Effective time management has become increasingly important for managers as they seek to accomplish objectives in today's organizations, which have been restructured for efficiency while employing fewer people. Managers can improve their ability to manage time effectively by examining their attitudes toward time, analyzing time-wasting behaviors, and developing better time management skills. Ma...

Global health provides a special challenge for primary care and general practice, which will become increasingly important in the future as the prevalence of multimorbidity increases with increasing likelihood of survival from acute manifestations of illness, as populations age, and as costs of care increase with increasing availability of technologic interventions. World organizations of prima...

Knowledge intensive organizations have vast array of information contained in large document repositories. With the advent of E-commerce and corporate intranets/extranets, these repositories are expected to grow at a fast pace. This explosive growth has led to huge, fragmented, and unstructured document collections. Although it has become easier to collect and store information in document coll...

Leading change initiatives across multiple geographic locations has become increasingly frequent among nursing leaders as hospitals merge to form more effective and powerful organizations. This case study illustrates how strong nursing leadership, in conjunction with a transformational change approach, led to the successful implementation of a new documentation system at two hospitals within on...

Degradation of the environment has touched an all time low. To reverse this trend, it has become increasingly obvious that people must become aware of the seriousness of the situation. To impart environmental education and create awareness, efforts have therefore Been greatly enhanced at global, national and local levels, by different organizations. The present paper discuss the activities of s...

With the fast growing nature of enterprise business especially with the emergence of information technology, we are moving towards the era where database systems have become mandatory for the organizations to implement. Because of this, it has become very important to specify such access control model for the database systems in organizations that must ensure the security of information but at ...

Knowledge is increasingly claimed to be a key critical resource and source of competitive advantage in the modern global economy, especially with the rise of the service economy, the growth in the number of ‘knowledge workers’, the increasingly rapid ow of global information, and the growing recognition of the importance of intellectual capital and intellectual property rights. It is also incr...

Ramirez • Medical Education A managed care’s role has grown in recent years, board certification’s importance in the professional lives of physicians has grown correspondingly, as most managed care organizations require board certification for physicians participating in their plans. Hospitals increasingly are also making board certification a prerequisite to obtain staff privileges. Many physi...

Organizations have become increasingly dependent on teams to carry out their R&D tasks. Effective teams rely on knowledge sharing and group cohesiveness to achieve better performance. In particular, the transactive memory system (TMS) and trust are two important factors that impact knowledge sharing in R&D teams. To date, there has been relatively little empirical investigation of the effects o...