The Relation of Organizational Structure and its Dimensions with Staff’s Quality of Work Life

Staffs are the most important capitals of the organizations. Today, focusing on quality of work life of staffs who devote more than one third of their lives to the organization is very important and valuable. The main objective of the present project was “to examine the relation between organizational structure and quality of work life of women staff in Islamic Azad university branches”. Our method in this descriptive study was selected as correlation-based. The universal society included all women staff of Mazandaran’s Islamic Azad university branches,377 persons, and based on classified random sampling and with using krejcie and Morgan table,191 persons were selected as our samples. We used “organizational structure” and “work life quality” questionnaires for gathering data. Data analyzing was performed by descriptive statistics (frequency and percentage) and inferential statistics (correlation coefficient and pierson coefficient and Regression). Results showed that there is a significant positive relationship between organizational structure and its dimensions with quality of work life. Also, the components of organizational structure (formality, option hierarchy and centralization, respectively) were some significant predictors for quality of work life

Phenotypic and Genotypic Evaluation of Resistance to Fluoroquinolones in Klebsiella pneumoniae Collected from Hospitalized Patients in Sari, Iran

Background and purpose: Antibiotic resistance of Klebsiella pneumoniae to quinolones is a serious concern in treatment of nosocomial infections. There are limited reports on the prevalence of plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance genes in K. pneumoniae clinical isolates from Iran. The aim of this study was to investigate the rate of resistance to fluoroquinolone antibiotics, and also the frequency of qnrA, qnrB, and qnrS genes among K. pneumoniae isolates collected from hospitalized patients in Sari, Iran. Materials and methods: In this descriptive cross-sectional study, bacterial isolates were identified by conventional methods and biochemical tests. Resistance to fluoroquinolone antibiotics was evaluated by disk diffusion method. After resistance assessment, amplification of qnrA, qnrB, and qnrS genes in isolates was performed by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Results: We analyzed 90 isolates and the antibiotic resistance of fluoroquinolone included: nalidixic acid (55%), ciprofloxacin (36%), ofloxacin (31%), levofloxacin (29%), and norfloxacin (22%). The PCR showed that 47 (52%), 22 (25%), and 21(23%) isolates harbored qnrB, qnrA, and qnrS genes, respectively. Conclusion: The outbreak of plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance (PMQR) leads to expand and increases bacterial resistance to fluoroquinolones. Therefore, continuous monitoring of antibiotic sensitivity patterns of K. pneumoniae strains to these agents is necessary

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