Background: Clinical experience is the most important component of nursing education which must be acquired in appropriate environment. The quality of clinical learning environment (CLE) is a valid indicator to show the quality of nursing curriculum. Therefore, assessment of CLE is a duty of nursing education administrators who are facing problems in this assessment. Complex nature of CLE and l...

A normative literature in political science and public administration calls for enhanced citizen participation in public decisions. However, this approach overlooks the environment that shapes administrative behavior, an oversight likely to hamper reform efforts targeted at achieving the normative goals of participation. The administrative perspective is important because public managers shape ...

This paper will analyze the learning design from the learning designers' and trainers' point of view. Focusing on the training system, we use a threefold model: " ideational " , " functional " and " experienced " dimensions of a training system. In the French public mail company, training for all managers is provided by a department of the Corporate University: the " School of Managers ". How h...

The rights and duties of both staff members and students are regulated by a large and different numbers of legal regulations and rules. This large number of rules and regulations makes the decision-making process time consuming and error boring. Smart advisory systems could provide rapid and accurate advices to managers and give the arguments for these advices. This paper presents an intelligen...

This article discusses the ways that trends of corporatization and commercialization have changed managerial roles in universities. The authors argue we gone too far with these plea for redesigned management roles. Performance measurement systems relying on student polls teaching journal metrics research support interventions. However, managers also need to acknowledge autonomy different capabi...

introduction: the purpose of this research was to evaluate the performance of the hospitals’ managers affiliated to medical university of isfahan by data envelopment analysis (dea) method. also since some attributes of performance are qualitative, analytical hierarchy process (ahp) method was used also to quantify the data. methods: this research was practical in purpose and descriptive-analyti...

Purpose: The current research, which is of the grounded theory type, was conducted with the aim of designing a model for developing strategic thinking of Islamic Azad University administrators. Methodology: The statistical population of this study is academic experts who have experience and education related to research in Azad University. The snowball method was used for sampling and the numb...

The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expresse...

HOSE of us at the center of non-profit or for-profit organizations in the United States seldom expound on the challenges of our work. Why? For one, many administrators view their responsibility as doing their job, not analyzing it. From this perspective, the level of contemplation necessary for reflective insight is better achieved in the post administrative phase, better known as retirement. T...

INTRODUCTION This article reports on the findings of a study into enrolled nurse (EN) to registered nurse (RN) transition in South Australian rural settings. Rural RNs are required to be multi-skilled generalists capable of providing a wide range of nursing services to a diverse range of clients. This frequently occurs in situations without medical or specialist assistance. The objective of thi...