background universities, like any other organization, are working in a variable and dynamic environment. in order to empower these organizations to deal with constant change, they should focus on organizational learning. objectives this research aimed to study the relationship between organizational learning and employees' empowerment among the headquarters staff of shiraz university of medical...

Viewing knowledge as rooted in individuals, this study investigates knowledge transfer in multinational corporations (MNCs) from an individual-level perspective. Specifically, I focus on inpatriates as a particular group of knowledge actors in MNCs and examine the role of inpatriates’ boundary spanning between their home unit and the headquarters for their knowledge transfer to headquarters sta...

*1 Nagasaki Research & Development Center, Technology & Innovation Headquarters *2 Chief Staff Manager, Nagasaki Research & Development Center, Technology & Innovation Headquarters *3 Ship & Ocean Engineering Department, Shipbuilding & Ocean Development Division, Commercial Aviation & Transportation Systems *4 Submarine Department, Naval Ship Division, Integrated Defense & Space Systems Develop...

This study focuses on how employees cope with dueling social identities when one is of relatively low status compared to the other by studying local senior executives in mulinational corporations’ (MNC’s) subsidiaries who can identify with the local staff and/or headquarters’ management. As hypothesized, perceptions of local staff incompetence are positively related to executives’ turnover inte...

Military headquarters coordinate planning and monitoring of military task forces in support of an overall commander. Despite advances in technology, these organisations remain human intensive. Adequately staffing a headquarters is challenging in resource constrained environments where senior decision-makers must also consider the manpower needs of deployed task forces together with their traini...

INTRODUCTION The World Health Organization (WHO) is widely regarded as the preeminent international authority on health and scientific matters. Its information mandate is a powerful one, for it enables the WHO to construct issues as legitimate ones for concern that should be addressed in particular ways. METHODS Intensive interviewing of WHO staff was used to elicit writing and editing proces...

In this article, we propose and evaluate a Mega Disaster Crisis Management System consisting of the Disaster Information Registration System and the Disaster Information Sharing System. The former categorizes various disaster information on real time reported from residents and the disaster related institutions. This registration system processes a flood of disaster information rapidly. The lat...

*1 Chief Staff Manager, Space Technology Application Department, Space Systems Division, Integrated Defense & Space Systems and Quality Assurance Department, Nuclear Energy Systems Division, Energy & Environment *2 Chief Staff Manager, Space Technology Application Department, Space Systems Division, Integrated Defense & Space Systems *3 Space Technology Application Department, Space Systems Div...

This paper presents a theoretically emphasised research, with a minor empirical part, dealing with a tentative interpretation built on three main aspects of inquiry. These are: 1) the basic practical and psychological location factors causing MNC headquarters to cling to their traditional homelocation, 2) whether the headquarters managers and staff in the course of 30 to 40 years of internation...

BACKGROUND Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) of the neck and shoulder are the most common and most influential factors causing disorder in the performance and absenteeism of work in administrative personnel. AIM To identify risk factors which affect musculoskeletal disorders of neck and shoulder areas in headquarters staff of Kerman University of Medical Sciences. METHODS The present cross-s...