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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a management committee
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The scheme will be overseen by a management committee.
a management consultant (= one who advises a company how to improve its management )
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The company employed management consultants to help with their strategy for the future.
a management/research/sales etc team
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The design team has come up with a few ideas.
crisis management (= dealing with a crisis )
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Most of my job consists of crisis management.
forest management (= controlling the way a forest grows and is used )
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The main aim of forest management is timber production.
line management
management buyout
management consultant
management skills
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She needs to develop her management skills.
management structure (= the way managers of a business are organized )
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Reform of the management structure was needed.
management techniques
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He praised their management techniques.
managerial/management expertise (= skill at managing people at work )
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Does he have the management expertise required to make the department more productive?
middle management
risk management
senior management
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Within the week senior management approved her proposal.
stress management
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Some patients may benefit from being taught stress management skills.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bad
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Lack of training? Bad management ?
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But once again, our attempt to prevent bad management made good management impossible.
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I think the root cause was bad management ... I would have had the same problem had I been black.
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This is simply the result of bad management , past and/or present.
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What I and my friends put down to evil witchcraft, my enemies are likely to attribute to incompetence or bad management .
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And to come in and turn it upside down would make no sense, that would be bad management .
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This is almost always caused by bad wound management .
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They are likely always to complain less about bad financial management than about pupil assessments.
effective
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It all adds up to a better deal, for your managers, your training budget and for effective corporate management development.
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The overall result will be more effective management of medical costs.
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The need to incorporate non-teaching staff into all aspects of effective institutional management . 8.
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Term Structure of Interest Rates Effective management of financing sources requires an understanding of the relationship between short-term and long-term interest rates.
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The following points were made: There was recognition of the need for effective management of campaigns.
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More importantly, we can supply patients with their results so that they can see how effective their personal management has been.
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Gold salts are highly effective in the management of patients with rheumatoid arthritis, most adverse reactions being mild and reversible.
financial
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The financial management of community care funds to be transferred from both social security and health authorities. 3.
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In Los Angeles, a doctor was terminated from a health care plan based solely on a business and financial management analysis.
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It is also important to note, at the outset, the distinction between financial accounting and management accounting.
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Alsop entrusted the financial management of the family assets to a cousin, who disappeared with most of them.
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The new financial management software is more powerful and flexible and is capable of providing a wide range of management information.
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Effective control of this circulating capital is one of the most important functions of financial management .
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Strategic and personnel management , and many aspects of financial management are obvious exceptions.
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The firms have taken over many of the financial and information management jobs that companies used to do in-house.
general
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Most felt that patient services had, if anything, declined under general management - although not necessarily because of general management.
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Second, the profile and responsibilities of management had been raised through the introduction of general management throughout the service.
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A glance around the London hotel scene shows examples of plenty of exceptional women who have made it to general management .
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There are very different interpretations and models of general management and different approaches to studying the field.
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On Tuesdays it is mainly jobs in accountancy and general management .
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He is now responsible for the general management of the restaurant with 47 employees.
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For that reason it was probably in those districts where consensus management had worked well that general management succeeded most.
good
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It goes hand in hand with good management and is essential for any job!
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There is an important lesson to be learned here-a lesson in good program management .
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However, you do need to select a good fund management house, and to find suitable high-quality funds for your money.
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How did a plant in trouble be-come a high-performing plant with good management / employee relations in just three years?
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Lessons from the past Since the 1960s the impact of good management at school level has been increasingly clear.
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All these results could have been achieved simply with good management .
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Conclusions - An increased use of diagnostic imaging for pyloric stenosis did not lead to earlier diagnosis or better management .
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Yeah, this makes good management sense.
local
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Quality assurance must be integrated into local health care management functions. 3.
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It is for the local management of the service to determine the most effective deployment of resources to meet performance targets.
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But in central government, Next Steps Agencies and local government, management is increasingly buying-in from the private sector.
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The delegation of responsibility for local management is being introduced alongside National Curriculum and testing.
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Why is that superior simply to having better efficiency through greater local management ?
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Nevertheless, even the opposition recognises the qualitative change in local management and planning, and its potential.
middle
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Information is now provided for various Government departments and senior and middle management throughout the organisation.
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At the other extreme, you might distinguish only among top management , middle management, and the front lines.
