Organization, Performance, And System Choice

Organization, Performance, And System Choice
Author: Michael L Boyd
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2019-06-04
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000236838

When one has worked on a series of projects as long as I have on those that make up this book, one incurs a tremendous debt that can never be appropriately acknowledged. Nevertheless, I would be remiss if I did not make note of at least the largest and most obvious of contributions made by others. The oldest part of the work is the Yugoslav case study, which began as my doctoral dissertation. I received funding from the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), which allowed me to spend an all-too-brief but productive five months in z&greb in 1982. During this time, I was greatly aided by the advice and criticism of Professor Vladimir Stipetic of the University of Zagreb. As I worked on the dissertation, John Pencavel and Evsey Domar taught me much about critical thinking and clear writing, as well as economics. To them I owe a special debt of gratitude for the often difficult task they undertook of simply keeping track of my whereabouts. In addition, the Yugoslav study benefited from the critical contributions of Paul David and members of the development and history seminars at Stanford and the comments of Tim Bates and two anonymous referees and the editor at the Review of Economics and Statistics, where the core material was first published as •The Performance of Private and Cooperative Socialist Organimtion: Postwar Yugoslav Agriculture; 69, 2 (May 1987): 205-214, copyright 1987 by Elsevier Science Publishers. I would like to thank Elsevier Science Publishers for kind permission to reprint portions of this article in chapter 3.

Organizational Assessment

Organizational Assessment
Author: Charles Lusthaus
Publisher: IDRC
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780889369986

Organizational Assessment: A framework for improving performance

Compensation and Organizational Performance

Compensation and Organizational Performance
Author: Luis R. Gomez-Mejia
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2014-12-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317473957

This up-to-date, research-oriented textbook focuses on the relationship between compensation systems and firm overall performance. In contrast to more traditional compensation texts, it provides a strategic perspective to compensation administration rather than a functional viewpoint. The text emphasizes the role of managerial pay, its importance, determinants, and impact on organizations. It analyzes recent topics in executive compensation, such as pay in high technology firms, managerial risk taking, rewards in family companies, and the link between compensation and social responsibility and ethical issues, among others. The authors provide a thorough and comprehensive review of the vast literatures relevant to compensation and revisit debates grounded in different theoretical perspectives. They provide insights from disciplines as diverse as management, economics, sociology, and psychology, and amplify previous discussions with the latest empirical findings on compensation, its dynamics, and its contribution to firm overall performance.

Organization

Organization
Author: John Child
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 325
Release: 1984-02-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 184920716X

This textbook provides a clear and readable introduction to the subject. It deals with organizational design, its contribution to performance, and the problems and issues involved in organizational change. This text assumes little academic knowledge, and some familiarity with work in organizations. It is of real use to decision makers, and to those in management education, both teachers and students.

Organizational Performance

Organizational Performance
Author: Curt J. Howes
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-09-11
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9781514403884

" The modern organization may be the greatest invention of the twentieth/ twenty first centuries. Organizations have executed strategies that sent men to the moon and returned them safely, implemented the Internet and other communication systems, discovered oil through deepwater-drilling and fracking technologies, deployed lifesaving medical technologies to remote areas across the globe, provided clean drinking water where none existed before, and continued to raise the quality of living in emerging markets and economies. This instrument we call the organization has accomplished amazing feats not possible by individuals. However, as organizations grow, so do the challenges and complexities. Organizations navigate in external environments that are more global, fast-paced, and disrupted by new technologies. Competitiveness is increasing. Political upheaval is rampant. The ability to address these pressing challenges is limited by internal dysfunctions. Strategies aren't well-defined. Leaders don't collaborate. Organizational processes and structures aren't designed to deliver the necessary strategies. Employees aren't aligned, motivated, and capable to deliver at a high level, and the cultures don't support the behaviors for competitive differentiation. Governance and management systems don't produce the desired results, and organizations don't change fast enough to keep up with changing requirements. These problems are compounded by ineffective communication. These problems can be remedied by developing a successful Organization Performance System. Leaders, consultants, and organization advisors will find the contents in this book a rich reservoir of ideas and practices for developing extraordinary results, competitive advantage and sustainable results. "

