It is well acknowledged that Human Resources are one of the most important assets of a company; as a consequence, Competency Management became a well established approach for organizing workforce recruitment, training and development. At the same time, Competency Management is more and more moving towards a tight integration with business and knowledge management frameworks, having a crucial ro...

different approaches are presented regarding how to react to the changing world. all these approaches are me meaningful if cover the alignment principle in the organization as a fundamental and more important principle. surveys and research on the successful organizations are indicative of considering alignment as a determinant axis in the organization. this article is the result of a research ...

This paper presents the findings from a study of collaborative work among design professionals in virtual modeling for building construction. The research is based on interviews conducted with members from various design professions. We analyzed a building project comprising a network of organizations interrelated by their information systems, to gain a better understanding of collaborative des...

Increasingly, organizational work is performed by distributed teams of interdependent knowledge workers. Such teams have many benefits, but geographic, organizational and social distance between members makes it difficult for team members to create the shared understandings and social structures necessary to be effective. But as yet, research and practitioner communities know little about the d...

Managing IS changes is critical for IT governance decisions. Thus, firms should be concerned IT agility in order to respond to uncertain changes in a dynamic environment. In this case study, we analyze the course of IT governance decisions to understand how the case company uses IT to enable organizational agility. Further, we adopt platform organizing logic perspectives to identify factors ass...

Changes in patterns of organizing often follow disruptions, so-called shocks, in the way that people understand their organization and organizing practices. People engage in a process of sensemaking, and new meanings emerge to guide future practices. Yet, organizations often deal with such shocks in ways that do not lead to any fundamental differences in the observed patterns of organizing prac...

AbstractThe purpose of this study was to assess organizational and personnel structure in Iranian Agriculture Extension System (IAES). The research instrument was a structural questionnaire including close-ended questions which its validity and reliability was confirmed by using expert panel and Cranach’s alpha test, respectively. The statistical population of this research included all public ...