Knowledge of cultural influences can be leveraged to mitigate risk, to contain costs and to improve corporate effectiveness. Surprisingly, these aspects of organizational behaviour are often overlooked or their effect underestimated. Management commitment may be the single most important determinant of airline safety. Although further research linking measured management commitment and safet…
The 1.5 million persons arrested each year for driving under the influence of alcohol or other drugs (DUI) constitute a growing portion of the caseloads of the nation’s probation officers (Federal Bureau of Investigation, 2002). The sheer volume of these cases poses the challenge of determining which DUI offenders pose the greatest threat to public safety and require more rigorous monitoring…
The State Records Management Act (Government Code, Section 14740-14774) requires the Director of the Department of General Services (DGS) to establish and administer the state’s records management program. The program applies “… to the creation, utilization, maintenance, retention, preservation, and disposal of state records.” DGS administers the program though the State Administrati…
Implementing Total Quality Management (TQM) into the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve involves a major change in the way work is done. The impact will be enormous and universal. Thorough planning must be done to ensure satisfactory integration of TQM. Interviews with the principal officers involved with the TQM initiative were conducted to examine the current status of the project. This study describe…
This thesis aids in understanding the implementation of Total Quality Management (TQM)through both quantitative and qualitative analyses. Interviews were conducted with top executives from ten exemplar organizations within the Department of Defense (DOD). Survey questionnaires on perceptions of quality practices were administered to a sample of 102 representing members of the executive steering…
This is the first in a series of 15 books looking at the world of work and people and what 2025 will be like. Somewhat hopefully, somewhat practically, maybe somewhat scarily. People and work have changed constantly so such changes predicted for 2025 are not really anything new – driven by societal moves; consumer trends; technology and science advances plus of course ecological/environme…
Man Mohan Joshi, M.A., M.Ed., Cert.EA, Dip.HRD, Dip. Mgmt.(UK), has over 40 years’ teaching, training and administrative experience. He has worked as Principal of large and reputed schools in India, Kuwait and Sultanate of Oman. For his work on Innovative Practices in Value Education he was awarded by the National Council of Educational Research and Training, India. He is also the recipient…
This book is the result of many years’ experience of teaching fisheries economics and management, also called bioeconomics, for undergraduate and graduate students in interdisciplinary programs, both in Norway and abroad. These students often have a limited background in economics and mathematics and the challenge has been to be analytical without being unnecessary mathematical. I have found …
Ron Paul is an amazing individual. Not only has he been the most consistent voice for liberty in the U.S. Congress in our time— perhaps in all time—but he is also surprisingly well versed in economic theory. Indeed, if I were to dissect one of his speeches or articles, I would have to treat him as I would a fellow economist, not as “a politician.” On top of all that, Ron Paul is a…
The title, “Purposeful Engineering Economics,” was chosen to emphasize the importance of the intentions behind any economic action. To explain this idea adequately requires investigation well beyond engineering economics, per se. In fact, much of the narrative will range over a wide subject area to draw from works in sociology, philosophy, political economy, history, and even religion f…
The role of financing to support company strategies to introduce new products and processes in the economy has long been recognised as key. More than a hundred years ago, Joseph Schum peter pointed out the crucial function of banks in stimulating economic growth and innovation, as well as identifying and financing new investments in production. He also emphasised the differences between co…
For several decades, institutions in developing countries and development assistance agencies have supported the evolution of information infrastructures in developing countries. This encompassed the establishment or strengthening of information services at all levels corporate, local, national, regional, and international as well as facilitating access to the world s information resources, …
Traditionally, cost accounting is considered as the technique and process of ascertaining costs of a given thing. In sixties, the definition of cost accounting was modified as ‘the application of costing and cost accounting principles, methods and techniques to the science, art and practice of cost control and ascertainment of profitability of goods, or services’. It includes t…
Economic development is fundamentally a process of structural transformation1. This involves the reallocation of productive factors from traditional agriculture to modern agriculture, industry and services, and the reallocation of those factors among industrial and service sector activities. If successful in accelerating economic growth, this process involves shifting resources from low- t…
For more experienced project and program managers, this book will help you to manage the increasingly complex stakeholder arrangements that you will face. It will also show you how to choose behaviours and language appropriate to the context and task. For those responsible for portfolios of projects, this book will help you to manage ‘the big picture’ and the process of negotiation and…
Emergency management is often described in terms of phases or components, using terms such as mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery. Some sources add or substitute different terms, but virtually every source—policy documents, plans, manuals, textbooks, journals, and research reports— agree that “recovery” is an essential part of emergency management. This paper examines disas…
The purpose of this paper is to “seed” the discussion by the Research Committee of the Canadian Council of Professional Engineers (CCPE) on the topic of risk management. The paper is in part a research paper and in its entirety a position paper. As can be inferred from the title, the authors hold the firm opinion that risk management is an area of knowledge with which all engineers should h…
OAL ISP facilitators must conduct a risk assessment and hazard analysis for all portions of the OAL ISP using appropriate forms and lines of communication. • This risk assessment identifies hazards and associated inherent risks and measures for managing staff and participant exposure to these risks. • Risk assessment occurs 1) prior to the program using various resources such as guidebook…
An HRIS, which is also known as a human resource information system or human resource management system (HRMS), is basically an intersection of human resources and information technology through a HR software solution. This allows HR activities and processes to occur electronically. The Human Resource Information System (HRIS) is a software or online solution for the data entry, data tracking, …
he high cost of motorized mobility to society and public health Each year over 1 million people are killed and 50 million injured on roads around the world. Without new and effective action, deaths in low to middle-income countries are forecast to rise steeply. At the same time, progress has slowed in recent years in the better performing countries where investment in preventing and reducing se…
With the number of attacks on systems increasing, it is highly probable that sooner or later an intrusion will be successful. Not having to execute a complete shutdown in this situation will soon be a standard requirement. The intention of this paper therefore is to give an overview of business continuity management and to address selected issues in system survivability and business conti…