Characteristic of Performing Organizations Individual Performance There are individual variables that have been recognised as having a positive impact on performance. These variables include commitment both attitudinal and behavioral, empowerment, leadership, culture, Flexibility and learning. Keeney (1990) argues that the organization will benefit from unleashing the reserves of lab our resourcefulness by facilitating employee responsibility, commitment and involvement. Leadership, rather than management, is often identified as one of the keys to a high performance organization. It is seen as the power to inspire and motivate the ability to employees with the desire to change the organization and to be the best. Culture has also been linked to organizational effectiveness. Meek (1992) suggests that there is an assumption that culture will unite all employees behind the stated goals of the business. He further agrees that strong organizations cultures are associated with excellence. To...

  Strategies for addressing the challenges of ICT in banking sector The competition Johnson, M. Eric and Eric Goetz (2007) contend that the Lebanese banks are also planning to offer the entire range of services like telephone banking, ATMs, etc. They also respond very actively in the market place in introducing new products and services. Arab Bank was the pioneer in introducing ATMs in Lebanon.. Arab bank started to install ATM machines in 1993. Other banks followed, by establishing in 1994 a network called Link Network, using Link cards. About 25 banks have joined this network and are sharing now it’s almost 60 machines located in the major cities of Lebanon. The central bank is expecting that about 700 ATM machines will be installed in Lebanon by the year 2000. Technology Assessment The diffusion and successful implementation of IT in banks is not an easy process. Banking sectorare facing enormous challenges in mastering the new tools provided by IT. An important constraint to th...

 

                                                                   The concepts understanding ICT 1) Historical perspective ICT- information and communication technology as a concept of provision of information and literacy in developed countries has been traced far back 1944 as per the development of security, governance, trade and social responses in the world and intercontinental communication network. Mathew .D (2006), the later innovation and utilization of technology in Africa as early as 1960s was another step towards improving the state of transaction between Africa and the rest of the world, it was most adopted as purely a public asset and was used in big organizations, multinational companies and government agencies but today its is being used at individual levels to support data storage, communication through...

             Types research methodology Introduction the procedures and methods of investigation to be used by the researcher in carrying out this study. It will comprise the ways in which the researcher will use to gather the necessary information on the topic of study. It also deals with the tools that the researcher will use to collect the necessary data 3.1 Research design  A research design is a plan of carrying out research. It’s a yardstick for measuring variables. According to Martin E.Amin, 2005, a research design is a plan which the researcher followed. He also says that it’s a series of advanced decision that, taken together, make up a master plan or model for research study. It is a stated structure and process of conducting a research project detailing the plan and method for systematically and scientifically obtaining the data to be used. The researcher used the case study research design with the aid of qualitative and quantitative ...

  1. Introduction  Shari'a Financial institutions in Indonesia have shown rapid development over the last decade. Based on data from Statistics Islamic Banking (Bank Indonesia, 2012) states that the number of Islamic Banks in 2006 amounted to 3 (three) bank with its number as many as 349 pieces. Meanwhile, until the end of 2012 the number of Islamic banks increases more than doubled the total of 11 (eleven) which stood by the number of bank offices are also experiencing a significant increase than in 2006 that as many as Office 1745. It shows that the growth of Islamic banks in Indonesia is quite rapid. According to a survey that has been conducted and reported in Global Islamic Finance Report (CIMB Islamic, 2012) that Indonesia ranked seventh in the development of Islamic banking in the world (Wardayati and Wulandari, 2014). This is also shown by the increasing in assets, the increasing in third party funds (DPK) 15% s.d. 45% per year, as well as financing rises significant...