Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractThe Impact of Companies' Age on Safety Culture in the Metal Products IndustryMaryam Ooshaksaraie, Amran Ab. Majid, Muhammad Samudi Yasir, Redzuwan YahayaProblem statement: Safety culture is a complex structure in an organization that includes values and attitudes, most of which are potentially changeable and related to actual accident behavior. In this study, the components of safety culture included organizational commitment, management involvement, employee empowerment, reporting system and rewarding system. Approach: The numbers of occupational injuries in industries have steadily increased during … …American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vol. 2, Issue 4 · 31 Dec 2009 · 7,469 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractReorganization of Agricultural Extension toward Green AgricultureMohammad S. AllahyariProblem statement: Considering unsustainable agricultural conditions of Iran and organizational recession and inability of current extension organization to achieve sustainability, it seems that extension systems require a new organizational structure to achieve sustainability objectives. The purpose of the present study was to identify the most appropriate characteristics for extension organization toward green agriculture in Iran context. Approach: To fulfill this … …American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Vol. 4, Issue 2 · 30 Jun 2009 · 8,879 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractFavorableness-Reality IndexMahmoud Ahmadinejad, Jalal Ayoubinejad, Mojtaba Maghrebi, Mahmoud Reza KeymaneshBy constructing a systematic structure of processes, decision models would give the most comprehensive and appropriate decision out of the variety of choices. As an instance, Analytic Hierarchy Process model (AHP) has helped to perfect interpretation and systematic decision. Application of this model in control process and evaluation of organization performance were investigated. The opinion of senior chief managers and … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 4, Issue 3 · 30 Sep 2008 · 7,257 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractMobile Computing Changing the Traditional Ways of Organizing the Construction CompanyNataša Šuman, Mirko PšunderThe focus of this paper is to represent some important mobile computing potential which help tackle project collaboration and information dissemination problems. Especially in the construction industry where workers have no steady working places mobile computing is shown as a chance for optimising the traditional ways of organizing Construction Company. Special attention is given to the description of changing the … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 5, Issue 1 · 31 Jan 2008 · 7,025 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractIndividualization Training of Players on Positions at the Level of Handball Junior TeamsPitigoi GabrielProblem statement: Starting from the observation that for the handball players, who finished the junior state in hard to integrate in senior teams due to a low level of preparation. I hypothesized that at this level we can use all organizational forms of individual training (frontal relation, group level, individual).Using individual records, performance behavior characteristics of the players to positions, … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 7, Issue 3 · 16 Jul 2011 · 7,230 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractPerils of Simplistic Classifications of Universities: A Preliminary Case Study of Economics DepartmentsPartha Gangopadhyay, Renu GangopadhyayUniversities represent a highly complex organizational structure that is beset with serious informational problems. A simplistic allocation rule based on university rankings is sometimes applied to fund disciplines/departments in order to promote efficiency. This study shows the pitfalls of using university rankings to glean information on rankings of disciplines, or departments, across universities. We offer a new measure to quantify … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 1, Issue 2 · 30 Jun 2005 · 7,133 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractCritical Success Factors of Information Technology Outsourcing for Emerging MarketsSushil Paudel, Vinish KumarOutsourcing has gained popularity as several large U.S. companies in the 1980 s began delegating IT work to foreign firms. In outsourcing, one party (customer) asks another party (vendor) to do a particular job. Outsourcing has its own advantages, like reducing the cost and time and increasing performance and satisfaction. This study has focused on the critical success factors in … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 17, Issue 5 · 18 May 2021 · 8,126 accessesView PDFCite
Literature ReviewOpen accessIn the abstractSocial Cohesion: Its Meaning and ComplexitiesItumeleng Mekoa, Dauda BusariThe concept Social cohesion is relative and a somewhat difficult concept to define. Many scholars have offered varying degree of definitions but the main challenge noticed in the definition, is the multiple definitions based on individual scholar’s orientation or ideology. Another problem poised by these definitions of the concept is that of multi-level and multi-dimensional nature. Contemporary scholars of social … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 14, Issue 1 · 27 Mar 2018 · 9,915 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractDreams, Possibilities and Necessity of Public Education through Urban Students’ Eyes: It is the ClimateDolapo Adeniji-Neill, Devin G. ThornburgSchool climate is the quality and character of school life. It provides a shared sense of purpose, as well as norms and values that may serve to bind or tear apart the fabric and foundation of a school. In a broader sense, school culture is based on the partnership, cohesiveness and collaborations between “town and gown”—a colloquial term referring to … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 14, Issue 1 · 21 Mar 2018 · 8,420 accessesView PDFCite
Literature ReviewOpen accessIn the abstractGoal Modeling Techniques in Requirements Engineering: A Systematic Literature ReviewIman Ahmed ElSayed, Zeinab Ezz, Eman NasrGoal modeling techniques plays a crucial role in requirements engineering since they facilitate the reach of requirements to stakeholders in an understandable easy manner and also in a professional well defined pattern to developers. Modeling of goals are encouraged and proposed during requirements elicitation in order to detail, understand and describe problems associated with current organizational structures and behavior. However, … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 13, Issue 9 · 31 May 2017 · 7,655 accessesView PDFCite