Article history: Received date: 28 August, 2016 Review date: 7 October 2016 Accepted date:25 October 2016 Printed online:1 September Purpose: The initiation of anti-bullying movements in school’s dates back to nearly three decades ago in some countries. Despite the importance of such a movement and its grave implications for education systems, no particular program or action has been...

Empowering employees in specialized and general qualifications fields is required for urban management organization (Tehran Municipality). Planning and establishment of comprehensive system of electronic learning is considered the main goal of human resource and educational managers. . This study tried to investigate the feasibility and execution of electronic learning courses for in-service st...

PROBLEM Townsville Cancer Centre provides video-consultation (VC) services to patients in rural/remote regions of North Queensland in order to improve access to specialist cancer care. The experience and responses of indigenous patients using this service have not been studied. Our objective is to assess the level of satisfaction and the responses of Indigenous patients, their families and heal...

BACKGROUND This is the seventh in a series of papers reporting Sustainability in Health care by Allocating Resources Effectively (SHARE) in a local healthcare setting. The SHARE Program was a systematic, integrated, evidence-based program for resource allocation within a large Australian health service. It aimed to facilitate proactive use of evidence from research and local data; evidence-base...

The Inner South Community Health Service diabetes working group was convened in 2001 to improve the management of diabetes and develop a clear model of care for Inner South Community Health Service clients with diabetes. Early initiatives included developing a screening tool, a resource folder, staff training and a short term project to complete a needs analysis and propose a model of care. In ...

introduction: a career development consists of jobs that a person passes in order to reach a professional goal. career development management results in job satisfaction, professional commitment and higher effectiveness. the purpose of this study was to determine different dimensions of career development among the staff of shiraz university of medical sciences.   methods: this study was a cros...

BACKGROUND Secondary school teachers are at heightened risk of psychological distress, which can lead to poor work performance, poor quality teacher-student relationships and mental illness. A pilot cluster randomised controlled trial (RCT) - the WISE study - evaluated the feasibility of a full-scale RCT of an intervention to support school staff's own mental health, and train them in supportin...

IT Service management standards such as the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL), and now ISO/IEC 20000, are of increasing importance to organisations around the globe. These standards provide guidance and tools for effective management and control of IT service delivery. Academics have not embraced these standards in either research or education related to them, but education and training of IT st...