In recent years, simulation-based training has seen increased application in medical education. Emergency medicine simulation uses a variety of educational tools to facilitate trainee acquisition of knowledge and skills in order to help achieve curriculum objectives. In this report, we describe the use of a highly realistic human patient simulator to instruct emergency medicine senior residency...

EA is a high-level, strategic management technique designed to help senior managers achieve business and organizational change. In fact, EA methods, models and principles such as TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework) or Zachmann have been around for more than 15 years. Nonetheless, knowledge of EA concepts, frameworks and processes within many financial services organizations is still q...

Themanagement of technology embodies human choice and freedom, and as such, itmaynot detach fromphilosophy and psychology, particularly in the innovation, knowledge and learning paradigm. This paradigm heralds knowledge workers in systems of innovationwith renewed emphasis on information and intellectual capital as the primary assets for production. The thinking styles and cognitive preferences...

Background Quality improvement should be assigned as the main mission for healthcare providers. Clinical Governance (CG) is used not only as a strategy focusing on responding to public and government’s intolerance of poor healthcare standards, but also it is implemented for quality improvement in a number of countries. This study aims to identify the key contributing factors in the implementati...

introduction: emotion is fundamental to nursing practice and emotional intelligence is considered as an important characteristic of nurses that can affect the quality of their work including clinical decision-making, critical thinking, evidence and knowledge use in practice, etc. the aim of this research was to assess and compare emotional intelligence between freshman and senior baccalaureate ...

While Project Management Offices (PMOs) have become a mainstay in organizations, systematic research has not yet been undertaken to study their intricacies. In this paper, we conduct an exploratory and descriptive case study of PMOs, based on our interviews with senior managers and directors of PMOs in 32 IT organizations. The objectives are to: (1) outline the nature and characteristics of PMO...

Despite the existence of a substantial literature on the management of pay within multinational corporations (MNCs) (cf. for example, Bloom et al 2003; Gomez-Meija and Welbourne 1994; Schuler and Rogovsky 1998; Sparrow 1999), our knowledge of the nature of pay policy in the foreign subsidiaries of such firms remains very limited. The overwhelming majority of the existing literature, written fro...

organizational culture and managers' personal attitudes play a crucial role in conducting change initiatives, especially strategic change. in this regard, middle managers' commitment to change is of great importance and cynicism is the biggest obstacle in forming this commitment. in the present study, it is investigated whether organizational justice dimensions, senior management supp...