Accountability, management practices

Accountability, management practices, 69-70 Active controls, process controls, 98 Active monitoring, management practices, 114... 

Management Practices—U.S. Companies Improve Peformance Through Quality Efforts, United States General Accounting Office Report to the Honorable D. Ritter, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., May 1991, p. 2. 

Similarly good management practice is to hold accounts receivable at a low level and to have a high accounts-receivable-turnover ratio, as given by... 

The application of waste-management practices in the United States has recently moved toward securing a new pollution prevention ethic. The performance of pollution prevention assessments and their subsequent implementation will encourage increased activity into methods that 1 further aid in the reduction of hazardous wastes. One of the most important and propitious consequences of the pollution-prevention movement will be the development of life-cycle design and standardized hfe-cycle cost-accounting procedures. These two consequences are briefly discussed in the two paragraphs that follow. Additional information is provided in a later subsection. 

Further levels can be added to take into account the supply chain management practice of the companies involved. 

One of the six elements of Responsible Care is the Codes of Management Practice, and one of the codes is the Process Safety Code of Management Practices (34). This code emphasizes management commitment and accountability, information sharing, and community relations, but also includes 11 of the 14 specific elements of the legislated process safety management standards developed later. 

The implementation or update of a computer system is planned and executed in accordance with the organization s own project management practices. It is the project manager s responsibility to take into account the technological requirements, standards, procedural controls, regulatory requirements and related guidelines, and industry standards. 

The chick, by virtue of the retained yolk, can survive for 3-4 days without food or water. This should never be a survival mechanism that is put to the test, but it does explain why at 3-4 days of age it is common to see an increased mortality. Chicks with low vitality, and especially those from young parent flocks, often appear to be active until this age and then account for a mortality increase. As a guide the first week s mortality should not exceed 1 % and ideally be no higher than 0.75%. The time spent obtaining ideal conditions for the chick in terms of temperature, food, water and freedom from draughts cannot be overstated, but in a chapter such as this it is not possible to cover the finer points of management practices. It is sufficient to say that the brooding temperature of 30-32°C can be achieved by LPG (low-pressure gas) canopy brooders, by infra-red lamps, or by heat mats similar to those used in pig creeps. Whichever system is selected, the... 

United States Government Accountability Office, Report to Congressional Committees. D ense Acquisitions Stronger Management Practices Are Needed to Improve DOD s Software-Intensive Weapon Acquisitions. (GAO-04-393), March, 2004. 

Causal factors may derive from the culture and management practices when safety policies, standards, procedures, or the accountability system, or their implementation, are... 

The industry accounts for 14 percent of the U.S. economy, but many payers feel they are not getting their money s worth. Studies point to waste from lack of or failure in basic procedures. These include those that produce medical errors that endanger patients. There are also studies that conclude that the frequency of use has more to do with available capacity than medical need. The disconnect between the payers and users is often blamed for building wasteful habits into industry management practices. Lawsuits in the United States have also driven up the cost of doing business. 

The specific requirements were originally gathered into a series of Codes of Management Practice. A Code dealing with security has since been added. This has attracted great attention and accounted for a major part of the recent effort put into this program. It is an active subject in industry conferences [76], and a growing list of pubhcations is available... 

Aspects of such management practices are likely to appear in all vertical relationships in the project hierarchy, from the chief executive of the corporation that owns the plant down through the project team and sub-contractors. A responsible party tends to hold those reporting or sub-contracting to him accountable in detail, while attempting to preserve the maximum of flexibility of performance target for himself. ... 

Industrial ecology is a recent concept in engineering and management, and is an attempt to manage an industrial unit as an ecosystem, with feedback loops and the minimal use of resources and production of waste [7]. Life cycle assessment, which was designed to take into account the environmental impact of waste, can help achieve cleaner production technologies and sustainable waste management practices which are all important aspects of... 

Because CLA is naturally present in dairy products, many enrichment studies have evaluated methods to enhance the CLA content in milk. The CLA concentrations in various dairy products (cheese, milk, butter, buttermilk, sour cream, ice cream, and yogurt) ranged from 0.55 to 24 mg/g fat (16). The average CLA content in milk is 10 mg/g milk fat (7,17), but natural cheeses contain the greatest variation in the amount of CLA isomers (16). Seven CLA peaks that could represent nine isomers were present in dairy products among these, c9,fll, fl0,cl2, /9,/ll, and fl0,/12 accounted for >89% (13). The CLA content in cheeses is primarily dependent on the CLA content of the milk, which varies in CLA concentration due to seasonal variation, geography, nutrition of the cow, and management practices. In addition, CLA content of cheese, to a limited extent, is affected by the production process and maturation (18). 

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