Human Resource processes and systems, like other key components of the organization should directly support the strategic goals and objectives of the organization. The strategic plan should be translated into behavioral objectives that will guide the activities of the people in the organization. This shifts the focus of Human Resource processes from rules to results and “raises the bar” on empl...

Although the purpose of strategic planning is straightforward to outline where an organization wants to go and how it’s going to get there its nature is complex and dynamic. Two techniques, the critical success factor (CSF) method and future scenario planning, can augment strategic planning efforts by illuminating an organization’s present situation and potential future. This paper explores the...

This paper investigates the extent to which strategic objectives of the U.S. government influenced news coverage during the latter part of the Cold War (1976-88). We establish two reduced form relationships: 1) strategic objectives of the U.S. government causes the State Department to under-report human rights violations of political allies; and 2) these objectives reduce news coverage of human...

The purpose of this article is to describe and clarify a tool that is at the core of the definition phase of most quality improvement projects. This tool is called the critical to quality (CTQ) flowdown. It relates high-level strategic focal points to project objectives. In their turn project objectives are linked to and decomposed into CTQs, which are made operational in the form of measuremen...

abstract today, competitive strategies have got accepted as one of the most important means of manager to compete in markets. in the strategic management process, development of the strategic quantitative objectives based merely on the experts’ ideas.in this research, after reviewing the bsc,swot, judo strategy model and blue ocean strategy model, the concepts are applied to increase quality of...