background: it is believed that improved safety culture/climate is a fundamental element to accident prevention. therefore, development a scale to assess safety climate is a step towards accident control. the purpose of this study was to construct a persian safety climate questionnaire. methods: the study took place in tehran and esfahan oil refineries in iran in 2010. an initial questionnaire ...

The aim of the research is to examine at direct and indirect effects professional competence, job motivation, work culture on teacher performance. A quantitative technique used in this research. 193 teachers from 17 schools participated study, 130 people were chosen as samples based Cronbach's Error proportionate random selection. Professional competence (30 questions), motivation (35 items), p...

Background and Objectives: Balanced Scorecard is an increasingly popular tool for performance evaluation. Healthcare organizations have broadly adopted this method for implementing their strategic plans. There is, however, increasing concerns on barriers to balanced scorecard implementation. Built on the fundamental impacts of organizational culture on hospital performance, this study explored ...

background and objectives: balanced scorecard is an increasingly popular tool for performance evaluation. healthcare organizations have broadly adopted this method for implementing their strategic plans. there is, however, increasing concerns on barriers to balanced scorecard implementation. built on the fundamental impacts of organizational culture on hospital performance, this study explored ...

the recent increasing number of women in organizations has not been associated with their appropriate positions. therefore, potential capacity of half of active workforce is not utilized fully in managerial positions for organizational success. this study investigates why women are less likely to achieve higher positions in organizations .the study identifies barriers of women's access to ...

Culture has an impact on the presentation of mental health problems. Variation in symptoms, existence local idioms, and etiology were found different target groups. Therefore a culturally appropriate instrument is needed to assess problems for specific group. This study aimed explore literature developing instrument. A systematic review was conducted through Web Science Core Collection database...

A new method is presented and implemented for deriving a scale of socioeconomic status (SES) from international survey data using a multilevel Bayesian item response theory (IRT) model. The proposed model incorporates both international anchor items and nation-specific items and is able to (a) produce student family SES scores that are internationally comparable, (b) reduce the influence of irr...