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Organizational Performance Management at a Strategic Level. Advanced Systems and Tools
Organizational Performance Management at a Strategic Level. Advanced Systems and Tools

Author(s): Vasile-Cosmin Nicula, Bogdan Firtescu, Ionel Bostan
Subject(s): Management and complex organizations, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Editura Lumen, Asociatia Lumen
Keywords: strategic management; performance measurement; performance management systems; key performance indicators; critical success factors;

Summary/Abstract: Measuring performance is a key element necessary for the operation of the performance management system serving to provide essential feedback to improve the substantiation of decisions within an organization, at all levels: strategic, operational or individual, and thus plays an important role in translating the entity's strategy into results. Performance management systems are formal systems, based in practice on information technology and on procedures used by managers to maintain or to change the structures that ensure the activities of the organization to obtain better results. Promotion of advanced tools constitutes a real support for management: among the most relevant tools used in performance management, we can mention: strategic planning, enterprise risk management, change management, customer relationship management, knowledge management, quality management. Performance evaluation considers key performance indicators and success factors established by theOrganization, which provide the referential inmeasuring performance. Performance measurement in the missions planned by the internal audit plays an important role in determining whether the objectives of the institutional strategy are met and whether theyhave materialized into concrete results.

  • Issue Year: 1/2017
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 27-38
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: English