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Competence, efficiency, and organizational learning

Human Resource Development Quarterly, 1997
This article examines the question of whether the human resource development (HRD) field is working towards improving performance or enhancing learning in organisations. To clarify this issue, the authors inquire into whether HRD is essentially behavioural in design and objective or whether it is based on an educational or cognitive perspective.
John Barrie, R. Wayne Pace
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Efficient Organizational Design

1987
We apply the methodology of statistical decision theory to the organizational design problem. The problem is to find a decision rule (q,d) and a management system k which minimize the risk. In this section, we state the “separation theorem” of the organization structure design problem and the management system design problem, which makes the ...
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Organizational Efficiency and X-Inefficiency

2014
The works of Leibenstein emphasize the existence of x-inefficiency in organizations that explains why firms apparently identical, with the same composition of the workforce and the same technology, are able to realize very different performance. On the basis of Leibenstein and Maital (1994), this chapter presents the sources and reasons for the ...
Meryem El Alaoui Amine, Anass Mdaghri Alaoui   +1 more
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Efficiency of Organizational Decisions

1989
The theory of the firm acknowledges that as the firm grows in size there will be an emergence of (a) diffused ownership and separation of ownership and control, (b) nonprice competition dominating the operation of the market mechanisms and price strategies, and (c) a complex internal organization supplementing the market ...
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CONFIGURATIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS AND EFFICIENCY.

Academy of Management Journal, 1993
This study examined the relationship between various characteristics of organizations—including resource inputs, context, rules and regulations, goals, climate, and informal systems—and the effecti...
C. OSTROFF, N. SCHMITT
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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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