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Essentials of Planning and Managing by Objectives OBJECTIVES After studying this chapter‚ you should be able to: 1. Understand what managerial planning is and why it is important. 2. Identify and analyze the various types of plans and show how they relate to one another. 3. Outline and discuss the logical steps in planning and see how these steps are essentially a rational approach to setting objectives and selecting the means of reaching them. 4. Explain the nature of objectives. 5. Describe
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Norton‚ D.P.‚ 2001b. Transforming the balanced scorecard from performance measurement to strategic management: Part 1. Accounting Horizons 15 (1)‚ 87–104. Kondrasuk‚ J.N.‚ 1981. Studies in MBO effectiveness. Academy of Management Review 6 (3)‚ 419–431. Koontz‚ H.‚ O’Donnel‚ C.‚ 1968. Principles of Management. McGraw-Hill‚ New York. Langfield-Smith‚ K.‚ 1997. Management control systems and strategy: a critical review. Accounting Organizations and Society 22 (2)‚ 207–232. Macintosh‚ N.‚ Daft‚ R.‚ 1987. Management
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P roc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Vol. 94‚ pp. 4229–4232‚ April 1997 Economic Sciences The capital-asset-pricing model and arbitrage pricing theory: A unification M. A LI K HAN* AND YENENG SUN†‡ *Department of Economics‚ Johns Hopkins University‚ Baltimore‚ MD 21218; †Department of Mathematics‚ National University of Singapore‚ Singapore 119260; and ‡Cowles Foundation‚ Yale University‚ New Haven‚ CT 06520 Communicated by Paul A. Samuelson‚ Massachusetts Institute of Technology‚ Cambridge
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unit-1 PLANNING AND CO-ORDINATION Planning: Nature and principles of planning‚ Steps in planning‚ types of planning‚ Levels of planning – The Planning Process-MBO. Decision making-role-significance – decision making process-decision tree analysis. Co-ordination-principles. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- INTRODUCTION: Planning in organizations and public policy is both the organizational process of creating
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Performance Appraisal. 5. Controlling: - Concept or Managerial Control‚ Control aids‚ Score Responsibilities of Managers. Books Recommended: - 1. Management & Organizations Behaviour— by Paul Hersey & Ken Blanchard 2. Essentials of Management— by Koontz & O’Donald 3. Principal and Practice of Management— by L.M. Prasad 4. Human Behavior at Work— by Kaith Devis 5. Organizational Behavior— by Robbins Course : 2: Business Organization 1. Introduction: - Nature & Scope of Business System‚ Objectives
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------------------------------------------------- Chapter One: Introduction 1.1 Rationale for the research * The most important rationale behind conducting the research is to fulfil the requirement of the degree requirement. This certainly is import to fulfil the part in order to obtain the degree. * The methodology chapter contains the discussion about the methodology adapted during the research process. The adapted methodology adapted on the rationale ground. First the research topic
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Organization Science Vol. 20‚ No. 2‚ March–April 2009‚ pp. 281–293 issn 1047-7039 eissn 1526-5455 09 2002 0281 informs ® doi 10.1287/orsc.1090.0423 © 2009 INFORMS Strategic Renewal of Organizations Rajshree Agarwal College of Business‚ University of Illinois‚ Champaign‚ Illinois 61822‚ agarwalr@illinois.edu Constance E. Helfat Tuck School of Business‚ Dartmouth College‚ Hanover‚ New Hampshire 03755‚ constance.helfat@dartmouth.edu S trategic renewal‚ although critical for
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bs_bs_banner The Policy Studies Journal‚ Vol. 42‚ No. 4‚ 2014 Cultural Worldview and Preference for Childhood Vaccination Policy Geoboo Song‚ Carol L. Silva‚ and Hank C. Jenkins-Smith In the face of the reemerging threat of preventable diseases and the simultaneous vaccine risk controversy‚ what explains variations in Americans’ policy preferences regarding childhood vaccinations? Using original data from a recent nationwide Internet survey of 1‚213 American adults‚ this research seeks to explain
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APPROACHES TO MANAGEMENT Management was influenced by various disciplines like sociology‚ economics‚ political science‚ anthropology‚ psychology‚ and even literature. Due to such multidisciplinary influences‚ even authors like Harold Koontz (1961) referred to management as a ‘jungle’. Even then‚ differences exist in the classification of approaches. Although one of the ways to classify management approaches is from the analysis of John G. Hutchinson (1971)‚ which considers the development
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