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The impact of project retrospectives on process improvement initiatives has been questioned for many years. It is an important question because project retrospectives can be demanding in terms of time and organizational resources. Therefore, measuring whether retrospectives are an efficient methodology for instigating continuous process improvements is extremely important. Many have been committed...
The problems aviation enterprises of China face with the detailed strategy of organizational structure transformation is put forwards the method and model of performance evaluation on organizational structure transformation is described and some possible patterns of Chinese organizational structure transformation are put forth. By analyzing the shortcomings of hierarchical organization the traits...
This paper designs and makes a questionnaire based on a deep interview, and analyzes those data by SPSS11.5, then constructs recognition model of the network power by EFA, on basis of these, it tests the validity of recognition factors and the reliability of recognition model by CFA empirical study and Cronbach'a coefficient. Results show that coercive power, information power and effect power are...
The thesis examines the relationship between managerial ownership and firm performance for 66 samples of Chinese public State-owned enterprises (SOEs) privatized by doing Management Buyout (MBO) over the period from 1997 to 2009.The empirical results indicate that managerial ownership has a negative effect on firm performance. It also finds that firms with high managerial ownership exhibit a worse...
The balanced scorecard is a management technique developed by Harvard professor Robert Kaplan and consultant David Norton. Instead of focusing solely on financial objectives, the balanced scorecard is an integrated set of performance measures organized around four distinct perspectives - financial, customer, internal, and innovation and learning. The balanced scorecard helps business leaders manage...
The Information Technology industry is growing at a healthy rate with businesses heavily dependent on IT applications for their operations. India has become a global hub for IT services export and has witnessed exponential growth of employment opportunities. While the IT industry has felt a pressing need for acquiring and retaining competent talent, academia on the other side has also felt a strong...
Physical asset management is a section with growing importance in utility companies. Asset management is recommended to function simultaneously at operational, tactical and strategic level to realize organizational strategic plans with technical solutions. Currently, tactical asset management is well established with risk analysis. However, at a strategic level, new analytical tools are needed to...
Handling IT support cases efficiently is very important for operational excellence of IT organizations. Many IT service centers receive thousands of cases per day, some of which are similar to previously reported cases. To improve efficiency it is important to build upon lessons learned from past cases in the resolution of new cases. Therefore, a desired functionality of case management tools is finding...
Smart grid indicates the organization's intellectual potential and material resource potential will be brought into fuller use because of a high degree of sharing of information resources, which will bring great changes in organizational behavior, organizational decision-making and operation, and then lead to organizational structure's ongoing change accompanying with the continuous application of...
In contrast to a generic business enterprise, where only two stakeholder are in action, namely the supplier and employer, the situation becomes far more critical and complex in the Aviation Industry where the procurement management process revolves around five stakeholders (Users/Maintenance Department, Technical Authority validating the requirement, Procurement Department, Suppliers & Consignee/logistic...
Theoretically, the subject of social responsibility has attracted much academic attention in recent years. In practice, Social Accountability International and the International Organization for Standardization, among others, have published relevant standards for verification or guidance. With such a world-wide movement of social responsibility and for an in-depth understanding of social responsibility,...
This paper seeks to investigate the empirical relationship between board characteristics and audit quality using OLS regression analysis. In this study, the paper uses audit fees as a proxy for audit quality and seeks to investigate whether board characteristics influence the extent of auditing, and consequently, the audit fee. The results show that board independence (proportion of external directors...
This paper takes an empirical research into the correlation between human resource management (HRM) practices and manufacturing performance in manufacturing companies in the world providing the universalistic perspective for practitioner and the academia as well. The empirical analysis is based on the data from the 2009 International Manufacturing Strategy Survey (IMSS), and factor analysis is to...
In this paper we identify a tension between the discourse around managing temporary assignments focused on producing innovative outcomes, that is, the discourse related to projects and project management, and the emerging understanding of innovation processes, as captured by the concept of interactive innovation. Contrasting the project management discourse with what we now understand about innovation...
Development, implementation, and effective use of interorganizational information systems (IOS) remain an elusive goal for many companies, despite growing complexity in supply chains and evidence that lack of interoperable information systems results in enormous costs. We use collective action theory and a pie sharing framework to explore factors influencing adoption of industry standard IOS. An automotive...
A badge-shaped sensor and feedback system were developed. This system makes it possible to study human and organizational behavior in an office. By prompting changes in workers' behavior, it improves productivity as well as helps to solve individual's problems. Aiming to improve the productivity and quality of project management, the system was applied at a software development company. The results...
The role of managers in a Scrum organization is a topic of high interest with almost no research. Changes in management roles and behaviors were evaluated in a rapidly growing, social entertainment and gaming company in Finland. Sulake introduced Scrum in 2006 and within 6 months institutionalized Scrum across the organization. The company was surveyed in 2009 and responses from 19 managers and 36...
Importance of BITA has increased over the past few years. However, achieving and maturing BITA still has apparent difficulties. Therefore, research efforts resulted in a number of theoretical models that can be applied as supportive tools for assessing different components of BITA. Most of these efforts have been produced either in Anglo-Saxon Countries or based on their experiences. The purpose of...
The increased IT offshoring presents many benefits as well as challenges to today's organizations. One major challenge is the competition between onshore employees and offshore employees for job security, challenging projects, status and resources. The onshore-offshore competition is complex and dynamic. Unmanaged or inappropriately managed competition seriously undermines IT offshoring efforts. However,...
For designing innovations companies need to consider both the market and technical view. Customers want to solve their individual problems, and companies need to understand these problems before they can design appropriate solutions. Consequently, this is an ongoing collaborative process including many different stakeholders. On this basis, we propose a repeatable collaboration process for designing...
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