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Information Systems in Business Process Reengineering: An Exploratory Survey of Issues
Business Process Reengineering (BPR) is the radical, cross-functional redesign of the operating practices used by organizations to achieve certain outcomes. While BPR has received considerable attention from practitioners and consultants, there has been little empirical research published on BPR. This study explores why and how organizations are using business process reengineering and identifies problems that effect reengineering success. The results showed that organizations […]
Self-Managing Teams, Quality of Work Life, and Productivity: A Field Study
The impact of participation in a self-managed teams program on employee quality of work life attitudes, and on productivity and quality was studied among employees in a manufacturing firm located in the mid-western United States. Employee productivity and quality changes were measured by collecting and analyzing actual organizational data, for a thirty-six month period. The attitudinal results indicate that self-managed teams improved participants’ […]
Commercial Sales in Cable Television: An Overview and a Linear Model
This paper deals with the sales of commercial advertisements in the cable television industry. It describes the dynamics of the process, and develops the notion of an audience loss function, the minimization of which is equally desirable to both networks as well as advertisers. A simple, yet robust delivery-efficient linear model is described for optimizing this loss function, subject to the constraints […]
Management Forecasting: Survey Findings and Business Implications
Accurate forecasting is one of the most critical issues for business planning. Knowing how best to generate forecasts and how others are performing this function is important information for managers. This study reports on forecasting practices in US firms based on a survey of 500 companies. In addition to information on techniques and software used, this survey attempts to gain insights into […]
Managing the Costs of Power
Executives generally desire more power because it is useful. Business firms likewise try to gain power over each other. Yet power also has costs that should be considered and managed. There are costs of acquisition, storage, and maintenance of the resources that supply power, as well as costs of using those resources to gain influence. This article analyzes those costs and […]
Communication Training in Corporate Settings: Lessons and Opportunities for the Academe
Today, communication skills are among the most popular content areas in employee training. This survey of training managers examined the status of communication training in businesses and identified the lessons and opportunities for business communication faculty. Results indicated that communication training in businesses tend to focus on managerial and interpersonal communication including teamwork, problem solving, effective meetings, and motivating people. Supervisors and customer […]
Women’s Advancement in the Accounting Profession: Consideration of Person-Centered and Organization-Centered Explanations
Despite the entry of large numbers of women into the accounting profession over the last decade, few women have reached top management levels. Two alternative paradigms that attempt to explain this phenomenon are the person-centered explanation and the organization-centered explanation. This study explores the Type A - Type B personality traits, job satisfaction and turnover intentions, while controlling for level of decision […]
International Cultural Diversity and the Design of Management Accounting Systems
This article uses Geert Hofstede’s taxonomy of workrelated cultural values to examine the relationship between international cultural diversity and the practice of management accounting. The discussion is presented in two parts. First, is a discussion of the relationship between international cultural diversity and the design of cost management systems. Second, management control systems are implicated into the discussion. download .pdf
