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...

Much previous work has been done on distributed dynamic resource allocation, and there are a number of solutions. Unfortunately, pragmatic mechanisms for Internetwide resource allocation have not received much attention in the research literature. The key challenges for Internet-wide resource allocation are scale and robustness. As the number of resource managers scale, the overall resource uti...

In this paper, the authors introduce a real time web based tool for resource allocation (RETRA) that can assist the incident commanders and resource managers in the complex task of emergency resource deployment for multiple simultaneous incidents that occur in close geographical proximity. RETRA real time inputs include the location of the emergency sites and the required resources with associa...

Access, demand and resource management issues in hospitals continue to plague the area of hospital management. Access is the capacity to provide patients with health care in a timely fashion, demand is a community’s need for health care satisfied by available health services and resource management is the use of various resources available to hospitals for managing them. Problems in these three...

Background The implications of decentralisation on human resource for health management has not received adequate research attention despite the presupposition that the concept of decentralisation leads to the transfer of management authority and discretion for human resource management from national levels to subnational levels. This study aims at investigating the extent to which decent...