Many recent studies of trust and reputation are made in the context of commercial reputation or rating systems for online communities. Most of these systems have been constructed without a formal rating model or much regard for our sociological understanding of these concepts. We first provide a critical overview of the state of research on trust and reputation. We then propose a formal quantit...

performance appraisal systems are affected by organizational social context. social context consists of tow factors, distal variables, and, proximal variables. distal factors include but are not limited to organizational culture, organizational structure, and, values. proximal variable categorize as both process factors and structural factors. in this paper the process factors were examined. th...

introduction : students’ satisfaction of their supervisor is very important in the process of writing a thesis; while satisfaction is present, favorable outcomes could be expected. this study compared graduate students’ satisfaction of their supervisors from various departments. materials and methods: in this descriptive cross-sectional study conducted in 2013, 90 graduate students who had ente...

Dear Editor, The relationship between the PhD supervisorand the PhD student is a complex one. Whenthis relationship is neither effective nor efficient,it may yield negative consequences, such asacademic failure (1).The intricacy of the supervisor-studentrelationship may be in part comparable to the onebetween the physician and his/her patient [see,for example (2)]. Both interactions develop ove...

Many recent studies of trust and reputation are made in the context of commercial reputation or rating systems for online communities. Most of these systems have been constructed without a formal rating model or much regard for our sociological understanding of these concepts. We first provide a critical overview of the state of research on trust and reputation. We then propose a formal quantit...

  Background: Nowadays job stress is one of the most important health problems that health and safety professionals are facing with. Much of previous studies have focused on interventions such as stress management and, they have ignored the role of psychosocial factors in occurrence of job stress. This study investigated the mediator role of supervisor support on the association between wo...

trust is one of the most important factors for the development of electronic banking. the purpose of this study is to determine effective factors on trust in e-banking in the form of a conceptual model. due to the rapid growth of electronic banking in the country, identify factors affecting trust in e-banking is very important. population of this study is customers of bank melli in urmia. we us...

The purpose of the study was to determine effect work from home on work-life balance, balance job satisfaction, satisfaction and mediated by balance. Work is measured management culture, technical support, supervisor trust, support Human Resource department, financial training, features, personal preferences, household factors. Work-life time engagement overall. Job achievement satisfaction. Da...