Current Issue : April - June Volume : 2015 Issue Number : 2 Articles : 5 Articles
The management activities of the local authorities were audited to evaluate whether the planning of programs and activities was carried out successfully within the stipulated period, without any wastage. Generally, any issues or weaknesses of activities will be revealed by the audit. Thus, the outcome of the audit will assist local authorities to take corrective action on the issues raised so that value for money could be obtained. The objective of this paper is to review what are the issues that frequently be raised by the audit on local authorities� immovable assets. A total of 13 projects were reviewed through the Auditor General Report on the activities of State Government Department and Agencies from 2011 to 2013. The review only involved projects on local authorities� immovable property. Document analysis method was used to know the evaluation done by the Malaysian National Audit Department of the local authority property management over the years.Out of 13 projects being reviewed, it can be concluded that there were seven main matters that have caused a lot of money being wasted for namely high arrears of rental and tax revenue, poor maintenance, vandalism and theft activities, delayed project, poor documentation, record and system, abandoned and unutilized asset also weak monitoring and enforcement by the council on property. Factors were interrelated to each other make more money to be spent in managing a property. In conclusion, property management in Local authorities is still in unsatisfactory level. Comments issued by the National Audit Department may be a best guideline for improvements. This paper proposed further research to be undertaken into property management issues based on category of immovable property....
The purpose of this study was to respond Philologist arts practitionerââ?¬â?¢s statements, by\nexploring the performance of beneficial images of batik handicraft tourism in Yogyakarta. This\none year's quantitative research was conducted from July 2013 ââ?¬â?? July 2014 in Yogyakarta. The\ndata were collected randomly, stratified sampling, triangulation, and based on the content\nanalysis, by distributing 300 questionnaires to 100 respondents. This study found that batik\nhandicraft tourism performance has beneficial image strength for tourists. Itââ?¬â?¢s indicated that\nmost of the tourists consider going to Yogyakarta because of the beneficial impact of the City\nof the World Batik of Yogyakarta. Every part of the experience of tourists became very\nimportant and be a part of beneficial image attributes: a sense of place, infrastructure, culture,\ntypes and standards of service, and impressions. The main beneficial image of tourists about\nthe batik handicraft tourism: Social tourism become the first point which attracting the tourists;\nthe Uniqueness of batik handicraft, which expressing a philosophy and interpretation; the\nConditional; and the Emotional influence their decision....
This work aims to apply a new approach to support the formulation and structuring of health\ncare in Brazilian municipalities using concept maps and data mining. The analysis of the\nresults and conclusions can provide support for public policies through the determination of\nindicators of municipal performance in the future. Homogeneous clustering generates\nadequate sets for the application of benchmarking methods that compare data from several\ndecision-making units....
By employing data envelopment analysis (DEA), this study examines efficiency of\nfaith-based (private not for profit-PNFP) hospitals in Tanzania. Using data from 15 hospitals,\nparticularly Volunteering Agency Hospitals (VAHs), our study period covered the year 2009-\n2012. The objective of this study is to determine technical efficiency of Volunteering Agency\nHospitals (VAHs) as well as scale efficiency and hence establish how the inefficiency in these\nhospitals (VAHs) can be reduced in Tanzania. Significance of this Study premises on\nequipping the hospitals administrators, governing boards, owners as well as healthcare policy\nmakers with relevant information on how to improve hospitals efficiency. Additionally,\nthrough deliberating on the generalization of efficiency of the faith-based hospitals the study\nwill add to the existing literatures on the efficiency of religious hospitals particularly in\nTanzania.\nBased on measures of technical efficiency the average efficiency index (for all hospitals) was\n0.769 (76.9%) and total number of technically efficient was 4 (26.6%) hospitals. The result\nshows that, average annual technical efficiency for the VAHs was 59.79% in the year 2009,\n60.01% in the year 2010, 57.49% in the year 2011 and 55.08% in the year 2012, which\nimplies that there was no improvement in the technical efficiency. However, most of the\nhospitals (73.33%) have increasing returns to scale (IRS) which means therefore that, if more\nresources will be equally allocated to these hospitals (with IRS) there will be proportionate\nincrease in production of health services hence catching up the production frontier....
The objective of this study was to assess the perception of the role of services departments i.e.\nInformation and Communication Technologies (ICTs), library, registry and business office\ntowards the EMBA program. Questionnaires were distributed to students, lecturers and\nadministrators of the EMBA program. Record sampling and direct observations were other\nmethods used to collect data. Responses from the questionnaires were entered into Statistical\nPackage for Social Sciences (SPSS) for analysis. The analysis showed that there is need for\nimproved quality of service in support departments to the EMBA program....
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