INTRODUCTION Humanitarian agencies in North Korea operate within a complex sociopolitical environment historically characterized by a baseline of mistrust. As a result of operating within such a heated environment, health sector collaborations between such agencies and the North Korean government have followed unpredictable courses. PROBLEM The factors that have contributed to successful prog...

Although Business Intelligence and analytics (BI&A) is one of the most essential technologies to be purchased, the implementation of many BI&A projects fail. They do not fulfill the expectations of organizations. The reasons for this failure are not clear and still not well investigated. Resource-based View (RBV) and dynamic capability theory could help to overcome this gap and to provide an ap...

BACKGROUND The growing recognition of the importance of concisely communicating research evidence and other policy-relevant information to policymakers has underpinned the development of several information-packaging efforts over the past decade. This has led to a wide variability in the types of documents produced, which is at best confusing and at worst discouraging for those they intend to r...

Labor-management relations are the interacting relations between labor and management. The purpose of our study is to find out the worker wage satisfaction, worker satisfaction with supervisory behavior and worker satisfaction with welfare items. This cross sectional study was conducted from October 2010 to January 2011. A group of 200 employees was take part in this study through a predesigned...

Background: The organizations essentially affect empowerment of personnel through the preparation of the needed grounds for them. Also, the students may acquire the required potentials and capabilities in the educational organizations when the possibility is provided to them to access power and opportunity in educational environments. Objective: The present study aimed to explain the facilitato...

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Healthcare organizations face mounting challenges to “do more with less” and reduce costs while implementing new EMR technologies such as the Epic Care EMR. To address these challenges, the EMC XtremIO all-flash storage solution provides healthcare delivery organizations with a consistently high-performance, highly efficient infrastructure to achieve more value from their Epic environment with ...

Outsourcing of information systems and information technology investments has become a popular method for organizations to achieve their business goals and objectives. However, there is no guarantee that the outsourcing will be perceived as successful due to the very different expectations held by the various stakeholders. The results indicate that the use of IS/IT investment evaluation and ben...

Nesbitt LM, Cliff WH. How the story unfolds: exploring ways faculty develop open-ended and closed-ended case designs. Adv Physiol Educ 32: 279–285, 2008; doi:10.1152/advan.90158.2008.— Open-ended or closed-ended case study design schemes offer different educational advantages. Anatomy and physiology faculty members who participated in a conference workshop were given an identical case about blo...

Labor is a crucial resource in most organizations. In not-for-profit, public, and government services, it is common for labor to include unpaid volunteers. This article demonstrates how the volunteer labor assignment (VLA) problem is markedly different from traditional labor assignment (TLA) problems such as labor scheduling. One core difference pertains to the cost structure of labor, where TL...