aims: most of the world population who is at work and production age does not have appropriate and regular physical activity for various reasons. accordingly, the researchers tried to evaluate the effect of physical activity predictors of employees through the path analysis based on the pender's health promotion model (hpm). methods and materials: we conducted this study on 359 employees of the...

This paper seeks to suggest ways to support informal, self-directed, work-integrated learning within organizations. We focus on a special type of learning in organizations, namely on competency development, that is a purposeful development of employee capabilities to perform well in a large array of situations. As competency development is inherently a self-directed development activity, we see...

OBJECTIVES To integrate public health nursing (PHN) competencies into a comprehensive performance review instrument for nurses at multiple practice levels in an urban public health department. DESIGN Based on thorough review of PHN competency literature, the tool evaluates performance for 5 nursing practice classifications (Staff RN, Public Health Nurse, Nurse Practitioner, Clinical Nurse Spe...

conclusions the results of this study showed that an educational intervention based on transtheoretical model can improve stages of change in physical activity behavior. it can also enhance cognitive factors such as perceived benefits and self-efficacy for exercise up to three months after the intervention, but over the time changes may decrease. results stages of change of physical activity in...

The Competencies of High School Principals in District Four of Mashhad H. Ekrami, M.A. V. Hoshyar, Ph.D. The present study was conducted to identify the competencies of high school principals, propose a competency model, and validate the model. The research was carried out in district four of Mashhad in 2015 and examined two questions: 1.What are the dimensions and components o...