Purpose – As organizations try to provide quality assurance from ISO certification, the importance of people management through better HR management assumes greater significance. This paper aims to examine this issue. It seeks to compare selected ISO certified SMEs with non-ISO certified SMEs on several HR practices. Design/methodology/approach â

The paper examines the role that organizational justice plays in determining employees’ work engagement and the way quality of leader-subordinate relationship (LMX) mediates this association. Data was obtained from an airline company from the middle-east. Sample consisted of 218 employees from several job levels who responded to a questionnaire m

Blunt abdominal trauma can cause multiple internal injuries. However, these injuries are often difficult to accurately evaluate, particularly in the presence of more obvious external injuries. Computed tomography (CT) imaging is currently used to assess clinically stable patients with blunt abdominal trauma. CT can provide a rapid and accurate appr

OBJECTIVES: Bronchoscopy is an essential investigative tool in many respiratory complaints. The procedure can be unpleasant for both bronchoscopists and patients. To the best of our knowledge, there are only a few studies that correlate the bronchoscopist's satisfaction with that of the patient's during bronchoscopy. The aim of our study is

This study analysed the use of connectives in the World Wide Arabic corpus of selected Gulf countries. The corpus was built by using Web BootCat where the Arabic sites had been extracted based on Arabic seed-words parallel to the English ones (Sharoff, 2006). A quantitative method has been employed to analyse the Arabic connectives extracted from t

An atlanto-occipital dislocation is a rare airbag-induced injury in trauma patients. We report a case of an atlanto-occipital dislocation in a 6-year-old patient who was an unrestrained passenger in the front seat of a vehicle involved in a low-speed motor vehicle accident. This case illustrates the fatal threat of airbag deployment to the child pa

Introduction Rockall score was originally developed to predict mortality from AUGIB. However, there have been studies advocating its use to predict endoscopic/surgical intervention and length of hospital admission. We analyzed if length of hospital stay can be predicted from the preendoscopy and/or post-endoscopy Rockall score.Poster Abstracts I A5

My research shows that the justly balanced worldview of Islam has wide implications for contemporary Muslim society encompassing the Muslims’ religiosity, spirituality, intellectuality, outlook, attitudes, behaviour, relationships and activism. Each one of the twenty positions spelled out by al- Qaradhawi also serves as general principles and gui

There are three modes of banking system available in the world - ethical banking, social banking and Islamic banking. The emergence of Islamic banks is to introduce the ethical aspects that seem to be long forgotten into the current global financial system. The paper will compare and contrast the three concepts of banking - Islamic banking, ethical

What we need is a credible system of certification where we can rest assured that a halal cosmetic is indeed halal, due to its halal raw/intermediates components.