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- a set of step-by-step instructions designed to ensure that a task is efficiently and consistently performed. Procedures regulate the conduct of an organization's activities and...
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- Try the Consensus Approach for More Effective Meetings
- Think the venerated Robert's Rules of Order are the last word for running meetings? If you're not satisfied that you're getting everyone on the same page, maybe it's time to ditch parliamentary procedure and try a different approach. Lawrence Susskind, who wrote "Breaking Roberts Rules," says parliamentary...
- Blog posts 2008-06-11
- Conducting an Internal Audit
- The internal audit is an essential—and now much discussed—part of business. The Institute of Internal Auditors, an international association of internal auditors, offers this definition: “An independent, objective assurance and consulting activity designed to add value and improve an organization’s operations. It helps an organization accomplish its objectives by bringing...
- Articles 2007-11-15
- Do Your Organisation's Measurements Support Its Goals?
- The most obvious source of organisational performance measures are the stakeholders. In staking out a position in the marketplace, responding to competition and the environment, the organisation crafts and attempts to implement a strategy. Thus organisational strategy, missions and goals are another source of performance measures. The procedure is to...
- White papers 2006-04-12
- How to Stop Harassment: The Professional Construction of Legal Compliance in Organizations
- Between the mid-1970s and the late 1990s, American employers adopted sexual harassment grievance procedures and anti-harassment training in droves. Neither case law nor legislation supported these practices, and lawyers advised that grievance procedures could backfire, putting employers at risk of liability. Where did these strategies come from and how did...
- White papers 2006-01-30
- Design and Operational Aspects of Flight-Deck Procedures
- In complex human-machine systems, training, standardization, quality assurance, and actual operations depend on an elaborate set of procedures. This paper examines the issue of procedurization from two different, yet related, aspects: the overall design process of procedures and operational considerations. The design process and operational considerations resulted from cockpit observations,...
- White papers 2005-08-02
- Procedures in Complex Systems: The Airline Cockpit
- In complex human-machine systems, successful operations depend on an elaborate set of procedures which are specified by the operational management of the organization. These procedures indicate to the human operator in this case the pilot the manner in which operational management intends to have various tasks performed. The intent is...
- White papers 2005-08-02
- Many Factors Fuel Continued Cosmetic Surgery Boom
- The paper highlights that cosmetic surgical procedures jumped 24 percent between 2002 and 2004, despite an economy growing at a slightly slower pace. The "high water" mark for plastic surgery procedures continues to grow ? although the types of procedures being done are changing in many cases, along with the...
- White papers 2005-06-01
- Effect of Variability in the Interpretation of Coronary Angiograms on the Appropriateness of Use of Coronary Revascularization Procedures
- Evidence from numerous studies of coronary angiography show differences between observers' assessments of 15% to 45%. The implication of this variation is serious: If readings are erroneous, some patients will undergo revascularization procedures unnecessarily and others will be denied an essential treatment. They evaluated the variation in interpretation of angiograms...
- White papers 2005-02-03
- Shelter Fallout
- From the executive summary: ‘Experts suggest that the risks for law-abiding companies in recent years have also climbed. According to tax experts, even companies that scrupulously adhere to the tax code are now more likely to face government scrutiny. As regulators cast a bigger net, they will inevitably haul in...
- White papers 2004-11-01
- Storm Warning: Big Changes Approaching in PCI
- From its humble beginnings in 1977 as standard balloon angioplasty, Percutaneous Coronary Intervention PCI procedures now include techniques such as coronary artery stents, angiojet, and rotoblator. Of all of the PCI procedures, coronary artery stenting now accounts for 80% of all performed. Stenting, the process of inserting and scaffolding a...
- White papers 2004-08-10
- Alliances And Negotiations
- Negotiations often occur not between individuals but among groups (companies, trade unions, political parties, etc.) each representing composite interests, whose bargaining behaviour is regulated by some collective decision mechanism. In this paper we provide a natural model of such circumstances. We formalise the notion of 'alliance' and show how different...
- White papers 2004-07-01
- Virtual Key Life Tests Of Instrument Panels For Product Development
- Visteon has developed a CAE procedure to qualify instrument panel IP products under the vehicle key life test environments, by employing a set of CAE simulation and durability techniques. The virtual key life test method simulates the same structural configuration and the proving ground road loads as in the physical...
- White papers 2004-01-23
- Guideline on Procedures for Change Orders
- There are many reasons for issuing a change order on a construction project. As the number of change orders on a project increases, so does the possibility of misunderstanding among the contracting parties. The paper presents procedures that can be recommended to owners, architects, contractors, and subcontractors to minimize the...
- White papers 2003-10-31
- Dynamic Estimation of Freeway Weaving Capacity for Traffic Management and Operations, Phase II
- This report presents an adaptive procedure to estimate the time-variant capacity at consecutive weaving areas in real time. The proposed procedure uses the volume/occupancy data commonly available from single loop detectors and estimates the maximum total volume that can enter a given freeway-weaving segment through time. The behavior at several...
- White papers 2003-07-01
- Final Rules Implementing Section 326 Of The USA Patriot Act For Banks: Customer Identification Procedures
- On May 9, the United States Department of the Treasury (“Treasury”) and the federal banking agencies released a joint final rule to require certain financial institutions to establish procedures to verify the identity of new accountholders (68 Fed. Reg. 25090, the “Final Rules”). The Final Rules implement section 326 of...
- White papers 2003-06-02
- With State Legislatures Trying To Extend Concepts Of SOX, Let?s Not Get Too Comfortable Just Yet
- A recent Act directs the Securities and Exchange Commission SEC to adopt rules regarding inclusion of procedures for financial reporting in the internal control report of the company. This way the Act seeks to properly document and institutionalize these procedures. However, the paper argues that certain new nuances of the...
- White papers 2003-05-30
- A Model for Disclosure Controls and Procedures Required by the Sarbanes-Oxley Legislation
- One of the most critical compliance problems presently facing public companies is the design and implementation of disclosure controls and procedures to which CEOs and CFOs can comfortably certify with respect to quarterly and annual reports filed for periods ending after August 29, 2002. This article suggests one example of...
- White papers 2003-05-08
- Strategies For Successful Hiring: Common Sense Interviewing Techniques
- Dowling College faculty librarians, working in a team-based department, have developed an almost foolproof interview protocol to use with job applicants. After analyzing the requirements and necessary skills for the open position, they create open-ended questions that are then asked of each candidate. The streamlined procedure facilitates the interview, ensures...
- White papers 2003-04-10
- Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Section 404 Implementation Of Internal Control Procedures: One Company’s Approach
- The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 contains provision regarding inclusion of procedures for financial reporting in the internal control report of the company. This way the Act seeks to properly document and institutionalize these procedures. The paper examines this provision and discusses the implementation of internal control procedures.
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 - Disclosure Controls and Procedures
- Final rules under Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act became effective on August 29, 2002. These rules require that the chief executive officer and chief financial officer of each company filing periodic reports with the SEC certify that they have established and maintain "disclosure controls and procedures" with respect to...
- White papers 2003-01-01
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