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"Balanced, practical risk management for post-financial crisis institutions. A Risk Professional's Survival Guide fills a critical gap left by existing risk management texts. Instead of focusing only on quantitative risk analysis or only on institutional risk management, this book takes a comprehensive approach. The disasters of the recent financial crisis taught us that managing risk is both an art and a science, and it is critical for practitioners to understand how individual risks are integrated at the enterprise level. This book is the only resource of its kind to introduce all of the key risk management concepts in a cohesive case study spanning each chapter. A hypothetical bank drawn from elements of several real world institutions serves as a backdrop for topics from credit risk and operational risk to understanding big-picture risk exposure. You will be able to see exactly how each rigorous concept is applied in actual risk management contexts. Fundamentals of Risk Management includes: Supplemental Excel-based Visual Basic (VBA) modules, so you can interact directly with risk models Clear explanations of the importance of risk management in preventing financial disasters Real world examples and lessons learned from past crises Risk policies, infrastructure, and activities that balance limited quantitative models This book provides the element of hands-on application necessary to put enterprise risk management into effective practice. The very best risk managers rely on a balanced approach that leverages every aspect of financial operations for an integrative risk management strategy. With Fundamentals of Risk Management, you can identify and control risk at an expert level"--

There is a gap in the literature linking waste management practices to social theory. This paper attempts to bridge this gap through a study of waste management practices in Ala Ajagbusi village, Nigeria. The study explores how members of households in Ala Ajagbusi handle waste. The relevant themes of the empirical findings are categorized and linked to a social theory, Michel Foucault&rsquo ; s governmentality. The aim was to investigate how members of the households handle and make sense of their waste management practices. This research adopts a qualitative approach and is inspired by phenomenology. These are the bedrocks upon which the data collection methods are chosen and the interview questions are informed accordingly. The results show that villagers collectively, every week in a rotational manner, sweep their households, dispose of, and burn waste in public spaces. Villagers walk some miles from their households before they can empty their waste receptacles. Sometimes waste management behaviours are adjusted to seasonal variations. The findings also show that the villagers have no engagement with the state and local government concerning waste management. The results are linked to social theory to understand the waste management behaviours of villagers in Ala Ajagbusi.

Introduction: the hallmarks of successful academic health science center leadership / Steven A. Wartman and Stewart Gabel -- Academic health science centers in the new world order: optimizing structure and governance for high performance / Jean E. Robillard -- Organizational structure, data, and academic health science center transformation / Robert I. Grossman and Robert Berne -- Contemporary challenges in academic health science center financial management / Jeffrey R. Balser, Edward R. Marx, and John F. Manning -- Conflicts of interest and commitment: policy making in the academic health science center / Raymond J. Hutchinson, Sanjay Saint, and James O. Woolliscroft -- Regulation, accreditation, and the compliance function / Cynthia E. Boyd and Larry J Goodman -- Human resources and personnel management / Harold L. Paz, Billie S. Willits, Deirdre C. Weaver, and Sean Young -- Trainee and student policy / Wilsie S. Bishop and M. David Linville Jr. -- Faculty accountability / Stephen Smith and Peter Davies -- Developing and implementing a communications philospy and supporting policies / William F. Owen, Jr. and Lee Miller -- Community relations / Barbara Atkinson, C.J. Janovy, and Marcia Nielson -- Academic health science centers and global medicine / D. Clay Ackerly, Krishna Udayakumar, Alex Cho, and Victor J. Dzau -- Afterword: "a most complex invention" / Richard I. Levin and Steven A. Wartman.

How much more security is being generated by the NATO/EU capability initiatives and what new formulas can produce greater output? Although the EU has become a net exporter of security and its members have a potentially wide security palette at their disposal, coordination and cooperation is at best embryonic, and often merely symbolic. This paper assesses the substance of military and civilian capability initiatives by both NATO and the EU, the development of EU instruments and capabilities, the prospects for a strategic EU-US partnership, and identifies the major challenges and opportunities in increasing European capabilities for conflict prevention and crisis management. The paper argues that the main opportunities for increasing European capabilities lie in expanding national and functional coordination and cooperation within Europe, enhancing the EU's strategic decision-making capabilities, developing the spectrum of European civilian and military crisis-management capabilities, and establishing new pragmatic cooperation mechanisms between the EU and NATO.

