Managerial characteristics and its impact on organizational performance: evidence from Syria

This study aims to explore impact of managerial human capital in performance of a Syrian public organization, Directorate of Finance of province of Damascus, through use some of managerial characteristics are age, level of education, tenure and functional track. This study applied on a sample of 12...

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Main Authors: Elias Milana, Issa Maldaon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Vilnius Gediminas Technical University 2015-06-01
Series:Business: Theory and Practice
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Online Access:https://journals.vgtu.lt/index.php/BTP/article/view/8287
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description This study aims to explore impact of managerial human capital in performance of a Syrian public organization, Directorate of Finance of province of Damascus, through use some of managerial characteristics are age, level of education, tenure and functional track. This study applied on a sample of 12 managers and 138 employees. The study reveals that there are no significant effect of age, level of education and functional track in performance of Directorate of Finance of province of Damascus, while there is a positive, strong and significant effect of tenure manager in organizational performance, which indicates that managerial characteristics almost irrelevant with performance of Directorate of Finance of the province of Damascus, and the public sector in general. Such results appear a need for efforts are invested in the formulation and implementation of human resource procedures and policies which can bring about effective change in behaviours and roles of the public managers and employees.
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spelling doaj.art-663aac8b83d647df8aa4cf0c4658ce7a2024-02-02T02:56:04ZengVilnius Gediminas Technical UniversityBusiness: Theory and Practice1648-06271822-42022015-06-0116210.3846/btp.2015.486Managerial characteristics and its impact on organizational performance: evidence from SyriaElias Milana0Issa Maldaon1Department of Business Administration, Economics Faculty, Damascus University, Damascus, SyriaDepartment of Business Administration, Economics Faculty, Damascus University, Damascus, SyriaThis study aims to explore impact of managerial human capital in performance of a Syrian public organization, Directorate of Finance of province of Damascus, through use some of managerial characteristics are age, level of education, tenure and functional track. This study applied on a sample of 12 managers and 138 employees. The study reveals that there are no significant effect of age, level of education and functional track in performance of Directorate of Finance of province of Damascus, while there is a positive, strong and significant effect of tenure manager in organizational performance, which indicates that managerial characteristics almost irrelevant with performance of Directorate of Finance of the province of Damascus, and the public sector in general. Such results appear a need for efforts are invested in the formulation and implementation of human resource procedures and policies which can bring about effective change in behaviours and roles of the public managers and employees.https://journals.vgtu.lt/index.php/BTP/article/view/8287managerial characteristicshuman capitalorganizational performancepublic sectorDirectorate of Finance of province of DamascusSyria
spellingShingle Elias Milana
Issa Maldaon
Managerial characteristics and its impact on organizational performance: evidence from Syria
Business: Theory and Practice
managerial characteristics
human capital
organizational performance
public sector
Directorate of Finance of province of Damascus
Syria
title Managerial characteristics and its impact on organizational performance: evidence from Syria
title_full Managerial characteristics and its impact on organizational performance: evidence from Syria
title_fullStr Managerial characteristics and its impact on organizational performance: evidence from Syria
title_full_unstemmed Managerial characteristics and its impact on organizational performance: evidence from Syria
title_short Managerial characteristics and its impact on organizational performance: evidence from Syria
title_sort managerial characteristics and its impact on organizational performance evidence from syria
topic managerial characteristics
human capital
organizational performance
public sector
Directorate of Finance of province of Damascus
Syria
url https://journals.vgtu.lt/index.php/BTP/article/view/8287
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