Journal of Small Business Management 2006 44(3)‚ pp. 407–425 Entrepreneurs Use a Balanced Scorecard to Translate Strategy into Performance Measures by Andra Gumbus and Robert N. Lussier Although 50 percent of Fortune 1000 companies currently use a balanced scorecard (BSC)‚ few small businesses are using a BSC. A review of the literature finds no BSC papers in leading small business/entrepreneurship journals. This article begins with a discussion of the BSC and why a small business should
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This paper explores trends in higher education in terms of Max Weber ’s theory of rationalization. It is Weber ’s contention that there are four basic motivators for human behavior. People are motivated by custom or tradition‚ by emotions‚ by religious or ethical values‚ and by rational goal oriented behavior (which Weber calls "zweckrational"). All human behavior‚ Weber claims‚ is motivated by various combinations of these four basic factors. Weber ’s thesis is that bureaucracies increasingly centralize
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(temperature inversion) In LA‚ the combination of sunny weather and mountains can produce temperature inversion about 320 days annually. During a temperature inversion‚ air pollutants cannot escape‚ so their concentration may rise to dangerous levels. The production and severity of photochemical smog‚ which can occur even without a temperature inversion‚ are amplified by that accumulation of pollutants. The reason of this is because the mountain gets the cool air beneath a less dense warm air
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PROFESSIONALISM IN HIGHER EDUCATION Introduction In the context of globalization‚ education becomes a perquisite for the supply of highly qualified and trained manpower. Education is seen not only as a key to social cohesion but also to mitigate the consequences of globalization. The fundamental requirement for global standards of education is the trained and professionally competent teachers. That a professionally competent teacher is indispensable even in
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product market competition‚ has become the norm for most organization. To compete‚ they must continually improve their performance by reducing costs; innovating products and processes; improving quality‚ productivity‚ and speed to market; and more importantly by improving their individual performance within the organization. In order to do this‚ a set of distinctive human resource strategies‚ defined as internally consistent bundles of human resource practices (Dyer & Reeves‚ 1995)‚ is clearly essential
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Why were there so many reforms (why and when it happened and what these reforms were) introduced in the 19th century. The 19th century was a time of liberal reforms for Britain. During this era the principle of the country was laissez faire which meant the government left the people to be responsible for their own welfare. The government did not accept any responsibility for the poor. They viewed these people as irresponsible‚ drunks and no self-respect. There was no unemployment or family benefits
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QUALITY MANAGEMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION: WITH REFRENCE TO CONTRIBUTION OF MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES Dr.Aruna Ms Sangeeta Faculty Commerce‚ Faculty Art ‚ Rama Degree College Ram Manohar
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Mapping Australian higher education Founding members Program Support Grattan Institute Report No. 2012-1‚ January 2012 This report was written by Andrew Norton‚ Grattan Institute Higher Education Program Director. Grattan Associates Julian Reichl and Ben Weidmann‚ and Grattan interns Peter Deutscher and ShanVerne Liew‚ contributed to the report’s research and production. We would like to thank the members of the Grattan Institute’s Higher Education Reference Group for their helpful comments
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there exist huge disparities in the quality of education between rural and urban India (aka Bharat and India) have finally come true. Labour Ministry data indicates that higher education and degrees are not helping rural job aspirants to get their coveted jobs. Not only unemployment among rural graduates and post-graduates is higher‚ but also they lack basic skill-sets to fill the demands of market economy. The dangerous trend‚ if anything‚ may offset the gains by India at the literacy front. While
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Turning Great Strategy into Great Performance Case Analysis Report Muhammad Awais Shahid 01-122132-014 Table of Contents 1. Introduction ....................................................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined. 2. Issue Analysis ..................................................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined. 2.1:Companies rarely track performance relative to long term plan .... Error! Bookmark not defined
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