The study is aimed at investigating the use of Performance appraisal (PA) in some manufacturing enterprises and private banks in Bangladesh. Some hypotheses were developed on individual and job based determinants of PA usage. Based on the data set on individual employees, these hypotheses were tested in order to explore the impact of PA on pay and career prospects. The result indicates that PA ...

while many researchers devoted numerous articles to the organizational culture, relatively few articles have been contributed to culture and performance research. the purpose of this study is to shed light on the role of organizational culture on performance. to achieve this goal and in order to measure organizational culture, denison organizational culture model was used. the components of thi...

the present study surveys the effect of bank-specific, industry-specific and macroeconomic conditions on bank performance to examine the structure-conduct-performance (scp) hypothesis in iranian banking industry. to achieve this goal, we drew upon the panel data technique to analyze the data of eleven public and private iranian banks during 2001-2006. firstly, productivity was calculated by usi...

Given the objective of maximizing the wealth of existing shareholders, this paper discusses some of the issues that arise in attempting to measure the performance of individual businesses within a bank. The paper describes two return measures – return on assets within a business and the return on the ‘equity’ of an individual business – and discusses the appropriate bench-marks. The paper ends ...

In this paper we analyze the effect of rotational invariant operators for texture recognition using cross-validation experiments with different sample sizes. This work presents three main contributions. First, invariant operators for steerable filter banks are derived analytically using the Lie group approach. Second, the use of “randomized invariants” for steerable texture analysis is introduc...

This paper examines vertical integration and its impact on profitability and shareholder value in the global banking industry. We derive a measure for vertical integration using a sample of 859 banks from 9 Anglo-Saxon and European countries covering the timeframe 1997-2002. Our results suggest that banks either operating on highly integrated or highly disintegrated levels of vertical integrati...

in the commercial banking activities, efficiency is an important issue for the bank managers, monitoring part and clients. this study has appraised the efficiency performance of the commercial banks in iran. the research method has been using windows data envelopment analysis with constant and variable returns to scale and input oriented model at the period of 1991-2006. the sample of study was...