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Organizational Efficiency and Values

2006
A brief look through West Churchman’s works suffices to see his concern for values and ethics in the behaviour of social organizations, be they political or of any other nature. Values are, in fact, what Churchmann stresses when he addresses the question of the problems facing the world, viewed as a political-social organization.
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X-Efficiency, Organizational Efficiency and Indian Economic Thought: Thirukkural

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009
Harvey Leibenstein of the Harvard University proposed a concept X-Efficiency, and considered it as the missing link in micro-micro economic foundations, that determined the organizational efficiency more than the allocative efficiency. This paper attempts to highlight that 'X-efficiency' is not only very critical for organizational efficiency fully ...
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Assessing Organizational Efficiency and Workforce Diversity

Public Personnel Management, 2015
This study applied an output-oriented variable returns-to-scale (VRS) data envelopment analysis (DEA) technique to New York City (NYC) agencies to illustrate its usefulness in assessing and estimating organizational efficiency with respect to workforce diversity.
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Some principles of efficient organizational design

International Journal of Systems Science, 1983
The efficiency of organizations and bureaucracies in both design and operation depends to some extent on internal and external factors Examples of the former include overstaffing, a top-heavy management structure, uneven distribution of the workload, and intersupervisory conflict.
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Financial distress, reorganization, and organizational efficiency

Journal of Financial Economics, 1990
Abstract This paper examines financial distress and its effect on organizational efficiency. Imperfect information and conflicts of interest among the firm's claimholders influence the outcome of financial distress. Methods for resolving distress and controlling conflicts of interest are discussed. New evidence on financial restructuring and distress
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From Process Efficiency to Organizational Performance

2006
In a lot of organizations and lines of business, efficiency and productivity not only depend upon well-structured processes and the best possible IT-support, but increasingly rely upon optimizing the communication between participating teams and groups.
Tobias Blickle, Helge Heß
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Quality, efficiency, and organizational structure.

Journal of health care finance, 2008
Physicians and their practice patterns are the largest single determinant of the level of aggregate national health care expenditures. Integrated delivery systems (organizations linking a multispecialty physician groups and acute care hospitals) appear to be more efficient than other organizational structures while providing better clinical outcomes ...
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Goal directed benchmarking for organizational efficiency

Omega, 2010
In this paper, we extend the standard data envelopment analysis (DEA) model to include longer term top management goals. This extension is in recognition of the fact that benchmarking for decision making units (DMUs) is more than a purely monitoring process, and includes a component of future planning. The new model uses a goal programming structure to
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Some Remarks on Organizational Efficiencies

2018
This chapter, mostly based on the work by Forrest and Orvis (Kybern Int J Cybern Syst Manag Sci 45:1308–1322, 2016), introduces two important principles of efficiency—management efficiency and organizational inefficiency. The former addresses the problem of how management efficiency can be achieved, while the latter investigates the structure of ...
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IMPACT OF ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE ON ORGANIZATIONAL EFFICIENCY

Economy, Governance and Lave Basis, 2023
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