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Starting this month, we will include articles on strategic planning, the balanced scorecard, 360 degree feedback, Six Sigma, training, employee surveys and teams/facilitation in every Journal's edition. Please look below and enjoy!

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Strategic Planning

Strategic Planning: A Guide for Supervisors

Strategic planning can be as easy as an exercise in time management. This article emphasizes not to get caught up in the web of strategic planning, but make things flow by following these easy steps in understanding the process.

 
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Balanced Scorecard

Implementing Balance Scorecard for Performance Measurement

Implementing a balance scorecard can be complex and involves a lot of subjectivity. This article serves to breakdown the process and offers nine steps to success when implementing a balance scorecard.
c data analysis is relied on in determining effectiveness of the potential changes of the Six Sigma method.


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360 Feedback

Coming Full Circle Using Research and Practice To Address 27 Questions about 360-Degree Feedback Programs

Frederic P. Morgeson, Troy V. Mumford, Michael A. Campion

Article addresses 27 specific questions that frequently arise in the development, implementation, administration and interpretation of multisource feedback programs. Studies have shown that the benefit of upward 360-degree feedback is that it can improve job performance especially for low-performing employees.

 

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Six Sigma

Six Sigma in Communities of Care: Improved Care Via Institutionalized Genius

Dr. Rick L. Edgeman

The author highlights the importance of implementing six sigma in health-care institutions. In areas of critical need such as the field of health-care, rapid development and deployment of breakthrough solutions are a necessity in order to improve patient service.


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Training

Effectiveness of Training in Organizations: A Meta-Analysis of Design and Evaluation Features

Winfred Arthur Jr., Winston Bennett Jr., and Pamela S. Edens, and Suzanne T. Bell

This study researched the effectiveness of training programs in organizations by using meta-analytic procedures. The findings in the article suggest that specific training design and the skill or task characteristic trained and selected training evaluation features, resulted in increased effectiveness of training programs.


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Employee Surveys

Employee Attitude Surveys: Examining the Attitudes of Noncompliant Employees
 
 
When administering employee surveys not all employees are compliant. This article investigates the attitudes of non-compliant employees and the origin and nature of attitudes of such employees by reviewing such variables as organizational commitment, work satisfaction, pay satisfaction, promotion satisfaction, supervisor satisfaction, satisfaction with the job in general, intentions to quit, and work-related demographics.


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Teams/Facilitation

Employee Attitude Surveys: Examining the Attitudes of Noncompliant Employees
 
 
When administering employee surveys not all employees are compliant. This article investigates the attitudes of non-compliant employees and the origin and nature of attitudes of such employees by reviewing such variables as organizational commitment, work satisfaction, pay satisfaction, promotion satisfaction, supervisor satisfaction, satisfaction with the job in general, intentions to quit, and work-related demographics.


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