BACKGROUND There are no national data on levels of organizational capacity within the Canadian public health system to reduce the burden of chronic disease. METHODS Cross-sectional data were collected in a national survey (October 2004 to April 2005) of all 216 national, provincial and regional-level organizations engaged in chronic disease prevention through primary prevention or healthy lif...

The effects and outcomes of organizational citizenship behavior in recent years have increasingly received attention by researchers and scholars of organization and management field. One of them can be named as creation and enhancement of social capital. Yet, a comprehensive research has not been done about it in public organizations of Islamic Republic of Iran. The researcher tries to offer a...

Personality traits and their relation with emotional intelligence and psychological ownership (PO) have to be considered in public-sector organizations, because employees who work in the public sector may have fewer mechanisms to increase their feelings of PO toward their organization. Thus, with regard to conditions of public organizations, more attention should be paid to structural and organ...

There are quite a few groups of actors in Russia who have their own unique interests and influence the country's political system. In general, all can be divided into three large clusters: state, commercial, public. However, it should noted that often these do not coincide with each other, which lead to conflict situations. such cases, one response options may use various forms protest, includi...

Leaders in public organizations are adopting many private sector management practices to control costs and increase efficiency. Nowhere is this more evident than among state health agencies. State health agencies were encouraged to change the way they operate by the 1988 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report on The Future of Public Health. This report portrayed public health as being in disarray. ...

Conflicts that occur will cause two consequences: conflicts can be profitable and harm public organizations. Therefore, in the Local Government of Barru Regency, conflict management is needed to overcome everything. The purpose research determine level performance Regional Regency employees, using quantitative methods. In this study, there were 97 respondents. Data collection used include quest...

Abstract While studies of motivational differences between managers in private and public organizations proliferate, few have compared managers’ motivation hybrid to the organizations. This lack is surprising, as corporatization has been an important trend sector over last decades. Using a large survey covering almost 3000 from representative sample Norway, this study fills hole by comparing ho...