What issues do distance education (DE) leaders believe will influence the future of DE? What are their colleges’ DE strategies? This qualitative study compares DE strategic thinking and strategic choices at three community colleges. Two propositions are investigated: (1) each college’s DE leaders use common strategic mental models (ways of thinking about key environmental issues and relationshi...

The United States Department of Defense (DoD) has identified its energy requirements as a key vulnerability and in recent years has taken substantial initiatives to improve its energy profile. As part of this process, DoD leaders have issued guidance documents outlining goals and objectives relating to energy. These documents are intended to inform many different decisions at strategic, manager...

Attempts to provide a practical framework in which practitioners may develop human resources (HR) strategies in line with their organizations' corporate planning processes. Proposes a four-step approach involving: development of a strategic framework; generating of HR mission statement; application of analysis; and making strategic planning decision between HR options. Outlines a four-dimension...

The NOAA Fisheries Service, Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) asked the panel to review the activities of their Social Science Branch (SSB) and provide advice and recommendations on the alignment of the SSB strategic objectives and initiatives with the missions, strategic goals, and objectives of NOAA, NMFS, and the NEFSC; the direction and quality of SSB programs and research in relat...

Academic researches, government reports, and international organization surveys have indicated that outcomes of many digital divide projects fail to accomplish their strategic goals, and so that more exertions of strategic management in the government project planning process are expected. In order to ensure the achievement of bridging digital divides, governments need to be aware of their abse...

OBJECTIVES To assess the implementation and evaluation phases of strategic plans in selected hospitals. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional study of implementation and evaluation of strategic plan in 24 hospitals in 2015, using a questionnaire which consisted of two separate sections for strategic implementation and strategic evaluation. Data were analyzed with SPSS version 18. RESULTS N...

hr strategy is the pattern of hr-related decisions. that is, the gestalt of negotiated people related policies and practices in use indeed the formulation and enactment of an hr strategy designed to link hr policies and practices with the strategic goals and objective of the firm. the purpose of this research is human resources strategy formulation for prk company. integrative model (bamberger ...