Benchmarking Opportunities and Challenges of benchmarking The first question to be asked is what benchmarking can do for any organization. The process of benchmarking permits the entire organization to identify, share and use the knowledge that exists within the organization as also the best practices prevalent within the organization. The attempt is to concentrate on improving the situation of any business unit and not to just measure the best performances that have

Steps were also taken to organize a stock market in Lahore (Burki, 1999, pp.127-128). Also organized during this period were the Pakistan Industrial and Credit Investment Corporation (PICIC) and the Industrial Development Bank of Pakistan (IDBP), both of which were important to industrial development, obtaining "large amounts of capital from the World Bank, the former for investment in large industries, the latter in relatively smaller enterprises" (Burki, 1999, p. 128). This

E. leadership (Pruyne, 2001, p. 6), but also that "determining how to abstract a set of leadership concepts that apply across contexts without sacrificing an understanding of how the conditions and qualities involved in leadership vary among those same contexts" remained elusive (Pruyne, 2001, p. 7). Experts provided extended series of examples, mostly from the 20th century, demonstrating how leadership characteristics change over time and vary with context. Therefore future,

Agency Theory and Executive Compensation An Analysis of Agency Theory and Aligning Executive Stock Options with Corporate Objectives According to Jensen and Meckling (1976), any medium- or large-sized firm today is not directly managed by its owners (the shareholders) but rather by "hired hands" that is, professional managers. Presumably, these professionals are capable and diligent agents of the owners, but these professionals' interests are not always the same as the shareholders' interests.

Humanistic and Exestential Therapyies Humanistic Existential Theories Strengths and limitations of humanistic and existential theories Over the course of the 1950s and 1960s, there was an increasing emphasis on new theories of the human personality and on ways of treating psychological disorders that offered alternatives to conventional psychodynamic, Freudian theory and the deterministic behaviorism of Skinner. Both humanistic and existential theories offered an alternative perspective. "They are united by an emphasis on understanding

Inefficient Healthcare Routines, Examples of Participative Decision-Making in the Workplace Routine practices are performed on the premise that all clients, patients, their families, visitors and residents are potentially infectious even without visible symptoms (PIDAC, 2009). These practices are conducted in order to prevent exposure to the various vehicles of infection and their spread. The major ones are risk assessment, hand hygiene, control of the environment, administrative controls, and immunization (PIDAC). But