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Again, it was the middle management ranks that suffered the severest cuts.
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Gordon is in customer support for a large computer company so heavy in middle management that he hardly ever works.
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This aggression may be projected on to others, e.g., middle management , or turned back upon himself.
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The post-independence generation is already in middle management positions.
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Perhaps the greatest deficiencies in the relationship between education and industry occurred in the training and recruitment of middle management .
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Basic middle management functions still have to be done.
new
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Glenn Hoddle. New to management , but wise to the footballing game.
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I have structured the book to give you a similar experience, particularly with respect to the ten new management principles.
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Under new management , and with widespread team changes, they have certainly improved.
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The reality of reengineering has begun to gnaw away at those who had earnestly embraced this newest form of management self-improvement.
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Such lands would certainly have been subject to reorganization under new management .
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The new management group was scared.
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The new financial management software is more powerful and flexible and is capable of providing a wide range of management information.
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Success requires you to adopt the ten new management principles.
senior
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Two-thirds had attended a school visit which would have required organisation by senior school management .
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By this time we had grown weary of heart-to-heart chats with senior management .
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For example, in one senior management group the chairman could not abide conflict.
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As chapter 11 is so bad for senior creditors, management and shareholders have a big advantage.
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For instance, we could press for an integration of social work values in senior management and social work teaching.
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The final step is to submit the proposal to senior management for a decision on its acceptability.
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The various possible structures have been discussed with senior management in the Exchequer Division.
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The emergence of curriculum teams in primary schools and senior management teams in secondary schools indicates the potency of the concept.
top
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During this time you will have developed the personal credibility to communicate persuasively at top management level.
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To replace this expertise, top managements have turned to outside management consultants.
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This includes the top management of the organisation as well as departmental staff.
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How do you see top management here-do they work fairly well together as a group?
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Large companies still seem to be finding it increasingly difficult to retain top management .
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People saw themselves as being totally dependent on top management .
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Difficulties may arise if your company has recently undergone a change in top management , perhaps following a take-over of the business.
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This presented Sir Adrian and his top management team with a dilemma.
waste
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Chairman Nicholas Hood described the regulated business as performing well, with its waste management company boosting profits to £3.2m.
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Once upon a time waste management was purely a matter of public health.
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It is clear that Third World countries share many needs and problems of hazardous waste management with developed countries.
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But waste management , I predict, will become an important issue in the next general election.
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They must be able to plan adequately for sufficient waste management capacity to serve their industrial base.
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Local communities are often unwilling to reflect rising costs of waste management in higher local taxation.
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If this aspect of space flight was not the most convenient then the solid waste management was even worse.
■ NOUN
buyout
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Read in studio Workers at a piano factory threatened with closure have been demonstrating in support of a management buyout .
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During the 1980s, the phrases leveraged buyout and management buyout echoed all over Wall Street.
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Mr Ethrington had no association with the management buyout team when he was advising the Government.
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Funds are used for start-ups, for expansion and second stage growth, and often for management buyouts of an existing company.
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Caradon was floated in July 1987 with a market value of £134m following a £61m management buyout from Reed in 1985.
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Read in studio One of the oldest parts of Robert Maxwell's collapsed empire has been revived by a management buyout .
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Evans was a product of another classic 1980s business - the management buyout .
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In 1987, he organised a £57 million management buyout of Pontins, then owned by Bass.
care
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Care management Legal problems have also dogged some innovative experiments within the care management pilots the city is running.
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This overview sets out the origins of case management , its transformation into care management, and the principles guiding its practice.
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This potentially invaluable component of case management has become translated or obscured in the care management reforms.
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This will probably be one of the flash points as the new joint arrangements for assessment and care management become established.
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Representatives from out-patient teams played a more active part in stressful daily decisions about child care management .
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Like her boss, Boyle doesn't see why assessment and care management should be separated.
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It also examines the relation between care management and care programming and raises some questions about future developments in the light of community care reforms.
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Will local authority employees on community mental health teams operate care management while their colleagues operate care programming?
case
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There had to be very clear indications of joint working. Case management was one of the requirements.
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For work that is referred there is ongoing case management control, demanding a three- or six-monthly update on progress.
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This overview sets out the origins of case management , its transformation into care management, and the principles guiding its practice.
