Although business process reengineering is a major corporate initiative today, the success rate of reengineering projects has been less than ideal. In an attempt to better understand the dynamics underlying this phenomenon, process reengineering is viewed as an organizational innovation. Based upon existing taxonomies of innovations, it is characterized as a radical, administrative, process inn...

Purpose – This research aims at investigating the role of certain factors in organizational culture in the success of knowledge sharing. Such factors as interpersonal trust, communication between staff, information systems, rewards and organization structure play an important role in defining the relationships between staff and in turn, providing possibilities to break obstacles to knowledge sh...

OBJECTIVES This study examines three integrative health centers to understand their (1) historical development, organizational goals, and modalities, (2) the processes and challenges of integrating complementary and allopathic medicine, while encouraging staff collaboration, and (3) how each center becomes institutionalized within their community. METHODS We focus on three organizational case...

Legged robots can, in principle, traverse a large variety of obstacles and terrains. In this paper, we describe a successful application of reinforcement learning algorithm to the problem of negotiating obstacles with a quadruped robot. Our algorithm is based on a two-level hierarchical decomposition of the task, in which the high-level controller selects the sequence of foot-placement position...

OBJECTIVE Examine factors implicated in gestational weight gain (GWG) in low-income overweight and obese women. DESIGN Qualitative study. SETTING Community-based perinatal center. PARTICIPANTS Eight focus groups with women (black = 48%, white non-Hispanic = 41%, and Hispanic = 10%) in the first half (n = 12) and last half of pregnancy (n = 10) or postpartum (n = 7), 2 with obstetrician-gy...

Background. Limited physical activity (PA) is a risk factor for childhood obesity. In Netherlands, as in many other countries worldwide, local policy officials bear responsibility for integrated PA policies, involving both health and nonhealth domains. In practice, its development seems hampered. We explore which obstacles local policy officials perceive in their effort. Methods. Fifteen semist...

Objective: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the relationship between perceived organizational justice and organizational commitment of physical education teachers in West Azerbaijan province. Methods: Research method is descriptive-correlation conducted using the field method. Statistical population includes physical education teachers in West Azerbaijan which are 1091 persons. The samp...

organizational spirituality is a new paradigm that has emerged in organizational behavior district and finds very advocates. spirituality in workplace is referred to an individual attempts for seeking purpose in working life, sense of solidarity with coworkers and alignment with organization's mission and values. spirituality could involve religion viewpoint or not, however, historically i...

the basic goal of this research is recognition of losses of organizational structure of iranian central insurance and secondary importance are recognition of losses of organizationalcomplexity, organizational formalization and organizational centralization. for data collecting is designed aquestionnaire that is measuring organizational structure situation in robin’s structural dimension’s model...