Goals and Incentives

Compliance goals and incentives in companies are often of the negative sort, such as penalties for failures to comply with legal requirements. This is not surprising in that compHance failures can lead to serious penalties for the company. But, just as the government, in its policies of the last decade, began to use a carrot approach as well as a stick approach with companies, companies should in turn also use a carrot approach with employees. 

To the extent possible, goals that facilitate TSCA compKance but reach beyond compliance to the objectives of other parts of the organization should also be considered. Consider the use of metrics, such as the amount of time it takes to prepare a Premanufacture Notice (PMN) for a new substance, or how many PMNs go through the EPA without the need for a consent decree. 

Both of these goals not only facilitate TSCA compliance, but also support new product development by reducing time to market, a perennial industry favorite, and by eliminating suspect chemicals from new products. 

If systemic areas that need improvement are discovered through auditing or a compHance system, consider developing goals around the improvements of those areas. Streamlining the TSCA compliance system in measurable ways could be an appropriate goal for a more mature system. 

As discussed above, audits are a critical part of an EMS. The objective of any audit is to determine if systems and processes are in place to enable the facility to conduct its business in conformance with the applicable laws. The audits may be systems audits, which focus on the procedures that are in place, 

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This National Task Force should be composed of industry, government, academia, etc. It should consider revolutionary ideas and take bold steps to create a national program with goals and incentives for solving the problem. 

Managers can improve coordination within the supply chain by aligning goals and incentives so every participant in supply chain activities works to maximize total supply chain profits. 

Provides incentive to exceed environmental and regulatory air emissions reduction goals and reduce emission below legal requirements. 

Environmental Defense Partnership for Climate Action Under this program, companies partner with the NGO Environmental Defense and declare a GHG emissions target and the management actions, policies, and incentives necessary to achieve that goal. They measure, track, and publicly report net GHG emissions. 

Attempts to extract oil from the Canadian oil sands date all the way back to 1944. In recent years, interest has surged, as technology has improved and as tax breaks and incentives have made the site a good investment. By 2004, four of the five largest publicly traded oil companies had invested in Alberta oil sands, as had Chinese oil companies. Whereas early projections suggested production could reach 1.2 mbd by 2020, this goal was reached in 2004. One projection suggests Canadian production could surpass 3.5 mbd by 2008 (E E Daily 2006). 

The reason for such sales concentration is that companies are required to meet monthly, quarterly or annually sales goals, and to achieve these objectives, they provide incentives in the form of product promotions or price discounts in order to achieve a lift in the customer demand and therefore, meet the required business objectives. This focus on sell in to the customer, instead of focus on selling out from the customer to the consumer, increases inventory levels, but does not reduce out-of-stock implications, as more frequently, the products that receive incentives are those with high volume impact, and out-of-stock usually happens in products with low volume impact. This type of characteristic... 

The key parameters to be successful in the competitive global market depend on the buzzwords such as low product cost, better quality, durability, customer satisfaction, durability, comfort and style. In spite of technical advancements, the clothing industries stiU remain as labour-intensive production systems, which results in low productivity and often delays. Industries should emphasise on automation, training to the workers, modernisation, waste reduction, ecological considerations and adhering to specific quality systems, which can lead to an increase in the productivity and quality and a decrease in the amount of waste, stopovers and production delays. Each of the employees should work to achieve the organisational goal, and the industry should also look after the employees with fair remuneration, incentives, leaves, other perks and facilities. 

The ultimate goal of any safety program or process, whether it is incentive-based, performance-based, or a management-driven system, must be to create a system that embraces specific goals and objectives. We will discuss goals and objectives in more detail in Chapter 5. 

Social pressure towards safe conduct can also be enhanced by informing families about the safety award programme, its safety goals, and potential rewards (Morisey, 1998). Team awards add a material incentive to act as one s sister s or brother s keeper , and they have also been found effective in isolation that is, in the absence of awards for individual performance (Vogel, 1991). 

To be a successful motivational leader you must have some sort of a plan that will get you from point A to point B. This plan should include your desired goals and objectives, levels of expectations, mechanisms for communication, valuative procedures and techniques for reinforcement, feedback, rewards, and incentives. Any motivational plan is a dynamic tool, which must be flexible enough to address changes that may occur over a period of time and take into consideration the universality of people and situations. These plans can use a variety of techniques and gadgetry to facilitate the final desired outcomes or performances, which lead to a safer and healthier workplace. 

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