Transferring Management Practices

2020 ◽  
pp. 274-292
Author(s):  
Philippe D’Iribarne ◽  
Sylvie Chevrier ◽  
Alain Henry ◽  
Jean-Pierre Segal ◽  
Geneviève Tréguer-Felten
Keyword(s):  
Management Practices ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
The United States ◽  
Total Quality ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
The Third ◽  
First Case ◽  
Local Practices ◽  
Emerging And Developing Countries

Transferring ‘good practices’ and management ‘tools’ is a recurring challenge for companies working internationally, particularly in emerging and developing countries. As regards management tools, distinguishing what is part of universal rationality from what should be adapted to the local universe of meaning is particularly tricky. This chapter discusses two cases of Total Quality implementations which highlight the key influence of cultural contexts. In the first case, a Japanese company failed in transferring their methods in the United States, in the second one, a French multinational company succeeded in transforming the Moroccan subsidiary’s management. Drawing lessons from both examples, the third part provides some clues to significantly improve management practice transfers. While companies are concerned with ‘knowledge management’, they lack an operational method for dealing with cultures. However, scrutinizing successful local practices will reveal the characteristics of the local culture and provide replicable solutions.

scholarly journals Necrotizing fasciitis: A review of three clinical encounters

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Jaron Pettis ◽  
Neelam Mulji ◽  
Fernando A. Navarro
Keyword(s):  
Soft Tissue ◽  
Necrotizing Fasciitis ◽  
Case Reports ◽  
Disease Process ◽  
The United States ◽  
Soft Tissue Infections ◽  
Wound Debridement ◽  
The Third ◽  
First Case ◽  
Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections

Background: Necrotizing fasciitis is a potentially lethal soft tissue infection characterized by rampant necrosis and destruction of subcutaneous tissues. Current estimates of necrotizing soft tissue infections in the United States are 4.3 infections per 100,000 of the population. Although the incidence of necrotizing soft tissue infections has decreased in the last decade, the toxic and lethal nature of the disease process lends utmost importance to accurate diagnosis and immediate management. The purpose of this review article is to report three cases of necrotizing fasciitis and provide literature review in regards to hallmark characteristics, predisposing risk factors and treatment optimization.Case: The first case depicts a newly diagnosed 43-year-old male HIV patient with necrotizing fasciitis infection characterized by Klebsiella, Serratia and anaerobic bacteria cultures. The second case describes the course of a 71-year-old male diagnosed with necrotizing fasciitis in the setting of a complicated anal fistula characterized by B. fragilis, S. anginosus and Prevotella species. The third and final case describes the course of a 44-year-old female diagnosed with necrotizing fasciitis in the setting of Ludwig’s Angina characterized by Klebsiella and Dubliensis species. Treatment was initiated with extensive wound debridement, multiple washouts and broad antibiotic regimens in all three cases. Additional hyperbaric oxygen therapy was administered in the third case.Conclusions: These case reports illustrate the range of severity and settings in which necrotizing fasciitis can occur. Significant morbidity and mortality rates are associated with a delay in treatment initiation. Given this, it is of utmost importance to develop and maintain a high clinical acumen for necrotizing soft tissue infections.

Welfare effects of forestry best management practices in the United States

2006 ◽  
Vol 36 (7) ◽  
pp. 1674-1683 ◽  
Author(s):  
Changyou Sun
Keyword(s):  
Best Management Practices ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
The United States ◽  
Welfare Loss ◽  
Equilibrium Displacement Model ◽  
Best Management ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Welfare Losses ◽  
State Forestry

State forestry best management practice (BMP) programs have been widely developed and implemented to prevent nonpoint source water pollution in the past three decades. The unanswered question is how forestry BMPs have affected the welfare positions of consumers, mills, loggers, and forest landowners. A Muth-type equilibrium displacement model was constructed to examine welfare changes of these stakeholders. The model considered a two-stage vertical production system with variable proportion production technology and imperfect market structure. Industrial mills experienced little welfare loss from forestry BMP regulation. Consumers had the largest absolute welfare loss, and loggers had the largest relative welfare loss in the base scenario. The supply elasticity of harvesting services had the greatest impact on the relative incidence of welfare losses between landowners and loggers, and in the long run their welfare losses were comparable. These results may help to improve future state forestry BMP guidelines and design incentive systems for increasing implementation rates.

scholarly journals Improving Best Management Practice Decisions in Mixed Land Use and/or Municipal Watersheds: Should Approaches Be Standardized?

