Efficiency and Effectiveness What is efficiency in comparison to efficient? Efficiency is the quality or property of being efficient in extent to which the quality is exercised. Efficiency is often about process improvements within the organization but also efficiency for citizens. Whereas, efficient is the acting or producing effectively with a minimum of waste, expense, or unnecessary effort (Rentzepopoulos, P. & Vassilia, O. 2010). How efficient and effective have E-government been over
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Organizational Effectiveness ORG/581 Organizational Effectiveness The survival of an organization must have the ability to change with the environment. New generations and advanced technology continue to challenge organizations. To completely gain an understanding on the effectiveness of an organization, it is important to identify the three key metrics and provide an example for each. Next, a company will be selected for ineffectiveness and a description of practices that have contributed
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economy. The nature of the industrial workers was changing and methods of exercising control over the workers, to get the desired output, had also to be changed. This changed economic climate produced the new techniques and concepts. Individual Efficiency: Fredric W Taylor studied the simple output to time relationship for manual labor such as brick-laying. This formed the precursor of the present day ‘time study’. Around the same time, Frank Gilberth and his leaned wife Lillian Gilberth examined
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OPERATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS MULTI-CRITERIA ANALYSIS OF THE ARTICLE AT THE DESIGN STAGES Annotation. The multicriterion rapid assessment method of techno-economic parameters of new articles is developed. It avoids expensive engineering changes during the operational phases through the analysis of external and internal factors at an early stage in the design that affect the maintainability and manufacturability of the article. The expert selection of the initial multitude of indicators from the five
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strategic direction there is a tendency to look inwards in time of stress, management to cut costs and shade unprofitable divisions. This means that focus is on efficiency (relationship between inputs and output in short time horizon) rather than effectiveness (attainment of desired competitive position). Efficiency is introspective whereas effectiveness highlights the link between the organization and the environment. Discuss the above statements while giving specific examples in the Zimbabwean context
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Introduction The theme of this course paper is “Ways of improving efficiency of enterprise”. It is considered to be topical nowadays because of some reasons. Firstly, today’s period of economic development is characterized by high competition in the market which makes all businesses seek foe different ways of increasing their efficiency. Enterprises are forced to look for the steps which help them work effectively without wasting time, money or energy. The pace of business activity is getting
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ABSTRACT The purpose of this design project was to investigate the effect of various design and operating parameters on the thermal efficiency, net work output per unit mass, and back work ratio of a regenerative Brayton cycle. Specifically, these parameters include the pressure ratio, TminTmax ratio, regenerator effectiveness, and compressor and turbine efficiencies, assuming the working fluid to be air at 100kPa and 300K at the compressor inlet. Model calculations are presented for all combinations
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perform with respect to efficiency and effectiveness. The four primary drivers of supply chain management are: facilities, inventory, transportation, and information” (Baltzan/Phillips, 2010). “ An organization can use these four drivers in varying measure to push it toward either a supply chain strategy focusing on efficiency or a supply chain strategy focusing on effectiveness. The organization must decide on the trade-off it desires between efficiency and effectiveness for each driver. The
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2—STRATEGY, ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN, AND EFFECTIVENESS MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. The chief of one police force emphasizes the number of arrests while another police chief emphasizes community outreach. Which effectiveness value is the second police chief most likely using? a. human relations b. open-systems c. rational-goal d. internal-process ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: 73 BLM: Apply 2. Top managers have a number of roles in the achievement of organizational effectiveness. Which of the following is included
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economy. The nature of the industrial workers was changing and methods of exercising control over the workers, to get the desired output, had also to be changed. This changed economic climate produced the new techniques and concepts. Individual Efficiency: Fredric W Taylor studied the simple output to time relationship for manual labor such as brick-laying. This formed the precursor of the present day ‘time study’. Around the same time, Frank Gilberth and his leaned wife Lillian Gilberth examined
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