decision making is the essence of managers activities and is of great importance in all of their responsibilities. the main purpose of this study is to investigate general decision making styles of n.i.o.p.d.c ‘s managers in order to study the construction validity of g.d.m.s questionnaire. a collection of 55 managers were selected as statistical sample and rational, intuitive, dependant, spont...

This paper examines the ability of government bond fund managers to time the market, based on their holdings of Treasury securities during the period 1997-2006. We find that, on average, government bond fund managers exhibit significant and positive timing ability at the one-month horizon, under a holdings-based timing measure. In particular, fund managers specializing in Treasury securities ar...

This paper presents an exploratory study of Information Systems (IS) competencies of business managers in Spain. Following resource-based theory and a knowledge-based view of IS competencies, an extensive review of the literature is conducted to identify a comprehensive list of IS competencies of business managers. In order to validate the business IS competence model, a Delphi study is conduct...

This paper presents an exploratory study of Information Systems (IS) competencies of business managers in Europe. Following resource-based theory and a knowledge-based view of IS competencies, an extensive review of the literature is conducted to identify a comprehensive list of IS competencies of business managers. In order to validate the business IS competence model, a Delphi study is conduc...

Background In South Africa, integrating the management of health services at a decentralized district level within the authority of general health service (GHS) managers is a reform priority. The reforms promote administrative integration, i.e. transfer of administrative authority over disease control programmes (DCPs) from DCP managers to GHS managers and re-defining DCP manager roles from imp...

managers in developed countries are increasingly interested in outsourcing as a potential source of competitiveness and value creation. one of the most useful outsourcing activities in service sector is information system/technology outsourcing. this paper is trying to determine the isp managers’ perceived risks and benefits of it/is outsourcing and also the rate of awareness about potential of...