Knowledge that Transforms

Organizat ions use organizational resources as the basic ingredient for all that is required for their operations. They are therefore eager to maintain and imp rove the quantity of expendable organizational resources by not only resources utilizat ion, but by also identifying, nurturing and maintaining characteristics that promote organizational performance. An excellent place to start organizational search for good examp les of organizational knowableness policy or temp lates is the organizational knowab leness office in organization reg ion. Imp lementing good environmental and managerial pract ices is good organizational knowableness it can give a co mpetitive advantage. This article attempts to explain the organizat ional knowableness policy engineering by patterns of thinking. The importance of strategic, long-term policy and organizational knowableness policy engineering is very clear to policy. Organizational knowableness managers like to follow a similar and routine organizational knowableness behavioral pattern. Organizational knowab leness policy engineering, normally taken as a part of organizational knowab leness policy, therefore also tends to run in cycles of around last years. Many externals and organizational variab les have been identified in the literature as affecting organizational empo werment.

Th is paper explore the ways in which certain characteristics of actors that in this case of collaboration organization generates a tendency to prepare a formal written collaboration desire and focus is primarily on what describe as the environmental characteristics. The inter personnel organizational collaboration among different types of inter personnel organizational collaboration takes a significant part in the develop ment and evolution of organizations, as well. An exploration of the ways in wh ich the characteristics of the co llaboration o rganizat ion influence whether or not those organizations engage in necessary desire. This paper exp lore the ways in which certain characteristics in case of collaboration organization generates a tendency to prepare a formal written collaboration desire and focus is primarily on what describe as the environ mental characteristics. Collaboration excellence for co llaboration desire includes also tools for financial, human resource, and risk management, as well as technology management, acquisitions and market ing. The collaboration necessary opposed to the prior models takes the prioritizat ion of internal and external environ ment and their pertinence to inter personnel organizat ional collaboration into consideration and presents nine alternatives for the necessary formulat ion rather than identification of the internal strengths or weaknesses of organizat ions, and the examination of threats and opportunities for them. This paper studies the dispersion around the workers expected collaboration of the few inter personnel organizational hierarchical positions in cross-section data samples. Data collected form managers and workers of collaboration organizat ions, showed that dispersion decreases with education and work experience before entering the current job and increases with job tenure. Inter personnel organizational collaboration, as a recent phenomenon, plays a crucial role in the development of o rganizat ions.

This paper critically examines the use of the balanced scorecard (BSC) for small and medium enterprises (SME). Despite its popularity and utility for strategy management, the literature reporting on the uses and limitations of the BSC in SMEs is rare. The literature survey also highlighted some of the gaps and issues related to strategy and SMEs. The researchers used their experience in helping organizations of various sizes implement the BSC to formulate a simpler and more practical strategy implementation model for SMEs that adapts some key ideas of the BSC together with other strategy management ideas like building lasting organizations and strategic capabilities. The model was developed through an action research project with a Malaysian SME in the IT industry. It was also tested with another start-up non-profit organization. This paper describes some of the observations and lessons learned.

The purpose of this article is to show the relationship between branding and brand management in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Traditionally, branding was associated with large and global corporations. However, we often forget that small and medium-sized enterprises also deal with their own names (brands) in their own way. The study identified four types of businesses, regardless of their association with brands. We named these four types, as follows: Ignorant; User; Low-Cost Producer; and Differentiation Producer. If the first two types (i.e. Ignorant and User) differ primarily in the extent to which they use simple branding activities, and are used mainly in the local market where the enterprises tend to operate, we found that the last two types (i.e. low-cost producers and differentiation producers) design their branding strategies in accordance with their generic strategies and mode of growth.

Cost-cutting has been a common means in efforts to improve a firm’s ‘bottom-line’ during times of declining revenues, despite the evidence that cost-cutting has generally produced mixed results on profitability. In this paper, cost structures in firms are conceptualized as being a strategic paradox created by concurrent opposing forces which necessitate the firm to give consideration to simultaneously increasing and decreasing the cost structure. These pressures are explored via a classification of cost-programs to address alternative cost-pressures faced by firms.

This study is intended to provide a critical overview of the local government finance reform and analyze the process of strengthening financial decentralization in Bulgaria. First of all, the specifics of government structure and the main components of the legal base in the scope of local self-government are presented. The quantitative analysis is focused on dynamics of the public expenditure indicators and the structure of local revenues, based on fact figures for the period 1990–2011 and forecast for 2012. The influence of economic crises on local government finance is discussed and estimated. A comparison is drawn between the three most severe downturns of Bulgarian economy during the last 20 years, namely the price liberalization in the beginning of transition (1991–1993), the credit crunch and series of bank bankruptcies, which caused the financial crisis in 1996–1997, and the current worldwide crisis. Some of the most important actions, taken by the government in order to consolidate the crisis are described and evaluated on the base of their effects on the local finance. The conclusion is that although the current crisis reached Bulgaria at comparatively mature stage of financial decentralization reform, municipalities can do very little without active central government support and cannot substitute for it in regard of the basic anti-crisis measures.

Total Quality Management (TQM) that focuses on better quality services and products, continues improvement, and imp rovement in performance standards is one of the concepts that has been adopted in organizations world wide. Nevertheless, there has been lack of studies that look at the relationship between TQM, and service quality in the Libyan context. Hence, this study examines the relationship between Total Quality Management (TQM) and Service Quality (SQ).A quantitative approach was used in this study to gather the data Moreover, the primary data of some existing variables were assumed to be affecting the service quality in the judiciary as follows: top management leadership, customer focus, continuous improvement, emp loyee involvement, and education and training. The data was collected fro m 360 respondents using a structured questionnaire. The questionnaire consisted of three sections. The target questions focused on TQM and SQ. The demographic variables asked are gender, age, education, job position, length of service and name of respondent institution. The data were analyses using the SPSS version 20 software program and analy zed using AMOS version 20. Several statistical validity tests and analysis were conducted, such as reliab ility and co mposite reliability tests, validity tests using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) for construct validity, discriminant validity for mu lticollinearity treatment, descriptive analysis, correlation and structural equation modeling analysis using AMOS 20.0.

In Europe for many years debates have taken place on the need to increase the rate of economic activity of the population, particularly the elderly. Representatives of businesses, educational institutions, trade unions, employers and local entities dealing with employment and demographics have exchanged views and experiences on activities to meet the demographic challenges .Europe’s population is aging fast as the human life span has increased and the level of fertility of European women has remained low. As a result of the changing structure of the population, the share of the elderly is increased. The aging of the population is a phenomenon largely considered in the context of the enormous challenges and problems. Defi nitely less attention is paid to the fact that it is a great achievement of civilization of each country. However, it cannot be denied that the dynamics of the aging process of the population in conjunction with the relatively low professional activity of older people raises many concerns. The Lisbon Strategy recognized that “employment defi cit” in the age group 55-65 years is a serious problem DOI: 10.2478/manment-2013-0021 ISSN 1429-9321