www.ccsenet.org/ijbm International Journal of Business and Management Vol. 5‚ No. 7; July 2010 Competitive Advantages and Strategic Information Systems Mahmood Hemmatfar‚ Ph. D. Faculty Member of Islamic Azad University‚ Brojerd Branch‚ Iran Mahdi Salehi‚ Ph. D. (Corresponding author) Assistant Prof. Department of Accounting and Management Ferdowsi University of Mashhad‚ Iran Tel: 98-912-1425-323 E-mail: Mahdi_salehi54@yahoo.com Marziyeh Bayat‚ Ph. D. Faculty Member of Islamic Azad University
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faster a business expands‚ the more cash it will need for working capital investment. The cheapest and best sources of cash exist as working capital right within the business. Sound management of working capital will generate cash which will improve profits and reduce risks. The cost of providing credit to customers and holding inventories can represent substantial proportion of the total profits of a firm. The investment in raw materials‚ work-in-progress‚ finished goods and receivables often varies
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1. INTRODUCTION Nigeria is committed to a national environmental policy that will ensure sustainable development based on proper management of the environment. This demands positive and realistic planning that balances human needs against the carrying capacity of the environment. This requires that a number of complementary policies‚ strategies and management approaches are put in place which should ensure‚ among others‚ that: * * * environmental concerns are integrated into major
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PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM: Performance management system is used by the organization to drive behaviors from the employees to get specific outcome. Performance management began around 60 years back. “Employee performance Management is a process for establishing a shared workforce understanding about what is to be achieved at an organization level. It is about aligning the organizational objective with the employees’ agreed measures‚ skills‚ competency requirements‚ development plans and the delivery
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Research Register for this journal is available at http://www.emeraldinsight.com/researchregister The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at http://www.emeraldinsight.com/1463-578X.htm PRACTICE BRIEFING Real estate appraisal: a review of valuation methods School of Electrical and Computer Engineering‚ National Technical University of Athens‚ Athens‚ Greece School of Rural and Surveying Engineering‚ National Technical University of Athens‚ Athens‚ Greece‚ and Jonathan
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Validating the Watson Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal Author(s): Karma El Hassan and Ghida Madhum Reviewed work(s): Source: Higher Education‚ Vol. 54‚ No. 3 (Sep.‚ 2007)‚ pp. 361-383 Published by: Springer Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/29735117 . Accessed: 26/02/2012 04:22 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars
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360 DEGREE APPRAISALS IN MODERN SCENARIO Most of the younger Group Organizations and Software Industries have started implementing 360 Degree Appraisals. 360 Degree Means that all round. The employee Concerned at the central Point and he is appraised by all the officials who are all connected with him on the job. I am afraid in most of the organizations‚ this new concepts is being followed very religious and systematically. May be the acceptance level or maturity level is not as aimed. What I
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organizational performance largely depends on them. If‚ therefore‚ an appropriate range of HR policies and processes is developed and implemented effectively in the alliance of organizational strategy‚ then HR will make a substantial impact on firm performance and developing people in order to get competitive advantage. Much of the research over the last two decades has attempted to answer two basic questions: ‘Do HR practices make a positive impact on organizational performance?’; ‘If so‚ how is the impact
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RESEARCH TITLE Examination of the impact of appraisal on employees at workplace Abstract The aim of this research proposal is to evaluate the impact of performance appraisal approach on employees and also investigates the relation between performance appraisal and employees performance. Performance appraisal is a comparatively new approach to assess employee’s performance. It is commonly used in organisations to bring successive change in employee performance‚ and it is an opportunity for employees
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1. OPERATIONS PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES In accordance with Slack‚ Chambers and Johnston‚ performance objectives is a generic set of performance and indicators that can be used to set the objectives or judge the performance of any type of operation. In this context‚ there are five key most objectives that can or will be used to help improve the operations of a service industry (Dental health care as stated earlier). a) Quality Quality can be defined in so many ways. In simpler terms we will describe
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