BACKGROUND Performance appraisal is an essential component of health care organizations for the improvement in quality of patients' care. Awareness of managers' and employees' perception of performance appraisal can lead to improved performance appraisal quality. The purpose of this study was to compare the perception of performance appraisal among managers and nursing staff of hospitals affili...

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A number of commercial cloud-based password managers use bookmarklets to automatically populate and submit login forms. Unfortunately, an attacker web site can maliciously alter the JavaScript environment and, when the login bookmarklet is invoked, steal the user’s passwords. We describe general attack techniques for altering a bookmarklet’s JavaScript environment and apply them to extracting p...

in this study the association between social capital and entrepreneurial locus of control among small and medium-sized enterprises’ managers is evaluated. the innovation of this study is theorizing and clarifying the role of social capital and its dimensions in fostering managers' internal locus of control. internal locus of control is one of the most frequently mentioned personal characte...

RCN GENERAL secretary Christine Hancock this week issued five challenges to the government, managers and nurses during her opening address at RCN Congress.

This paper discusses a framework to assist test managers to evaluate the use of AI techniques as a potential tool in software testing. Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCMs) are employed to evaluate the framework and make decision analysis easier. A what-if analysis is presented that explores the general application of the framework. Simulations are performed to show the effectiveness of the proposed meth...

INTRODUCTION There are insufficient healthcare providers to supply eye care services to the millions of people living with visual impairment in developing countries. Eye care providers may supply more efficient and effective services if supported by skilled managers. To help produce skilled managers, appropriate competencies for eye care managers in Sub-Saharan Africa were included in the curri...

Fraud scandals can create incentives to change managers in an attempt to improve the firm’s performance, recover lost reputational capital, or limit the firm’s exposure to liabilities that arise from the fraud. It also is possible that the revelation of fraud creates incentives to change the composition of the firm’s board, to improve the external monitoring of managers, or to rent new director...

Managers need information about effects of environmental change on populations of species. Such data often come from experiments where habitat components are manipulated and subsequent changes in population size, productivity, or behavior are measured. Research biologists, however, are often reluctant, or unable, to publish data about responses of uncommon organisms because small sample sizes r...

This article is the second of two whose goal is to advance the discussion of IS risk by addressing limitations of the current IS risk literature. The first article [Alter and Sherer, 2004] presented a general, but broadly adaptable model of system-related risk that addressed the limited usefulness of existing IS risk models for business managers. In this article, we focus on organizing risk fac...