MS. GREEN: Our organization was founded back in the early 1900s, when the federal government first started investing in career and technical education, as a means to interface with each state’s contact person in [what was then called] vocational education. Over time, our organization has grown, but we’ve always maintained that focus of serving states. Our core membership is the state directors ...

CONTEXT Physical inactivity is a major public health problem. While individual (eg, attitudes, values, beliefs) and social (eg, social support) factors play a role, access to an activity-safe local environment can have a significant influence. Environments that include accessible opportunities for physical activity, a component of livability, require cooperation from many sectors including nonp...

P eople come to health care providers to be healed and comforted. They conic willing to entrust their well-being or that of family members to us, to strangers. This is a unique and sacred relationship, far different than what we experience in other day-to-day business transactions. Health care is not, contrary to what some may think, just another business. Unfortunately, not all health care org...

The Rhs elements are complex genetic composites widely spread among Escherichia coli isolates. One of their components, a 3.7-kb, GC-rich core, maintains a single open reading frame that extends the full length of the core and then 400 to 600 bp beyond into an AT-rich region. Whereas Rhs cores are homologous, core extensions from different elements are dissimilar. Two new Rhs elements from stra...

Physician leadership is emerging as a vital component in transforming the nation's health care industry. Because few physicians have been introduced to the large body of literature on leadership and organizations, we herein provide a concise review, as this literature relates to competitive health care organizations and the leaders who serve them. Although the US health care industry has transi...

Virtually all modern organizations have embedded information systems and networking technologies into their core business processes as a means to increase operational efficiency, improve decision making quality, reduce delays, and/or maximize profit. Unfortunately, this dependence can place the organization’s mission at risk when the loss or degradation of the confidentiality, integrity, availa...

this study is aimed to assess the strategy improving human resources by using creativity and innovation.surely, the most important component in the success of organizations is the use of creativity and innovation in today's world. human resources, the most essential source of developing the innovation, should be believed as the basis of stability and resistance in a competitive world, inside, o...

Two kinds of virus particles have been found in varying proportions in influenza A2 strains isolated during the 1957 pandemic. Pure populations of the different particles were obtained, and these substrains were genetically stable on serial passage in the chick embryo. The two virus particles differ markedly in several biological properties though they are antigenically similar. One kind of par...

Attempts to provide a practical framework in which practitioners may develop human resources (HR) strategies in line with their organizations' corporate planning processes. Proposes a four-step approach involving: development of a strategic framework; generating of HR mission statement; application of analysis; and making strategic planning decision between HR options. Outlines a four-dimension...

In this paper, we explore the decomposition of organizational processes and decision-making, the coexistence of organization’s command and communication networks, and their effects on team performance. We present a methodology to design mission-based strategies and novel heterarchical organizational structures based on exploring information/command transfer and processing in the organizations. ...