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Aviation Safety: Error Management Versus Safety Compliance, 2002.
A look at the concepts and differences between error management and safety compliance in relation to aviation accidents.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 26.95
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This essay explains the difference between Error Management and Safety Compliance in aviation accidents. Error Management, it is argued, provides a greater likelihood for proactive outcomes when errors due occur. Because errors and accidents are impossible to eliminate, EM is premised on a complex information gathering system that allows those involved in accidents to better understand what happened. It creates a more intervention-focused environment for crew, and avoids issues of blame and punishment, and thus provides the crew with a different responsibility for error prevention.
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Error Management, 2007.
This paper offers a summary and critique of the article 'On Error Management: Lessons from Aviation' by R. Helmreich.
854 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 30.95
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The writer notes that in the article, 'On Error Management: Lessons from Aviation', the author makes a direct comparison between those in the field of aviation and those in the medical field. He notes that both doctors and pilots operate in similarly complex environments. The writer points out that both experience a variety of risk levels dependent on the environment and, both are committed to safety. However, there are many differences between the two professions. In this essay, the writer discusses the article. The writer concludes that the aviation industry not only tries to learn from mistakes, but also tries to predict ways to prevent mistakes before they happen, which is a valuable lesson that industries, such as the medical profession, could learn from.
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Summary of the Article
Personal Critique and Lessons Learned from the Article
References
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"In both professions, human error is a major factor in accidents. Physicians and pilots alike suffer from fatigue, excessive workload, lack of communication, imperfect information processing, and flawed decision making. Both fields also require teamwork to be successful, and ineffective teamwork, sometimes due to interpersonal conflicts amongst team members, can lead to disaster, in the case of aviation, or patient death, in the case of the medical profession. However, unlike the medical profession, aviation utilizes their mistakes as a learning tool to prevent future accidents. Error management strategies allow aviation to discover the nature of what conditions precipitated an accident, and how best to prevent this error from happening again. Helmreich describes lessons that can be learned from the aviation industry and be applied to the medical field."
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"13 Fatal Errors Managers Make and How You Can Avoid Them", 2002.
A review of the business management book "13 Fatal Errors Managers Make and How You Can Avoid Them" by E. Steven Brown.
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 1 source, $ 71.95
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This paper is a review of the book "13 Fatal Errors Managers Make and How You Can Avoid Them" by E. Steven Brown which lists 13 fatal errors and shows how to avoid them while also saying much about management and business in general.
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American Airlines Management Errors, 2004.
Case study and analysis of tactical and political errors in the management of American Airlines.
3,379 words (approx. 13.5 pages), 16 sources, MLA, $ 96.95
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This paper determines the core problems of American Airlines in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks. While the company seemed to be suffering from a liquidity shortfall, data suggests that the company problems were due to the overall crisis sweeping through the industry. The paper also examines certain major issues involving management, competitiveness, and effectiveness, which resulted in the replacement of the company?s executive officer.
Background
Challenge
Problems
An Outdated Business Model
Inadequate Location Planning
Notorious Capacity Planning
Adverse Marketing and Consumer Reorientation
Outcome
Transformation
Reducing Labor Costs
Increasing Efficiency and Raising Productivity
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"For the airline industry as a whole, September 11th was not only a change ? it was a devastation for capital models, marketing practices, and operations techniques. Reducing costs and increasing productivity became priorities. When he woke up on September 12, 2001, Donald Carty, CEO at the time, should have probably realized that he had a new business to run. Extra issues had come up that had to be resolved and future plans were uncertain. It was a brave new world out there and only those, who were quick with changes, could retain profitability in the long run. AA started off fairly well. Ten days after the crashes, AMR Corp. announced plans for 20,000 layoffs in American, in addition to cuts in schedule amounting to 20% of flights . Furthermore, the airline also closed almost all of its city ticket offices and six of its fifty Admirals Clubs, while Carty declared that he will forgo his $10 mln. pay and bonuses for 2001, in order to help the carrier with ?the tremendously difficult challenges ahead? ."
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Risk Management: Medication Errors, 2005.
Examines errors in drug administration in the health care industry.
1,300 words (approx. 5.2 pages), 7 sources, APA, $ 43.95
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This paper discusses risk management at hospitals and medication errors that occur. It shows what hospitals can do to correct the problem with computer based order entry and education.
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"This resource provided to the rounding physicians, fellows, residents, and interns provides on the spot educational resources during rounds and decreases the risk of medication errors by providing correct dosing, drug-drug interactions, appropriate medications for treatment of disease and possible patient outcomes on the chosen medications. These methods of correction have decreased the order writing errors at facilities throughout the nation. These actions have addressed the percentage of errors in the order writing, transcribing, and dispensing phases of the medication process."
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Law Enforcement and Time Management, 2006.
A look at how time is an important factor in police force activities and stress management strategies.
1,469 words (approx. 5.9 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 48.95
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This paper explains that time management issues are an extremely important part of managing stress levels in the field of law enforcement. The paper further explains that effective time management techniques on the management level can serve to manage stress levels while simultaneously raise the effectiveness of crime fighting and minimize police errors. The paper also points out the various aspects of time management within policing agencies and suggests several effective time management strategies for implementation.
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"Another factor that plays a large role both in time and stress management is the rapid advancement of technology, both in law enforcement and society at large. Law enforcement agencies have been obliged to keep pace with changing technology in order to fight an increasingly sophisticated criminal mind. Furthermore, policing has become much more accessible to the community at large in terms of communication and information. There are both advantages and disadvantages connected with this."
