...Mahmoud M. Yasin The literature related to benchmarking practices and theory was reviewed from 1986 to 2000. The earlier stages of benchmarking developments stressed a process and/or activity orientation. Recently, however, the scope of benchmarking appears to have expanded to include strategies...

... decisions, such as hiring, training, and promotions. In training and development (T&D), it is helpful for competencies to focus on knowledge, skills and/or abilities. But neither the field of T&D, nor competency within the field, is static. Reported here is a careful review of literature showing...

... benchmarking literature strongly promotes the advantages, benchmarking like most management techniques has some areas that could be further developed (Wareham and Gerrits, 1999; Bhutta and Huq, 1999; Cox and Thompson, 1998). These areas are essentially based on the appropriateness of the information used...

...Rainer Feurer; Kazem Chaharbaghi Outlines a survey carried out among 33 large corporations in the UK, which aimed to discover the level of dynamics in the competitive environment, the level of dynamics in strategy development and the performance of the organization. Outlines the methodology used...