Management is the administration of organizations, whether they are a business, a nonprofit organization, or a government body. It is the art and science of managing resources of the business.
Performance management (PM) is the process of ensuring that a set of activities and outputs meets an organization's goals in an effective and efficient manner. Performance management can focus on the performance of a whole organization, a department, an employee, or the processes in place to manage particular tasks. Performance management standards are generally organized and disseminated by senior leadership at an organization and by task owners, and may include specifying tasks and outcomes of a job, providing timely feedback and coaching, comparing employees' actual performance and behaviors with desired performance and behaviors, instituting rewards, etc. It is necessary to outline the role of each individual in the organization in terms of functions and responsibilities to ensure that performance management is successful.
Human resources (HR) is the set of people who make up the workforce of an organization, business sector, industry, or economy. A narrower concept is human capital, the knowledge and skills which the individuals command. Similar terms include manpower, labor, personnel, associates or simply: people.
The National Climate Assessment (NCA) is a United States government interagency ongoing effort on climate change science conducted under the auspices of the Global Change Research Act of 1990. The NCA is a major product of the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) which coordinates a team of experts and receives input from a Federal Advisory Committee. NCA research is integrated and summarized in the mandatory ongoing National Climate Assessment Reports. The reports are "extensively reviewed by the public and experts, including federal agencies and a panel of the National Academy of Sciences. For the Third National Climate Assessment, released in 2014, USGCRP coordinated hundreds of experts and received advice from a sixty-member Federal Advisory Committee. The Fourth NCA (NCA4) was released in two volumes, in October 2017 and in November 2018.
Public administration, a form of governance, or public policy and administration its related academic discipline, is the implementation of public policy, administration of government establishment, public governance, and management. non-profit establishment and non-profit governance are a subfield of political science taught in public policy schools that prepare civil servants, especially those in administrative positions for working in the public sector, voluntary sector, some industries in the private sector dealing with government relations and regulatory affairs, and those working as think tank researchers.
Human resource management is the strategic and coherent approach to the effective and efficient management of people in a company or organization such that they help their business gain a competitive advantage. It is designed to maximize employee performance in service of an employer's strategic objectives. Human resource management is primarily concerned with the management of people within organizations, focusing on policies and systems. HR departments are responsible for overseeing employee-benefits design, employee recruitment, training and development, performance appraisal, and reward management, such as managing pay and employee benefits systems. HR also concerns itself with organizational change and industrial relations, or the balancing of organizational practices with requirements arising from collective bargaining and governmental laws.
Human Relations is a monthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on social relationships in work-related settings. The journal is published by SAGE Publications on behalf of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (London). The journal was established in 1947 by the Tavistock Institute and the Research Center for Group Dynamics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The Journal of Collective Negotiations was a peer-reviewed academic journal which published articles regarding collective bargaining. The target audience for the journal was academics, students, employers, workers, and collective bargaining negotiators. It was published quarterly until 2008 by Baywood Publishing. The journal was cited by the Oxford Handbook of Work and Organization as a critical journal in collective bargaining theory and issues. A common textbook in Industrial and organizational psychology has cited the journal as one of two key publications in that very narrow field. It also has been quoted by the National Labor Relations Board.
The Journal of Healthcare Management is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering management in healthcare. It is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins on behalf of the American College of Healthcare Executives. Each issue prints an interview with a leading healthcare executive.
The Milbank Quarterly is a quarterly peer-reviewed healthcare journal covering health care policy. It was established in 1923 and is published by John Wiley & Sons on behalf of the Milbank Memorial Fund, an endowed national foundation funded by Elizabeth Milbank Anderson that supports research of issues related to population health and health policy. It covers topics such as the impact of social factors on health, prevention, allocation of health care resources, legal and ethical issues in health policy, health and health care administration, and the organization and financing of health care.
Norman Irving Wengert was an American political scientist who wrote about the politics of natural resources, advanced a seminal theory of the "politics of getting", and had a number of significant roles in his public and academic career. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Eugene F. and Lydia Semmann Wengert. He pioneered the revival of the study of political economy in the United States with publication of Natural Resources and the Political Struggle, and later authored more than fifty monographs and studies on the political economy and public administration of environmental resources. His scholarship explored the politics of natural resources and environmental policy formation and administration, with emphases in national energy policy, urban water planning and management, land use planning and controls, national forest management, and citizen participation in administrative processes.
Human Resources for Health is a peer-reviewed open-access public health journal publishing original research and case studies on issues of information, planning, production, management, and governance of the health workforce, and their links with health care delivery and health outcomes, particularly as related to global health.
The Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers research, theoretical and conceptual developments, and examples of current practice in human resources. The journal was established in 1966 and is the official journal of the Australian Human Resources Institute. Until 2011, the journal was published by SAGE Publications. As of 2012, it is published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Australian Human Resources Institute.
Review of Public Personnel Administration is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the field of public administration. The journal's editor are Jessica Sowa and Christine Ledvinka Rush. It has been in publication since 1980 and is currently published by SAGE Publications.
Cornell Hospitality Quarterly is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers the field of hospitality management studies. Its editor-in-chief is J. Bruce Tracey. It was established in 1960 as the Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly, obtaining its current name in February 2008. It is currently published by SAGE Publications in association with the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration.
Public Performance & Management Review is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers all aspects of the management of public and nonprofit organizations and agencies. It was established in 1975 and published by M.E. Sharpe and cosponsored by the Section on Public Performance and Management of the American Society for Public Administration and the National Center for Public Productivity at the School of Public Affairs and Administration. Currently Public Performance & Management Review published by Taylor and Francis, and managed by the founding and current editor-in-chief is Marc Holzer.
A human resources management system (HRMS) or Human Resources Information System (HRIS) or Human Capital Management (HCM) is a form of Human Resources (HR) software that combines a number of systems and processes to ensure the easy management of human resources, business processes and data. Human resources software is used by businesses to combine a number of necessary HR functions, such as storing employee data, managing payroll, recruitment, benefits administration, time and attendance, employee performance management, and tracking competency and training records.
Post-Communist Economies is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering economics in post-communist countries. It was established in 1989 as Communist Economies and renamed as Communist Economies and Economic Transformation in 1991, before obtaining its current name in 1999. It covers economic institutions, policies, and performance of ex-communist countries. The geographic focus of the journal is mainly on European post-communist economies, including countries of the former Soviet Union, but papers on Mongolia, China, and Vietnam are also published.
The Eastern Regional Organization for Public Administration (EROPA) was formed "In order to advance the economic and social development of the Region through the promotion of the study, practice and status of public administration and adoption of adequate administrative systems", by international treaty signed in Manila in the Philippines on 19 June 1958. EROPA was officially formed on 5 December 1960.
