricultural higher education system is limited interaction with the environment. the primary purpose of this study was to identifying organizational variables affecting improvement of interaction status of iranian agricultural colleges within the organizational health concept. target population included all of fac...

In this paper, we report some of the activities carried on in the last years by the research group leaded by Alberto Martelli. In particular, it presents a research line that encompasses the specification, the development and the verification of interaction protocols. The leading thread is given by the use of multimodal logics and of declarative formalisms and reasoning techniques, based on com...

CMAssist is a new effort in our lab, the CORAL research group, to study the research issues surrounding human-robot interaction in unmodified indoor home and office environments. Our focus is on methods for interaction between the human and the robot that are similar to natural human-human interactions. In 2006, we placed 2nd out of 11 teams in the first ever RoboCup@Home international human ro...

In this paper, we empirically explore designer-user interaction patterns in the design refinement process. To do this, we ask the following research question--what do interactions between designers and users characterize distinctive patterns in the design refinement process? As an empirical approach, this study analyzed twenty-seven design refinement project narratives with a grounded theory ap...

Nowadays governmental authorities as well as companies have to manage a rising number of dynamic inter-organizational business relationships, calling for means that allow for their efficient and effective management (Hagel & Singer, 2008). Gartner Research emphasizes the increased relevance of information technology (IT) in this context: “We expect that by 2011, midsizeand large companies will ...