Organizational loafing is the phenomenon of a person exerting less effort to achieve a goal when they work in an organizational group than when they work alone.This phenomenon is a serious problem in today's organizations.The research seeks to explain factors affecting the phenomenon of organizational loafing. First, the elites’ opinion through Delphi technique about the indicators influencing ...

extended abstract: introduction creative city is a place with a strong flourish of arts and culture, creativity and innovation with four scenarios of creative human capital, quality of life, innovation and investment in social in order to use of sustainable development indicators. the aim of this study is an analysis of the relationship between sustainable development indicators and criteria of...

The Health Status Indicators (HSIs) were developed as part of the Healthy People 2000 process to facilitate the comparison of health status measures at national, State and local levels. In this report, the number of HSIs where the national target has been attained and the number of HSIs that have improved significantly are enumerated for the United States, the District of Columbia, and each Sta...

The European Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) requires EU Member States (MS) to achieve Good Environmental Status (GEnS) of their seas by 2020. We address the question of what GEnS entails especially with regard to the level at which targets are set (descriptors, criteria, indicators), to scales for assessments (regional, sub-divisions, site-specific), and to difficulties in putting i...

Misrecognition, taken seriously as unjust social subordination, cannot be remedied by eliminating prejudice alone. In this rejoinder to Richard Rorty, it is argued that a politics of recognition and a politics of redistribution can and should be combined. However, an identity politics that displaces redistribution and rei® es group differences is deeply āwed. Here, instead, an alternative ’stat...

Geographic patterns of sarcoidosis have been detected and studied on a global scale. However, the associations between these disease patterns and population characteristics have not been determined. The authors studied the geographic pattern of sarcoidosis in South Carolina and its relation to socioeconomic status (SES) and health status indicators. Hospitalization rates for the period 1985-199...

Nowadays, with the presence of technology in the human life, organizational levels have received a lot of changes which affected the operational aspects and the organizational structures from traditional to modern. Therefore, this study investigated the role of technology management to predict operational performance as the most important sources for gaining competitive advantages. It aimed to ...

OBJECTIVES Racial differences in self-rated health at older ages are well documented. African Americans consistently report poorer health, even when education, income, and other health status indicators are controlled. The extent to which neighborhood-level characteristics mediate this association remains largely unexplored. We ask whether neighborhood social and economic resources help to expl...

Nowadays, with the presence of technology in the human life, organizational levels have received a lot of changes which affected the operational aspects and the organizational structures from traditional to modern. Therefore, this study investigated the role of technology management to predict operational performance as the most important sources for gaining competitive advantages. It aimed to ...