A field study on assessing thermal comfort has been performed on one of the large-scale hospitals in Malaysia, a country where the climate is classified as hot-humid. The main objective of this study was to examine the comfort criteria by American Society of Heating, Air conditioning & Refrigeration Engineers, US (ASHRAE) standards in hot-humid regions and also to find the correlation between predicted mean vote (PMV) according to Fanger’s theory and thermal sensation vote (TSV) according to occupant votes. Therefore, both objective and subjective data was collected in this hospital, and this study’s results have confirmed that the preferred temperature is not necessarily in compliance with a neutral temperature, and people in hot-humid areas would prefer cooler environment to neutral temperature. In addition, by analyzing linear regression, a strong correlation between PMV and TSV was found while R2 = 0.950, and also the neutral temperature point in this field study was around +0.75 on the seven-point ASHRAE thermal sensation scale.
Objective: Widespread and rapid changes that have been created in current organizations, have led to feel lack of managers with skill for key jobs of organization and hence about the importance of succession planning in organizations be as a fundamental and vital agent should be related to strategic goals of the organization and be taken from organization's strategy and directly involves managers of line. Actually, it can be said that succession is the second important issue that current organizations are faced it. In this regard, this investigation proceeds to the investigation of the effect of hospital managers' succession planning on Shoushtari Maternity Hospital in Shiraz in 2017. Methods: Statistical sample of the study was chosen by random method and by using Cochran formula among 240 of personnel in the hospital. Hypotheses of the study were investigated by using correlation test and regression by using SPSS software. Results: The results in studied sample showed that succession planning has positive and meaningful effect on criteria of organizational performance (ability of employees, clarification of organizational duties, to help employees, encouragement of personnel, evaluation of personnel, increase in the credit of employees and improvement of organization's environment). Conclusion: The results of succession planning along improving the condition of organizational environment by changing organizational environment and improving spaces and working equipment be noticed.
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