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This potentially invaluable component of case management has become translated or obscured in the care management reforms.
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The roots of case management lie in social case work.
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There are remarkable similarities between the strengths model of case management , and early casework models.
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The fee which is payable in all defended cases for case management directions is fixed at £80.
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The paper examines different models of case management in terms of organizational structure, content, and outcome assessment.
committee
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If they make a loss, management committees could be held liable personally under insolvency regulations for any such losses.
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We started by examining each pair of envelopes I had prepared for the various members of the management committee .
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However, that view is not shared by the House or, I believe, by the hon. Lady's management committee .
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Katherine having lunch with him after the management committee meeting last Wednesday.
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They covered six areas: advice giving, social policy, management committees , volunteers, fundraising and new technology.
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The League management committee also debated possible changes in league structure yesterday.
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The conference wished to clarify the role of management committees and review the suitability of the name of the committee.
company
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The day-to-day administration, however, is often left to professional management companies .
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No social security taxes are imposed on payments to a management company for management services.
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Chairman Nicholas Hood described the regulated business as performing well, with its waste management company boosting profits to £3.2m.
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He described 3D / I as one of the premier architectural and construction management companies .
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Now the theatre trust is seeking an management company to run it for them.
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The management company may be dedicated to the purpose or this activity may be just one of a number of related activities.
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Unit trusts are run by two separate companies , a trustee company, and a management company.
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A maintenance agreement with the owners of the site or a management company will be necessary.
consultant
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Bains quoted with approval the critical comments of the management consultants , McKinsey and Co.
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Dubroff, a management consultant who lived in San Mateo, subsequently married another woman.
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Even management consultants have found a role in environmental consulting.
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Even students in art history and philosophy are getting hired by management consultants , Sanborn said.
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That was the warning to the conference from Peter West, health economist with Touche Ross management consultants .
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Furthermore, there is no management consultant to call if things go awry.
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The delivery of these services varies country by country, and involves the accounting practice, management consultants and sometimes third parties.
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Hale hired a management consultant who had experience in state government, Babak Armajani, as her deputy.
crisis
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It must be borne in mind that there is a crucial distinction between crisis management and crisis resolution.
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Its defenders claim that to create the impression of progress is in itself a vital part of crisis management .
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They find themselves indulging in crisis management and employing stopgap solutions and holding operations.
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These concepts emphasise class, crisis management and bureaucracy.
database
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If and when the agreement is finalised with Tetra, for example, it will probably include a database management system.
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Massive database management may be one area that could be dominated by optical technology.
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Sybase Inc., a maker of database management software products, fell 2 3 / 4 to 28 3 / 4.
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It is proposed that the oracle database management system will be used for such purpose.
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Integrating technologies resulted in a successful field test. Database management systems are currently host-resident on conventional computers.
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The Claris software can be used for word processing, graphics, database management and spreadsheet analysis.
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In liaison with the Operations Manager, to review database management and data preparation activities, and examine operational issues and procedures.
information
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Improved management information and decision-making processes are required as well as less uncertainty and change.
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The areas discussed in these five sections have provided a framework which helps to understand the basic dimensions of management information .
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The authors now propose a checklist against which readers might evaluate the introduction of a management information system in their own institutions.
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What were the key sources of management information ?
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Improvements in management information systems should parallel improvements in scientific computing.
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So the service offers a payment system and a management information system rolled into one.
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Wellcome therefore adopted a different approach to meet this problem and developed a separate management information system using extracts from the address.
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The new financial management software is more powerful and flexible and is capable of providing a wide range of management information .
level
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During this time you will have developed the personal credibility to communicate persuasively at top management level .
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Lomb plans to cut about 35 management level jobs and sell one of its two corporate airplanes.
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At least ten years experience at senior management level .
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Lomb plans to cut about 35 management level jobs.
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It impressed no-one at corporate management level .
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An outside problem can sometimes be helped by, say, more flexible working hours and so be resolved at management level .
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Most of the part-time farmers in that area worked in Teesside, many at management level .
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Decisions at the Operations management level can frequently be made automatically.
line
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These were often displaced nurse managers who no longer had line management responsibilities at district level.
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The rest were added to the hard-working ranks of our third organizational constituency: staff / line management .
