In today’s dynamic and competitive climate, organizations need to have a coherent framework for performance management. The models frameworks in the literature may not be consistent with businesses’ changing nature peculiar goals. They mostly rely on results are ambiguous about how translated into specific measures. response these issues, this study designs four-layer organizational evaluation ...

There is confusion among graduate students about how to select the qualitative methodology that best fits their research question. Often this confusion arises in regard to making a choice between a grounded theory methodology and an ethnographic methodology. This difficulty may stem from the fact that these students do not have a clear understanding of the principles upon which to select a part...

small and medium enterprises (smes) have distinctive characteristics that differentiate them from their larger counterparts. one of these characteristics is marketing; poor marketing skills in smes would lead to low performance and, in extreme cases, to failure. therefore, adopting a marketing strategy based on small business analysis is the fundamental requirement of any successful sme. the te...

An argument for adopting a Living Educational Theory Research approach to the processof continuing educational, professional development is presented. A living-educational-theory(a term coined by Whitehead 1989) valid, values-laden and evidence-based explanation of practitioner their educational influence in own learning, learning others social formations. educational-practitioner develops livi...

Understanding the methodology of grounded theory can assist researchers in expanding the knowledge and application of the human resource management practices of recruitment and retention beyond the bounds of traditional theories and methodologies. This paper encompasses research in which grounded theory, when applied to workforce management, provides insight into the challenges of recruiting an...

a bstra ct   background: all health professionals are responsible for facilitating  mpowerment among people with diabetes. however, research suggests that health professionals do not have the knowledge and skills to help people with diabetes become   emp owered. as a result, many iranian people with diabetes do not become empowered. the aim of the study was to explore and understand how i mpowe...

Purpose This research compares fundamental concepts from the grounded theory approach to social science research and concepts from entity-relationship diagramming, a technique used to model data from the field of systems analysis, and proposes that entity-relationship diagramming can be a useful tool for grounded theory researchers. The deductive nature of entity-relationship diagramming may be...