What Do Managers Mean When They Say ‘Firms Like Theirs’ Pay Bribes?

Multitasking at work : Do firms get what they pay for ?

To align employees’ interests with the firm’s goals, employers often use performance-based pay, but designing such a compensation plan is challenging because performance is typically multifaceted. For example, a sales employee should be incentivized to sell the company’s product, but a focus on current sales without rewarding the salespeople according to the quality of the product and/or custom...

Manifestations of Economic Resilience in Hospitals: What do managers say?

Introduction: The area of healthcare requires crucial measures in the area of economic resilience. Regarding the important role of hospital managers in reaching the healthcare goals and realizing instances of the economic resilience in hospitals, the present study was conducted. The aim was to explore the perception of educational and healthcare centers’ managers in Isfahan regarding the concep...

What do we mean when we say an operation works?

At a conference the other day, while hotly debating the role of hip arthroscopic surgery in the management of osteoarthritis, a friend and colleague announced to the assembled throng, 'We know that hip arthroscopy doesn't work'. You would not have expected the Editor-in-Chief of this journal to remain silent at that moment and I certainly was not. However, what the statement did highlight, of c...

What Do We Mean When We Say "Collaboration"?

National Curriculum: What Do International Experiences Say?

The conceptions, practices and efforts of some education systems in ten countries and four continents of the world, in area of national curriculum, have been reviewed and analyzed in this inquiry to represent a brief look of their experiences and obtain some guidelines for delineating and developing national curriculum. The methodology in this inquiry has been descriptive and analytical researc...