In this paper we discuss the role organizational narrations can play in the field of knowledge management and develop a model on qualifying and evaluating narrations. As a necessary prerequisite we first clarify the epistemological nature of narrative knowledge opposed to discursive knowledge by referring to a distinction drawn by the French philosopher Lyotard. Narrative knowledge is character...

methods this was across-sectional study, which audited 228 general practitioner offices randomly. the data from offices was collected based on researcher-made checklist, the validity of which was approved. firstly, descriptively analysis of data was done and then, the relationship between clinics characteristics and compliance with standards was assessed using analysis of variance (anova) and t...

The aim of the present study was to determine the relationship between the dimensions of glass ceiling and the organizational commitment of women employees at University of Isfahan, which was conducted by a correlational-type descriptive method. The study population consisted of the women employees working at University of Isfahan, whose number stood at 428 individual and 202 individuals of the...

The aim of this work is to propose a fourth dimension for the MOISE+ multiagent system organizational model, focused in the communication between roles. For that, the model MOISE+ is extended with a dialogic dimension that defines the protocols used for communication between roles. In order to interlink this new dimension to the other dimensions of the MOISE+ model, new relations are added to t...

background and objective: organizational citizenship behavior (ocb) is referred to as the voluntarily activities that are not included as duties in the job description or the formal system of rewards. development of ocb can have a great impact on human resources performance and organization’s achievements. similar with many other organizational variables, ocb as well is dependent on contextual ...

background and objectives: social security organization (sso) is the second largest organization to the ministry of health and medical education (mohme) in providing health care services in iran. in recent years the gap between the sso’s resources and expenditures has shown an unprecedented growing trend due to the rapidly increasing demand. continuation of this trend may lead to financial imba...

The knowledge-based economy has created the need for new learning models that are making a bigger case of the human dimension (such as motivation or social aspects) and of the organizational contexts (such as the organizational goals). This paper presents some design principles for the elaboration of eLearning systems following these new models. These principles rely on the idea of providing th...

In our paper, a new approach for critical success factors of Business to Business (B2B) electronic commerce is presented. Important aspects of this approach can be classified into three main groups; environmental, internal and inter-organizational factors. The first group pertains to the factors that change the conditions equally for all companies in the business space and are out of influence ...