in a military organization, the role of transportation should be much more strong and strategic character for the organization. in this context, the evaluation of operating ability of transportation and eliminate defects and problems, can help the managers to improve performance and increase the effectiveness and efficiency of transportation in the assigned missions. in this study, a model is p...

Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems represent an opportunity to improve the delivery of health care. However, low implementation rates inhibit the ability of EHR to fulfill the promise of the information systems. One possible reason why implementation rates remain low is the high degree of customization required by clinical workers to fit the information systems to the organization. This wor...

Organizational politics is an important determinant in the pay systems based on performance evaluation as both supervisors and subordinates have a possibility to affect the results of the appraisal process. Sometimes supervisors might be tempted to manipulate ratings in order to influence the behavior of their subordinates or even to affect their own position in the organization. The main chara...

AIMS Although readiness to change (RTC) is cited as a key mechanism underlying drinking behavior change, empirical evidence supporting RTC as a predictor of college drinking has been mixed. Considering methodological limitations of previous studies, the current aim was to conduct a more comprehensive test of longitudinal relationships between readiness to change and college drinking. DESIGN I...

Background and Objectives: The healthcare organization are often fail to realize their strategic goals due to the lack of effective leadership. To address this efficiency, factors can possibly influence the management performance should be identified. Thus, the purpose of this study was to evaluate hospital managers’ leadership style and explore the relationship between leadership style in hosp...

Implementing knowledge management or knowledge-sharing projects in an organization require significant organizational prerequisites. Lacking proper infrastructures and prerequisite, not only make the knowledge management process unprofitable, but might incur harmful effects as well. To decrease such risks, it is proposed to introduce the readiness assessment, in order to gauge a company’s appet...

At the G-8 Kyushu-Okinawa Summit in July 2000, the industrialized nations acknowledged the advancement of the private sector in information technology (IT) and committed the organization to the Global Digital Divide Initiative of the World Economic Forum Task Force. The Task Force outlined nine initiatives and a set of concrete action plans for implementation, which may achieve egovernment read...

Software process appraisal is to assess whether an implemented software process complies with a process reference model. To conduct the appraisal, the appraisal team will request an organization to provide objective evidence reflecting practice implementation. Then such evidence will be examined, verified, and validated to generate appraisal results. This evidence collection process is done aft...