One area of emerging research focuses on readiness to change, which has a strong impact on many decisions in a change process such as planning, implementation, communication and institutionalization. However, the term ‘readiness’ still creates confusion as it is presented in a simplistic way. This conceptual article aims at increasing our understating of readiness impact on change success by ex...

Previous research investigated effects of response readiness in neurologically normal subjects by manipulating the probability of responding. With a high probability of responding, reaction time is fast and the level of response force is low compared with conditions with a low probability of responding. An elaborated view of response readiness assumes that these effects reflect properties assoc...

BACKGROUND Recruitment to research studies in primary care is challenging despite widespread implementation of electronic patient record (EPR) systems which potentially make it easier to identify eligible cases. METHODS Literature review and applying the learning from a European research readiness assessment tool, the TRANSFoRm International Research Readiness instrument (TIRRE), to the conte...

in this paper an embedded framework is proposed to employ corporate entrepreneurship concepts into a business process reengineering (bpr) technique. the former has a strong theoretical background and the latter has application potentials. our case study is a government trading company (g.t.c). we applied a mix research method to answer the research questions, where, by using the grounded theory...

the purpose of this research was to identify sources of management power in physical education organization managers and to determine its relationship to employees' readiness and satisfaction with their supervisors. the method of this research was descriptive correlational. the statistical population consisted of all employees of physical education organization. a random sample of 118 empl...

AIMS To investigate the correspondence between readiness for behaviour change in general and readiness for alcohol related help-seeking in particular. A related aim was to examine how, if at all, measures of dependence severity, use, and consequences were related to a composite measure depicting agreements and disagreements between general change readiness and help-seeking readiness. METHODS ...

Background: Application of technology for education accounts for an important aspect of expansion of the information technology in the present century. Objectives: This study aims to examine the degree of readiness of the faculty member of Zanjan University of Medical Sciences for e-Teaching. Methods: This descriptive-cross-sectional study focused on the degree of readiness of 70 faculty memb...

over the recent years, rapid development of information technology (it) and electronic commerce (e-commerce) has dramatically affected world trade and the way business is conducted. also the benefits of using e-commerce and other internet-based technologies have been well recognized through extensive surveys pointing the dominant role of it in different industries. however, implementation of an...