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Organizational climate and workplace efficiency

Public Management Review, 2007
Abstract The subject organization of this article is the government employment agency in Sweden. The agency is a key component of the national labour market focusing specifically on placing the unemployed and job-seekers in work. The agency also administers the processes of providing benefits to the unemployed. We describe the agency, its work and some
Brian Hunt, Toni Ivergard
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The efficiency of organizational forms

Économie appliquée, 1987
This paper is concerned with the efficiency properties of the bureaucratic, clan, military and market forms of organization for the firm. The model, upon which the analysis is based, focuses on the activities in which employees engage and on the constraints imposed on these activities by those higher up in the hierarchical authority structure of the ...
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Organizational Efficiencies and LSOPM Business

2020
Organizational resources need to match up with the organizational requirements and needs to be used efficiently. Organizational efficiency can be described as obtaining maximum output by using minimum resources. Productivity and cost optimization are two factors that are relevant and have been elaborately explained in this chapter.
Hassan Qudrat-Ullah, Pramela Nair Panthallor   +1 more
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A practical organizational efficiency measure

Defence and Peace Economics, 2014
There is often a call in any organization to make the system ‘more efficient’. This document describes a novel framework for measuring organizational efficiency at the microeconomic level. We show how this framework can be used to monitor an organization using data typically available in extant performance management frameworks.
Andrew P. Billyard, John J. Donohue
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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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