The strategic management of human capital in public education concerns the acquisition, development, performance management and retention of top talent in the nation’s schools, particularly large, urban school districts. The Strategic Management of Human Capital (SMHC) is also the name of a new action project of the Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE), headquartered at the CPRE…
The dynamic capabilities framework analyzes the sources and methods of wealth creation and capture by private enterprise firms operating in environments of rapid technological change. The competitive advantage of firms is seen as resting on distinctive processes (ways of coordinating and combining), shaped by the firm's (spec$c) asset positions (such as the firm's portfolio of difficult-to-trad…
The idea that government can manage itself strategically, in a similar manner to well-performing private sector organisations, has featured prominently in New Zealand’s contributions to PUMA work since 1994. The purpose of this paper is to outline the rationale for a strategic approach to government management, to describe the elements of the approach which we have developed, to assess its im…
As with the first three editions, this fourth edition of Strategic Information Management: Challenges and Strategies in Managing Information Systems aims to present the many complex and inter-related issues associated with the management of information systems in and between organizations. The primary audiences are M.B.A. or other Master’s level students and senior undergraduate students …
Strategic management is a set of managerial decisions and actions that determines the longrun performance of a corporation. It includes environmental scanning (both external and internal), strategy formulation (strategic or long-range planning), strategy implementation, and evaluation and control. The study of strategic management, therefore, emphasizes the monitoring and evaluating of exte…
is paper review and examine how strategic management researchers apply research methods, and what strategies use as part of the research process, to locate, organize, manage, transform, create, communicate and evaluate research tools, data and information resources. It also analyzes recent developments on research methodology to create scienti! c knowledge in theory building and practice in…
Globalization, demographic changes and lack of talented employees – they all contribute to the increase in interest in managing diversity of workers’ potential. The concept of diversity management first appeared in the eighties, but nowadays it appears even more often, especially in the business, scientific and social and legal context. Diversity management (dm) is a part of the Europe…