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 1402
Author(s):  
Jason A. Hubbart
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Best Management Practices ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
The United States ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Monitoring Methods ◽  
Best Management ◽  
Mixed Use ◽  
Decision Making Processes

Best management practices (BMP) are defined in the United States Clean Water Act (CWA) as practices or measures that have been demonstrated to be successful in protecting a given water resource from nonpoint source pollution. Unfortunately, the greatest majority of BMPs remain unvalidated in terms of demonstrations of success. Further, there is not a broadly accepted or standardized process of BMP implementation and monitoring methods. Conceivably, if standardized BMP validations were a possibility, practices would be much more transferrable, comparable, and prescriptive. The purpose of this brief communication is to present a generalized yet integrated and customizable BMP decision-making process to encourage decision makers to more deliberately work towards the establishment of standardized approaches to BMP monitoring and validation in mixed-use and/or municipal watersheds. Decision-making processes and challenges to BMP implementation and monitoring are presented that should be considered to advance the practice(s) of BMP implementation. Acceptance of standard approaches may result in more organized and transferrable BMP implementation policies and increased confidence in the responsible use of taxpayer dollars through broad acceptance of methods that yield predictable and replicable results.

A Note on Assessment of Transportation Infrastructure Data Management Practices

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 132-150
Author(s):  
Isaac C. Oti ◽  
Nasir G. Gharaibeh
Keyword(s):  
Data Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
The United States ◽  
Transportation Infrastructure ◽  
Data Stewardship ◽  
Modeling Data ◽  
Diverse Data ◽  
Departments Of Transportation ◽  
Transportation Agencies

The amount of data being maintained by state departments of transportation (DOTs) and local transportation agencies is increasing steadily. Although data provide opportunities to facilitate decision making at transportation agencies, there are challenges involved in managing large and diverse data. This article provides an assessment of the maturity of three data management practice (stewardship, storage and warehousing, and integration) for 16 transportation data groups based on a survey of 43 DOTs in the United States. The assessment results show that data management practices at the monitoring and operations phases of transportation infrastructure life cycle are likely more mature than those at other phases. Inventory data, in particular, has the most mature data management practices. On the other end, real estate data and travel modeling data have the least mature data management practices. A comparison of the practices indicates that data stewardship is more mature than data integration and storage and warehousing practices.

scholarly journals Separating the wheat from the chaff: Intensive deselection to enable preservation and access

2017 ◽  
pp. 63-70
Author(s):  
Coleen Hoelscher ◽  
Jillian Ewalt
Keyword(s):  
Development Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Limited Resources ◽  
Collection Development ◽  
First Case ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Local Practices ◽  
Intellectual Control ◽  
The University

In 2014, the Marian Library at the University of Dayton completed a long overdue revision of its collection development policy. The new document more clearly defined the scope of the library’s collections, and was intended to guide new acquisition decisions. However, this new document had the unexpected benefit of providing a framework for deselection projects that enabled preservation and improved access to the collections. This paper will discuss and analyze two of these projects, and demonstrate how the revised collection development policy laid the foundation for successful deselection outcomes. In the first case study, legacy collections of genre-based ephemera were heavily weeded to remove photocopies, internet printouts, duplicates, and other out-of-scope materials. Both the challenges and benefits of weeding legacy reference files will be discussed. The second case study will examine a comprehensive review of the library’s inactive periodical holdings, consisting of over five hundred titles that were largely uncatalogued. Removing titles outside of the library’s collection scope transformed the collection into a manageable project for the cataloging staff to tackle. This formerly hidden collection, including rare periodicals not found elsewhere in the United States, is now in the process of being cataloged. Both projects transformed local practices and improved utilization of the library’s limited resources in staffing, time, space, and funding. Faced with legacy practices that compromised physical and intellectual control of materials, librarians leveraged a well-defined collection development policy to undertake two successful deselection projects. The policy was used to justify and guide deselection, ultimately improving both preservation and access.

Quality Management Practices Regarding Statistical and Financial Data in China

2011 ◽  
pp. 252-274
Author(s):  
Zhenguo Yu ◽  
Ying Wang
Keyword(s):  
Quality Management ◽  
Total Quality Management ◽  
Information Quality ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Financial Data ◽  
Quality Requirement ◽  
Total Quality ◽  
Decision Mechanism ◽  
Social Organizational

This chapter presents a survey into quality management practice regarding statistics and financial data in China. As a fast-developing country, China is experiencing a significant reform in the decision mechanism, and it causes the changing of quality requirement for information and the necessities of total quality management for information. In this chapter we first talk about the understanding progress of the information quality in China, point out that the veracity of information is more sensitive in China, then we present the practice of China’s quality management in social, organizational and technological arenas.

scholarly journals Should Management Practice Adapt to Cultural Values? The Evidence Against Power Distance Adaptation

