Performance Of Management Functions Research Articles

The Sequence of Administrative Decisions Due the Organisation of Physical Training Process of Commissioned Officers

The article highlights a problematic issue and shows that management process is of decisive importance for the effective use of the combat capabilities of military formations during their performance of combat missions in modern warfire. The process of making management decisions, the ability to approve these decisions, which are necessary for the performance of management functions, is the basis of management theory. The commander needs to combine the skills of a qualified military specialist, leader and teacher, capable of making successful decisions in order to successfully manage all aspects of routine, moral, psychological and combat training of personnel. Many factors affect the process of making and implementing management decisions. They are the most significant: society and the environment in which the decision is made; compliance of the management elements with the purpose, vision and mission of the military unit; individual qualities of the leader (existence of life principles, value system, ideology, education, life experience, knowledge, habits, etc.); interdependence of decisions (one important decision entails the need to make a number of less important decisions); the risk and possibility of negative consequences due to wrong decisions; the degree of provision of modern technical, material means and weapons and the possibilities of their application in the decision-making process. An important role in the process of making a management decision by a commissioned officer is military internship. During this internship various combat situations are simulated under extreme conditions of training and combat activities with increased physical and psycho-emotional stress. Also, favourable conditions are created for commissioned officers to master the practical skills of performing there official duties, studying the content of commanders' activities to ensure a high level of combat readiness, organization and order in the real conditions of the functioning of military units.

Regarding the involvement of the appellate instance by the court to participation in the case of a person in administrative proceedings

The article analyzes the procedural norms of the law that regulate issues related to the replacement of an improper party and the involvement in the case of persons who did not participate in the case and the practice of applying these norms by the appellate court in administrative proceedings. It is emphasized that during the administration of justice by the appellate courts of administrative jurisdiction, a certain ambiguity arose regarding the application of procedural norms, which determine the procedure for replacing the improper party and involving the second defendant (co-defendant) in the case. The question is raised why a person who did not take part in the case, if the decision of the court of first instance concerns his rights, freedoms, interests and (or) duties, can independently enter the court process at the stage of consideration of the case in the court of appeal and take participation, then why such a person cannot be involved in the case at the initiative of a party or a third person or at the initiative of the court. Attention is drawn to the fact that the current rules of procedural law, which regulate issues related to the replacement of an improper party and the involvement in the case of persons who did not participate in the case at the stage of its consideration by the appellate administrative court, limit the competence of the appellate court and prevent the consideration of administrative cases within a reasonable time, as required by law and needed by the parties to the case. It is noted that the inconsistency of the norms of procedural law, which establish the procedure for conducting administrative proceedings, creates problems of prompt response by administrative courts to the dishonest performance of management functions by subjects of authority and the unity of judicial practice, which in general has a negative effect on the protection of individuals and legal entities from violations of side of the government. Taking into account the analysis of relevant procedural norms, it was concluded that certain provisions that establish the powers of appellate administrative courts regarding the involvement of persons who did not participate in the case, but the decisions of the court of first instance may affect their rights and obligations, need to be improved. In particular, as it was concluded, the relevant problem can be solved either by reviewing and changing the established legal position by the Supreme Court, or by making appropriate changes to the procedural legislation, which, in the opinion of the author, is more likely and necessary to overcome legal differences. Key words: norms of procedural law, administrative court, appellate court, replacement of an improper party, involvement of a second defendant.

Інтеграція ризик-менеджменту в систему управління якістю торговельного підприємства

