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Showing 1 to 20 of 83 for “"New Management"”.
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Claims on construction contracts: a new management framework
… research indicates that poor quality of claims management practice was perhaps one of the most important factors responsible for this phenomenon. Unfortunately, there has been no reported research into the most deficient aspects of the claims management process. The general aim of the research …
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A critical discourse analysis of the new management discourse of virtual organisation
Promulgated as a revolutionary new paradigm of management and organisation, virtual organisation has allegedly ushered forth an indispensable set of new organisational structures, practices, and relations that would have the power to effect not only radical changes in management and organisation, …
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Undertow
… working in a hospital which is struggling under new management.
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Crisis of the public sector : a philosophical analysis of new public management through MacIntyre and Foucault
This thesis is a philosophical study of New Public Management (NPM). NPM is a theme used within the mainstream public management literature to explain and critically evaluate the changes that occurred within the public sector since the 1990s. In this study, I aim to develop the argument that there …
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Transcending culture : developing Africa's technical managers
… to the shortage of indigenous black technical management in Sub Saharan Africa by focusing on a number of countries in the Southern African region. It explains the implications of this shortage particularly for Zimbabwe and its mining industry which at independence in 1980 had no black …
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Trophic model-generated indicators of the southern Benguela ecosystem for communicating with fisheries managers
An Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries (EAF) is the new management paradigm considered for ecosystems worldwide. Its aim is to balance a multitude of objectives, including those of conservation and exploitation.Ecosystem modelling is recognised as a tool that may be used towards achieving an EAF. …
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Forecasting collaboration capacity by driving output in product teams
… of Innovation Driven Enterprises (I.D.E.s) to new levels. More specifically, managers are focused on improving and maximizing team collaboration to both increase capacity and utilization of their in-house talent and optimize company throughput and output. It has long been argued that …
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An economic evaluation of supplemental irrigation on claypan soils
"Purpose of this study: Since irrigation is a new management practice of crop production in this area, the economic effect is not very well known. Very little information is available from actual on-the-farm records. This study was done to collect, summarize, and evaluate the cost, return, and …
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Uncertainty Analysis of the Performance of a System of Best Management Practices for Achieving Phosphorus Load Reduction to Surface Waters
… algal blooms suggests an inadequate phosphorus management system that results in excessive loads to the lake. In response, Canadian and United States’ governments have issued a new management objective, a 40% reduction in total and dissolved reactive phosphorus loads relative to 2008. To provide …
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Juegos de poder en las organizaciones empresariales de la globalización: estudio crítico y comparado de las aportaciones de su escuela académica homónima
… by focusing on literature pertaining to New Management schools of thought. Special interest has been taken on Power Games which origin and development follows a boomerang model; going from North America, Europe, Oceania, Europe and heading back to South America. The school of thought this …
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Development of an integrated forest management decision support system: integrating the LANDIS model and ArcGIS
Forest management is an important field for Decision Support System (DSS) application, but most of the current DSSs for forest management are not fully successful because: 1) the user interface is not friendly, or 2) GIS functions are not fully integrated into the system. These limitations …
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An empirical study on the effect of age, education, and rank on managerial attitudes
… the emphasis on the human relations aspects of management has greatly increased. As a result, new management theories have been advanced, acclaimed and criticized. The purpose of this empirical study was to determine what effect, if any, the biographical factors of age, education and rank had on …
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Mixed traffic in Chinese cities : bicycle and the intersection problems
… of China. Then, mixed traffic would require a new strategy of management. The mixed traffic conflict situation was studied in two major intersections of Chinese cities by analyzing digital video. The research showed that for constant number of automobile, the crossing time for mixed traffic …
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Gestão de competência no setor público: um estudo de caso em uma agência da Caixa Econômica Federal (CEF) no município de João Pessoa
… has forced companies to seek growth and new management techniques in order to survive, be it public or private sphere. Therefore, the Competence Management is a very important factor for the existence of a good performance within an organization. In this context, the development of …
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The loss control approach to industrial safety
… worsening, efforts are being made to devise new accident prevention techniques. One recent development is Loss Control, which involves a new management approach in which safety is incorporated in an integrated cost reduction programme to reduce all types of non-speculative risks incurred by …
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Analysis and application of business process integration models /
… have stimulated and determined the emergence of new management paradigms. Business process integration (BPI) is considered to be one of the paradigms aimed at closer collaboration between suppliers, customers and other partners. The concept of BPI covers the integration of internal processes as …
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Legal regulations of inward investment in the UK and China
… creates jobs, and brings advanced technology and new management styles. Legal regulations and government policies in this regard are always geared to reflect a balance between encouraging foreign business activities and maintaining certain degrees of control upon them. Based on expertise and …
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Quality improvement at a semiconductor equipment manufacturing facility through error re-categorization and proper inventory management
… are presented in this thesis. The first is a new way of categorizing error reports that will lead to targeted corrective action to reduce the recurrence of pre-identified failure modes. A multi-step methodology is presented on how to determine an efficient corrective action, along with a case …
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Redefining organizational boundaries : building an aware and agile organization by enabling new social interactions
… is rapidly rendered inaccurate or obsolete by new information, and strategic opportunities arise and disappear quickly. The complexity of the external environment, and the associated unpredictability, place a premium on fast decision making and organizational flexibility to adapt quickly. …
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A Walk Through the Valley of Shadows
… happened to the real boy. And in "Heaven Under New Management" explores what happens when we finally get the power to have exactly what we want and why that is such a bad idea.
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