introduction: having a desirable image in a market can be considered as an asset for an organization. therefore, using proper approaches, managers of such organizations must monitor and manage the image of their organizations in order to achieve their organizational goals and their customer’s satisfaction. as an important sector of every society, managers of hospitals also must try their best t...

researches have always been seeking those factors that deserve to be studied to reduce the risk involved in the process of enterprise resource planning implementation and increase the opportunity of achieving the implementation objective. in addition, by knowing the priority of the factors, they could carry out the resources allocation in a goal-directed way. by seeking the opinions of the seni...

according to this reality that there are some differences among the women, men in terms of learning agents such as education, job background and natural factors such as risk taking and the time that they devote to do a work, it is expected that some differences to exist in the management field and specially in terms of method of human resource management approach (hrm) among the women and men. ...

The management of public forested lands is a difficult and time-consuming endeavor. Forest resource managers often make decisions at fine spatial and temporal scales. While this is useful, it is equally important to understand and make decisions regarding landscape level phenomena at broad temporal scales. Key questions managers should be asking such as “how will vegetation respond to disturban...

OBJECTIVES To summarize and then assess with a pilot study the use of published best practice recommendations for priority setting during management of multiple healthcare research projects, in a resource-constrained environment. METHODS Medical, economic, business, and operations literature was reviewed to summarize and develop a survey to assess best practices for managing multiple projects...

Human resource management has increasingly become one of the most important challenging issues in the pharmaceutical industry in general and in developing countries in particular to increase the access of societies to needed medicines. In this study, an attempt was made to explore the challenges of human resource management practices surrounding pharmaceutical firms in Iran, as a developing cou...

Improving productivity in emergency services and managing limited resources of emergency room(ER) are key challenges for health managers of oil industry. One critical and costly resource is ER personnel  and its lack can lead to long queue of patients. Thus appropriate scheduling for nurses and physicians can help ER managers to  get maximum benefit of their current human resource and reduce th...

Towards a different view of middle managers and their roles in strategic decentralisation processes-(7350 words) Summary Middle managers have often been blamed for being inflexible status quo defenders in organisational change processes. However, research results reported in this paper, drawn from in-depth case studies of company restructuring in Germany during the nineties, suggests that middl...

We present a language and a program analysis that certifies the safe use of flexible resource management idioms, in particular advance reservation or “block booking” of costly resources. This builds on previous work with resource managers that carry out runtime safety checks, by showing how to assist these with compile-time checks. We give a small ANF-style language with explicit resource manag...

Knowledge is a key factor and strategic resource for gaining assets and non-functional organizational capabilities. Knowledge Management is the knowledgeable process of creating, validating, presenting, distributing and using the knowledge in an organization. Successful organizations consider human resource development as a fundamental principle. This study aims to investigate the Knowledge Man...