Measuring productivity in the public sector
Productivity and performance are a function of
many factors - ranging from top management support, committed
personnel at all levels, a performance measurement system, employee
training, reward structures, community involvement and feedback to
correction of budget - management decisions. It is thus important to
build up capacities for productivity improvement,
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Theocracy in Egypt?
Five years ago, a group of archaeologists, led
by Durham University’s Professor Robin Coningham, published an
article in the journal Antiquity which raised a minor storm in
social science circles. The article was entitled ‘The state of
theocracy: defining an early mediaeval hinterland in Sri Lanka’.
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Poised to take off as new maritime hub in the South
There was much enthusiasm among the foreign
participants on the new developments in Hambantota, especially in
view of its location very close to the shipping routes from the East
to the West which is the busiest shipping lane in the world. There
was noticeable confidence shared by the SLPA and the foreign
operators that the Hambantota Port will serve as the naval and
logistics hub in South Asia serving the international community in
an efficient and productive manner,
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Maithripala Senanayake’s 14th death
commemoration:
A friend of the common people
After having been appointed as Commerce and
Industries Minister in 1963, Senanayake revived the industrial
sector and served the people at his best by setting up the Ceylon
Steel Corporation, Tyre Cooperation, the Hardware Cooperation and
the State Engineering Cooperation. He also completely nationalized
the petroleum industry by taking over the internal distributions of
petroleum products,
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