PMA newsletter - calling for submissions!

We are still inviting submissions to the January 2012 edition of the PMA newsletter.  The deadline for receiving submissions has been extended to 20th December 2011, due to technical issues with previous announcements . However, we wish to encourage members who intend to make contributions to get in touch at the earliest opportunity to inform us of your intention to make a submission up to this extended deadline date.

The criteria for submission are listed below, but feel free to contact me if you have any queries. Please send in your articles, comments, news, announcements etc. to newsletter@performanceportal.org .

Perspectives on Performance Submission Criteria

Articles:

• Highlight the contributions of your research
• Highlight the implications and/or contributions to practice
• Where possible illustrate issues with real examples
• Where possible highlight the best practices or lessons learnt from the research.

Announcements:

• Can be announcements for conferences/workshops etc, and also for research projects, studies or calls for papers etc. Kindly Include relevant logos you want included as separate files.

Presentation:

• Article submissions should be 500 - 1,000 words and include relevant diagrams and pictures if possible.
• Please write the articles in third person
• Check the grammar and English spelling
• Avoid jargon or highly academic language.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Many Thanks,
Newsletter Team

This latest edition of the PMA newsletter is now available, and includes the PMA 2012 Call for Paper information.  We hope you enjoy reading this issue, which has an exciting 40 pages of articles, including the following:

• If the Ability to Align Reward Processes with Business Strategy is Valuable - What Factors Explain Why it is Difficult to Achieve and Sustain in Practice? - Andrew Brodie
• What is the impact of performance management and measurement systems on the alignment of employee behaviour and organisational goals? - Sarah Warner, Anant Patel, Enife Atobiloye 
• Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC)-Risk Management Focus - Fayaz Malik
• Multi-Criteria Performance Measurement: An Introduction - Patrick T. Hester and Thomas J. Meyers
• Challenges in Performance Management - Independent Research on 1500 Companies Reveals Challenges in Performance Management - Nigel Youell
• Improving the Performance of Organisations by Easing the Tension Between The Front and Back Offices - Dr Maged S Morcos, 
• The Public Sector Strategy Map: addressing both Strategy and service delivery models - Phil Jones
• PM - A Revolution for Sustainability - Shradha A Gawankar
• Maintaining Performance with an Aging Management Team - Julian Goh
• Control, communicate, collaborate: The influence of performance measurement on buyer-seller relationship strength - Glenn Corney

Please send any contributions to the January edition of the PMA newsletter by the end of November 2011.

http://www.performanceportal.org/sites/default/files/Vol%209%20Issue%201%20-%20September%202011_0.pdf

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Vol 9 Issue 1 - September 2011.pdf

The PMA 2012 Conference will be returning to Cambridge, UK, on 11-13 July 2012 at Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge. PMA 2012 will follow on from the successes of previous international conferences, running since 1998, the last of which was hosted at the University of Otago, New Zealand in 2009.

The theme for PMA2012 is Performance Management: From Strategy to Delivery. Exploring the latest thinking and research into how to connect strategy to delivery, through technology, systems and process, the conference will be mixture of keynote and plenary presentations, as well as parallel stream presentations and discussion groups. Delegates and presenters are expected from a range of academic disciplines and from both the academic and practitioner communities. 

A full Call for Papers will be released in Autumn 2011. In the meantime, please put the dates in your diary for this popular international event. It will be a unique and valuable opportunity for discussion and communication between academics and practitioners from around the world.

To register your interest in the conference, please register as a user on the Conference Abstract System. You will then be kept informed of conference plans.

If you are interested in getting involved in the organisation of the PMA 2012 conference please do contact us at pma2012@performanceportal.org.

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PMA 2012 Preliminary Announcement.pdf

The January 2011 edition of the PMA's newsletter 'Perspectives on Performance' has now been released.  Click here to view it directly http://www.performanceportal.org/sites/default/files/PoPvol1iss2.pdf.  The issue includes the following articles:

2—Working with performanceportal.org
3—New Simple and Accessible Performance
Charting
5—Implications for Healthcare
6—Self Funding Leadership Development – A New Delivery Model
10—How to Avoid the Problems of Target-Setting
15—MBE Special Issue
17—Accounting for sustainability practices
20—A Performance Measurement and Management Model Analogy in Chess

Submissions are open for the next edition.  Deadline is 31 March 2011.

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PoPvol1iss2.pdf