Leaderships’ Role in Managing Crisis in the Lebanese Health Sector: An Assessment of Influencing Factors

This paper aims to assess the healthcare leadership’s role in crisis management, examine, and investigate the influencing factors. A quantitative analysis approach with a positivism philosophy is adopted. Primary data are collected using a structured questionnaire distributed to a sample of hospital employees in Lebanon. Data analysis used IBM SPSS version 25; whereby descriptive statistics (i.e., frequencies, percentages, means, and standard deviations) and inferential statistics (i.e., factor analysis, multivariable linear regression) were obtained. Results revealed that leaders’ traits and skills like proactivity and communication, gender, hospital location, organization’s culture, and stakeholders’ engagement influence the effectiveness of leaders’ decision-making in a crisis management context. Also, the results confirmed the alternative hypotheses that the explanatory factors have a direct and statistically significant relationship with leaders’ decision-making effectiveness. Outcomes of this research serve as an eye opener to policymakers, health care managers, and stakeholders that a fully integrated effort is a must to mitigate serious crisis consequences

General decay of solutions of a nonlinear Timoshenko system with a boundary control of memory type

In this paper, we consider a nonlinear Timoshenko system, in a bounded domain, where the memory-type damping is acting on a part of the boundary. We establish a general decay result, from which the usual exponential and polynomial decay rates are only special cases. Our work allows certain relaxation functions which are not necessarily of exponential or polynomial decay and, therefore, generalizes and improves earlier results in the literature

Corporate Social Responsibility: A Stakeholders Perspective Applied to the Lebanese Heart Hospital

This research aims to assess Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practice applied to the Heart Hospital, Tripoli, Lebanon. A stakeholders (workers, patients, the local community, and the environment) perspective is considered. The population of the research includes all workers in the target hospital, however the research sample consists of 40 employees. This research is quantitative, descriptive and analytic based on a structured questionnaire designed and distributed to the respondents. The study found that the activities related to CSR were adapted and practiced to different levels. Employees’ responses about the dimensions of CSR were varied. Findings show that the hospital does exercise its social responsibilities towards patients (Mean=3.97), it does exercise its social responsibilities towards the environment (Mean=3.96), it moderately exercises its social responsibilities towards the local community (Mean=3.36), and it weakly exercises its social responsibilities towards its workers (Mean=2.75). Therefore, it is recommended that the hospital administrators must review their CSR strategy to reinstate one of the most critical factors for the success of the institution namely the human assets besides giving more attention to its local community needs

Stabilization of a linear Timoshenko system with infinite history and applications to the Timoshenko-heat systems

In this article, we, first, consider a vibrating system of Timoshenko type in a one-dimensional bounded domain with an infinite history acting in the equation of the rotation angle. We establish a general decay of the solution for the case of equal-speed wave propagation as well as for the nonequal-speed case. We, also, discuss the well-posedness and smoothness of solutions using the semigroup theory. Then, we give applications to the coupled Timoshenko-heat systems (under Fourier's, Cattaneo's and Green and Naghdi's theories). To establish our results, we adopt the method introduced, in [13] with some necessary modifications imposed by the nature of our problems since they do not fall directly in the abstract frame of the problem treated in [13]. Our results allow a larger class of kernels than those considered in [28,29,30], and in some particular cases, our decay estimates improve the results of [28,29]. Our approach can be applied to many other systems with an infinite history