Notwithstanding the debate in recent months between the Bush administration and members of Congress about how personnel should be managed in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the secretary of the new department will be faced with the challenge of implementing and further improving the human resources (HR) system agreed upon by the President and Congress. This challenge will be made mor...

High technology organizations are increasingly facing survival and growth challenges. Whereas the investment in R and D projects is increasing; the development of the new product is decreasing in the biopharmaceutical sector [1]. The pressure for the productivity and emerging opportunities from changing institutions as well as from the advent of enabling information and communication technologi...

OBJECTIVE This study tests the reliability of a system (FINANS) to collect and analyze incident reports in the financial trading domain and is guided by a human factors taxonomy used to describe error in the trading domain. BACKGROUND Research indicates the utility of applying human factors theory to understand error in finance, yet empirical research is lacking. We report on the development ...

The concept of e-government has begun to spread among countries. It is based on the use of information communication technology (ICT) to fully utilize government resources, as well as to provide government services to citizens, investors and foreigners. Critical factors are the factors that are determined by the senior management of each organization; the success or failure of the organization ...

BACKGROUND The use of comorbidities in risk adjustment for health outcomes research is frequently necessary to explain some of the observed variations. Medical charts reviews to obtain information on comorbidities is laborious. Increasingly, electronic health care databases have provided an alternative for health services researchers to obtain comorbidity information. However, the rates obtaine...

There are many problems that usually R & D centers and organizations in the decision making and achieve its higher goals, are faced with.Such as the density of information in the administrative departments, human resources information and facilities and equipment. The researcher had to make it investigate effective factors in improving management information systems in private banks according ...

the puppose of this research is identification of the impact of organizational culture factors and organizational structure factors on whistle-blowing. we used mixed method. at first stage, we used qualitative method; so, we used delphi technic and finally, by reaching consensus comments, we found 21 items with 0/441 coefficient of agreement. then, in the second stage, we use quantitative appro...

Today, e-commerce has become a top priority for organizations. By getting use of the Internet, organizations can significantly influence the attitudes of their customers and encourage them to benefit from the services provided by them. Consequently, organizations can affordably become a leader in the market, supply, delivery, and service. Furthermore, development of e-commerce in all existing...