Background: Recent trends have led many organizations to use a strategic planning for designing and implementing total quality management (TQM) as a fundamental necessity. This study aims to investigate the role of TQM in the quality maturity of hospitals from the employees’ point of view. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among senior managers and officials of   three Zanjan Univ...

The article discusses the issues of organizing students' project work as some modern approach that allows integrating theoretical knowledge and practical skills required for working in conditions. Being one forms educational process, activity contributes to improving quality education, democratization communication style between teachers students. purpose is create conditions formation research...

The adoption of a new international definition for the informal sector has given a great impetus to methods of estimation and surveys of this sector in the various regions of the world. Global figures on size (in terms of numbers involved and share of labour force) and contribution (in terms of output, value added, income and share of GDP) have by now been made available for a number of countri...

Many challenges are facing measuring KM initiatives and one of the key challenges is to provide a comprehensive set of criteria to measure success of KM programs. The aim of this research is to address the problem of identifying the criteria for measuring KM outcomes among Malaysia companies and seeks to develop widely-accepted criteria based on the systematic review of the literature in order ...

OBJECTIVE Evidence on the association between job strain and ischaemic disease is mixed. This study examined whether including older age individuals in a cohort used to assess job strain attenuates findings towards the null. DESIGN A prospective cohort study with baseline screening in 1992-5. A follow-up for ischaemic disease until 2003 was based on linkages to national registries. Ischaemic ...