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Abstract
In accordance to the society’s development and requirement, nonprofit organizations were forced to enlarge rapidly leading to an era of competition. To achieve goals and long-term operation, nonprofit organizations have to learn from profit organizations and to use the learned things in their business management as well as the respect on quality, management and performance . Schools among nonprofit organizations hatch elites and play an important role in a society’s evolution; however, these days’ things keeping changes, schools will be responsible for a more complicated functions and serve challenges than ever.
A national vocational high school of commerce was selected for study by introducing the Balanced Scorecard, proposed by Kaplan and Nortorn. A complete and effective management structure schemes for the school to form strategies and to employ the implementation of strategies with performance evaluations that are offered to the subject school when the school facing the changes and competition environments can response effectively and conquer the obstructions. The goals of this study are: 1.revealing the criteria, processes and paths of planning for this school’s strategies. 2.developing strategies on competition via the analysis of key success factors then combining the strategies with performance evaluations. 3.planning and designing a performance management model for the school by using the concept of balanced scorecard. 4.recording the planning and designing processes of the balanced scorecard for the basis of the execution of the school in the future.
Conclusions of this study are listed below: 1.The balanced scorecard can be used for nonprofit organizations; however, due to the differences of properties between nonprofit organizations and profit organizations, the structure of balanced scorecard needs to be modified to let it more suitable and worthy for nonprofit organizations. 2.By the implementation of balanced scorecard, an organization based on strategies can be created to integrated individuals, groups, administration units and instruction units to collaborate on the school’s problems solving and on the achievement of the school’s objectives. 3.The foundations provided by the balanced scorecard can be used to describe strategies and to develop strategies even to transfer the strategies into goals of actions and to feedback the results. 4.Using the four sides on the financial, customer, internal procedure, and learning & growing sides of a balanced scorecard can thoroughly illustrate the expected results of the strategies of the subject school and the driven factors of the performance of the results on a continuous logic relation.
Suggestions to the subject school are as follow: 1.Respect the responsibility of performances. 2.Clarify the vision and build concurrences. 3.Combine the school and individuals’ goals. 4.Use proper the computer hardware and software. 5.Bond the performance evaluation and reward systems
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