Pulmonary rehabilitation programs are highly directed to return patients suffering from chronic lung diseases to a state of self-help. These programs are largely organized as temporary interventions in a highly fragmented delivery care system for patients with chronic respiratory conditions. In an optimal health care organizational structure, pulmonary rehabilitation needs to be considered as a...

Workforce diversity is one of the cornerstones of Indian Information Technology (IT) sector’s success as companies need to leverage the skills and talent of a diverse pool of employees. Diversity initiatives and programs in organizations are essentially implemented in order to improve the overall organizational diversity climate. Studies undertaken on diversity climate have revealed that a heal...

This paper investigates the characteristics of US colleges and universities that were early adopters of post-1970 academic growth fields. It examines hypotheses drawn from four analytical perspectives on sources of organizational change: organizational ecology, inter-institutional stratification, demographic composition, and historical traditions. Focusing on 20 ‘‘newly established’’ and ‘‘emer...

As competition for funding and students intensifies, it becomes increasingly important for psychology programs to have an image that is attractive and makes them stand out from other programs. The current study uses the instrumental-symbolic framework from the marketing domain to determine the image of different master's programs in psychology and examines how these image dimensions relate to s...

DESCRIPTION: My career goal is to direct an independent research group studying the nature and function of chromatin factors that control hematopoietic cell fate. My research background in epigenetic gene regulation plus my developing expertise in zebrafish genetics and hematopoiesis provide me with the knowledge to perform the proposed research. The training program in the hematology/oncology ...

This paper examines the research from within and outside of higher education on the practices of high-performance organizations. It assesses the extent to which community colleges generally are following these practices and evaluates current reform efforts in light of models of organizational effectiveness that emerge from the research literature. It then reviews research on strategies for enga...

AMR Research has published a list of the Top 25 Supply Chains for the past few years. These companies and the AMR criteria provide excellent examples for exploring supply chain performance metrics. The NIST publications on the Baldrige Award winners and more recent publications on the success of Six Sigma programs are benchmark examples for organizational excellence performance metrics. Perform...

Bullying, incivility, and their associated disruptive behaviors are insidious and destructive forces with negative consequences that require identification and intervention at the individual and organizational level. Costs incurred secondary to these insensitive behaviors are substantial and involve matters of patient safety, absenteeism, turnover, turnover intentions, organizational commitment...