BACKGROUND Succession planning promotes the culture of private ownership, staff loyalty to the organization and develops organizational commitment, and increases organizational stability. The study was conducted to examine the status of succession planning in the Iranian health system in order to highlight the key concepts, provide new insight, and attract the attention of senior managers of th...

In recent years, the underlying IT growth trends of the 1990s underwent a reversal as the new century dawned. These labor market changes have been reflected in the changing nature of employment. Distributive justice theory suggests employees’ perceptions of the fairness of the outcomes that are received are based on the employees’ inputs. We examine IT professionals’ perceptions of job stabilit...

The sustainability of successful public health programmes remains a challenge in low and middle income settings. These programmes are often subjected to mobilization-demobilization cycle. Indeed, political and organizational factors are of major importance to ensure this sustainability. The cooperation between the World Bank and the Brazilian AIDS programme highlights the role of international ...

Corporate processes of transformation toward increased innovativeness, competitiveness, and market orientation are furthered if firms bave a definite culture of fostering cbange initiatives. The results of a questionnaire (FOGO), developed by two of the present authors and administered to a German sample (Gebert, Boemer, and Matiaske 1998) and to a Polisb sample (Boemer, Gebert, and Rudolf in p...

We explored the relationship between organizational culture and deployment of software process improvement (SPI) approaches using a competing values framework. Our results indicated that the organizational culture had an influence on SPI deployment, primarily made possible by a hierarchic culture with its emphasis on procedures, order, and stability. Clan culture, with its emphasis on human dev...

Prior research demonstrates product market advantages of organizational status but largely neglects factor market advantages. We propose that status is advantageous in labor markets because individuals generally consider employer status a non-pecuniary employment benefit. Dyadic analyses of lateral partner hiring by large U.S. law firms demonstrate two status-based advantages in employee hiring...

Surprisingly little research has been conducted on what characterizes “effective” visions, and yet leaders, particularly in the entrepreneurship literature, are widely exhorted to employ visions. A research model was tested in retail SMEs to investigate relationships between seven literature-derived vision attributes (of brevity, clarity, future orientation, stability, challenge, abstractness, ...

Evaluation is a central issue in all organizations. Many standard evaluation tools, techniques and methods rely on basic assumptions about linear organizational dynamics (predictability, low dimensionality, system closure, stability and equilibration). Some of these assumptions are not valid when a system enters the regime of a complex adaptive system (CAS). New strategies are required to evalu...