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Some say they were unaware of the full impact of the new line management structure when they met to discuss it.
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Staff in these Departments considering additional computers are at liberty to submit suggestions through line management in the usual way. 3.
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It also recognises that day-to-day business and executive authority is vested in line management .
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Meetings were held with the nursing officer and health visitor line management .
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It is a process that forces line management to consider their operational priorities and also allows for decentralized decision-making.
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If you feel your workplace is causing you to suffer ill-health effects, then notify your line management .
network
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We will conclude with tactical considerations of network design, performance evaluation, and network management and security techniques.
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This effectively creates a limited number of entry points into the backbone and simplifies network management .
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This database could be networked using proprietary network management software or other systems.
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As a result, enterprise networks , distributed network management , and unusual software applications were implemented in parallel worldwide.
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It is an extension of the company's OS/2 network management products.
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Version 3.0 also helps with network management by relocating and balancing files.
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The new network management protocol will now become a Request for Comment.
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The two companies have also announced an agreement to co-operate on local network management technologies.
project
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Essentially the company is a project management operation.
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Using project management to help yourself is actually pretty simple.
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There is also a diploma programme which specialises in project management .
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As I was doing the project management part of my presentation today it hit me like a ton of bricks.
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The broadest practical division is into functional management and project management and this book is about the latter.
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The first step in project management is to set a measurable objective.
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The three functions just described also have responsibilities in the field of project management .
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Just like the first step in project management .
quality
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They considered the traditional areas of training and those incorporating strategic business change, corporate learning and total quality management .
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Third, some challenges require many existing people to learn to work very differently Consider total quality management .
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Most companies insist on demonstrable quality management procedures before they will contract work at all.
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As a result of its total quality management program, a manufacturing firm we worked with experienced a significant increase in business.
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This presents either a threat or an opportunity to law firms, depending on their attitude to quality management .
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And the group specifically emphasized the pitfalls to be avoided by any firm adopting quality management techniques.
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On local training evenings, several topics are covered including project management , quality management, creative thinking and body language.
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What other dimensions must it have to make it a key to a successful quality management system?
resource
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Control may also be achieved through resource management , such as social insurance schemes or payment of retainers or fees for service.
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This is particularly important in the resource management context. 8.
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Human resource management emerged in the 1980s to compensate for these shortcomings.
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They waxed lyrical on the virtues of introducing business-like methods and improving resource management .
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Don't expect Schedule Express to go into the fine details of resource management .
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This does not mean that it is simply an exercise in resource management .
risk
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Several have human resources consultancies, while Eversheds recently set up a risk management consultancy.
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Mr Wilson, 41 years old, had been general manager of risk management .
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Computer system users can not control risk management decisions, but suffer big losses when inadequate protection fails to avert catastrophe.
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He became the risk management director and its labor relations chief.
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Finally, beyond a certain degree of complexity, a means for formally auditing the complete risk management process will be required.
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Our International Trading business is a leader in applying risk management techniques to the buying and selling of crude oil and products.
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Mr Dickie is one of a growing band of marketing consultants, advising farming companies on risk management .
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Table 2 lists managements practices which have been found to correlate with effective risk management.
skill
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These management skills had been learnt through observation of other sisters rather than from formal management courses.
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Homemakers improve their food and nutrition knowledge, food shopping and budget management skills , and dietary practices.
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If it comes with the appropriate management skills it's a lot easier to raise the capital.
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Changing consumer shopping patterns and lack of food management skills at the company subsequently led to below-expected results.
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However sources at Next claim Tribble lacked management skills and suffered a vote of no confidence prior to his departure.
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Career advancement and annual bonuses depended more on developing and deploying strategy skills than change management skills.
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Another strand of my job was to teach management skills to local health workers.
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You may be a newly appointed manager who needs to acquire management skills quickly.
software
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The new financial management software is more powerful and flexible and is capable of providing a wide range of management information.
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FileNet plans to buy Saros, another document management software company, for 2. 22 million shares.
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A niche, for the purposes of practice management software , is any combination of a client and a location.
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Software Systems: Software for telephone companies; computer data management software for scientific community and others using large amounts of data.
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This database could be networked using proprietary network management software or other systems.
