Background: Stewardship, resource generation, financing, and providing services are the 4 main functions in any health system. Using intelligence and common sense in making policies and decisions is a subcomponent of the stewardship. The present study aimed at designing a model that provides better access to the stakeholders’ wisdom.    Methods: This was a qualitative study in ...

We study the computational complexity of one of the particular cases of the knapsack problem: the subset sum problem. For solving this problem we consider one of the basic variants of the Branch-and-Bound method in which any sub-problem is decomposed along the free variable with the maximal weight. By the complexity of solving a problem by the Branchand-Bound method we mean the number of steps ...

background many organisations have realised the importance of human resource for their competitive advantage. empowering employees is therefore essential for organisational effectiveness. this study aimed to investigate the relationship between employee participation with outcome variables such as organisational commitment, job satisfaction, perception of justice in an organisation and readines...

Priority setting of health interventions is generally considered as a valuable approach to support low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in their strive for universal health coverage (UHC). However, present initiatives on priority setting are mainly geared towards the development of more cost-effectiveness information, and this evidence does not sufficiently support countries to make optimal...

while the growth of mis investment and its influence is making mis evaluation ever more indispensable, little attention has been paid to assessing and communicating system effectiveness. this paper attempts to empirically assess the effectiveness of integrated human resource information system in iranian oil industry. as suggested by recent research, the widely accepted is success model is ba...

The main objective of the present survey is to conduct a comparative analysis of the challenges of the performance evaluation system in two private and public sectors and their impact on effectiveness of human resources management practices. This survey was conducted using the field-descriptive method. The historical study method was used to collect theoretical subjects and the field study meth...