The article is aimed at studying the features of the risk-oriented approach in the context of the development of quality management systems as an instrument for management of trading enterprises to solve the problems of increasing their competitiveness, ensuring risk resistance and risk protection. The economic essence of risk as an integral element of the economic and financial activity of the enterprise, which in its manifestation poses a threat to the achievement of the established goals of this activity in conditions of uncertainty and lack of complete information at the time of making decisions on planning, management, coordination, control of the enterprise’s activities, is covered. The list of risks inherent in the activities of commercial enterprises is considered. The classification of risks depending on the type of trade object, group of goods, functional divisions of the trading enterprise and the subsystems has been improved, which allows to deepen research in this direction and objectively determine the areas in which the degree of risk corresponds to the characteristics of the activity. The content and sequence of the main stages of risk management in a trading enterprise are characterized. The article considers features of various approaches to risk management: adaptive, functional, system, process-oriented. It is argued that the lack of an integrated risk management policy of a trading enterprise aimed at implementing strategic development goals leads to: insufficient coordination of individual managerial decisions in this area of various functional services; low level of implementation and use of modern methods and tools for identification and assessment of risks; insufficient substantiation of risk management models in various operations of the trade and technological process; use of inefficient forms of control over the result of the chosen risk solution. A conception of implementing the risk management in the quality management system of a trading enterprise, implemented in accordance with ISO 9001: 2015, is proposed. This conception will provide integrated management of material, financial, information, service flows in business processes between the functional areas of procurement, transportation, warehousing, production, implementation in the performance of management functions of analysis, planning, organization, coordination, motivation, control in compliance with the principles of consistency, efficiency, continuity, cyclicality, variateness, adaptability, mutual consistency, as well as the completeness of the functions of such management and the use of a unified approach to the mechanism of enterprise management. The normative-methodological base of risk management within the documented quality management system of the enterprise is considered.

GIS-based models for transport network emergency management

The authors investigated the methods of structural-parametric synthesis, mathematical modeling and optimal control of transport networks from the position of the system analysis. The goals of ensuring the transport infrastructure safety with the positions of the transport network optimal load are determined especially in case of emergency situations. The paper describes the requirements for the development of a mathematical model of the transport network loading. A large number of studies on the transport network load is carried out in the environment of the “ITSGIS” intelligent transport geographic information system and was aimed at the development of the algorithm for automatic detection of emergency situations and congestion. The emergency situation types are characterized by its location, i.e. its coordinates on the electronic map. The emergency time is considered from various positions, such as time of occurrence, normative and actual time of elimination. The geofences of an emergency situation influence are divided into areas of direct and indirect emergency situation influence on transport processes and transport infrastructure objects. On the basis of the constructed models developed management methods of transport network loading and emergency situations analysis, including the collection and processing of raw data, the emergency situations determination and their characteristics, the optimal response strategy choice, the performance of management functions.

PERAN DAN KOORDINASI LEMBAGA LINTAS SEKTORAL DALAM KONSERVASI SUMBERDAYA AIR (STUDI KASUS DAS GUMBASA KABUPATEN DONGGALA PROVINSI SULAWESI TENGAH)

Watershed management consists of multi stakeholders. Therefore, institutional aspect for regulating interaction among stakeholders is very important to be taken into consideration in watershed management. Watershed management will only be efficient if institutional aspect functioning in harmony. Objective of this research is to study role and coordination of cross sectoral government institutions in management of water resource conservation. In this research five elements of water resource conservation were analized, there are: 1) involved organizations, 2) related regulations, 3) management function performance (planning, execution, and controlling), 4) coordination aspect, and 5) priority instrument. Each of those elements was sub-divided into sub-elements according to analysis model used in this research. Two models were used in this analysis. Those are Interpretative Structural Modeling (ISM) and Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP). Base on the analysis it is concluded that Big Agency of Lore Lindu National Park (BBTNLL), Agency of Watershed Management (BPDAS) Palu-Poso, and Forestry and Plantation Service of Donggala Regency were the most influential organizations in planning, execution, and controlling water resources conservation. Role of those organizations in the management activities were mainly regulated in the respective regulations. Coordination among acting organization is still weak due so the sectoral-ego and lack of qualified human resources.

