Management interview

Supporting excerpts from R D management interviews were ... 

Managing risk and uncertainty was increasingly seen as a priority in recent conferences, reflected in these comments from R D management interviews ... 

Management interviews Face to face Annually January 1-31... 

Management interviews and the examination of program documents and records reveal whether the safety and loss prevention program contains essential elements with written standards of performance based on Dow s best global know-how. 

Interviews with Managers Interviews with managers of different public spaces (restaurants, coffee shops, etc.). The aim of these interviews was to understand their attitudes toward women s privacy and how this influenced the physical form of the spaces which they manage. Fonr (male) managers, two from restaurants, one from public bath, and one from a coffee honse, were interviewed. 

Data collection mainly took place in 2010.1 obtained my data from five data sources interviews with higher level managers, interviews with embedded lead users, trade shows in the respective fields, two consulting projects in the field, and archival data. This data and informant triangulation strategy adds to the robustness of my findings and increases the validity of my study (Denzin 1970). 

Half of the managers interviewed were confident that they heard about serious accidents but were less sure that they always heard about less serious... 

Nine of the thirty-two managers interviewed had not received any training since the introduction of the HSW Act Since the initial rush when the Health and Safety Act first came out and there was a rush to educate people, nothing has happened since. (manager, interviewee 108). 

At larger sites, it is sometimes more efficient for two reviewers to interview candidate toller personnel. In general, the senior site manager should be involved in the interview session unless the toller s facility is extremely large with several layers of operations management. It is assumed interviews will include the toller s technical personnel or specialists related to the proposed toll. 

EPRI NP-5664 is a study based on interviews of personnel at 10 utilities and 15 NRC personnel regarding the usefulness of PSA (they use the term PRA - probabilistic risk assessment). The general utility motivation for using PSA is to demonstrate an acceptably low level of risk to the NRC. Some utilities applied PSA to individual systems, functions, or issues. These smaller [ir(>grams served to train a PSA cadre and introduce PSA to other utility personnel and management. 

Periodically, the SEMP elements should be audited to evaluate the effectiveness of the program. Auditing should be conducted by qualified personnel through interviews and inspections. If audits consist < y find no deficiencies in the program, then management should conclude that... 

The most fundamental skill required is interviewing, an area in which many technically proficient managers may lack experience. Other important skills and techniques include writing findings, sampling and taking notes during the audit. 

Sociotechnical approach (control of error through changes in management policy and culture) Occupational/process safety Effects of organizational factors on safety Policy aspects Culture Interviews Surveys Organizational redesign Total Quality Management More frequent in recent years... 

It is worth noting that personnel managers who were interviewed as part of the above study had few expectations that selection would enable them to overcome inadequate training, job, or work design. Selection was seen as something that had to be done completely and conscientiously in order to make the best decisions possible. There was no expectation that, on its own, selection would solve operating problems. 

To gather information about the factors which contributed to the above incident, interviews were held with the workers and their management. Relevant documentation such as standard operating procedures and documentation relating to the incident was also collected. A task analysis (see Case Study 3) of the job of the top floor person was carried out in order to examine the operations involved and the factors which could affect job performance. Two techniques were used for the analysis of this incident, namely variation tree analysis and root cause analysis. 

Interview Individual personnel at the following levels from at least two shifts on each platform were interviewed offshore installations manager, operations supervisor, shift supervisor, control room technician, area technician. 

You will need to undertake a series of interviews to understand existing PSM and ESH programs. You may also need to conduct some interviews to confirm aspects of your quality management system. However, if the Quality Management system is not well documented this may indicate a weakness, and you should reconsider the wisdom of moving forward with the proposed integration. It is essential to test how the processes are actually functioning, as this frequently differs from any description, formal or informal. 

Carefully plan the selection of interview candidates. You should first consider what resources you have available—both in time and travel costs (if relevant). As a rule of thumb, it will take one hour to interview a manager with no special responsibility for PSM or ESH, two hours for specialist managers and staff and no more than 45 minutes for operators and technicians. You must also allow an equal amount of time to write up notes and review any material collected during the interview. You can now decide how many people you can afford to interview. In selecting candidates, you should consider the following ... 

If possible, try to follow the management processes and interview staff responsible for every aspect of the process. 

Before starting the interview process, you should prepare an interview guide. You should focus on identifying the processes that are used to manage... 

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