Senior Management Support

Bossidy and Charan (2002) state that there are seven leadership behaviors that form the building block of execution  

Leaders should know their people and their business Insist on realism Set clear goals and priorities 

Follow through to confirm that actions and plans are executed Reward the doers  

Expand people s capabilities Leaders should know themselves 

Putting the responsible people working in an integrated way even in the same physical spot 

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MCP s success relies on the continuing support and commitment of the company s senior management. It is vital that such support be enlisted at the earliest stages of PSM design. The PSM implementation effort requires resources given the inevitable competition for limited resources within any organization, senior management support is a key success factor. 

What we need now. Discuss need for visible senior management support to assist in winning employee buy-in. Outline plans for communicating the PSM system as part of installation, emphasizing the need for management s input and endorsement. 

Doubts about reliability of senior management support, or not wanting to invoke it. 

Method validation must be performed in a regulatory-compliant environment. In particular, the organization must have a QA unit (QAU), adequate laboratory equipment and facilities, written procedures, and qualified personnel. Since a successful validation requires the cooperative efforts of each of these organizational elements, successful fulfillment of the regulatory and technical objectives of validation requires senior management support. Additionally, it is essential that the organization have a well-defined validation master plan (YMP) for analytical methods, which defines the steps necessary to effectively validate methods. 

Convey commitment to compliance, including obtaining senior management support. 

As a result of senior management support over the course of the past eight years, GSK has been able to systematically develop a suite of tools and methodologies... 

Once senior management support has been achieved, the next step is to communicate and demonstrate management s commitment to the TQL process. Communication regarding the TQL philosophy should emphasize that everything begins with the customer that is, the sole purpose of the business... 

In this section, it will be performed a literature review for each one of the five categories of the Supply Operations management - Procurement, Manufacturing, Logistics, Customer Service and Senior Management Support. This review allowed identify the DDSC characteristics for each category which was used to develop the five level maturity model. 

In order to move towards a demand driven supply and operations management, it is important to have senior management support and engagement to make the necessary changes in term of tools, processes and organizational culture, as detailed below ... 

Cooper et al. (2004) performed a benchmark study to identify best practices in new product development with 105 companies from different industries and business segments, and one of the key findings were the importance of senior management support and commitment to develop a iimovative culture inside the organization (79% of best performers have this practices implemented in their organizations), and also 65% provide strong support and empowerment to the team members, as detailed in the Fig. 4.33. 

Low or no senior management support to demand planning function. 

Category Senior Management Support Organizational Culture... 

Senior management supports PLM process aligned across the entire supply chain (from suppliers to customers) and not only inside the organization. 

Manufacturing and Senior Management Support as detailed below ... 

A sample of 475 staff from 10 hospitals in Costa Rica, Gimeno et al. (2005) found that safety culture was related to self-reported work-related injuries. Another study of 789 hospital-based healthcare workers in the USA, found that experienced blood and body fluid exposure incidents for workers were lower when senior management support, safety feedback and training were perceived favourably (Gershon et al. 2000). In Japan, reduced needle-stick and sharp injuries to hospital workers were associated with safety culture factors, such as being involved in health and safety matters (Smith et al. 2010). In our Scottish hospital sample, we collected information on self-reports of worker injuries, as well as observed errors affecting patients. 

Does senior management support supervisor when they make dedsions affecting hazard control ... 

The effort has helped assure that priority projects receive the resources needed for their implementation. The company is looking for both near- and longer-term improvements in their operations. They continue to stress the importance of senior-management support and persistence in pursuing improvements. 

The Implementation Preparation and the Implementation completed the improvement program. Continuous dialogue with supervisors and staff combined with sustained senior management support and visible demonstrations that senior management had taken this project on as its top and continuing priority allowed a complex implementation to become remarkably rapid and seamless. 

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