Performance measurement system in higher educational institutions in Malaysia: an exploratory study of the implementation of balanced scorecard / Nagaretnam Thirumanickam and Bedah Ahmad

High budget allocations for higher educational institutions have increased the responsibility and accountability of these institutions to their stakeholders. Hence issues of performance measurement and accountability have become very crucial for these institutions. It is necessary for the institutio...

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Main Authors: Thirumanickam, Nagaretnam, Ahmad, Bedah
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Language:English
Published: Faculty of Accountancy 2013
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Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/12330/
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description High budget allocations for higher educational institutions have increased the responsibility and accountability of these institutions to their stakeholders. Hence issues of performance measurement and accountability have become very crucial for these institutions. It is necessary for the institutions to examine their performance measurement system to achieve organizational excellence. Traditional systems focusing on financial measures only will not suffice and thus the institutions should focus on strategic performance measurement systems including financial and non-financial perspectives. This study aims to examine the type of performance measurement system used by the faculty/department of accountancy in higher educational institutions in Malaysia. The findings of this preliminary study revealed that the perceptions of the responding institutions were in favour of a strategic performance measurement system. However the findings also showed that the institutions were not implementing their performance measurement system in a strategic manner.
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spelling uitm-123302022-07-05T04:27:25Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/12330/ Performance measurement system in higher educational institutions in Malaysia: an exploratory study of the implementation of balanced scorecard / Nagaretnam Thirumanickam and Bedah Ahmad apmaj Thirumanickam, Nagaretnam Ahmad, Bedah Organizational effectiveness. Performance measurement Higher Education High budget allocations for higher educational institutions have increased the responsibility and accountability of these institutions to their stakeholders. Hence issues of performance measurement and accountability have become very crucial for these institutions. It is necessary for the institutions to examine their performance measurement system to achieve organizational excellence. Traditional systems focusing on financial measures only will not suffice and thus the institutions should focus on strategic performance measurement systems including financial and non-financial perspectives. This study aims to examine the type of performance measurement system used by the faculty/department of accountancy in higher educational institutions in Malaysia. The findings of this preliminary study revealed that the perceptions of the responding institutions were in favour of a strategic performance measurement system. However the findings also showed that the institutions were not implementing their performance measurement system in a strategic manner. Faculty of Accountancy 2013-12 Article PeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/12330/1/12330.pdf Thirumanickam, Nagaretnam and Ahmad, Bedah (2013) Performance measurement system in higher educational institutions in Malaysia: an exploratory study of the implementation of balanced scorecard / Nagaretnam Thirumanickam and Bedah Ahmad. (2013) Asia-Pacific Management Accounting Journal (APMAJ) <https://ir.uitm.edu.my/view/publication/Asia-Pacific_Management_Accounting_Journal_=28APMAJ=29.html>, 8 (2). pp. 149-173. ISSN 1675-3194 https://apmaj.uitm.edu.my/
spellingShingle Organizational effectiveness. Performance measurement
Higher Education
Thirumanickam, Nagaretnam
Ahmad, Bedah
Performance measurement system in higher educational institutions in Malaysia: an exploratory study of the implementation of balanced scorecard / Nagaretnam Thirumanickam and Bedah Ahmad
title Performance measurement system in higher educational institutions in Malaysia: an exploratory study of the implementation of balanced scorecard / Nagaretnam Thirumanickam and Bedah Ahmad
title_full Performance measurement system in higher educational institutions in Malaysia: an exploratory study of the implementation of balanced scorecard / Nagaretnam Thirumanickam and Bedah Ahmad
title_fullStr Performance measurement system in higher educational institutions in Malaysia: an exploratory study of the implementation of balanced scorecard / Nagaretnam Thirumanickam and Bedah Ahmad
title_full_unstemmed Performance measurement system in higher educational institutions in Malaysia: an exploratory study of the implementation of balanced scorecard / Nagaretnam Thirumanickam and Bedah Ahmad
title_short Performance measurement system in higher educational institutions in Malaysia: an exploratory study of the implementation of balanced scorecard / Nagaretnam Thirumanickam and Bedah Ahmad
title_sort performance measurement system in higher educational institutions in malaysia: an exploratory study of the implementation of balanced scorecard / nagaretnam thirumanickam and bedah ahmad
topic Organizational effectiveness. Performance measurement
Higher Education
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/12330/
https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/12330/