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- SAP R/3 Release 4.0 Eliminates Trade-Off Between Best of Breed and Integration, Delivers Benefits of Both; New Components for Finance, Logistics, Human Resources; Complete and Enhanced Business Solutions for Supply Chain, Retail, Public Sector, Utilities
- ORLANDO, Fla.--BUSINESS WIRE--Aug. 25, 1997-- At its SAPPHIRER '97 user conference today, SAP AG announced that R/3TM Release 4.0 will be shipping to customers by year-end 1997 and will be generally available by the second quarter of 1998.
- Research articles 1997-08-25
- Improving Performance In The Public Sector
- In today's world, the phrase "agile government" cannot be an oxymoron. Political, societal, economic, and technological forces are affecting governments and their decisions with increasing speed. But some government agencies see these challenges as an opportunity to revolutionize the way they do business, adopting strategies, the flexibility of their resources...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Impact Of Sarbanes-Oxley Act Of 2002 On Retirement Plan And Executive Compensation Matters
- In recent years, a significant Act has impacted a broad range of financial activities in the public sector company domain. One of the Act's goals is the protection of retirement plan participants and the elimination of certain non-conformist executive compensation practices. The paper briefs the public companies and employee benefit...
- White papers 2002-09-03
- Health Care and the Public Sector
- This paper summarizes the many aspects of public policy for health care. Optimal insurance balances the marginal costs of risk bearing and moral hazard. In the US, government policy has historically tilted towards more generous insurance, by excluding employer payments for health insurance from income taxation. The welfare loss from...
- White papers 2002-02-01
- Public Sector Reform and Demand for Human Resources for Health
- This article considers some of the effects of health sector reform on human resources for health HRH in developing countries and countries in transition by examining the effect of fiscal reform and the introduction of decentralizations and market mechanisms to the health sector. Human resource development is gradually being recognized...
- White papers 2004-11-23
- A Value Model for the Public Sector
- The motivational aspect of the journey to high performance is different in government. The lag time between performance and performance assessment in the form of elections is something not found in the private sector. Absent the forces of competition that compel ever higher levels of individual and organizational performance in...
- White papers 2003-12-12
- An Evaluation of Labor Flexibility Initiatives in a Medium Sized Public Sector Organization
- This paper uses the theoretical constructs of the "labor flexibility" debate to examine the development, implementation and evaluation of flexibility initiatives in the Library and Information Service of Western Australia LISWA. The paper focuses on the objectives, processes and outcomes of LISWA's flexibility initiatives. The labor demand and supply factors...
- White papers 2001-05-17
- Public Pension Governance, Funding, and Performance: A Longitudinal Appraisal
- Pension plans covering US public sector employees now face the twin challenges of poor asset returns and rapid increases in liabilities, producing the worst pension funding outcomes in decades. This paper explores how public pension plan investment performance and funding is related to several structural and pension design features. Using...
- White papers 2004-12-11
- The Road to High Performance in the Public Sector: Insights Into Statewide Performance Management
- Many states are initiating statewide performance management initiatives to ferret out underperforming activities and find ways to stretch their resources and with good reason. While robust statistics remain elusive, there is a growing body of evidence that performance management makes a difference. However, many states are struggling with their initiatives....
- White papers 2005-03-01
- Testing a Model of Public Sector Performance: How Does Management Matter?
- Public administration finds itself in an era of government by performance management, reflected in the widespread assumption that management is a key determinant of performance, and that it is reasonable to expect managers to measurably improve organizational effectiveness. This paper seeks to conceptualize and empirically test how external environmental influences...
- White papers 2003-10-01
- Improving Organizational Efficiency and Transparency Through Enterprise Performance Management
- Public sector stakeholders - government executives, officials, and most importantly, citizens - are demanding increased accountability for the public sector value PSV of government programs and systems. Government organizations need to deliver quantifiable measurements and clear performance results in order to better understand the impact of the programs and systems...
- White papers 2005-05-01
- Private Health Purchasing Practices in the Public Sector: A Comparison of State Employers and the Fortune 500
- State governments are influential purchasers of health benefits but have not been studied extensively. This paper examines the extent to which states have followed the private-sector approach to purchasing health care. It found that states have adopted "Industrial Purchasing" practices similar to those of large private employers but offer greater...
- White papers 2004-04-01
- Notes on Public Sector Reform and Performance Management: The United Kingdom
- This paper describes the United Kingdom Civil Service which has a long history. For many years the Civil Service of the United Kingdom was regarded as the best in the world. Most of the civil servants came from middle-class families, who were well- educated, had good reputations and social status....
- White papers 2003-10-27
- Implementing Performance Measurement in a Public Service: The Development and Implementation of a Balanced PMS Must Begin at the Top
- Federal government departments are attempting to provide programs and services to their clients that are affordable, accessible and responsive to their needs in a time of fiscal restraint and ongoing change. To maximize the contribution of IWIT in developing and supporting outstanding government programs and services, there is a need...
- White papers 2003-08-23
- A Multi-Dimensional Approach to the Community Perspective in the Balanced Scorecard Architecture for the Public Sector: Empirical Evidence in Healthcare Organizations
- Today Citizens have a multi-dimensional stakeholder role to play in their relationship with Public Sector's organizations. If organizations are not aware of that they will risk to fail in pursuing their mission. This paper describes the differences between performance management and performance evaluation, reviews the most popular Balanced Scorecard "geographies"...
- White papers 2005-08-30
- Workforce Planning Resource Guide for Public Sector Human Resource Professionals
- Workforce planning has likely become the greatest challenge faced by the organizations today. One continues to hear about the imbalances between work that needs to be performed and the availability of skilled workers. The downsizing that occurred over the last several years, particularly in the public sector, was done with...
- White papers 2002-08-12
- AMS Advantage Talent Management
- Finding the type of talent needed to staff the public sector organizations of today is no small feat. Greater competition for a shrinking talent base makes workforce planning and recruiting one of the greatest human resources challenges the public sector faces. To compete for, find, and retain the best and...
- White papers 2005-11-04
- The Impact of Strategic Human Resource Management on Organizational Success: The Public Sector and Multiple Goals
- Strategic Human Resource Management SHRM enhances productivity and the effectiveness of organizations. Research shows that when organizations employ such personnel practices as internal career ladders, formal training systems, results-oriented performance appraisal, employment security, employee voice/participation, broadly defined jobs, and performance-based compensation, they are more able to achieve their goals and...
- White papers 2002-08-06
- Human Resource Management of Diversity in the Public Sector: Addressing Challenges of Inequality and Exclusions
- The paper addresses the subject of human resource management of diversity in the public sector to tackle challenges of inequality and exclusions. The means of an end approach in the transformation of personnel administration into human resource management is crucial at the level of the preparation of the soil, concretized...
- White papers 2003-09-14
- Talent Mismanagement
- "The Mismanagement of Talent" Oxford University Press, is provocative book by British HR researchers Anthony Hesketh, Phillip Brown and Sara Williams. The main focus of their research was on how university graduates managed their employability in the competition for 'fast track' managerial positions, specifically, large multi-national companies or leading public...
- White papers 2004-06-16
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