Transforming Performance Measurement

Transforming Performance Measurement
Author: Dean Spitzer
Publisher: AMACOM
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2007-02-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0814430090

Performance improvement thought leader Dean Spitzer explains why performance measurement should be less about calculations and analysis and more about the crucial social factors that determine how well the measurements get used. Transforming Performance Measurement presents a breakthrough approach that will not only significantly reduce those dysfunctions, but also promote alignment with business strategy, maximize cross-enterprise integration, and help everyone to work collaboratively to drive value throughout your organization. Spitzer’s "socialization of measurement" process focuses on learning and improvement from measurement, and on the importance of asking such questions as: How well do our measures reflect our business model? How successfully are they driving our strategy? What should we be measuring and not measuring? Are the right people having the right measurement discussions? Performance measurement is a dynamic process that calls for an awareness of the balance necessary between seemingly disparate ideas: the technical and the social aspects of performance measurement. This book gives you assessment tools to gauge where you are now and a roadmap for moving, with little or no disruption, to a more "transformational" and mature measurement system. The book also provides 34 TMAPs, Transformational Measurement Action Plans, which suggest both well-accepted and "emergent" measures (in areas such as marketing, human resources, customer service, knowledge management, productivity, information technology, research and development, costing, and more) that you can use right away. Transforming Performance Measurement tells you not only what to measure, but how to do it -- and in what context -- to make a truly transformational difference in your enterprise.

Safety Differently

Safety Differently
Author: Sidney Dekker
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2014-06-23
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1482242001

The second edition of a bestseller, Safety Differently: Human Factors for a New Era is a complete update of Ten Questions About Human Error: A New View of Human Factors and System Safety. Today, the unrelenting pace of technology change and growth of complexity calls for a different kind of safety thinking. Automation and new technologies have resu

Enterprise Performance Management Done Right

Enterprise Performance Management Done Right
Author: Ron Dimon
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2013-03-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118417135

A workable blueprint for developing and implementing performance management in order to improve revenue growth and profit margins Enterprise performance management (EPM) technology has been rapidly advancing, especially in the areas of predictive analysis and cloud-based solutions. Real Enterprise Performance Management introduces a framework for implementing and managing next-generation functionality for better insight, focus, and alignment of EPM. This blueprint shows that EPM can have a direct positive impact on revenue growth, operating margin, asset utilization, and cash cycle efficiency. Introduces a framework for implementing and managing next-generation functionality for better insight, focus, and alignment Reveals that EPM can have a strong impact on revenue growth, operating margin, asset utilization, cash cycle efficiency Today's businesses have a great deal of data and technology, but less-than-fact decisions are still made. Executives need a structured framework for gathering, analyzing, and debating the best ways to deploy capital, people and time. Real Enterprise Performance Management joins IT and finance in a digestible blueprint for developing and implementing performance management in order to improve revenue growth and profit margins.

Wiley CIA Exam Review, Conducting the Internal Audit Engagement

Wiley CIA Exam Review, Conducting the Internal Audit Engagement
Author: S. Rao Vallabhaneni
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 640
Release: 2005-09-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0471718807

The Wiley CIA Exam Review is the best source to help readers prepare for the Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) exam, covering the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and more. Wiley CIA Exam Review, Volume 2: Conducting the Internal Audit Engagement covers conducting engagements, carrying out specific engagements, monitoring engagement outcomes, understanding fraud knowledge elements, using engagement tools, and more. Every volume in the Wiley CIA Exam Review series offers a successful learning system of visual aids and memorization techniques. Each volume is a comprehensive, single-source preparation tool that features theories and concepts, indicators that help candidates allot study time, full coverage of the IIA’s Attribute and Performance Standards, and in-depth of theory and practice.

Enterprise and Organizational Modeling and Simulation

Enterprise and Organizational Modeling and Simulation
Author: Joseph Barjis
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2010-09-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3642157238

This book constitutes the post-proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Enterprise and Organizational Modeling and Simulation (EOMAS 2010) , held at the CAiSE 2010 conference in Hammamet, Tunisia, June 7-8, 2010. The 12 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. They cover topics like business process management and simulation, organizational modeling and simulation, enterprise architecture and modeling, and workflow systems.