It’s crucial for the manager to make right decisions about the members of his team. The organization can be very successful only in the case of well-balanced personnel, and it’s the manager’s responsibility to employ the right people for the positions. Even when all the technical resources in the company are at the highest level, the skills of employees appear to be the most important […]

Grid Computing has become an important field of research, which has evolved from conventional Distributed Computing and High Performance Computing for solving large-scale problems. Scientific and business applications are very complex and it requires massive computing power and storage space. Grid Computing environment supports the technology to execute large-scale applications on Resources. Resource Allocation and Task Scheduling have received much attention from the research community […]

The history of music predates the written word and is tied to the development of each unique human culture. Music has been used as meditational music since the very dawn of civilization, because it balances the human organism through its rhythmic pattern of tones, which are generated in a harmonic relationship with each other. Mantras originated in the Vedic religion of India, later becoming an […]

Introduction             Companies and corporations exist to conduct businesses as established in their respective mission and vision statements.  These goals, mission and vision statements are achieved through the employment of a workforce.  The workforce therefore of a company is as important as the mission or vision statement as the case may be.             The employees are the backbone of the corporation.  They move the company […]

Although selection of the appropriate visuals and graphs contribute to the effectiveness of a business performance management (BPM) dashboard, the true “soul” of the dashboard is the key performance indicators (KPIs). KPIs measure the business health of the enterprise and ensure that all individuals at all levels are “marching in step” to the same goals and strategies. They also provide the focal point for enterprise-wide […]

How to Use Performance Appraisals to Motivate Employees By Ken Lloyd from Performance Appraisals and Phrases For Dummies Motivation is the process that energizes employees and propels them to pursue their goals. Well-designed and well-executed performance appraisals have a strong motivational impact. Appraisals have the power to motivate employees because they provide a number of interconnected benefits: They demonstrate the need for improvement. If employees […]

Structured payout compensation Generous tuition assistance plan Comprehensive group insurance package Stock purchase plan Health/Fitness reimbursement program Employer matching Registered Retirement Savings Plan Recognition by awards Individual Goal Setting: The goals for production for the tax season are set using (SMART)2. These are specific, measurable and meaningful, assignable to a particular individual, realistic and time-bound. When hired associates are aware of their Job function and […]

ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR HIGH PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT Report for the CEO Goncalo Correia MIB28 The Trivalor Holding The Trivalor Holding, is a Portuguese group created more than 50 years ago by a Portuguese business man, having started with two companies in the Business Services segment, and evolving over time, securing a position as the biggest services group in Portugal, owning today 16 companies and employing at times […]

Introduction During the last two decades, the challenges of measuring performance in both the public and private sectors have been widely discussed (Behn, 2003; Carter et al., 1992; Hood, 2006; Johnson and Kaplan, 1987; Kaplan and Norton, 2004; Neely, 1999; Pollitt and Bouckaert, 2004; Smith, 1995). Financial measures based on numbers generated by the traditional financial accounting system, such as profits, have been found to […]