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Landscape management software - report on seminar 23 April.
structure
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Some say they were unaware of the full impact of the new line management structure when they met to discuss it.
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They interviewed all department employees to find out their concerns, then incorporated them into the management structure of the new district.
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As the trend toward a flatter management structure and worker empowerment continues, production managers will increasingly perform the role of facilitators.
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The Review Meeting discussed areas of staffing, management structure , holidays and many other issues.
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New staff roles dictate new management structures .
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There were efforts to democratize school management structures , encouraged by the establishment of communal villages and co-operatives.
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We hear so much talk about cost effectiveness yet every time the management structure changes, resources are wasted on needless things.
style
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There is no substitute for a planned management style .
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At the same time, it is important for you to do a quick management style check.
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Comments expressed in the survey revealed that a return to traditional manufacturing techniques and management styles would not be welcomed.
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My review of the Honda management style started with the Accord plant in Marysville.
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However, we need to be aware that. individuals respond differently to different types of management style .
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Therefore, this book contributes to the dialogue on the interaction between our national competitiveness and our traditional management style .
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Norms are influenced by organizational factors such as policies, management style of superiors, and rules and procedures.
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You look at how your bosses ran things and see a lot of different management styles .
system
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The future for the student management system is clear.
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And building it leads directly to the issue of management systems .
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Log files are kept for every log-in session for every student management system user.
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Our big problem is our management system and old practices.
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However, there is a class of data management systems where all operations are initiated by simple commands.
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Bosses need to take a critical look at their entire management system .
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An information management system to manage the distribution of information.
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To remedy these defects a new student management system was designed and introduced in stages from 1980-81.
team
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Its secret is quite simple - it has a clear strategy, effectively implemented by a quality management team .
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The Kings management team did the worst thing possible by making no move.
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To insist on this would cancel out the mature, trustful, open and continually self-reviewing benefit of a good management team .
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Viacom has named seven executives to the management team .
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The joint venture will be equally owned by the two partners and will be managed by an autonomous management team .
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Even the management team behaved in exactly the same manner.
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It was, he said, essential that the new owners keep the 80-strong management team in place.
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A management team takes time to build up.
technique
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They find, for example, that management techniques and problem-solving procedures are readily transferable to the school situation.
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The model will be examined in detail in the next chapter, which deals with working capital management techniques .
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This may be due to parental management techniques but may also be due to the temperamental state of the child.
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Management reform Chapter 4 briefly reviewed various management techniques that have been tried and then abandoned by government.
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And the group specifically emphasized the pitfalls to be avoided by any firm adopting quality management techniques .
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They needed, therefore, a greater awareness of financial management techniques .
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Teamwork and unselfish dedication owe more to oriental culture than to any particular management technique .
■ VERB
provide
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Furthermore, authority-wide training units are likely to provide management training and are well suited to do so.
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Core provides medical-care management and evaluation services.
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Your management company provides management services to your operating companies and charges them for those services.
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First, by removing entrenched collective bargaining arrangements embodied in nationalisation legislation it has provided management an opportunity to restructure employee relations.
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Of course, we also provide practical project management training from the shop floor up.
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Record cards should be provided by management and salespeople encouraged to use them as part of the sales plan before each visit.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a management decision
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a course aimed at improving management skills
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Franklin runs a management consulting firm.
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Senior management seem to be completely out of touch with their staff's needs.
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Talks between the workers and the management broke down today.
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The management felt this was the right decision.
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The failure of many small businesses is caused by bad management .
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The Forest Service is preparing a new forest management plan.
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There has been a recent change in management at the restaurant.
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Ueberroth won praise for his management of the Los Angeles Olympics.
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Val has finished college and is looking for a job in management .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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By this time we had grown weary of heart-to-heart chats with senior management .
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Case management benefits both the ill employee and the employer.
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Encouraging the profession to adopt practice management standards invites the same question about the Society itself.
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It examines the relationship between fertility histories and household labour availability, and the consequences for labour intensive techniques of environmental management .
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Like Cockburn, Hoggett stresses the links between changes in the organization of local government and those of capitalist management .
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Recruitment of top management appears to be through two circuits, but with a predominantly one-way flow.
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Some companies have dispensed with the middle management function altogether.
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You would certainly need convincing that they were going to change their management practices.