background: a cross sectional study conducted to identify the organizational factors associated to the occupational stress among lecturers in selected community colleges, peninsular malaysia. methods: study was conducted by using cluster-sampling method and 189 self-administrated questionnaires were distributed. a validated malay version of job content questionnaire (jcq) was used to obtain the...

Pharmaceutical risk minimization programs are now an established requirement in the regulatory landscape. However, pharmaceutical companies have been slow to recognize and embrace the significant potential these programs offer in terms of enhancing trust with health care professionals and patients, and for providing a mechanism for bringing products to the market that might not otherwise have b...

OBJECTIVE The U.S. substance-abuse treatment system has been slow to adopt medications for the treatment of alcohol-use disorders (AUDs). The objectives of this study are to (a) determine how the inherent characteristics of injectable naltrexone (i.e., relative advantage, complexity, trialability, observability, compatibility) shape organizational-level decisions to adopt the medication and (b)...

Previous research and anecdotal reports have suggested that when certain teaching approaches are used, students not only learn more but also experience greater satisfaction with the training process. This study examined the effects of integrative-learning-based (IL) training in relation to lecture-based training. Employees enrolled in a 3-day manufacturing resource planning training course were...

The problem of how to create and transfer knowledge in organizations has given rise to a rich and stimulating discourse between and within organizational studies and practitioners. This paper focuses on a still relatively unexplored aspect of this issue. This is the dilemma of setting up goals for and evaluating the outcomes of programs designed to stimulate the creation and transfer of knowled...

There is still no unilateral understanding of corporate sustainability and its practical implementation. Organizational culture among the main reasons for failure implementation efforts organizational change programs. The behaviour decision-making managers thus strategic direction company attitudes towards sustainability, innovation are influenced by culture.

The importance of educating organizational end users about their roles and responsibilities towards information security is widely acknowledged. However, many current user education programs have been created by security professionals who do not necessarily have an educational background. The nature of such programs is thus not always properly understood. This lack of understanding could result...

a r t i c l e i n f o Management literature frequently proposes the use of a set of managerial practices in order to facilitate the management of organizational change processes. This paper analyses differences in perception in the use of such practices, between change strategists and change receptors, and the impact these practices have on the outcomes of organizational change programs and on ...