Effectiveness And Efficiency

Author : Ephraim F. Sudit
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789400918283

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Effectiveness, Quality and Efficiency: A Management Oriented Approach by Ephraim F. Sudit Pdf

This is a management oriented book about efficiency, quality and effectiveness designed for an audience of management practitioners, scholars, and students. The integrative approach developed in this book contains new ideas regarding quality and efficiency-based effective management. These ideas lend themselves to managerial applications. This work is not meant to provide an exhaustive account of the measurement, and applications of effectiveness, quality, and efficiency concepts. With the exception of the treatment of conventional productivity concepts and measurements in Chapter 2, and of production flexibility in Chapter 5, the discussion in this book is largely non-teclmical. Among management practitioners, the book may be of particular interest to managers with broad strategic orientations in the fields of production management, quality management, marketing, and management of human resources. The academic audience is likely to include scholars and students interested in strategic planning, applied productivity analysis, quality management, marketing management, and management of human resources. The book could also be used as a supplementary text to or part of the readings in basic and advanced courses in strategic management, production management, and quality management. Concepts and dimensions of efficiency, quality, and effectiveness, as used throughout this book, are introduced in Chapter 1. The intricate sets of relationships among effectiveness, quality, and efficiency are explored.

Author : Peter Drucker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136017537

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The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker Pdf

The measure of the executive, Peter Drucker reminds us, is the ability to 'get the right things done'. Usually this involves doing what other people have overlooked, as well as avoiding what is unproductive. He identifies five talents as essential to effectiveness, and these can be learned; in fact, they must be learned just as scales must be mastered by every piano student regardless of his natural gifts. Intelligence, imagination and knowledge may all be wasted in an executive job without the acquired habits of mind that convert these into results. One of the talents is the management of time. Another is choosing what to contribute to the particular organization. A third is knowing where and how to apply your strength to best effect. Fourth is setting up the right priorities. And all of them must be knitted together by effective decision-making. How these can be developed forms the main body of the book. The author ranges widely through the annals of business and government to demonstrate the distinctive skill of the executive. He turns familiar experience upside down to see it in new perspective. The book is full of surprises, with its fresh insights into old and seemingly trite situations.

Author : Peter Eichhorn,Ian Towers
Publisher : Springer
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319709024

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Principles of Management by Peter Eichhorn,Ian Towers Pdf

This textbook presents an overview of how the activities of an organisation can be managed to satisfy the needs of stakeholders through the cost effective, operationally efficient and sustainable transformation of resources into outputs. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the authors show the relationship between management and economics and within this framework present the key areas of management activity. The book explains the connections between these areas and provides tools and instruments for successful management. The book's approach and content is relevant for all kinds of organisation - private or public sector, service or manufacturing, non-profit, large or small. Each chapter provides cases to illustrate what has been discussed and some questions to test comprehension. Throughout the book is a continuing project in which the reader is put in the position of owning their own business and must think and make decisions about what the chapter has discussed. The book combines Anglo-American and German approaches to management and management studies, making it a valuable resource both for those who are studying management and those who are working as managers.

Author : Rob Reider
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004-03-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780471053569

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Improving the Economy, Efficiency, and Effectiveness of Not-for-Profits by Rob Reider Pdf

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED As not-for-profits must increasingly achieve greater results with less resources, they are continually seeking ways to use such scarce resources with more economy, with greater efficiency of processes and people within their organizations, and with increased effectiveness of results in order to further their missions. Whether used alone or together with other tools such as benchmarking, activity-based management, and flexible budgeting, the operational review is the tool best used to perform an evaluation of these crucial three e's-economy, efficiency, and effectiveness. This book shows not-for-profit managers why conducting an operational review can be beneficial, explains the tools and personnel needed to conduct the review, and shows in detail how to conduct a review of operations in each area. It includes case study materials for a social service agency, a museum operation, an arts organization, a community service agency, and a college business office. Here is accessible, comprehensive coverage of: * How to approach an operational review, judge its results, and make recommendations to management * How to position your not-for-profit organization more effectively in the competitive world of funding, personnel, resources, and service results * How to identify and implement best practices within funding and operational constraints in all areas of the not-for-profit's operations in an organized program of continuing improvements . . . and much more, including extensive exhibits, forms, working tools, checklists, and examples for conducting an operational review throughout all functions of a not-for-profit organization. Executive directors, outside auditors, CPAs, manage-ment consultants, boards, fund-raising executives, and all others involved in the not-for-profit's operations will learn to get the most for their mission from this indispensable book.

Author : Cresap, McCormick, and Paget
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Nursing
ISBN : UIUC:30112040100486

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Effectiveness and Efficiency of Nursing Education Programs by Cresap, McCormick, and Paget Pdf

Author : A. L. Cochrane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1120394281

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Effectiveness and Efficiency by A. L. Cochrane Pdf

Author : Guy Callender
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134083268

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Efficiency and Management by Guy Callender Pdf

It is widely accepted that management concepts such as strategic management, human resource management and management development have a well-defined body of knowledge designed to inform management praxis, however the notion of efficiency has no such body of knowledge to support its application within management praxis. This book proposes the replacement of the generalised term efficiency with the more comprehensive notion of performance efficiency to provide a reliable basis on which to evaluate management behaviour. Given the scope of the investigation, the outcome is not designed to prove the success or failure of the inherent nature of efficiency, but rather to establish a new starting point for yet wider empirical research. At a macro-level, it advances the proposition that the notion of efficiency has become an ideological statement of support for any management intention rather than a practical means to inform or evaluate a range of management actions.

