organizations have been surveyed with a structured questionnaire by using 5 point Likert Scale measurement from different categories of manufacturing organizations. Findings reveal that cash flow statement analysis, ratio analysis, budgetary control, CVP analysis, variance analysis and fund flow analysis have been frequently high-ranking techniques. Secondly, the authors have recognized five factors to calculate the variability in decision-making with the help of rotated component matrix which shows that
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changes in them, and their impact on economic performance over time. He has divided the book into three parts. Part I is the examination of the nature of institutions and their manifestations for economic performance. From there, Part II outlines the theory of institutional change and how it explains how past behaviors influence present and future behaviors. It also explores the impact of incremental changes within institutions and its effect on the nature of path dependence. Part III is the primary
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occupational stress survey data, create female occupational stress management and mitigation of social work intervention mechanisms with a view to achieving ease female occupational stress and effective stress management. I. A framework, basic concepts and theories of occupational stress Occupational stress is a cause for concern. At a time when Western scholars ' work stress study carried out mainly within the framework of the two: one is the behavior model, the second is a cognitive model. Behavior
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Pierre Bourdieu and the Distinctive Body Nadeem Fayaz For Pierre Bourdieu, the “natural body” is transformed into a “distinctive body”. A minority of people are able to profit from the use of their natural bodies, though the majority of people can only use their bodies for profit through projecting a distinctive body. To achieve this higher level of distinction perhaps is to treat the body as “a 'thing' separate from the self, a machine, to be tuned and serviced and improved wherever possible
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competencies, allowing them to turn cultural diversity into a competitive advantage (Browaeys and Price, 2008, p.215). This information pack provides substantial information about Danish and Brazilian business practices. The subsequent analysis is based upon the theories of the Dutch anthropologists Geert Hofstede and Fons Trompenaars. In particular, Hofstede’s “Uncertainty Avoidance” and Trompenaars’ “Ascription vs. Achievement” have been applied. 2. Theoretical Background Hofstede and Trompenaar
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pathways to knowledge (e.g., reading, writing, history, mathematics, and science) that generally define the landscape of academic practice. Although educational psychologists’ interest in how knowledge develops within specific domains has fluctuated across time, formal education throughout the world is organized around particular fields of studies and students soon come to characterize their experience of school in terms of subject matters. Thus, in education, domains seem to make a difference. The
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ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY | PUBLIC MANAGEMENT | | | | 25/05/2012 | | | Sommaire INTRODUCTION 2 I. DEFINITION OF PUBLIC MANAGEMENT 4 II. PUBLIC MANAGEMENT AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION 4 III. THE PUBLIC MANAGEMENT MODEL 6 IV. PUBLIC MANAGEMENT AND GOVERNANCE 8 V. PRINCIPLES THEORIES OF PUBLIC MANAGEMENT 9 Public Choice Theory 10 Transaction Cost Economics 11 Principal–Agent Theory 11 Microeconomic Theory 12 The New Economic Sociology 13
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and managers. Over the last two decades, the way researchers on information systems have viewed and analyzed IT strategy in organizational systems has not significantly been modified. Recent studies show that one of the main problems is that the concept of IT strategy has been around for nearly two decades and although many organizations have been using it, the meaning and reference of the idea remains elusive. Those who have attempted to define it have not reached an agreement. Purpose: The purpose
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interfere with the predominant models of ascriptive, variable-centered analysis, secondly they lose track of important processes which cause social inequality in modern societies, and thirdly they under-theorize the social world. As Levy argues: “What we need is an enlargement of our theoretical reflections to encompass all relevant levels of social organization” (Levy 2002: 209). The usage of scientific perspectives and concepts for social structures not only describes but
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Effect of rating scale categories on reliability and fit statistics of the Malay Spiritual Well-Being Scale using Rasch analysis. 1Aqil Mohammad Daher, 2Sayed Ahmad Hassan, 3Than Winn, 4Mohd Ikhsan Selamat 1,4Population health and preventive medicine, faculty of medicine University Teknologi MARA, Sungai Buloh, Selangor Malaysia 2Department of Psychiatry, faculty of medicine University Teknologi MARA, Selayang, Selangor, Malaysia 3Department of Community Medicine, Mahsa University College,
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