A Study of Organizational Effectiveness

Georgopoulos, Basil S.; Tannenbaum, Arnold S.

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“…Academic literature focuses on organizational performance whose aspects vary from one institution to another in context and time period. In the nineteen fifties its evaluation was based on work, organizational structure, people and a social system directed towards achieving goals and objectives (Georgopoulos and Tannenbaum, 1957). In the sixties and seventies, it was well-defined as an organization's capacity and ability to exploit its surrounding (environment) using the scarce resources to maximize profits (Yuchtman and Seashore, 1967).…”

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Strategy Implementation and Performance of Non Governmental Organizations in Kericho County, Kenya

Simon¹,

Ronoh²

2017

MOS

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Non-Governmental Organizations face problems related to planning, staffing, organizational change, influence of leadership on allocation of resource and competition. The study focused on strategy implementation and performance. The objectives were; to investigate the effect of resource allocation, role of staff involvement, influence of reward systems, effect of operating procedures and role of communication on performance. The study is important to Non-Governmental Organizations, board of directors, donors and government. The study used McKinsey 7s model, survey research design. The target population was 37 the organizations and 349 members of the management team. Stratified technique was used to categorize the management into Board of Governors, managing directors, managers and heads of departments/project officers. A sample size of 151 respondents was selected from the categories. Data was collected and analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics with the aid of Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 21. The analyzed data was presented in form of frequency distribution tables. The findings indicated that Strategy operationalization through resource allocation (allocation of money, adequate personnel and staff involvement to implement new strategies) and operating procedures (staff training, policies, guiding principles to ensure compliance to organization's strategy, procedures, capacity of management, strategic guidance of top management) affect performance to varying levels , Strategy institutionalization, through communication and reward system (clear goals and objectives, strategy direction, strategy clearly communicated, performance recognition system, effort based rewards and rewards system linked to new strategy affect performance differently.

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Strategy Implementation and Performance of Non Governmental Organizations in Kericho County, Kenya

Simon¹,

Ronoh²

2017

MOS

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“…Uncertainty is unexpected changes in the factors of external environment. Dess & Beard, (1984) Georgopoulos & Tannenbaum, (1957) defined organizational performance as the extent to which organization is considered a social system created to accomplish its objectives. During this period of 50's organizational work, structure and people were used as performance indicators.…”

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Uncertain Environment and Organizational Performance: The Mediating Role of Organizational Innovation

Haque¹,

Ali²

2016

ASS

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Purpose: How to survive in dynamic and uncertain business environment?, is one of the biggest challenge for corporations today. To answer this question, current study examines the role of organizational innovation for improving performance in today's competitive, dynamic and uncertain business environment. Design:The study used structured closed-ended survey questionnaire and data is collected through self-administered technique to increase the response rate. The unit of analysis is the employees working in cellular industry in Pakistan. The analysis techniques includes, validity analysis through confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) reliability analysis through Cronbach alpha, correlation analysis, hypotheses testing utilizing structure equation modeling (SEM) in AMOS software whereas, mediation through method of Baron and Kenny (1986). Findings:Results show that organizational innovation plays the mediating role between uncertain environment and organizational performance. Practical implications:The study proposes that organizational innovation is inevitable for maintaining organizational performance in uncertain business environment particularly in dynamic industries. Originality:The current study proposed and tested an important conceptual model that explains the mediating role of organizational innovation to enhance the organizational performance in uncertain business environment.

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“…Unfortunately, performance measures suffer from a number of limitations. First, performance measures are not always easy to quantify (Georgopoulos & Tannenbaum, 1957;Steers, 1975;Hansen & Wernerfelt, 1989;Ilinitch et.al., 1998). Second, by definition objective measures are determinable without bias and are therefore construed as reliable, however evidence has shown some objective measures to be subject to manipulation and distortion (e.g.…”

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Where does all the money go? An investigation of donation filtration

Shaikh

McLarney

2005

International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy

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In tro duc tionThere has been much so cial and le gal de bate over the def i ni tion of the word "charity." For some it is a path way to heaven, for oth ers, it plays a de ci sive role in anti-trust cases. Charles Dick ens wrote "Char ity be gins at home and jus tice be gins next door." Lord Macnaghten's take on the Pre am ble to the Stat ute of Eliz a beth (1601) 43 Eliz. 1, c.4 (UK), whilst con sid ered to have its lim i ta tions, is widely regarded as a use ful start ing point for a le gal def i ni tion of char ity. In Com mis sion ers for Spe cial Pur poses of the In come Tax vs. Pemsel (su pra note 2, at 583, 1891), Lord Macnaghten laid out the fol low ing clas si fi ca tions (note: not a def i ni tion) of char ity: "Char ity" in its le gal sense com prises four prin ci pal di vi sions: trusts for the relief of pov erty; trusts for the ad vance ment of ed u ca tion; trusts for the ad vancement of re li gion; and trusts for other pur poses ben e fi cial to the com mu nity; not fall ing un der any of the pre ced ing heads." (Carter, 2002, p.7) These four heads of char ity, as they have to come to be known, have taken on the sta tus of tests to see if an or ga ni sa tion mer its the ti tle of char ity and any ac com pa nying ben e fits (such as fa vour able tax sta tus). This ar ti cle at tempts to go be yond the def i ni tion of char ity and to closely ex am ine what con sti tutes the "suc cess" of a char ity. Char ity Pro filesTo en able a com par a tive study, we have cho sen three dif fer ent char i ties on three differ ent con ti nents. Be fore go ing on to com pare nu mer i cal and sub jec tive find ings, pro files of these char i ties can be found in Ta ble 1.There are hun dreds of char i ties world wide. These three char i ties were chosen to pro vide a cross sec tion of the va ri ety of char i ties that ex ist. Vary ing fac tors in clude:Op er a tional scope: We have an in ter est ing mix. One in ter na tional char ity with world wide op er a tions and al li ances with sev eral dif fer ent coun tries (ActionAid). One na tional char ity but which sends aid to other coun tries too (Edhi Foun da tion) and one na tional char ity that local ises its ef forts to its own coun try (amfAR).

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A Study of Organizational Effectiveness

Cited by 281 publications

References 7 publications

Strategy Implementation and Performance of Non Governmental Organizations in Kericho County, Kenya

Strategy Implementation and Performance of Non Governmental Organizations in Kericho County, Kenya

Uncertain Environment and Organizational Performance: The Mediating Role of Organizational Innovation

Where does all the money go? An investigation of donation filtration

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