introduction: management development assessment helps managers to systematically assess the current management capabilities of their organization and take critical steps to strengthen the management skills and sustainability of their organizations. this study aimed to identify and compare the health system management development assessment models in selected international organizations and coun...

During the itinerary of evolution, man started to think in a dissimilar way other than the animal by observing the nature. According to Adam smith “it is the invisible hand that carries the human action towards the progress”. This has led to the concept of specialization, industrialization industrial revolution and so on and so forth. The negative side of industrial revolution is global warming...

Although the Victorian proverb ‘‘everything in its place and a place for everything’’ is meant for orderly households, it could just as easily describe the organization of eukaryotic genomes. This issue’s Select profiles articles that reveal new insights into how DNA is packaged and partitioned into three-dimensional (3D) structures throughout the life of a cell, shedding new light on how inter...

leishmania is a protozoan parasite belonging to the family trypanosomatidae, which is found among 88 different countries. the parasite lives as an amastigote in vertebrate macro­phages and as a promastigote in the digestive tract of sand fly. it can be cultured in the laboratory us­ing appropriate culture media. although the sexual cycle of leishmania has not been observed during the promastigo...

With the tremendous growth of digital multimedia data, multimedia systems and technologies are evolving rapidly to meet this challenge. The evolution can be described as one in which the technology focus is moving from treating multimedia content as signals to more advanced extraction and processing of multimedia features, semantics and knowledge, as illustrated in Figure 10.1. By initially han...

This article looks at how a negative third-party quality signal, in the form of external monitoring of firm performance by an investor group, prompts a response from both institutional investors and the firms publicly identified as poor performers. Using a sample of 93 firms placed on the Focus List of the Council of Institutional Investors from 2000 to 2005 and a comparison group of 96 firms i...

introduction: one of the reasons for the maintenance of each organization to increase its productivity is having the consistency in values and beliefs and its overall organizational culture. therefore, for any organization that seeks to achieve some kind of advantage, it must be ensured to the existing organizational culture and also, attention to practical solutions for creating coherence in i...

this study is aimed to assess the strategy improving human resources by using creativity and innovation.surely, the most important component in the success of organizations is the use of creativity and innovation in today's world. human resources, the most essential source of developing the innovation, should be believed as the basis of stability and resistance in a competitive world, inside, o...

the purpose of this study is to survey ethical organization and its influence on social responsibility of organization in ministry of agriculture jehad. mediator factor in this research is organizational culture. five hypotheses were explored. 313 statistical samples were selected from the staff of ministry of agriculture jehad through multistage sampling. the method of research is descriptive ...