The last issue of HFM's Journal was devoted to Total Quality Management & Continuous Quality Improvement (TQM/CQI) methodologies, which have become widely accepted in American industry. One of the greatest success story of the application of TQM/CQI principles was Lee Iacocca's recent turn-around of Chrysler Motors. On his first day on the job, he was invited to a welcoming champagne lunch at C...

BACKGROUND Psychoactive substance use can cause a broad variety of mental health disorders and social health problems for the drug users, their family and society. OBJECTIVES The Ministry of Health, Treatment, and Medical Education of Iran has recently proclaimed an estimated number of 2 million drug abusers and 200,000 injecting drug users (IDUs). PATIENTS AND METHODS For data collection, ...

BACKGROUND In 2011, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) established a blogging project, "TB&Me," to enable patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) to share their experiences. By September 2012, 13 MDR-TB patients had blogged, either directly or with assistance, from the UK, Australia, Philippines, Swaziland, Central African Republic, Uganda, South Africa, India, and Armenia. Due to t...

Authors: CARROLL B. WILLIAMS, JR., is a pioneer scientist studying integrated management systems for forest insect pests and diseases, with headquarters in Berkeley. charge of the Station's field evaluation of chemical insecticides res'carch unit, with headquarters at Davis, Calif.

introduction: one of the reasons for the maintenance of each organization to increase its productivity is having the consistency in values and beliefs and its overall organizational culture. therefore, for any organization that seeks to achieve some kind of advantage, it must be ensured to the existing organizational culture and also, attention to practical solutions for creating coherence in i...

This article presents the results of an exploratory study examining the influence of national and organizational cultures on technology use in a multinational organizational (MNO) context. Data were collected from 121 respondents of a multinational organization in the Asia Pacific with headquarters in Australia and three subsidiaries in Asia: Korea, Malaysia, and Thailand. Even though significa...

Using a large-scale, multilevel data set, this study introduces to the sales management literature the concept of sales representatives’ headquarters stereotypes as a negative outcome of social identification. The results suggest that work team identification fosters headquarters stereotyping more strongly when organizational identification is low than when it is high. Salespeople’s physical di...

This paper uses a micro data set on auxiliary establishments from 1977 to 1997 in order to investigate the determinants of headquarter location. The significance of headquarters in an urban setting is their ability to facilitate the spatial separation of service activities from remote production plants. The results show that headquarters benefit from two main forces: the availability of differe...