background: today, moving toward high quality and efficient education is essential in educational systems. to achieve it, management, research and educational programs should evolve consistent with the produced knowledge, professional developments and standards. regarding the important role of midwifery education in improvement of social health, the current study was carried out to identify the...

Constantine Kontoghiorghes is an Assistant Professor of management and Organizational Behavior at the Cyprus International Institute of Management. His current research and consulting work focuses on the design of high performance work systems with particular emphasis on change management, organization competitiveness, innovation, technology management, quality and productivity improvement , em...

The maintenance and enhancement of organizational performance is a challenge for firms as they always try to sustain competitive advantage. This challenge may be convened through the principles of total quality management (TQM). The organizations ought to understand what dimensions of quality management system are more important for performance enhancement. This paper focuses on four TQM dimens...

Software development and maintenance enterprises constitute an extremely complex, varied, and poorly understood class of organizations. This is due in part to the newness of the technology and the dynamic nature of the eld, but it also stems from the complexity of human-machine interactions. A major driver of the effectiveness of such an organization is the relationship between the software dev...

ACADEMIC HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONSdevoted excluLIBRARIES IN TWO-YFAR sively to teaching and learning (community colleges) present an unexpected contrast to those quality issues that are anchored in traditional quantity-based (ACFU) standards rather than on the expectations and values of library users and those seeking to learn. Community college libraries may fit the new quality paradigm if...

ethics is an essential requirement for a sound and healthy society. it is due to its positive individual, organizational, and social consequences that ethics has always provoked scholars, instructors, and organization managers to try to maintain and improve it. the adaptation of managerial solutions will gradually result in the improvement of trust, commitment, and effort which are all necessar...

In the face of an oversupplied world pig market only the most efficient producers will stay in business. By and large these will be the operations that are able to more successfully exploit the genetic potential of their animals. Similarly, only those breeders who are able to demonstrate sustained genetic improvement will sell stock to the smaller number of large producers who are left. Althoug...

BACKGROUND Technical, human, operational and organizational factors have been influencing the sequence of occupational accidents. Among them, organizational factors play a major role in causing occupational accidents. The aim of this research was to understand the Iranian safety experts' experiences and perception of organizational factors. METHODS This qualitative study was conducted in 2015...

This study investigates the relationships among product/process modularity, organizational learning practices, and mass customization (MC) capability. Drawing on organizational learning theory, we propose that organizational learning practices help to embed the knowledge gained from modular design practices into organizational processes, enhancing MC capability. We empirically test the mediatin...