Background In early 1990s, Tanzania like other African countries, adopted health sector reform (HSR). The most strongly held centralisation system that informed the nature of services provision including health was, thus, disintegrated giving rise to decentralisation system. It was within the realm of HSR process, user fees were introduced in the health sector. Along with user fees, various typ...

the need to develop the required human resources in the tourism industry has become imperative as a consequence of rapidly changing technology and dynamic changes in the international tourism market. and in this regard the role and commitment of the top management towards developing the human resources cannot be undermined. a study has been conducted to assess the perception of the top manageme...

Retention management, i.e., keeping qualified employees, is a top priority for contemporary organizations. Commitment, and especially team commitment, can be the key to mastering this challenge. There is a lack of longitudinal research concerning the development and the direction of the effects of team commitment over time. In a longitudinal field-study design with three points of measurement, ...

While it is widely agreed that obtaining top management support is critical for the success of IT projects, little research has provided prescriptive implications for how such support can be obtained. Much of the prescriptive literature has argued for cognition-based approaches, where managers are persuaded to participate in an IT project using logical arguments and factual evidence. We apply a...

Real life experiences were used to put together this list of steps to be followed during the planning and implementation of a formal MRP II planning and control system. Project management and organizational skills are critical to the success of the project. The implementation plan is carried out by a project team and subcommittees with the support of top management. Cost/benefit analysis and pe...

This paper takes a top-down approach and provides a high-level overview for developing effective information systems policies. The opening section describes the importance of management commitment. A management oversight committee is introduced as the primary team representing an organization for the purposes of implementing an information systems security program based on policy. A general out...

ed subcultural Level Theme 1 Theme 2 Theme 3 Theme 4 themea category ITS A wise top management team Strong belief in the importance of cooperation between all the business units Determination to implement IT-based quality processes Information and communication openness Organizational ITS-VU Endorsing all organization-level initiatives is important Top management team knows very well what is go...

To explore the relationship between goal clarity, focused communication, learning behavior, and team effectiveness (i.e., task performance, relationship quality, and member satisfaction), self-report and observer data from eight top management groups that processed 56 agenda items during meetings were analyzed. We found that goal clarity and focused communication was positively related to team ...