Information analysis and synthesis of the organizational structure of the unique project in the classical control theory

The formation of the organizational structure of a unique project (without prototypes) refers to the general problem of optimizing the management of processes in irreversible systems of various types. At the same time, an increase in the dimension of the system requires the construction of models not only for particular situations of the objective environment, but also for models that take into account the nature of the dynamics of changes in the parameters of the management process throughout the planning horizon. The article considers the problem from the perspective of information theory, which allows the most abstract method (not limited to a specific subject area) to carry out modeling and optimization of the structure of a control system with a complex, unparalleled project. Information in the economic system is heterogeneous, probabilistic, and has various quantitative characteristics, used to varying degrees in the modeling of complex management processes. The problem of synthesizing the structure of an organizational management system includes the choice of the number of levels and subsystems, as well as the principles of management organization; synthesis of the structure of the system for collecting, transmitting and processing information; addressing issues related to optimizing the hierarchy of the system, ensuring the effective performance of management functions and the achievement of goals. In the tasks of analysis and synthesis of the organizational structure of unique projects, the apparatus of the transfer functions of the classical control theory is used. The organizational structure was modeled at the most abstract level in terms of information theory. The proposed method of optimizing the organizational structure, taking into account the principle of the information value of the resources of the management system. The representation of the management process as a transitional process (a dynamic process of information transformation) allows to reconcile the dynamic characteristics of the control system hardware and the human factor operating in it.

Vislumbrando “O Artífice” no cotidiano de trabalho das enfermeiras na gerência hospitalar

This study aimed at understanding the daily work of nurses in managerial practice in medium-sized hospitals, based on working process proposed by the architect Richard Sennet. This is a qualitative descriptive study was conducted through a case study whose scenario consisted of four medium size hospitals in a city located in the northern region of Minas Gerais. Data collection was conducted through semi-structured interviews with twelve nurses in management positions in strategic and intermediate levels of a hospital organization. Study participants were 12 nurse managers that met the established inclusion criteria. Data were submitted to content analysis, and the study uncovered four empirical categories operationalized in three stages: pre-analysis, material exploration and treatment of results and interpretation. The analysis showed the following empirical categories, “the nurse in the search for quality of care,” “leadership as essential skill of the nurse manager” and “the formation of the nurse for the exercise of the managerial function. The results showed that nurse managers have interest and concern for the quality of care, vision of leadership as a key component in working relationships and communication. In addition, they stressed the importance of academic training for the performance of management functions and everyday practices in this function. We conclude that nurse managers understands their importance in the hospital, seeing themselves as professionals and experts of labor and administrative relationships, proposing strategies to achieve a planned care with a higher quality.

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To ensure successful accomplishment of projects, quality performance of the project team is required to be maintained. The existing literature declares scope, time, cost and quality as quadruple constraints for project’s success while management of human resource (HR) communication, procurement and risk are declared support functions. Literature further acknowledges that HR management functions are dealt with low precedence in actual practices of project management as they are rendered secondary or support functions. In real practices the project manager is delegated certain HR functions like team formation, training and HR performance management. However, these HR functions are not considered the primary tasks of the project manager during the project’s life cycle as these are practiced for specific time period without regular iteration. From July 2007 to April 2009, this study discovered that in the Information Technology (IT) industry working in Islamabad, Pakistan, project managers were required to manage performance of their teams at least by monitoring their performance. It discovered that compromise in the quality of HR performance management affected the results of heterogeneous IT projects. The study therefore focused on HR performance management to identify its actual significance and precedence for the projects. It hypothesized that the outcome of project is associated with the quality of performance management of project team and is affected by it. Employing stratified sampling technique, 70 heterogeneous IT projects in 24 different software houses were identified and selected that were reported to have been affected by the quality of HR performance management. Using a reliable and valid instrument, data were collected in a cross sectional manner. Analyses of results were made using frequency distribution, Pearson correlation, and Partial Least Square (PLS) regression. The findings confirmed a correlation and dependency of project outcome on HR performance management by the project manager through quality of performance monitoring. The study concluded to consider HR management function performance management as one of the tools for ensuring project success giving its significant precedence. The study has contributed guidelines and templates to help project managers exercise 360 degree performance management where applicable.   Key words: Project management, HR management, HR performance management.

