The Internet has emerged as a viable and reliable tool for recruiting. Using the Internet and e-Business applications, companies and applicants can reach one another faster and easier. This convenience has resulted in significant challenges for Human Resource departments. First-generation automation tools made the initial step toward addressing these challenges. Early systems provided the abili...

In today’s competitive market environment, pharmaceutical companies have learned that improving supply chain performance is critical to maintain competitive advantages. Forecasting, planning, procurement, financing, stock levels, and marketing strategies are some of the areas in which managers have to decide about them and balance their enter-related effects simultaneously, to achieve organizat...

poorinformative websites of hotels in iranian tourist destinations has turned to a deterrent factor in attracting potential tourists from all over the world. the main goal of this study was to identify effective solutions for improving the informative effectiveness of iranian top hotels’ websites based on interviews with 25 hotel managers (i.e. ceos, public relations managers and it managers). ...

OBJECTIVE This study focuses on cooperation between physicians and managers and aspects of that cooperation that can provide leads for interventions aimed at enhancing hospital performance. DESIGN We performed a qualitative study on cooperation between physicians and managers and the influence of that cooperation on hospital performance, and structured the resulting data according to the cond...

Background: The purpose of this study is to prevent the prevalence of infectious diseases in vulnerable groups by anticipating the role of actors in implementing decision-making models in conditions of uncertainty in medical universities. Methods: This research is an applied research by combining qualitative and quantitative methods based on the foundation data theory (Grand Theory). To determ...

PURPOSE To better understand the environmental constraints on nurse managers that impact their need for and use of decision support tools, we conducted a Cognitive Work Analysis (CWA). A complete CWA includes system analyses at five levels: work domain, decision-making procedures, decision-making strategies, social organization/collaboration, and worker skill level. Here we describe the results...

BACKGROUND The utilisation of good design practices in the development of complex health services is essential to improving quality. Healthcare organisations, however, are often seriously out of step with modern design thinking and practice. As a starting point to encourage the uptake of good design practices, it is important to understand the context of their intended use. This study aims to d...