abstract: the main objective of this paper is to investigate the leadership style between public and private bank and its impact on the job satisfaction in iran. for this purpose, the relationship between transformation and transactional leadership and job satisfaction and the effect of managers’ decision-making strategy and employee’s job perception on it have been considered empirically. the ...

A novel technique has been introduced in this research which lends its basis to the Directional Slack-Based Measure for the inverse Data Envelopment Analysis. In practice, the current research endeavors to elucidate the inverse directional slack-based measure model within a new production possibility set. On one occasion, there is a modification imposed on the output (input) quantities of an ef...

Concerns over limited medical equipment and resources, particularly in intensive care units (ICUs), have raised the issue of medical futility. Medical futility draws a contrast between physician's authority and patients' autonomy and it is one of the major issues of end-of-life ethical decision-making. The aim of this study was to review medical futility and its challenges. In this systematized...

with the complexity and amount of information in a wide variety of comparative performance reports in poultry production, making a decision is difficult. this problem is overcomed only when all data can be put into a common unit. for this purpose, five different decision making analysis approaches including  maximin, equally likely, weighted average, ordered weighted averages and technique for ...

The costs of health care continue to increase rapidly and steeply in the United States. One area of great expense is that of intensive care units (ICUs). The causes of inflation have not been addressed effectively. ICU resources could become stretched such that they may no longer be available. This paper discusses some of the ethics and concerns behind decision making when providing ICU service...

OBJECTIVE To determine the objectivity, consistency and professional unanimity in the initiation, continuation and withdrawal of life-prolonging procedures in intensive care--to determine methods, time-scale for withdrawal and communication with both staff and relatives--to explore any professional unease about legality, morality or professional defensibility. DESIGN A structured questionnair...

In a series of papers and a monograph [33], we have described the conceptual structures as well as the basic architecture of a knowledge-based system CUN^tD. Its architecture is a imed at support ing not only diagnosis but also other types of clinical activity and decision making in diverse clinical and/or hospital environments. T h e aim of the generic architecture of CLINArD is to support kno...

   The performance of a decision making unit (DMU) can be evaluated in either across-sectional or a time-series manner, and data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a useful method for both types of evaluation. The Malmquist productivity index (MPI) evaluates the change in efficiency of a DMU between two time periods. It is defined as the product of the Catch-up and Frontier-shift terms. In this pape...

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a branch of management, concerned with evaluating the performances of homogeneous Decision Making Units (DMUs). The performances of DMUs are affected by the amount of sources that DMUs used. Usually increases in inputs cause increases in outputs. However, there are situations where increase in one or more inputs generate a reduction in one or more outputs. In ...