The Literature suggests that Knowledge Management (KM) might be doomed to failure. This perception is primarily built on the notion that KM is a fallacy and nothing more than Information Management (IM) while suggesting that there is only lip service for KM but no real support. Defenders of KM’s value tend to mislead by reporting only world-class practices in world-class organizations. To date,...


 This study aims to determine the effect of organizational support, emotional maturity and work motivation on affective commitment employees at fire rescue service in city Yogyakarta. uses a quantitative approach method. The population amounted 103 employees. Sampling by Accidental Sampling. Data were analyzed using Multiple Linear Regression equipped with classical assumption test, T tes...

BACKGROUND A quality management system can provide a framework for continuous improvement in order to increase the probability of customers and other stakeholders' satisfaction. The test maturity model helps organizations to assess the degree of maturity in implementing effective and sustained quality management systems; plan based on the current realities of the organization and prioritize the...

The U.S. Small Business Administration defines small businesses as having fewer than 500 employees. Over 99 percent of all U.S. businesses are small businesses, and from 1992 to 1996, small businesses created all of the net new jobs [1]. Yet, reference to the literature on software engineering suggests strongly that implementation of software engineering process models, such as the Software Eng...

Businesses nowadays face urgent demands to act ethically and socially responsibly. Some believe that ethically responsible companies design and use corporate governance that serves all stakeholders’ interests to achieve competitive advantage and maintaining ethical behavior is very important through corporate governance. Thus, an ethical business environment is critical and ethical behavior is ...

Teleology comes from the Greek term telos, in English purpose. According to Aristotle, each object has a final purpose for its being. Human knowledge is also associated with such a purpose. The teleological analysis of knowledge management processes and knowledge types is a new approach to mapping organizational knowledge, especially in academic environment. In this paper, we show advantages of...

PURPOSE The purpose of this descriptive and cross-sectional study is to explore the relationships between managers' leadership styles and employees' job satisfaction in Isfahan University Hospitals, Isfahan, Iran, 2004. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH The data were collected through the distribution of two questionnaires among the 814 employees, first line, middle and senior managers of these hos...

Management accounting highlights the use of accounting information for decision making and optimal control and management of executives in organizations. Accounting information is provided comprehensively by the accounting information system (AIS). To develop the AIS, the maturity of the system should be determined. In this regard, the first step is to identify and categorize maturity factors a...

promises shorter time-to-market and decreased life cycle cost. However, those benefits are not guaranteed under every situation and are affected by many factors, such as number of available employees, market demands, reuse rate, process maturity, and product line adoption and evolution approaches. Before initiating a software product line, an organization needs to evaluate available process opt...