decision making and problem solving are especially important skills for business and life. as an innovation leading corporate, sony has gradually lost their superiority in innovation and core competences under more and more intensive competition environment. this report is made to investigate sony current procedure on its solving problems and making decision, analyze approaches and tools used b...

a bstract   background: midwifery profession is required to bring solutions to problems and a midwife is expected to be an assertive person and to develop midwifery care. this study was planned to examine the relationship between assertiveness and problem‑solving skills of midwives.   materials and methods: this cross‑sectional study was conducted with 201 midwives between july 2008 and februar...

abstract introduction: hospital is one of the most important parts of a health- ‎providing network which requiring an experienced and efficacious ‎managing system thus a weak managing system would result in increase in ‎expenses, loss of economic sources, and decrease in optimal usage. ‎therefore current study has performed to evaluate the association between ‎leadership styles of managers and ...

Social factors are often associated with the development or maintenance of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the aftermath of interpersonal traumas. However, social problem solving strategies have received little attention. The current study explored the role of social problem solving styles (i.e., rational approaches, impulsive/careless strategies, or avoidance strategies) as intermediar...

BACKGROUND Coping style is one of the determinants of health-related quality of life after stroke. Stroke patients make less use of active problem-oriented coping styles than other brain damaged patients. Coping styles can be influenced by means of intervention. The primary aim of this study is to investigate if Problem Solving Therapy is an effective group intervention for improving coping sty...

Learning style is an activity of thinking, processing, and understanding something that preferred has the characteristics each person. Problem-solving ability a skill needs to be possessed in process solving mathematical problems. This study aims describe students' problem-solving abilities on social arithmetic material terms learning styles. The research was conducted through descriptive quali...

Agent-based technology can provide increased flexibility for automated manufacturing systems if agents are designed to modify their problem-solving interaction styles to best fit their situations. These interaction styles are described by agent autonomy levels, which are assigned to goals an agent intends to achieve. This paper explores the implications of applying Dynamic Adaptive Autonomy to ...

In this study, we analyze the process of collaborative problem solving from the viewpoint of thinking styles. Thinking styles are defined as a preferred way of thinking; here, we focused on three styles: Legislative, Executive, and Judicial. In this study, we created groups whose members displayed different thinking styles, and asked the groups to solve a creative task collaboratively. If think...