Senior manager development – the evaluation of a consortium programme

2017 ◽  
pp. 51-67
Author(s):  
Ben Bennett
2001 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hun-Tong Tan ◽  
Karim Jamal

In this study, we investigate whether audit managers' assessment of the quality of work their subordinates perform is influenced by the managers' prior impressions of these subordinates, and whether managers whom the firm considers outstanding are less susceptible to such an effect. We conduct an experiment using actual audit senior-manager teams. Each senior and manager participating in the experiment has been classified by his or her firm as either outstanding or average. Each manager is paired with two audit seniors (one outstanding senior and one average senior), and each evaluates the memos written by his or her paired seniors. Managers evaluate the quality of the memos twice: (1) first, with the identities of the seniors indicated on the memos, and (2) later, when the seniors' identities are not explicitly revealed. Results show that average managers evaluate memos written by outstanding seniors more favorably than those written by average seniors when they know the identities of the memos' authors, but not when the identities of the seniors are not revealed. Outstanding managers do not appear susceptible to this effect.


2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-187
Author(s):  
Fariha Zahid ◽  
Anwar Khurshid

Hammad, the newly appointed Director General of World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan ( WWF- Pakistan), was musing over the decision regarding a major overhaul in some of their critical work practices. This decision was in response to the recent feedback received from the employees regarding the areas which needed to be improved in the organization. According to the given scenario, the majority of their employees were quite dissatisfied and demotivated over some of their human resource areas. Although Hammad was quite clear headed about the idea that a change was needed to take place in some of their key human resource practices, there were certain pros and cons involved in these decisions, which he wanted to discuss with his Senior Manager, Tahir. They both had their unanimous decision on the fact that if they wanted to retain a motivated and hardworking staff, their existing appraisal and compensation system needed to be aligned with the overall mission and organizational values of WWF. Whether they were ready to make this change, and how this change will reflect on their current system, were the main issues they wanted to address.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Azian Ibrahim ◽  
Noorfadhleen Mahmud ◽  
Nadrawina Isnin ◽  
Dina Hazelbella Dillah ◽  
Dayang Nurfauziah Fauz Dillah

This study analyzed the cyber warfare impact on national security and focusing on Malaysia experiences. The issues regarding cyber warfare have become a serious concern since it was a risk of national security in Malaysia. The objectives of the study are to analyze issues related to cyber warfare that affected Malaysian system security, to determine causes that caused to cyber warfare. This study used a qualitative research approach to evaluate the current defense approaches related to cyber warfare in Malaysia. The interviews were conducted with the respective respondents: the Senior Manager, Research Management Centre, Strategic Research, and Advisory Department of Cyber Security Malaysia Department. This study can contribute to expanding the security of national security by demanding the government to adopt a broad acquisition risk management strategy. It can assist in the development of highly effective aggressive and defensive methods to any company dealing with future cyber warfare challenges and risk.


Author(s):  
Dr. Anadi Gayen

The paper is the outcome of one week training programme on Evaluation of Training (EoT) organised by the Administrative Training Institute (ATI), Kolkata, West Bengal from 05.09.2016 to 09.09.2016. The paper deals with a case study associated with the Induction Level Training Course (ILTC) for the newly recruited Hydrogeologists of Central Ground Water Board (CGWB). An EoT report can strengthen the professional competence of officials working with various Regional and State Unit offices of CGWB and also can ensure the stakeholders participation to achieve the desired objectives of the CGWB. The CGWB is the National Apex body entrusted with the responsibilities of providing scientific inputs for management, exploration, monitoring, assessment, augmentation and regulation of ground water resources of the country consisting of Hydrogeologists, Geophysicists, Chemists, Hydrologists, Hydrometeorologists and Engineers and has its headquarters at Faridabad, Haryana state. Major activities being taken up by CGWB include various R&D studies, exploratory drilling programme, monitoring of ground water and its management. The Rajiv Gandhi National Ground Water Training and Research Institute, Central Ground Water Board (RGNGWTRI) is the only training and research institute of CGWB and is envisaged to function as a `Centre of Excellence’ in training ground water resources personnel and objective of these trainings is to develop a pool of trained resource persons, who would be working towards sustainability of ground water resources. The paper includes detailed account of material and methods like primary and secondary data collection, SWOT, EMB factors, Interaction with faculty and trainees, Interview and observation, Feedback, Course Director’s Report (CD Report) and various EoT tool kits, Training plan design and the EOT report (withdrawal Phase). The aims and objectives, performance problems, various environmental, motivational and behavioural problems have also been incorporated in the paper. Training and Non-training recommendations, Training Plan, Priority List and Design brief are the other highlights of the paper. The EoT analysis recommends the training and non-training implications, training design, new EoT Systems with various types of activity during the ILTC. Further, the paper includes the Flip chart preparation, Recap, Presentation and Exercises involving all the trainees with an aim to fully engage and involve the trainees. In addition, the remaining highlighted features of the paper are the motivational factors to the trainee officials like various types of incentive, good entry certificate, appreciation letter from Line Managers or Senior Manager for their outstanding performance, proper transparent promotion and transfer policies and the post training external validation are to be carried out by obtaining report on the performance of the trainees from Line Managers or Senior Manager.


2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Devaki Rau ◽  
Thorvald Haerem ◽  
Elisa Fredericks

Author(s):  
Jesse Adams Stein

This chapter is about the experiences had by women in the printing industry in the second half of the twentieth century. Focusing on the stories of three women – a tablehand, a senior manager and a printing apprentice – the chapter explores how women in the printing industry coped with the shifting challenges of a patriarchal printing environment. One of the threads holding these three stories together is the presence of design and embodied experience; each of these narratives speaks of something made, designed or physically manipulated, be it spatial, environmental or technological. The active making and re-making of things and spaces, and the forming of embodied knowledge about machinery and industrial objects, were strategies that female workers mobilised in order to survive challenging and often discriminatory circumstances. The contentious politics lifting – and associated legal limitations – is evaluated, revealing a disjuncture between workplace rhetoric and actual embodied practice.


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