Purpose – Fundamentally, the success of schools depends on first-rate school leadership, on leaders reinforcing the teachers’ willingness to adhere to the school’s vision, creating a sense of purpose, binding them together and encouraging them to engage in continuous learning. Leadership, vision and organizational learning are considered to be the key to school improvement. However, systematic ...

  Background: Because of the importance of community health and the growing need for health care Health organizations have expanded their scope and with an entrepreneurial approach seeking to upgrade their performance. Knowledge is the most important capital of organizations and key factor in economics. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of knowledge management on organizat...

INTRODUCTION: A critical importance has been attached to altruism and organizational learning capability in the improvement of organizational performance. In light of this significance, the present study investigated the effect of altruism on organizational learning capability with the mediating role of communication conflict and organizational trust in Red Crescent provincial branches of Gilan...

RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES Clinical leadership and organizational culture are important contextual factors for quality improvement (QI) but the relationship between these and with organizational change is complex and poorly understood. We aimed to explore the relationship between clinical leadership, culture of innovation and clinical engagement in QI within a national ambulance QI Collabor...

This paper presents an overview of the types of productivity improvement efforts being conducted in the Army. The activities of the formal Army programs, which are associated with comptroller offices, typically reflect the traditional industrial engineer approach stressing efficiency with relatively little emphasis on behavioral science concerns. An exception is the Productivity Enhancement, Me...

INTRODUCTION Presence of committed personnel in each organization not only reduces their absenteeism, delays, and displacements but also leads to a dramatic increase in performance and efficiency of an organization, mental freshness of employees, better manifestation of noble objectives, and organizational mission as well as fulfillment of personal goals. Therefore, the purpose of this study wa...

undoubtedly, the capability and core competencies of employees help to achieve organization goals. consequently, organizations increase organizational learning capability with the help of intellectual capital, thereby providing improvement of productivity. the current study aims to explain the impact of intellectual capital on labor productivity, considering the mediation of organizational lear...

Prospects for genetic improvement of Eucalyptus cladocalyx in Western Australia Andrew Callister, David Bush, Sally Collins, Wayne Davis 1 ITC Forestry, PO Box 1421 Albany, WA 6331. [email protected] 2 Ensis Genetics, PO Box E4008 Kingston ACT 2604. [email protected] ITC Forestry, PO Box 1421 Albany, WA 6331. [email protected] 4 ITC Forestry, PO Box 1421 Alba...

Interorganizational relationships (IORs, e.g. alliances) have become increasingly popular across industries – particularly in knowledge-intensive industries as organizations seek ways to learn and innovate at a faster pace. Health care organizations have been especially inclined to form IORs recently, with many joining quality improvement collaboratives, in which multidisciplinary teams from mu...