as information has the role of organization asset, its protection is the key to the survival of any organization. information security management system (isms) defines protection of information in three specific concepts: information confidentiality, accuracy, and availability. many failures in implementing isms rooted in organizational problems and lack of attention to the state of readiness o...

since about four years ago, total quality management (tqm) has been informally introduced into our integrated healthcare and medical education system. with the aim of getting feedback/ learning from the experiences of the universities/schools of medical sciences in setting the ground for tqm implementation, an assessment was done. the survey results show that out of 31 universities/ schools of ...

the purpose of this research was to identify sources of management power in physical education organization managers and to determine its relationship to employees' readiness and satisfaction with their supervisors. the method of this research was descriptive correlational. the statistical population consisted of all employees of physical education organization. a random sample of 118 empl...

Information technology growth and development has caused to significant revolution in the daily life of the modern societies. Changing organizational approaches in their activities methods has been presented with IT development simultaneously by scholars and endeavors have been continued   to discover its various dimensions. E-Readiness, a concept that has been stated 3 decades ago, means the d...

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are very costly and difficult to be implemented. Organizations need to be ready for implementing them. They require assessing their current readiness and then, they can perform a range of activities to improve their readiness. The ERP readiness is influenced by many factors which are interrelated and any improvement in one of them has direct and indire...

In this paper we argue that optimization in terms of forensic readiness should be performed in a controlled and structured manner, taking under consideration the current situation an organization is in. We reflect upon well known practices relating to process maturity and investigate the feasibility and appropriateness of adopting such approaches in order to express forensic readiness. Levels o...

 The Organization Readiness of Engineering Project Management Based on Virtual Teams has been analyzed in an Iranian Engineering firm. Adapting and analyzing the latest readiness model, experts’ opinions were received by questionnaires and main criteria of the readiness have been identified. The considered readiness criteria are: Infrastructure, Deliverables (Drawings, Reports, Minutes of Meeti...

This study focuses on employees’ commitment with the organization and career predictors to know the employees attitudes and behaviors regarding changes in the organization. Large amount of literature has been revealed and conceptual framework developed. First time career commitment including situational and individuals’ factors would be examined for readiness to change. However, employees’ comm...

every organization requires employees who can readily accept changes to carry out their day to day business transactions and to accommodate with those changes emerging from the environment. the purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of readiness for change on organizational change among the employees of the commercial banks. data were collected from 350 employees serving in the priv...