one of the major challenges towards the programs of organizational improvement and change is resistance to change due to suspicion. for this reason, it is required that organizations identify the triggers of suspicion, trying to control and eliminate the resultant factors. this study was performed among hospital staffs including, sina, shariati and imam khomeini and the sample size was 260. bas...

BACKGROUND In Canada, long waiting times for core specialized services have consistently been identified as a key barrier to access. Governments and organizations have responded with strategies for better access management, notably for total joint replacement (TJR) of the hip and knee. While wait time management strategies (WTMS) are promising, the factors which influence their sustainable i...

Purpose. To create a substantive mid-range theory explaining how the organizational cultures of undergraduate nursing programs shape the adoption and incorporation of mid-to high-level technical fidelity simulators as a teaching strategy within curricula. Method. A constructivist grounded theory was used to guide this study which was conducted in Ontario, Canada, during 2011-12. Semistructured ...

background: the concept of organizational learning capability (olc) emphasizes the importance of facilitating factors for organizational learning or the organizational propensity to learn. consequently, measures of olc have traditionally determined their dimensions or facilitating factors based on the literature. the purpose of this study was to validate and evaluate the factorial construction ...

conclusions path analysis of occupational injuries based on the sem reveals that individual and organizational factors and their indicator variables are very influential on the severity of traumatic occupational injuries. so, these should be considered to reduce occupational accidents’ severity in large construction industries. materials and methods the present cross-sectional analytical study ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the organizational predictors of higher scores on team climate measures as an indicator of the functioning of a family health team (FHT). DESIGN Cross-sectional study using a mailed survey. SETTING Family health teams in Ontario. PARTICIPANTS Twenty-one of 144 consecutively approached FHTs; 628 team members were surveyed. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Scores on the team c...

abstract background: in most countries, one of the main reasons for developing more advanced roles for nurses is to improve access to care in the context of limited number of doctors. it is considered that the introduction of major policy initiatives, such as nurse prescribing, requires high-level discussion and policy development to ensure successful implementation. this study aimed to identif...