The present paper focuses on the verification of the hypothesis according to which the organizational climate, the quality of all resources involved in the educational process and especially the quality of the management have a very important role in obtaining performance. After the conceptual...

In nowadays benchmarking become a powerful management tool that stimulates innovative improvement through exchange of corporate information, performance measurement, and adoption of best practices. It has been used for to improve productivity and quality in leading manufacturing organizations....

This paper analyzes whether workplace employee representation (ER) affects the design of firm hierarchies. We rationalize the role of ER within a knowledge-based model of hierarchies, where the firm's choice of hierarchical layers depends on the trade-off between communication and knowledge...

The analysis of the indicators that measure the economic and financial results is a very complex issue involving a number of theoretical and methodological aspects arising from the financial and economic activity of a company. The analysis of the indicator’s system specific to the business...

Resource concept seems relatively banal, the economy using the general meaning: support element to meet the needs. Resources represent the inputs to the activity of any company and refer to: properties, employees, streams of information, knowledge, cultural values, organizational capabilities,...

This paper aims to identify the elements that contribute to forming organisational culture and its universe, explaining the processes of external adaptation and internal integration, in order to enhance the organisation’s functionality, its capacity to perform in an external, ever changing and...

Most often, profitability is attached to the performance concept, which, on an organizational level, is evaluated in connection with the reaching of strategic objectives and gaining expected results. That is why, assignment of strategic objectives and management of economic performance find...

This paper examines how professional female tennisplayers react to: i) prize incentives and ii) heterogeneity in ex ante players' abilities. It is found that a larger prize spread encourages women to increase effort, even when controlling for many tournament and player characteristics. Further...

This study analyzes how individuals evaluate their peers' performance in a high stakes tournament in response to being randomly assigned to an age homogenous or heterogeneous group using data from two TV shows. The data also allows us to explore superior evaluations because it contains objective...

I examine the history of employee engagement and how it has been characterised by thinkers in sociology, psychology, management and economics. I suggest that, while employers may choose to invest in employee engagement, there are alternative management strategies that may be profit-maximising. I...