Top management support

Step 1.7 Gain Employee Buy-in and Participation. The importance of top management support and employee participation cannot be overstated. 

Since pollution prevention first entered the environmental lexicon in the 1980s, it has become a touchstone of U.S. environmental policy. To succeed, pollution prevention programs need sustained top management support and defined links to the company s core business activities. Equally important, the values represented in the program must fit with the academic institution, company, or individual s existing values. For example, syntheses that minimize wastes are environmentally Mendly and may provide quality improvements and cost and energy savings. Environmental consciousness should be incorporated early into chemical research (Lnnt and Bowen, 1996). 

Researchers have discussed the impact of several organizational variables on project outcomes. Three factors stand out top-management support, middle-marragement support, and sufficiency of resources. 

Top-management support of project teams has been stressed in terms of the extent to which the marragement encourages the team, provides constructive feedback, actively champions the pro-... 

In designing a product, equipment, testing procedure, etc. factors to consider include top management support product liability recognized by design, production, and other people involved include all possible safety devices communicate and document with customer or buyer regarding any potential problems, hazards, etc. if outside source used for parts check their safety programs with documentation have a system to collect history of the same or similar part and when sold get feedback on performance and problems with recall system. 

Air Force top management support of system safety has not gone unnoticed by contractors. They now seem more than willing to include system safety tasks, not as window dressing but as a meaningful activity [70, pp. 5-11]. 

Providing visible top management support in implementing the management system, so that all employees understand that management s commitment is serious. 

Top management supports work rules as a condition of employment. Methods exist for monitoring performance. 

It is absolutely critical that top management support is ensured as certain fundamental strategic decisions have to be considered regarding the development of a customer requirement driven supply chain strategy and operation. Moreover, such support allows priority to be given to projects and helps to provide the necessary resources, which often cannot be allocated by the project leader himself due to a lack of power. 

Auditing made most impact where there was top management support, leading to timely correction of audit findings. 

Auditing can make a very useful, even essential and vital, contribution to quality management on a process plant construction site, but it has to be properly conducted and receive top management support from all parties involved. This can lead to auditing being accepted as something positive, and not just as a police operation. 

The key for having a good safety system is clearly visible top management support, flexibility, worker participation, and so on. 

Before the mapping process can be undertaken it needs to be recognised that supply chain processes cross all functions of the organisation. It is therefore important to have all key functions represented. The task force must be assured of top management support. A project champion may also need to be appointed. 

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