Practitioners in Europe and the U.S. recently have proposed two distinct approaches to address what they believe are shortcomings of traditional budgeting practices. One approach advocates improving the budgeting process and primarily focuses on the planning problems with budgeting. The other advocates abandoning the budget and primarily focuses on the performance evaluation problems with budgeting. This paper provides an overview and research perspective on these two recent developments. We discuss
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Jenkins Ethics Ethics are a set of values subjected to analysis based on morals varying by each individual’s belief systems. Moral factors are represented differently given the nature and personal beliefs of human beings involved in certain social settings or working environments. Ethics deal with a person’s values, beliefs, virtues, and relevance of duties in an organization or working environment. When ethics are subjected to analysis the relevance of behaving ethically or unethically differ according
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Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations www.eiconsortium.org Self Directed Learning 1 Unleashing the Power of Self-Directed Learning Richard E. Boyatzis, PhD May 28, 2001 To be published in Ron Sims (ed.) (2002) Changing the Way We Manage Change: The Consultants Speak. NY: Quorum Books. Correspondence should be addressed to Richard E. Boyatzis, Department of Organizational Behavior, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, 10900
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A STUDY ON THE IMPACT OF TRAINING AND MOTIVATION ON THE PRODUCTIVITY OF EMPLOYEES IN A PUBLIC SECTOR BANK IN INDIA INTRODUCTION Human resources or the work force, is the key to any organization’s performance even in today’s highly automated environment. The output given by employees is dependent on many factors like training, motivation, technology and management behavior. This study aims to establish the impact of training and motivation on the employees productivity. Performance
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Gender Disparity In Relation to Managerial Positions in the Organizations in Mombasa County: Case of County Government of Mombasa. Introduction This chapter introduces the study by looking at its background and stating the problem. It further gives the objectives of the study, research questions, and significance of the study, its scope, the assumptions and the conceptual framework. This research seeks to unravel the factors for gender disparity in managerial positions within Mombasa County
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MANAGERIAL SKILLS. * Management is about decision making and developing good relationship to get work well done. * The managerial skills include the following: 1.Conceptual Skills. * This includes the ability to view the organization as whole,understand how the various parts are interdependent and access how the organization relates to its external environment. * Managers need conceptual skills to make adjustments when problems occur since they have back up strategies. * Conceptual
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Leadership is the driving force that holds these elements together, aligning them, and enabling the agency to function as an integrated system. Up until now, dialogue of leadership in general focuses on a leader’s role in ongoing processes of an agency. An ever more vital role for a leader in an organization is that of a change. We will now confer the particulars of transformation of leadership, with particular importance of organizational change and creating a culture of high-performance managers
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Paper III Manpower Planning and Training Response Sheet I 1. What is Human Resource Planning? Identify its objectives and role in human resource management? Definition: HRP is a process which includes forecasting, developing, implementing and controlling by which a firm ensures that it has the right number of people and right kind of people, at the right place, at the right time, doing things for which they are economically most suitable. Its ultimate objective is to effectively use the
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case study National or state rural planning processes are often “top down”, technically sophisticated and, hence not geared to participation from local communities, those most affected. Involvement of local government is increasingly seen as being important to rural transport planning and engaging them in this process requires a balancing of the technical requirements of the process with local objectives and capacities. A Rural Transport infrastructure (RTI) planning process must be transparent and
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28 Long Range Planning, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 28 to 36, 1992 Printed in Great Britain 0 002+6301/92 $3.00 + .OO 1992 Pergamon Press plc Managing Strategic Change Strategy, Culture and Action Gerry Johnson One of the major problems facing senior executives is that of effecting significant strategic change in their organizations. This paper develops a number of explanatory frameworks which address the links between the development of strategy in organizations, dimensions of
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