Overview of ANSI/AIHA Z10-2012 -- Achieving acceptable risk levels : the operational goal -- Innovations in serious injury and fatality prevention -- Human error avoidance and reduction -- Macro thinking : the socio-technical model -- Safety professionals as culture change agents -- The plan-do-check-act concept (PDCA) -- Management leadership and employee participation : section 3.0 of Z10 -- Planning : section 4.0 of Z10 -- Implementation and operation : section 5.0 of Z10 -- A primer on hazard analysis and risk assessment : sections 4.2 and 5.1.1 of Z10 -- Provisions for risk assessments in standards and guidelines : sections 4.2 and 5.1.1 of Z10 -- Three- and four-dimensional risk scoring systems : sections 5.1.1 and 5.1.2 of Z10 -- Hierarchy of controls : section 5.1.2 of Z10 -- Safety design reviews : section 5.1.3 of Z10 -- Prevention through design : sections 5.1.1 to 5.1.4 of Z10 -- A primer on system safety : sections 4.0, 4.2, 5.1.1, 5.1.2 and appendix F -- Lean concepts : emphasizing the design process : section 5.1.3 of Z10 -- Management of change : section 5.1.3 of Z10 -- The procurement process : section 5.1.4 of Z10 -- Evaluation and corrective action : section 6.0 of Z10 -- Incident investigation : section 6.2 of Z10 -- Audit requirements : section 6.3 of Z10 -- Management review : section 7.0 of Z10 -- Comparison : Z10, other safety guidelines and standards, and VPP certification.

AbstractFor most Canadian technology‐based industrial product companies, the continuous and successful utilization of new technologies is critical to competitive success and profitability. The implementation of free trade will make this even more important. From a global competitive perspective, the range and rate of development of new technologies is incredible and accelerating. Many of these technologies require massive investments, long gestation periods, and involve high levels of technological complexity and uncertainty. Many are proprietary in nature. Given these global realities, it is unlikely that most Canadian companies can compete based solely on technologies they internally develop. The rapid adoption of emerging new process and product technologies will be the most important point of competitive strategic beverage for successful companies. The research program "GENERATING PROFIT FROM NEW TECHNOLOGY" (GPNT) is in progress at the National Centre for Management Research and Development. This program has focussed much of its research agenda on the management problems and opportunities of successful adoption of new technologies across a wide situational spectrum; not just "high technology" companies. This article reports some current findings and perspectives from studies funded in this important management area, and suggests areas where further research is needed.RésuméPour la plupart des entreprises canadiennes liées à la production technologique, l'utilisation continue et fructueuse de nouvelles technologies est un élément critique de sa compétitivité et de sa profitabilité. La mise en place du libre échange rendra ces facteurs encore plus importants. Dans une perspective de concurrence globale, l'étendue et le taux de développement de nouvelles technologies accélèrent de façon remarquable. De nombreuses technologies impliquent des investissements massifs, de longues périodes de gestation et des niveaux de technologies complexes et incertains. Nombreuses sont celles qui sont de nature privée. Compte tenu de ces réalités globales, il est improbable que la plupart des compagnies canadiennes puissent s'avérer des concurrents efficaces sur la seule base des technologies qu'elles développent à l'interne. L'adoption rapide de nouveaux procédés émergents et de nouvelles technologies de production constituera l'élément le plus important des leviers stratégiques pour les compagnies qui réussiront. Le programme de recherche Generating Profit from New Technology (GPNT: générer des profits à partir de technologies nouvelles)≫ se développe au Centre national pour la gestion de la recherche et le développement. Ce programme a concentré l'essentiel de son activité sur les problèmes de gestion et les opportunités d'adoption fructueuse de nouvelles technologies à travers une vaste gamme de situations, et pas seulement les compagnies ≪high‐tech≫. Cet article met en évidence quelques résultats et perspectives récentes à partir d'études financées dans ce domaine important de la gestion et suggère des domaines de recherche.

Although project team members play crucial roles in projects, they often do not possess the required mastery of project management methodologies. As a result, dialog between project managers and team members is not as effective as it can be and can quickly become a source of stress and tension. Empowering Project Teams: Using Project Followership to Improve Performance improves on this situation by presenting the project environment from the perspective of project team members. Re-interpreting project management methodologies and behaviors using a bottom-up approach.

Objectives: This study aims to identify the styles of conflict management in public and private enterprises in Kosovo, measure their impacts on organizational performance, and thus fill the gap that exists between the applied style and the one that has the most impact on performance. Methods: The study used the quantitative method to answer the research questions. The study participants included 100 public and 100 private sector managers. Findings: In the private sector, the most commonly used style is compromise, while the avoidance style is the least adopted. In the public sector, managers use the dominating style for conflict management while using the obliging style the least. According to the OLS model, the obligating style explains organizational performance in the private sector, while organizational performance is explained more by the compromising style in the public sector. Novelty/improvement: This research contributes to an in-depth understanding of the association of organizational performance with conflict management styles in the private and public sectors of Kosovo. It shows through a comparative approach that organizational performance improves drastically by selecting the appropriate style of conflict management. Doi: 10.28991/ESJ-2022-06-04-07 Full Text: PDF