Search Results - subject:"PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT"

Intellectual capital at the crossroads: managing, measuring, and reporting of IC

Marr, Bernard; Chatzkel, Jay - In: Journal of Intellectual Capital 5 (2004) 2, pp. 224-229

This introductory editorial to the special issue “IC at the crossroads: theory and research” explains the rationale and background to the studies. In addition it outlines reasons why the field of intellectual (IC) capital is at the crossroads. It seems that awareness of the importance of IC...

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Knowledge and performance in action

Schack, Thomas - In: Journal of Knowledge Management 8 (2004) 4, pp. 38-53

This article addresses the functional links between knowledge and performance in human activity. Starting with the evolutionary roots of knowledge and activity, it shows how the combination of adaptive behavior and knowledge storage has formed over various stages of evolution. The cognitive...

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Why HPT, not TQM? An examination of theHPT concept

Talaq, Jaleel; Ahmed, Pervaiz K. - In: Journal of Management Development 23 (2004) 3, pp. 202-218

Based on early and recent thoughts of total quality management and the new emerging field of human performance technology, key dimensions that drive human performance in organisations are identified. Human performance technology is a field that focuses on providing solutions to organisational...

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Tracking the Millennium Development Goals in sub-Saharan Africa

Ahmed, Allam; Cleeve, Emmanuel - In: International Journal of Social Economics 31 (2004) January, pp. 12-29

This paper reviews, assesses and evaluates the performance of sub-Saharan African countries towards achieving the international development goals and targets set by the United Nations, UN Millennium Development Goals and the Agenda for Action of the 2nd Tokyo International Conference on African...

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Acts of entrepreneurial creativity for business growth and survival in a constrained economy: Case study of a small manufacturing firm (SMF)

Mambula, Charles Jabani; Sawyer, Frank E. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 31 (2004) January, pp. 30-55

Using a case study approach, this article presents findings on a small plastic manufacturing firm and entrepreneur in Nigeria. The study identifies performance factors of a firm that has received hardly any external support and, as a result, the entrepreneur had to independently sustain his firm...

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University strategic marketing activities and business school performance

Hammond, Kevin; Harmon, Harry; Webster, Robert; … - In: Marketing Intelligence & Planning 22 (2004) 7, pp. 732-741

This article reports the application of marketing planning in an unusual context. It reports the results of a national survey of business school deans in the USA, and examines the possible effects on university business school performance of the use or non‐use of selected marketing planning...

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Performance management in the public sector: fact or fiction?

Radnor, Zoe; McGuire, Mary - In: International Journal of Productivity and Performance … 53 (2004) 3, pp. 245-260

sector performance management and the findings and recommendations of the Public Services Productivity Panel in order to … attempt to answer whether performance management in the public sector is currently fact or fiction? In other words the paper … public sector organisations through developing performance management systems based on private sector experience. …

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Stimulating performance‐driven behaviour to obtain better results

de Waal, Andre A. - In: International Journal of Productivity and Performance … 53 (2004) 4, pp. 301-316

use of performance management. Research predominantly focuses on the technicalities of implementing performance management … the successful implementation and use of performance management. The research study discussed in this paper continues this …

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The dimensions of management team performance: a repertory grid study

Senior, Barbara; Swailes, Stephen - In: International Journal of Productivity and Performance … 53 (2004) 4, pp. 317-333

Teamwork is a key feature of work in organisations and a central question in the extensive literature on teams concerns the ways that team performance can be measured. This paper summarises the concept of team performance and, focussing on management teams, reports the results of an extensive...

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The characteristics of performance management research : Implications and challenges

Thorpe, Richard; Beasley, Tony - In: International Journal of Productivity and Performance … 53 (2004) 4, pp. 334-344

Seeks to explore the characteristics of organisational performance management with a view to speculating on the way the … the field of performance management might be by briefly reviewing the nature of management as a discipline and how … performance management might be located within this context. Performance management is located within two main dimensions …

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