Intelligent Manufacturing System of Product Life Cycle Management in Value Engineering

This study first introduced product life cycle management procedures for designing expert questionnaire, and employed the Delphi method to investigate managerial functions of an intelligent manufacturing system in order to demonstrate performance of preliminary research results. Following that, the intelligent manufacturing management system was constructed, and weighted values of management functions were collected. The management function performance was evaluated through value analysis in order to determine whether system functions meet corporate goals. All functions were obtained using the hierarchic analysis method in value engineering analysis. The rational function weights were guaranteed through hierarchy consistency, and compared with the labor costs of operating such system functions to analyze whether the functions were in a suitable domain. After a two-phase investigation, based on expert comments and application functions, production control based on an intelligent manufacturing system can reduce personnel and time costs, thus, effectively increasing corporate competitive power.

ANALISIS SISTEM KELEMBAGAAN DALAM PERENCANAAN DAN STRATEGI PENGELOLAAN LAHAN KRITIS DAS BILA

The rehabilitation program of critical land had been done since 1985 until 2001, but Bila watershed condition did not get better, even the width of critical land and erotion got more increase. Those were caused by some factors, involved: unaccruracy of technology, limited baudget, and unoptimal institution. Analysis of this study was focused on institution factor. Some of institution aspects that caused failure of rehabilitation of critical land Bila watershed, were is: role of institution sector, performance of management function, weakness on coordination, unrelevant of strategic program, and priority activity. Data collected was conducted by survey on some samples. Interpretative Structural Modelling and Analitycal Hierarchy Process were applied and the result shown that: (1) The main subject in critical land Bila watershed management were institution at regency level, which is Bappeda and Bapedalda, (2) unsuccess of rehabilitation of critical land Bila watershed was caused by planning weakness, (3) top-down policy, one of nine from main factors must be handled for effectiveness of coordination function, (4) to equalize vision and mission Bila watershed management cross territory was one of foor priority strategic frogram in critical land Bila watershed management, (5) and to increase knowledge and farmer skills were one of seven priority activity in critical land Bila watershed management.

Entrepreneurship, Management Services and Economic Growth

We set out to model the joint production of entrepreneurs and workers where the former provide both entrepreneurial (strategic) and managerial (coordination, motivation) services whilst management services are shared with individual workers in such a way that output is maximized. The static equilibrium of the model determines the endogenous share of entrepreneurs in the economy at any given moment. The time dynamics of the solution imply that a given growth rate in the quality of entrepreneurial services contributes to productivity growth in proportion to the share of entrepreneurs at the start of the time period and that the improvement in the quality of entrepreneurial services is convergence enhancing. The model predictions are tested with data from OECD countries in the period 1970-2002. We find that improvements in the quality of entrepreneurial services can make a substantial contribution to economic growth by means of more effective management function performance.

The Effects of Internal Audit Outsourcing on Perceived External Auditor Independence

The accounting profession is currently attempting to redefine its role and is expanding the types of services provided. With this expansion, however, comes a concern regarding the potential lack of independence between the auditor and the client requesting these services. This exploratory study examines whether the outsourcing of the internal audit function to the company's external auditor affects financial statement users' perceptions of auditor independence oand financial statement reliability, as well as loan decisions. The overall objective of this study is to assess reactions to various internal-audit outsourcing arrangements, and in doing so, to evaluate the accounting profession's current position regarding the acceptability of performing this type of “extended audit service” to audit clients. Results indicate significant differences across the various outsourcing groups involving the company's external auditor and the nonoutsourced group. Specifically, auditor performance of management functions had a significantly negative impact on users' perceptions of auditor independence and financial statement reliability, and resulted in the lowest percentage of loan approvals. However, the separation of audit-firm staff performing the outsourced internal audit from those performing the financial statement audit had a significantly positive impact on financial statement users' perceptions and loan approvals. The findings of this study support the AICPA's current position on internal audit outsourcing and also suggest that a requirement be established that provides a distinct separation of staff between a CPA firm's internal and external audit teams.