Human capital plays an important role and acts as a strategic resource that helps firms achieve strategic competitiveness. In the global business context, understanding the expectations and behaviors of employees in different cultures is paramount for international and multicultural organizations to succeed. This paper examines the task and relationship orientations as well as the work overload...

A lack of respect between nursing and medical disciplines can lead to a lack of trust and disruptive behaviors that are a significant part of the culture of health care today. In order to ensure the best care for all patients, a systematic approach to defining desired and undesired behaviors is a place to begin. A systems view requires an appreciation of local culture and operations. Understand...

International strategic alliances have become overwhelmingly used in today’s business environment. However, most of these alliances feature a very high rate of unsuccessfulness. Usually, business partners’ cultural distance is regarded as one of the main reasons that lead these alliances to their failure. Therefore, it is thought that companies belonging to similar national cultural environment...

since the victory of the islamic revolution in 1979 shiite islam has been adopted as state ideology in iran. this paper is concerned with the impact of islam on iranian strategic culture. more specifically, it examines the impact of islam on the manner iran employs force in self-defense. to shed light on the influence of ideology, the article has relied heavily on ayatollah khomeini's spee...

The Persian Gulf and its shores are important and strategic areas with a large variety of fish species. Betanodavirus infection is known to be a serious threat to susceptible fish and causing economic damages to the fisheries and fishing industry. Concerning to isolation and confirmation of VNN virus in the Mullet fish (Chelon aurata and C. saliens) in the Caspian Sea and its damages on Mullet ...

Abstract. On 2 July 2021 Russian President Vladimir Putin adopted the National Security Strategy of Federation. This is one most important strategic security document state, which presents key threats and challenges for Russia in changing socio-political realities. The also a part external as well internal communication. article seeks to analyze new NSS context state’s culture its narratives. m...

The strategic plan at Carnegie Mellon University highlights the important contributions that staff members make to the organization. Concomitantly the university encourages the growth of a diverse campus community and stresses the important of developing a culture of respect. The university libraries have embraced these two threads – recognizing the important contributions made by staff and the...

Target Audience Strategic Learning Initiatives (SLI) is a 23-year old nonprofit with proven results in accelerating adult and student learning. Our overall goal in the Transformation Process is to accelerate improved student and adult performance by levering systemic change focused on improving school culture, principal and teacher effectiveness, and family/community engagement, the primary dri...