Author : Peter Ferdinand Drucker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Management
ISBN : 9780750625029

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People and Performance by Peter Ferdinand Drucker Pdf

What is management? What is a manager? How is a business organized, and how can managers use people's strengths more effectively? What is the relationship between management today and the society and culture it seeks to direct? These and many more questions are discussed in Peter Drucker's classic survey of management thought and practice. People and Performance is the ideal volume for those who want the essence of Drucker's thinking, but with limited time at their disposal. It spans all the main dimensions of management and its themes are based on Drucker's direct experience as an adviser to businesses, government departments, public institutions, and as a widely sought lecturer.

Author : Don Tapscott
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781461575375

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Office Automation by Don Tapscott Pdf

Every pioneer takes large risks, hoping that the new frontier he seeks will provide the benefits of independence and good fortune. Don Tapscott is such a pioneer in the area of office automation. He has been a true pioneer, having entered the field in its early days and taken the risk of working not in technol ogy, which was fashionable, but in the field of the problems of organizations, which was less fashionable, but in many ways more important. The utilization of computers for data processing, accounting, inventory, and other "bread and butter" applications is now well entrenched in our society and culture. The process of designing such systems tends to focus on the needs of the company and the constraints of the equipment, leading to efficient systems with little tolerance for the variety of people who must use or interface with them. Within the office automation area, these methods do not work nearly as well. The frequency and amount of human interaction in the office environment, and the wide variety of situations and reactions there in, demands a different design methodology.

Author : Keith Tones,Yvonne Keeley Robinson,Sylvia Tilford
Publisher : Springer
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781489932303

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Health Education by Keith Tones,Yvonne Keeley Robinson,Sylvia Tilford Pdf

It could be said with some justification that the task of education is to safe guard people's right to learn about important aspects of human culture and experience. Since health and illness occupy a prominent place in our everyday experience, it might reasonably be argued that everyone is entitled to share whatever insights we possess into the state of being healthy and to benefit from what might be done to prevent and treat disease and discomfort. Health education's role in such an endeavour would be to create the necessary under standing. No other justification would be needed. In recent years, however, questions have been posed with increasing insistence and urgency about efficiency - both about education in general and health education in particular. We can be certain that such enquiries about effectiveness do not reflect a greater concern to know whether or not the population is better educated: they stem from more utilitarian motives. It is apparent, even to the casual observer, that economic growth and productivity have become a central preoccupation in contemporary Britain.

Author : Keith Tones,Sylvia Tilford
Publisher : Nelson Thornes
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0748745270

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Health Promotion by Keith Tones,Sylvia Tilford Pdf

The authors have joined forces again to reflect upon the ever changing world of health promotion. As a result, their highly respected textbook has been substantially rewritten to document both theoretical and practical developments within this important sphere of professional activity.

Author : Janice Gross Stein
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780887846786

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The Cult of Efficiency by Janice Gross Stein Pdf

"This thought-provoking discourse on the unquestioned pursuit of efficiency reveals how the discussion of efficiency in the delivery of public goods, such as education and health care, has risen to prominence in postindustrial society. Stein's provocative argument, reminiscent of the thinking of Lewis Mumford, demonstrates that efficiency can too often be a cloak for political agendas, and that pressure for efficiency can actually be a detrimental rather than a positive force. Citizens in public schools, community clinics, and hospitals are shown engaging directly with such agendas, redrawing the face of the state as they impose new ways of delivering public goods. Stein demonstrates how they are calling not only for efficiency but for accountability and choice as they confront the dilemmas of democratic processes in a global age."

Author : Victor Prince,Mike Figliuolo
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781632659958

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Lead Inside the Box by Victor Prince,Mike Figliuolo Pdf

“In times when leaders have to do more with less, this book gives you the tools to elevate your people to new levels of success.” —Andrea Procaccino, Chief Learning Officer, New York-Presbyterian Hospital Every employee is different, but unfortunately many leaders use a one-size-fits-all approach to leading. In doing so, these otherwise well-intentioned leaders are working harder than they should while not getting all they could out of their teams. Lead Inside the Box gives managers way to get the best out of their teams by focusing their energy where it will make the biggest difference. It teaches leaders how to: Figure out where they are currently investing their time and energy across their teams Identify the unique leadership needs of each team member Make smarter decisions about how and where to invest their time and energy to get the best results out of everyone Through simple frameworks brought to life with stories from the trenches, leaders will be able to see their own teams—and themselves—from a new perspective. Paradoxically these methods will enable leaders to improve their team’s performance exponentially while expending half the effort. “Lead Inside the Box provides cogent advice about exactly how to lead from the middle (as well as the top) in ways that enable managers to make good things happen and help the organization prosper.” —John Baldoni, Leadership expert and author of Moxie: The Secret to Bold and Gutsy Leadership “A great fundamental read for every leader no matter what level you are at.” —Rob Miller, Divisional VP, R&D and Scientific & Medical Affairs, Abbott Nutrition

Author : Jonathan Cylus,Irene Papanicolas,Peter C. Smith
Publisher : Health Policy
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9289050411

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Health System Efficiency by Jonathan Cylus,Irene Papanicolas,Peter C. Smith Pdf

In this book the authors explore the state of the art on efficiency measurement in health systems and international experts offer insights into the pitfalls and potential associated with various measurement techniques. The authors show that: - The core idea of efficiency is easy to understand in principle - maximizing valued outputs relative to inputs, but is often difficult to make operational in real-life situations - There have been numerous advances in data collection and availability, as well as innovative methodological approaches that give valuable insights into how efficiently health care is delivered - Our simple analytical framework can facilitate the development and interpretation of efficiency indicators.

Author : Morris T. Keeton,Barry G. Sheckley,Joan Krejci Griggs
Publisher : Kendall Hunt
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Education
ISBN : 0787292540

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Effectiveness and Efficiency in Higher Education for Adults by Morris T. Keeton,Barry G. Sheckley,Joan Krejci Griggs Pdf