scholarly journals The impact of organizational culture on the performance of employees from the point of view of middle management: أثر الثقافة التنظيمية على أداء العاملين من وجهة نظر الإدارة الوسطى دراسة حالة مركز تكنولوجيا المعلومات الوطني

Author(s):  
Bashar Abdul Majeed Al-Majali

The organizational culture is one of the most important constituents in the organization and its adaptation with the surrounding environment, And this study aims to explain the effect of the organizational culture on the performance of NITC’s staff Since a sample of 43 employees with different positions were chosen (middle management) ,This study confirmed the descriptive and analytical method by designing questionnaires and spreading the same on the chosen sample, this analyze the results by SPSS. This study concluded to many results the most important one is that there is a relationship between the organizational culture and the NITC staff’s performance, and the most effective dimension on the staff performance was the team work then the Understand the concept of organizational culture then the perception, then time respect, and last but not least the post decision making, and there is no relationship between the organizational culture and the demographic elements. Study recommends designing a mechanism to involve the staff in decision making and to activate the mechanism of full utilization of time to get to a higher productivity.

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-47
Author(s):  
Fabio Bego

This article investigates how some prominent and less known Albanian activists perceived their Southern Slav neighbors at the turn of the twentieth century. The research explores the way in which the spread of nationalism conditioned the positioning of Albanians and Slavs in the process of identity construction and how such identities mirrored their reciprocal political claims. Recent scholarship has often emphasized that the affirmation of national ideas led to the fragmentation of Balkan communities by turning Albanian-speaking populations and their Slavic-speaking neighbors into “others.” My analysis expands this assertion by elaborating a theoretical approach that allows us to explore the impact of nationalism on the post-1878 Balkan context from a more dynamic point of view. National discourses did not only lay the foundation for a differentiation between the Balkan communities, but were also tools for promoting joint political activism. National activists often felt it necessary to cooperate in order to deal with the challenges posed by the surrounding environment, which was common to both Albanians and Slavs. Various contingent circumstances led Albanian activists to project long-term forms of coexistence with their neighbors, and to imagine forms of political, cultural, and social synthesis with the Slavs.


2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 2103-2115
Author(s):  
Bilgehan TEKIN

Decision-making process is a multi-faceted and complex process. Decision making can be defined like a process of choosing from among a number of alternatives. It will not contribute enough to be fully understood and to effective decision making to be addressed only from the rational point of view. Behavioral finance is an integral part of the decision-making process. Individuals can improve their performance by recognizing the biases which discussed in the framework of behavioral finance. Understanding the possible negative effects of biases allows to the individuals to make better choices and they can avoid repeating the expensive errors in future. Result of investigations of behavioral biases on decision-makers in the firms, managerial bias issue has been raised. The studies show the effect of managerial biases on many financial decisions in firms. This paper investigated the role of biases such as overconfidence, loss aversion, optimism, anchoring, narrow framing, self-serving attribution, disposition effect etc. on financial decisions such as investing, financing, equity market, capital structure etc. This study review of 30 international studies related with behavioral corporate finance and behavioral biases that affect financial decisions in firms. The studies were gleaned from Web of Science and Google Scholar. The main contribution of this study to the literature is this study brings out the impact of behavioral biases on financial decisions in the firms by summarizing the previous studies. In this sense, this work also has an assembly quality. Therefore, this is also intended with this study that to transfer the knowledge and intellectual formation about the impact of behavioral bias on the financial decisions. In this paper, most important behavioral biases in the behavioral finance literature will be addressed.


2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-72
Author(s):  
Muthuvelayutham C ◽  
Sugantha lakshm T

An Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system is composed of a basic transactional system and a management control system. Sammon et al. (2003) describesthese 2 components of ERP systems as the solution to “operational” integration problems and “informational” requirements of managers. Thus, the extreme standardisation of business process inherent in ERP systems creates huge volumes of data without providing a clue for how to exploit it and may therefore not beneficial from a decision-making point of view. In this paper, decision-making theory and models are reviewed, focusing on how an ERP implementation might impact on these constructs. This paper is an analysis about centralisation of decision making in an organisation and its impact on performance at a local level.


