Organizational integration is a phenomenon occurring inexorably in recent years due to rapid advances in IT and intense competition. Past research has found organizational integration, between and within firms, to be positively-related to performance, with IT resources playing a pivotal role in facilitating this trend. In this paper, we argue that IT resources, comprising of IT assets and capab...

employee empowerment and organizational citizenship behavior have very important roles in the process of accomplishment and continuous development of organizational performance. therefore, the purpose of this article is to determine the relationship between these two variables in employees of qom province pedagogical organization. ninety nine statistical samples were selected from the populatio...

Cognitive deficits are found to be contributors to poorer psychosocial functioning, rehabilitation outcome and lack of treatment success in schizophrenia. Aim of the study was to examine correlation of cognitive functions with some aspects of illness, treatment and social functioning in a group of recurrently hospitalized schizophrenic patients (N=60). Deficient results on psychomotor processin...

In the context of the emerging field of public health services and systems research, this study (i) tested a model of the relationships between public health organizational capacity (OC) for chronic disease prevention, its determinants (organizational supports for evaluation, partnership effectiveness) and one possible outcome of OC (involvement in core chronic disease prevention practices) and...

This study explores the relationship between Perception of organizational structure and human resources development for the employees of Mobarakeh Esfahan Steel Company .For this study a descriptive method of a correlational nature was employed. The statistical population comprised all the Mobarakeh Esfahan Steel Company employees, from whom, using a systematic sampling technique and Cochran's ...

What skills do project managers (PMs) need, and how do these skills impact project success in IT outsourcing? In this study, we seek to identify what factors impact IT project outcomes, such as costs and client satisfaction, given the project characteristics and PM’s hard and soft skills. We examine data collected from a field study conducted at a major IT service provider in India. Our results...

A “skills and drills” intervention in 4 hospitals in Karnataka, India, produced modest improvement in provider knowledge and skills but not in actual response to obstetric and newborn emergencies. We explore possible explanations, which include (1) the need for a more intensive intervention; (2) other weaknesses in the health system; and (3) behavioral or organizational barriers related to hier...

    Background: Achieving organizational objectives depends on the effectiveness of administrators. However, managerial efficacy largely depends on the knowledge and skills of managers. This study aimed at assessing the skills of financial and budget management of the Ministry of Health from the perspective of resource development assistants of universities of medical sciences na...