background many organisations have realised the importance of human resource for their competitive advantage. empowering employees is therefore essential for organisational effectiveness. this study aimed to investigate the relationship between employee participation with outcome variables such as organisational commitment, job satisfaction, perception of justice in an organisation and readines...

during the past decade, the world economic forum has published its annual reports in which the global competitiveness index is included. this paper aims to investigate the key factors for achieving an innovation-driven economy. in this paper, we used partial canonical correlation analysis (pcca) to examine the relationships between key pillars in “efficiency enhancers” and “business sophisticat...

  Background: Effective leadership is essential to passing through obstacles facing the health field. The current health care system in Iran has major problems and gaps in the field of effective leadership. The aim of this study was to evaluate hospital managers’ leadership style through self-assessment and to determine the correlation between leadership styles with healthcare executives’ leade...

The current dynamic and turbulent business environment has forced companies that are competing in global markets to change their traditional methods of conducting business. Recent developments in applying Information Technology (IT) offer the most exciting business opportunities in the marketplace. Organizations must re-evaluate every aspect of their strategies and quickly move to a working mod...

Estimating individual readiness of military and civilian nursing personnel for deployment to austere environments challenges the best of us. Despite decades of conflicts, crises, and disasters around the world, measuring individual readiness for deployment remains elusive. However difficult, quantifying individual readiness is critical to provide commanders and leaders with information to drive...

BACKGROUND A quick method of assessing readiness to change was needed for a major study of implementing screening and alcohol brief intervention in England. For this purpose, a Readiness Ruler that had been validated among a sample of male college students in the USA was adapted and applied to a sample of excessive drinkers in a general medical practice located in a deprived area of Gateshead, ...

BACKGROUND Readiness is an integral and preliminary step in the successful implementation of telehealth services into existing health systems within rural communities. METHODS AND MATERIALS This paper details and critiques published international peer-reviewed studies that have focused on assessing telehealth readiness for rural and remote health. Background specific to readiness and change t...

BACKGROUND Globally, the rate of reduction in delivery-associated maternal and perinatal mortality has been slow compared to improvements in post-delivery mortality in children under five. Improving clinical readiness for basic obstetric emergencies is crucial for reducing facility-based maternal deaths. Emergency readiness is commonly assessed using tracers derived from the maternal signal fun...

Many organizations failed in adopting e-learning. A primary reason for this failure is the lack of assessment of organizational readiness for e-learning. To reduce failure risk, organizations should assess their readiness for adopting e-learning to identify some weak points which have to be improved by taking some improvement actions. In the literature we can find a variety of e-learning readin...