the importance of leadership in organizations, has prompted scientists and researchers to discover the characteristics of successful leaders in organizations and also to try to assign the characteristics of a successful leaders. following these efforts, in recent decades various schools and theories on leadership were formed and also were introduced to scientific community. servant leadership c...

a high quality of work life (qwl) is essential for organizations to continue to attract and retain employees. qwl is a comprehensive program designated to improve employee satisfaction. this research aimed to provide insights into the positive and negative attitudes of tehran university of medical sciences (tums) hospitals’ employees from their quality of life. a cross- sectional, descriptive a...

healthcare workers suffer from work-related or occupational stress. this can lead to severe distress, burnout or physical illness, and finally to decrease quality of work life and services provision. nurses must be aware of retential stressors, because they add to the cumulative effect of other stressful events. holmes and rahe both found a relationship between life change unit as stressors and...

health reform is the outcome of dispersed policy initiatives in different sectors, at different levels and across time. policy work which can drive coherent health reform needs to operate across the governance structures as well as the institutions that comprise healthcare systems. building policy capacity to support health reform calls for clarity regarding the nature of such policy work and t...

Improving employer support of work and family demands of the workforce is a growing concern across countries, but the pathways to achieve improvements in employer adoption of work-family policies, particularly linkages between collective bargaining and public policy, are not well understood within and across national contexts. In this article, we explore the linkage of collective bargaining and...