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alaka N. Rao ◽  
Jone L. Pearce
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Power Distance ◽  
The United States ◽  
Team Collaboration ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Future Performance ◽  
Supervisory Practices

Purpose We focus on the cultural concept of power distance to test whether or not culture-practice fit or universal supervisory practices are associated with team collaboration, innovation, current and future team performance. This test is possible because power distance is conceptually deconstructed and scales developed that reliably and validly differentiate between the societal level values and workplace practices. Next, drawing on these measures, we test the culture-fit-vs.-universal practices hypotheses in a sample of ethnically similar employees dispersed across the United States and India. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from a survey administered to employees and their supervisors in a Non-Western Multinational Corporation. Findings We find support for the universal-practices perspective in this study. Those Indian and local managers who were low in interpersonal power distance, regardless of their subordinates’ societal power-distance cultural values had better team collaboration, innovation, and future performance. Trust in fellow team members was found to mediate these relationships. Originality/value Findings from this study contribute to our understanding of power distance, and also provide insight into the central question of when and how management practices should be adapted to local cultures.

scholarly journals Linoleic Acid Induced Acute Hepatitis: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Bilal ◽  
Yogesh Patel ◽  
Micheal Burkitt ◽  
Michael Babich
Keyword(s):  
Weight Loss ◽  
Linoleic Acid ◽  
Acute Hepatitis ◽  
Hepatitis A ◽  
The United States ◽  
Body Fat Mass ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
The Third ◽  
First Case ◽  
Acute Hepatitis A

Several dietary supplements used for weight loss have been reported to cause hepatotoxicity. Conjugated Linoleic Acid (CLA) is a dietary supplement that has been shown to cause reduction in body fat mass. Here, we present the first case of CLA induced acute hepatitis in the United States and only the third case in the worldwide literature along with a brief review of the literature.

Effects of Mowing, Seeding Rate, and Foliar Fungicide on Soybean Sclerotinia Stem Rot and Yield

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kurt A. Carpenter ◽  
Adam J. Sisson ◽  
Yuba R. Kandel ◽  
Viviana Ortiz ◽  
Martin I. Chilvers ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Management Practices ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
The United States ◽  
Field Trials ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Stem Rot ◽  
Yield Response ◽  
Sclerotinia Stem Rot ◽  
Seeding Rate ◽  
Potential Yield

Sclerotinia stem rot (SSR or white mold), caused by Sclerotinia sclerotiorum (Lib.) DeBary, is an economically important fungal disease of soybean. SSR routinely causes yield loss in the upper Corn Belt of the United States due to wet, humid conditions that coincide with moderate temperatures. This study investigated the novel cultural practice of mechanical cutting, or mowing, as an SSR management practice across multiple seeding rates. Mowing soybean during early vegetative growth alters plant architecture and growth habit. This results in a microclimate within the canopy less suitable for disease development. Field trials were conducted in Iowa, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin in 2017 and 2018. Experimental design was a randomized complete block with four replications. Treatments included mowing (mowing and no mowing), seeding rate (197,684, 271,816, and 345,947 seeds/ha), and fungicide application (boscalid, Endura, and no fungicide). Soybean was mowed at approximately the V4 (four unfolded trifoliate leaves) growth stage. Mowing reduced disease in multiple locations; however, it also reduced yield in most of the locations. In general, there was less SSR in plots with lower seeding rates. Fungicide significantly reduced SSR in two of the five site-years for which disease was observed. Significant yield response to fungicide was also observed in two of the nine total field trials. Results indicate cultural practices such as mowing and reduced seeding rate can decrease SSR severity but also can impact potential yield. Additionally, yield response to SSR management practices may not be observed if disease is absent or at low levels.

Relationships of Instructors' Personalities with Total Quality Management Practice in the University Classroom

1997 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-118
Author(s):  
Scott A. Dellana ◽  
Michael E. McLeod
Keyword(s):  
Quality Management ◽  
Total Quality Management ◽  
Continuous Improvement ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Statistical Tests ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Total Quality ◽  
Quality Management Practices ◽  
Quality Dimension

This research examined the relationships of instructors' personalities, as measured by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, with Total Quality Management practice in the classroom. Total Quality Management practices in the classroom environment were separated into two dimensions, activities that focus on the student as a customer and activities facilitating continuous improvement in course content and delivery. Hypotheses were developed that define the relationship of Total Quality Management practices with aspects of the personality inventory. These relationships were assessed for a sample of 130 university professors. The results of statistical tests indicate that the Extraversion, Feeling, and Judgment personality preferences may be associated with the quality dimension of customer focus, while the Intuitive personality preference may be associated with the quality dimension of continuous improvement. In conclusion, implications for educators are discussed.

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