Strengthening the Ombudsman Institution in Asia Improving Accountability in Public Service Delivery through the Ombudsman About the Asian Development Bank ADB’s vision is an Asia and Pacific region free of poverty. Its mission is to help its developing member countries reduce poverty and improve the quality of life of their people. Despite the region’s many successes, it remains home to two-thirds of the world’s poor: 1.8 billion people who live on less than $2 a day, with 903 million struggling
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A GIS BASED MUNICIPAL INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR MANAGEMENT OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT CONTROL PROCESS (CASE STUDY OF BLANTYRE CITY ASSEMBLY, BLANTYRE, MALAWI) A GIS based Municipal Information System for Management of Urban Development Control Process (Case Study: Blantyre City Assembly, Blantyre, Malawi) Student: Costly Chanza March 2003 A GIS BASED MUNICIPAL INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR MANAGEMENT OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT CONTROL PROCESS (CASE STUDY OF BLANTYRE CITY ASSEMBLY, BLANTYRE, MALAWI) A GIS
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A Communication Audit August 15, 2012 A Communication Audit Organizational communication as an academic discipline embraces the study of symbols, messages, media, interactions, relationships, networks, persuasive campaigns, and broader discourses within an organization (Cheney 2004). However, organizational communication could also be used as a general term to cover public relations, public affairs, investor relations, labor market communication, corporate advertising, environmental communication
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KFC-Japan history from the beginning gives a good picture of the different existing ways of managing subsidiaries. Lessons learned from successive managers can help us to identify what is the best way of seizing external opportunities in a given situation. The dilemmas KFC is facing at the different stages of her history which can be represented with the three stages theory describes well the organizational and operational challenges usually faced by a “transnational” company. Each appointed
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Canadian public administration in a capitalist world has changed dramatically from its beginnings many years ago. The expectations of public management and public managers in the new millennium are more diverse than ever before. Important issues such as regulatory reform, public sector budgeting, human resources management, strategic policymaking, ethics and corruption are taking a front line. The concepts of rational administration, accountability, planning, control, budgeting and financial management
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MANAGEMENT BY RESULTS Bachir Mazouz, Professor École nationale d’administration publique bachir.mazouz@enap.ca Management by results (MBR), or results-based management (RBM), is a government performance management framework with three logically linked focuses: the quality of public services, the optimization of available means and resources, and the accountability of public sector managers. Figure 1: The three focuses of management by results Source: Mazouz and Leclerc, 2008 MBR is based on the
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The International Journal of Digital Accounting Research Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 47-68 ISSN: 1577-8517 Risks and Controls in the Implementation of ERP Systems Severin V. Grabski. Michigan State University, U.S.A. grabski@pilot.msu.edu Stewart A. Leech. The University of Melbourne, Australia saleech@unimelb.edu.au Bai Lu. Colonial Mutual Group, Australia blu@colonial.com.au Abstract. The implementation of ERP systems has been problematic for many organizations. Given the many reports of substantial
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REGENT UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF THE VALUE ADDED TAX (VAT) SCHEME ON THE REVENUE GENERATION CAPACITY IN GHANA A LONG ESSAY PRESENTED TO THE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES (SASS), REGENT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE DEGREE IN ACCOUNTING AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS NII TORTO QUAO (022 0207) DECEMBER 2009 DECLARATION I hereby declare that this long essay is
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INTRODUCTION TO PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT DEFINITIONS Management is a process of achieving organizational goals by engaging in the function of planning, organizing, leading and controlling. Kibera (1996) defines management as a set of activities directed at the efficient and effective utilization of resources in pursuit of one or more objectives. A manager is a person responsible for directing the efforts aimed at helping the organization achieve its goals. Managerial performance is
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Accounting, Organizations and Society 28 (2003) 127–168 www.elsevier.com/locate/aos Management control systems design within its organizational context: findings from contingency-based research and directions for the future Robert H. Chenhall Department of Accounting and Finance, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia Abstract Contingency-based research has a long tradition in the study of management control systems (MCS). Researchers have attempted to explain the effectiveness
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