Induction programs largely focus on informing the beginning teacher about the school culture and infrastructure yet the core business of education is teaching and learning. This qualitative study uses a survey, questionnaire, and interviews to investigate 10 beginning teachers’ needs towards becoming effective teachers in their first year of teaching. Findings were synonymous with studies in ot...

Towards a Safer Culture (TASC) aims to provide a safer culture in hospital departments by introducing clinical pathways for the management of patients with acute coronary syndromes or stroke. Specific clinical pathways have been implemented for patients with different levels of risk to guide the most appropriate evidence-based medical care for each patient. Pathways facilitate continuity of car...

OBJECTIVES To explore the potential tension between the need for managers to produce measurable change and the skills required to produce cultural change, and to investigate how managers of primary care trusts are attempting to deal with this tension. DESIGN Qualitative case studies using data derived from semistructured interviews and a review of published documents. An established cultural ...

The objective of this chapter is to illustrate a case study of a medical research institute in Malaysia in order to discuss issues pertaining to ICT adoption in healthcare organizations, in particular exploring the culture, challenges, and issues of ICT adoption among medical teams, patients, etc. In this chapter, we examine the question of ‘What are the challenges of implementing ICT in health...

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The article subjects the assumptions and prescriptions of the 'Corporate Culture' literature to critical scrutiny . The body of the article is devoted to teasing out the distinctive basis of its appeal compared with earlier management theory . It is seen to build upon earlier efforts (e .g . 'theory Y') to constitute a self-disciplining form of employee subjectivity by asserting that 'practical...

Corporate culture is a key component in the achievement of an organization's mission and strategies, the improvement of organizational effectiveness, and the management of change. Culture is rooted in deeplyheld beliefs. It reflects what has worked in the past. It is a pattern of shared beliefs, attitudes, assumptions and values, which may not have been explicitly articulated. Corporate culture...

Managing regulatory compliance is increasingly challenging and costly for organizations worldwide. While there is evidence that research on compliance management is on the increase, to facilitate industry-relevance there is a need to inform future research directions with empirical insights from practice. In this paper, we present the results of an empirical study that examines challenges in ma...

Reading park it means of a place to increase children’s interest in reading which makes daily culture improving the quality human resources. In Kaba Kamboja, withdrawal is carried out by managers who are collage students. The manager himself has several strategies its services, especially learning management form : 1) critical awareness 2) motivating children, 3) two-way communication, 4) monit...