performance appraisal systems are affected by organizational social context. social context consists of tow factors, distal variables, and, proximal variables. distal factors include but are not limited to organizational culture, organizational structure, and, values. proximal variable categorize as both process factors and structural factors. in this paper the process factors were examined. th...

This paper presents our evolving view of organizational p anning. We discuss lessons we are learning by studying examples of real-world organizational planning. Our approach to this topic is interdisciplinary and founded on a view of planning as a form of resource-constrained decision making under uncertainty. We xamine how considerations of planning as a multi-agent process dictates extensions...

Effective communication is critical to providing quality health care and can be affected by a number of modifiable organizational factors. The authors performed a prospective multisite validation study of an organizational communication climate assessment tool in 13 geographically and ethnically diverse health care organizations. Communication climate was measured across 9 discrete domains. Pat...

Many organizations are pursuing knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) to offshore locations. Successful KPO requires developing robust inter organizational knowledge management capabilities (KMC). However, “organizational gaps” that originate from (i) structural differences between the client and vendor’s operating procedures and (ii) cultural differences in the cultural proclivity of the individ...

INTRODUCTION Among the many ways of identifying coherence in discourse, a particularly useful one considers different social dimensions of coherence, as revealed through the unfolding of the exchange of messages, turns or other units of information. When we communicate, whether face-to-face, through message systems, databases or any other technical affordance, we engage in an inherently social ...