A systems approach to strategic manpower planning for technological development under conditions of manpower scarcity and centralised control

This thesis deals with the integration of the manpower criterion with the strategic decision making processes of technological projects in developing countries. This integration is to be achieved by ensuring the involvement of the actors, who have relevant roles and responsibilities along the whole life cycle of the project, in the strategic decision making phases of the project. The relevance of the actors is ascertained by the use of a responsibility index which relates their responsibility to the project's constituent stages. In the context of a technological project in a typical centrally-planned developing environment, the actors are identified as Arbiters, Planners, Implementors and Operators and their roles, concerns and objectives are derived. In this context, the actors are usually government and non-government organisations. Hence, decision making will involve multiple agencies as well as multiple criteria. A methodology covering the whole decision-making process, from options generation to options selection, and adopting Saaty's Analytical Hierarchy Process as an operational tool is proposed to deal with such multiple-criteria, multipleagency decision situations. The methodology is intended to integrate the consideration of the relevant criteria, the prevailing environmental and policy factors, and the concerns and objectives of the relevant actors into a unifying decision-making process which strives to facilitate enlightened decision making and to enhance learning and interaction. An extensive assessment of the methodology's feasibility, based on a specific technological project within the Iraqi oil industry is included, and indicates that the methodology should be both useful and implementable.

Consideration of health in Strategic Environment Assessment (SEA) on the island of Ireland

This IPH report explores the extent health was incorporated into SEA in a manner which would suggest a good understanding of the many social and economic factors which strongly influence health. The research identifies that a consideration of health is not routinely included in SEAs. There is a need to build capacity and change mindsets in how SEAs are undertaken to more completely factor in the health impacts.

Guidelines for strategic national planning of training and education for museums, cultural heritage and related fields in Sweden and in international co-operation

The guidelines presented in this document are a preliminary strategy for establishing a comprehensive policy for the needs of training and education wiyhin the sector and adjoining areas, across fields of knowledge and professions concerned, on relevant levels and for the varies institutions and operators. The objective of these guidelines is to analysis the problems, objectives and goals for development of a far reaching system of educational and training programs and courses for museums, cultural heritage and related fields of activities. This objective comprises a close collaboration between museum, cultural heritage organizations and educating organizations, notably within universities and colleges, but also other kinds of educating bodies.

Strategic management, planning and budgets

Includes bibliography

Strategic target planning : bridging the gap between theory and practice /

Mode of access: Internet.

Strategic information planning : framework for designing and developing system architectures : staff study /

"GAO/IMTEC-92-51."

HUD human capital management : comprehensive strategic workforce planning needed : report to congressional requesters /

"GAO/02-839."

Human capital : key principles for effective strategic workforce planning : report to congressional requesters /

"GAO-04-39"

La planificación ambiental estratégica en los instrumentos de ordenamiento territorial. Caso de estudio: el Plan Regulador Intercomunal del Alto Aconcagua (PRIAA), provincias de San Felipe y Los Andes, V Región, Valparaíso, Chile

El artículo presenta la aplicación de un modelo de Planificación Ambiental Estratégica al diseño de un Plan de Ordenamiento Territorial en la zona de estudio, cuyo territorio se caracteriza por poseer un significativo patrimonio ambiental en términos de recursos naturales, paisaje, historia, etc. Junto a lo anterior, muestra un fuerte dinamismo económico por su localización en relación a la Macrozona Central de Chile, el Mercosur y el futuro corredor bioceánico. El objetivo fue diseñar una metodología que permitiera incorporar la dimensión ambiental en cada en cada una de las etapas características de elaboración de un Plan Regulador. El estudio ambiental se baso en tres etapas: diagnóstico ambiental, evaluación ambiental de alternativas y definición del proyecto, para lo cual se desarrollaron metodologías especificas apoyadas en sistemas de información geográfica (SIG) y modelos de simulación. La aplicación del modelo de planificación ambiental estratégica permitió obtener un Plan territorial con zonas y ordenanzas que protejan el patrimonio ambiental existente y aminore los impactos ambientales negativos de futuras actividades que se instalen en un territorio.

Achieving key dimensions of sustainability: Strategic visioning as a tourism destination planning tool

Tourism has had, and is continuing to have, a profound impact upon destinations, economically, environmentally and socially. The negative impacts of tourism have been attributed, among other things, to inadequate or non-existent planning frameworks for tourism development, and it has therefore been advocated that tourism planning is vital to offset some of these negative impacts. While several different approaches have been supported over the years, tourism planning based on the philosophies of sustainability has emerged as one ofthe most comprehensive approaches. However, two critical concepts have been identified as precursors to sustainable development: a strategic Qrientation towards tourism planning and enhanced levels of multiple stakeholder participation in the tourism planning process (Simpson 2001 ). While both strategic tourism planning and stakeholder participation and collaboration, have received considerable attention in the academic literature, there has been relatively little written about its practical application. However, the somewhat recent emergence of the strategic visioning concept as a destination planning tool may provide the necessary practical framework for incorporating stakeholder collaboration into destination strategic planning and management. This paper will provide a synthesis of the stakeholder collaboration, strategic planning and strategic visioning literatures, before conceptually examining the potential applicability._ of the strategic visioning process in achieving meaningful stakeholder participation and collaboration in destination planning.

Does management accounting play role in planning process?

This study examines the relationship between management accounting and planning profiles in Brazilian companies. The main goal is to understand the consequences of not including a fully structured management accounting scheme in the planning process. The authors conducted a field research among medium and large-sized companies, using a probabilistic sample from a population of 2281 companies. Using analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and statistical cluster analysis, the authors grouped the entities` strategic budget planning processes into five profiles, after which the authors applied statistical tests to assess the five clusters. The study concludes that poor or fully implemented strategic and budget-planning processes relate to the management accounting profiles of the Brazilian organizations studied. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.