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 148-158
Author(s):  
Bernard Nkala ◽  
Phaello Olivia Malataliana

Staff performance remains critical in every organization’s and indeed country’s’ performance hence factors critical for ensuring high performance must always be interrogated. Using conclusions from survey data from 700 Lesotho Correctional Service employees, the study sought to examine the factors that affect performance, assessing the extent to which variables; leadership style, employee participation, working environment, organizational culture and motivation impact on employee performance. The research sample consisted of Correctional Service employees picked from six departments/units out of 13 using a probability one’s stage cluster sampling design. The subjects were randomly selected from a target population of 1000 employees to understand the factors that affect employee performance. The sample included the civilian staff, senior management, middle management and subordinate level staff mainly to balance views. The use of questionnaires, semi structured interviews and researchers’ observations was utilized to collect research data for analysis. The study reviewed departmental policies and published literature on Correctional and Prison services staff performance, behavior and satisfaction as a theoretical base to endorse study independent variables. Data revealed that work environment was perceived to have the greatest influence on Lesotho Correctional Service employee performance (mean=4.88). Other factors include organizational culture (mean=4.77), employee participation (mean=4.22), leadership style (mean=3.51), employee empowerment (mean=3.67), employee motivation (mean=3.65) and employee training (mean =3.89) indicated as affecting employee performance. The study revealed that the style of management, low salaries and allowances, flawed legislation, lack of appropriate human resource policies, and limited development opportunities affect staff performance. Regression estimation using n450 responses between study dichotomous dependent variable (employee performance) and independent variables; leadership style, employee participation, working environment, organizational culture and motivation proved all the independent variables significant in explaining employee performance. The five independent variables studied explain 67.4% of the staff performance in the Lesotho Correctional Services as represented by the R2. The study recommended institutionalization of the performance reward system, incentivizing ethical conduct to enhance professional conduct amongst the officers, enhancement of team work, pioneering leadership training and revising and strengthening the current performance management system as amongst strategies that can enhance Lesotho Correctional Service employee performance.


FLORESTA ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Isabel Manta Nolasco ◽  
H. León

El estudio de los incendios forestales en el Perú fue realizado sobre el área nacional, que abarca una superficie de 1´285,215 km2, para el periodo comprendido entre el año 1973 y el año 2000. El objetivo de la investigación fue caracterizar el problema de los incendios forestales peruanos a través de la descripción del ambiente donde se desarrollan los incendios forestales, del impacto de los incendios forestales sobre la población y los recursos naturales, de las estadísticas del área afectada y del número de incendios forestales y de la organización actual para el manejo de los incendios forestales. El análisis del problema permitió diagnosticar un conjunto de factores biofísicos, dificultades y deficiencias en la política ambiental actual, desde el punto de vista de su uso como elementos de toma de decisiones que contribuyan a reducir la gravedad de los incendios forestales en el país. FOREST FIRES IN PERU: A BIG PROBLEM FOR SOLVING Abstract The study of the forest fires in Peru was carried out over the national territory, that amounts in total an area of 1´285,215 km2, for the period 1973- 2000. The goal of the research was the characterization of the forest fire issue in Peru. To do that a set of different criteria were used, namely: the description of the forest fires environment features, the assessment of the impact of fires on the population and natural resources, the forest fires statistics concerning the total number of fires and total burned area and the current organization for forest fires management. The analysis of this problem made possible to diagnose a set of byophisic factors, difficulties and drawbacks in the current environmental policy, from the point of view of their use as decision-making elements that contribute to reduce the current importance of the forest fires problem in the country.


Author(s):  
Mark Achaku ◽  

This study is based on secondary data and looks at the activities of Multinational Corporation and its impact on global governance from the protests movement point of view. Available data show that multinational corporations derive at least a quarter of their revenue outside their home countries. However, the debate is how significant do they contribute to development or involve in activities that lead to human and economic deprivation of host communities. The study reveals that the benefits are not enough compared to the damages. The multinational corporation uses global governance institutions to back up their interests and always get preferred treatment. The host communities who feel exploited are not happy but the multinational corporations are always innovative so, there is hope towards finding solutions. In this regard therefore, the relevant stakeholders should be engaged towards collective decision making and problem-solving in a participatory manner for effective global governance.


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