This paper seeks to suggest ways to support informal, self-directed, work-integrated learning within organizations. We focus on a special type of learning in organizations, namely on competency development, that is a purposeful development of employee capabilities to perform well in a large array of situations. As competency development is inherently a self-directed development activity, we see...

today, survival and value creation in organizations depend on creative and innovative thinking as well as understanding and utilization of environmental opportunities. this research attempts to introduce the organization behavioral barriers which affect the development of corporate entrepreneurship. first, with the views of different experts, various behavioral barriers of corporate entrepreneu...

Research on successful aging at work has neglected contextual resources such as organizational climate, which refers to employees' shared perceptions of their work environment. We introduce the construct of organizational climate for successful aging (OCSA) and examine it as a buffer of the negative relationship between employee age and focus on opportunities (i.e., beliefs about future goals a...

The purpose of this review is to examine empirical studies that focus on the association between family-level factors (e.g., parenting practices, family functioning) and African American children’s behavioral health. Specifically, we examined the studies’ characteristics, the relationship between various family-level factors and behavioral health outcomes, and the extent to which these studies ...

Organizations and their leaders have a growing pool of stakeholders with a growing chasm among stakeholder values. This, accompanied by growing global diversity and constant pressure to innovate, gives rise to continually changing contexts. In turn, these phenomena require executives and leaders to respond and adapt to quickly changing contexts. The purpose of this article is to assimilate the ...

OBJECTIVE To identify a pathway forward for practicing pharmacists in supporting public health initiatives by applying the five core competencies of public health. SUMMARY The pharmacist is well positioned to improve population health. Until now, increased impact of pharmacists has been based on the expansion of patient services rather than guided by a population approach to health. To increase...