Organization interviews

Chemical Heritage Foundation. (CHF). Formerly the Beckman Center for History of Chemistry was established in 1982 to discover and disseminate information about historical resources and to encourage research scholarship and popular writing in the history of chemistry, chemical engineering, and the chemical process industries. The activities of the Foundation include organizing interviews and oral histories on major developments in modem chemistry locating historical manuscript and archi-... 

Several organizations interviewed for this Diversity Guide also allow engineers with a proven track record to take a leave of absence for personal reasons, such as working on volunteer projects for a non-profit organization or pursue a particular personal project. 

A number of civil engineering organizations interviewed as part of this effort have convened diversity committees or diversity boards. For example, in 1992, PB started a Diversity Oversight Committee sponsored by the chief operating officer. Committee chairs from the various employee network groups are members, along with senior HR staff and recruitment officers - that means all the decision-makers are in the room, says Tracey Bessellieu. The Committee considers measurements and data provided by the HR department to monitor recruitment and internship efforts, and to mentor, retain, and help further career oppormnities for women and all other protected classes. ... 

Assessment Phase The assessment phase aims to collect data needed to identify and analyze pollution-prevention opportunities. Assessment of the facility s waste-reduction needs includes the examination of hazardous waste streams, process operations, and the identification of techniques that often promise the reduction of waste generation. Information is often derived from obsei vations made during a facihty walk-through, interviews with employees (e.g., operators, line workers), and review of site or regulatory records. One professional organization suggests the following information sources be reviewed, as available (Ref. 7) ... 

Seek the opinions of customers about your organization s products and services provided through questionnaires or interview checklists. 

Regardless of who conducts the audit, the team should gather data from all levels in the facility or organization, which suggests interviews with selected ... 

Encourage auditors and assessors to review and organize their notes as soon as possible after completing an interview or site visit. It s easy to lose track of insights and observations if too much time elapses, particulady when an assessment involves multiple sites. 

Interview representatives of staff at all levels in the organization in order to confirm whether the programs are actually functioning as designed. 

In process mapping you are interested in the way the process flows through the organization. Using the information gathered in your interviews you should be able to overlay the process onto an organization chart. This is illustrated in Exhibit 3-4. In Exhibit 3-4 several problems with the existing process are immediately obvious ... 

A simple, locally organized assessment process, including assessment activities and a further interview. 

An interview must be conducted privately in a relaxed atmosphere. It takes skin to conduct a good interview. A typical applicant may be quite nervous. In a larger organization it is often performed by the personnel department in the presence of the potential supervisor. At the end of the interview, the applicant should have a chance to ask questions about the job and the employer. 

Soil properties A Soil texture (sand, silt, clay), organic matter/carbon content, and pH Stones, roots, and hardpans must be largely absent to allow representative sampling of soil profile Soil properties should appear uniform over test site Soil texture data should be available at time of site selection. Soil properties must match study purpose. This can be realistic use conditions, realistic worst-case or worst-case in terms of agrochemical mobility and persistence Must ensure that the majority of samples can be taken from the deepest sampling horizon. Information about sub-soils can be obtained from soil maps, test coring and on-site interviews... 

The efficient and effective organic farmers who were interviewed in connection with this book all had a very clear idea of the monthly cash flow. Methods of improving the availability of cash are listed below. 

Joseph Labovsky. Interview, Feb. 28, 2000, Wilmington, Delaware, and e-mail Mar. 29, 2000. Source for Carothers suits lab formality Du Pont hired postdoctoral students music and literature stop light damn, it s hot formal laboratory atmosphere 95 percent. . . played squash like cobra within finite limits where organic compounds begin. . . and Berchet personality. 

Preincident facts Gather and organize preincident facts. Flow sheets, procedures, photographs, and data (interviews or recorded data) are used. 

Data retrieved from interviews and observations must comply with the same criteria, but such data cannot be verified easily. Therefore, cross-functional interviews and confirmation by different people in the organization are necessary. 

From different data sources deviations present in the operational process are collected according to the criteria that define a precursor. The raw data is then split up into tangible data, that is to say data directly available in the organization, e.g. data present in databases, reports, forms, etc. and intangible data, which is indirectly available in an organization, e.g. data retrieved by interviewing people. 

By sending a self-addressed stamped envelope to this organization you will receive information for ordering a video tape, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity How Chemical Exposures May Be Affecting Your Health, featuring interviews with people who have MCS and... 

Market research interviewing, 15 633 Market research organizations, 15 645—646 Market research seminars, 15 635 Market research studies, 15 630—631 Markets... 

When he interviewed with Meyer in 1926, Mark outlined a typically thorough program. He proposed a team of organic and physical chemists, and physicists who would evaluate the influence of structure on properties such as rigidity, elasticity, melting point, and water absorption. Work, he proposed, would shift toward new material development and into the manufacturing facilities to evaluate the effects of processing... 

Saul Winstein, handwritten 3-page obituary notice for Howard J. Lucas, H. J. Lucas Papers, Caltech Pauling, speaking about Lucas, in interview with John Heilbron, 2d of 2 sessions, 12, SHQP, Berkeley. Also, see Saltzmann, "Development of Physical Organic Chemistry," 592. 

At this point, there was enough information together to build a first prototype. Each intermediate or final conclusion defined a decision module. These modules were organized into a hierarchical structure. Within each module, example table structures were created. Based on the interviewing records, a first cut at the example sets was entered. At this point, a running prototyi>e expert system existed. 

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