Management Support and Leadership

Show your commitment through management support and leadership. This helps your employees to believe that you want a safe workplace, whatever it takes. 

Management support alone will not be sufficient Personal management action and leadership are required. Management obligations cannot be delegated. 

Uncontrolled Lack of Leadership Lack of Management support and commitment... 

Management sets the tone. Refer to Chapter 6 on management commitment and leadership. If management is not supportive of getting employees involved, and unless your employees believe you want their participation, getting them to participate will be difficult and may not be successful [4]. 

Proper housekeeping does not just happen. It requires the leadership and wholehearted support of facility management, staff, and operating and maintenance supervision and the cooperation of all employees. 

Robust processes will have owners that have defined roles, responsibilities, and accountabilities. These process owners must be fully dedicated to their process. They must know their process capabilities and expectations, the interrelationship between their process and other processes and manage them like a business unto themselves. Functional management must support process owners, and leadership must understand and lead the QMS effort as an ongoing program, treating it as the integral part of the business that it is. 

A well-designed QMS and the processes that comprise it require competent ownership with defined roles and responsibilities for program success. This combination ensures that the system and processes are established, maintained, improved, and remain current with industry practices and business expectations. Operational execution of the QMS and the processes comprising it will engage stakeholders, management, and leadership, provide business results, and support and ensure comphance. 

I think we all know that leadership makes a difference. This is my bottom line. If leadership at the top is committed—regardless of whether the leader is a man or a woman, but preferably if women are seen to be high in the management team and if both men and women at the top are committed—we can make a difference, and we can set the tone, and we can change our environment. If we seriously want to invest in infrastructure to support women s careers in science, we can make a difference. 

Even though the profession provides some coordination and structure, management and leadership of professionals are still necessary. Without them, the system will break down. To continue the analogy of a symphony orchestra, fragmented music and even noise could result in the absence of any leadership. How then does a manager engender the support of professionals to help meet the needs of the organization ... 

The kinds of operational capabilities that the Navy needs in order to be able to carry out its missions in a chemical or biological threat environment appear within its reach. To attain the necessary capability and readiness, it should support and sustain improvements in passive defenses, training, and leadership awareness—but it should also do some major things quite differently. It should see the threat in an entirely new way. It should not rely solely on the notion that the mobility of ships at sea is adequate defense against this threat in the era of asymmetric conflict. The Navy should look well beyond passive defenses to understand the full contours of a CW or BW defense posture. It must plan on the basis of a risk-management approach and train and test to refine its TTPs.27... 

Project selection criteria. Managers allocate funds among projects that will support and maintain their technological leadership in specified areas. 

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