Browsing by Author "Kalmuk, Gulhan"

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The Mediating Role of Organizational Learning Capability On The Relationship Between Innovation and Firm's Performance: A Conceptual Framework
(Elsevier Science Bv, 2015) Kalmuk, Gulhan; Acar, A. Zafer
Today, in the rapidly emerging globalization process, increasing the competitiveness of enterprises depends on increasing of their business performance. Although there are many methods and techniques affecting business performance, innovation has become one of the most widely used method. Although it is known that innovation increases company's performance; in recent years, it has been started to perform different studies in order to further increase the efficiency. The opinion which claims that organizational learning is one of the most important of them has been developing. This study emphasizes the importance of mediating role of organizational learning capability on the relationship between innovation and company's performance with a strategic approach. It's tried to prove the contribution of more than one type of innovations to company's performance through organizational learning capability. The aim of our study is to express whether organizational learning capability is effective as intermediate variable to the effects of innovation at company's performance
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USE OF RADIOACTIVE SUBSTANCES AT HOSPITALS AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS THEREOF
(Stef92 Technology Ltd, 2013) Ozyaral, Oguz; Kalmuk, Gulhan; Kaya, Ertugrul
Advancing technologies bring ease and comfort to our lives and help us to reach results rapidly, but the pollution of nature and environment caused by these developments increase rapidly with each passing day to threaten human health. Wastes of medical institutions that contain radioactive substances include unused excess liquids for radiotherapy or laboratory research purposes, contaminated glassware, packages or absorbing papers, radioactive sources without protective packaging, wastes that are extracted from patients kept in protective packaging such as urine and/or stools, and other sources of similar nature. This study was carried out as a descriptive study with the aim to identify the compliance of radiation safety in our country with national and international laws, legislations, and regulations as well as the awareness of radiation safety among health personnel, by means of surveys carried out with the personnel of hospitals and imaging centers located in the province of Istanbul along with other provinces. Through random sampling, we selected 200 employees among the personnel working at radiology units, nuclear medicine centers, angiography departments of certain public or private hospitals or at private imaging centers located in Istanbul or other provinces of Turkey, and carried out surveys about 'Socio-demographic Characteristics' and 'Personnel's Awareness Level about the Use and Wastes of Radioactive Substances'. Cronbach's Alpha value, as the scale's reliability coefficient, was .948 for the overall scale, and varied between .907-.922 for the three sub-factors. The obtained data were assessed by means of number-percentage calculations, arithmetic means, and standard deviation comparisons, along with independent group T-tests and Chi-Square tests.