background: today, moving toward high quality and efficient education is essential in educational systems. to achieve it, management, research and educational programs should evolve consistent with the produced knowledge, professional developments and standards. regarding the important role of midwifery education in improvement of social health, the current study was carried out to identify the...

the main purpose of this descriptive – survey study was to investigate the factors affecting the professional skills of faculty members in iranian agricultural colleges. the statistical population of the study consisted of the faculty members of iranian agricultural colleges (n=1837), from whom 380 were determined as sample, applying morgan's sample table. the population size was later inc...

The paper at hand presents a new competence focused management approach which is called competence based business development (CbBD). CbBD should support organizations of all kinds in the effective identification, measurement, combination and integration of organizational competences, which can be seen as a bundle of human competencies, tools and material. The creation of new business fields, p...

In recent years, knowledge management systems (KMsystems) for handling organizational knowledge have been the subject of sizeable interest within the research fields of CSCW and IS. However, information technology (IT) for managing competence has been debated less extensively. This paper describes and evaluates the design of Competence Visualizer (CV), which is a KM-system generating competence...

This paper is motivated by the reported poor performance of IS implementations. In contrast to the dominant emphasis on formal approaches such as structured methods, this paper takes a position drawing upon research in management science, organizational science and psychology. It focuses on key personal and organizational capabilities in the IS implementation project, and in particular, entrepr...

Organizations have taken benefit from quality management practices in manufacturing and logistics with respect to competitiveness as well as profitability. At the same time, an ever-growing share of the organizational value chain centers around transactional administrative processes addressed by business process management concepts, e.g. in finance and accounting. Integrating these fields is th...

The major in industrial and organizational psychology is designed for students planning to work in the fields of general management, human resources/personnel, and organizational behavior. The course work focuses on the behavioral aspects of managing and supervising the human resources of an organization or industry. We also offer a minor in industrial and organizational psychology for students...

The major in industrial and organizational psychology is designed for students planning to work in the fields of general management, human resources/personnel, and organizational behavior. The course work focuses on the behavioral aspects of managing and supervising the human resources of an organization or industry. We also offer a minor in industrial and organizational psychology for students...

The major in industrial and organizational psychology is designed for students planning to work in the fields of general management, human resources/personnel, and organizational behavior. The course work focuses on the behavioral aspects of managing and supervising the human resources of an organization or industry. We also offer a minor in industrial and organizational psychology for students...