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Crisis Management at Odwalla, Inc., 2002.
This paper discusses crisis management by Odwalla, Inc., a natural, unpasteurized fruit juice company, after a fatal outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 in their apple juice.
1,315 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 44.95
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This paper explains that although most small companies would never have survived an E. coli crisis, Odwalla weathered the storm and is now the subject of a best practice studies on crisis management. The author points out that Odwalla was not innocent and committed major management errors: Significant flaws in its safety procedures, poorly maintained citrus-processing equipment, an insular culture without a clear system of corporate checks and balances, no internal oversight procedure and a board of directors comprised of business friends of its founder. The paper reports that some of the crisis management included the company accepted full responsibility for the crisis, in all interviews with the media, expressed sympathy and regret for all those affected and promised that the company would pay all medical costs.
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"Most importantly, Odwalla took steps to stop the problem that had caused the E. coli contamination in the first place. The company admitted that its neglect of pasteurization had been wrong and moved quickly to introduce a process called ?flash pasteurization? which could guarantee that E. coli had destroyed while maintaining better flavor that pasteurization. Odwalla also invested $1.5 million in new safety procedures within a year of the recall. Today, the company adheres to a Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points program that exceeds FDA requirements, tests every batch of juice for purity, performs daily microbiological tests, and leads the charge for higher government standards across the juice industry. While Odwalla?s public relations campaign was a success, it?s important to remember that the company was guilty of criminal charges of selling tainted apple justice and was fined $1.5 million, the largest ever assessed by the FDA. Odwalla accepted responsibility for the poisonings by portraying itself as unaware of the health dangers of unpasteurized juice, but this doesn?t appear to be the case. Nonetheless, the public responded favorably to Odwalla?s highly lauded crisis management tactics."
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Knowledge Management, 2005.
A paper assessing concepts contributing to effective knowledge management.
2,708 words (approx. 10.8 pages), 11 sources, MLA, $ 81.95
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The paper discusses how the need for active knowledge management in numerous companies is understood and accepted. The paper examines how often, in practice, this understanding is misconstrued to a false belief that sophisticated and expensive information technology (IT) suffices for good knowledge management. The paper further examines how success, deemed as a firm's ability to generate sustainable growth and profits, is determined not only by knowledge management but intricately linked to the humans who seek straight forward business solutions and constructively counter challenges.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Trial and Error
Taming an Unprofitable Mass
Knowledge Management Basis
Tackling Details
Moving Forward
On Demand Value
Hot Wash Recommended
Conclusion
References
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""A hot wash," a quick and immediate rundown of events conducted at the end of a project; event; session can capture the lessons for future use. New lessons or knowledge can be managed by e-mailing to staff members and details archived on intranet. Stoll (2004) stresses that hot washes provide "one of the simplest yet most effective knowledge-management practices to incorporate into operations, and they offer some of the largest rewards.""
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Total Quality Management, 2004.
An extensive analysis of the productivity improvement of line workers in a private company by using Total Quality Management (TQM) principles.
10,583 words (approx. 42.3 pages), 60 sources, MLA, $ 211.95
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This paper focuses on the aspect of Total Quality Management and its application to line workers in a corporate for profit organization. The paper examines how TQM principles can motivate line level employees in a corporate environment to be more productive and compare this with line employees who are not lead by TQM methods. The paper reviews the concepts of extent of training and education of the workforce that is needed, performance measures used and productivity increase within the facility, employee motivation and empowerment requirements and industry competitiveness and market tolerance of quality.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 Statement of the Problem
1.2 Methodology
Chapter 2: Literature review
2.1 Concepts of Quality Management
2.2 Importance of Worker Participation and Motivation
2.3 Training & Communication
2.4 Knowledge Management in TQM
2.5 Leadership in TQM
2.6 Quality Management and Product Sales
2.7 Chapter Summary
Chapter 3: Methodology
3.1 The Selection of a Non-Data Collection Methodology
3.1.1 Methods Used for Data Collection
3.1.2 Importance of Quasi Studies and Statistical Requirements
3.1.3 Errors in Data and Methods of Rectification
3.2 Descriptive Thesis Study Methodology Adoption
3.3 Summary
Chapter 4: Research Findings
4.1 Impact of TQM in Organizations
4.2 Summary
Chapter 5: Summary, Recommendations and Conclusion
5.1 Conclusion
5.2 Recommendations
5.3 Summary
Chapter 6: Bibliography
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"Total Quality Management (TQM) has been defined by Juran as "a structured process for establishing long-range goals, at the highest levels of organization, and defining the means to be used to reach those goals" (Juran, 1992) Shores identifies the management functions of commitment, leadership, customer focus, total organizational participation and the constant systematic analysis that are required to ensure that the TQM systems are effective in organizations. (Shores, 1990) TQM is observed to have a positive impact on the performance of the organization and the competitive. When used as a strategic business tool to improve productivity of the organization and the quality of the product created, the benefit gained from the implementation is very far-reaching. (Escrig-Tena, 2004)"
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The EBS/EBPS Advanced Management System, 2002.
This paper analyzes the EBS/EBPS advanced management system, which was conceived to standardize, economize and effectively manage the procurement and bidding process for government entities.
3,520 words (approx. 14.1 pages), 13 sources, APA, $ 98.95
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This paper identifies some of the causative factors, system identifiers, possible solutions, tools, and recommendations for improving, without retooling or redevelopment, the EBS/EBPS system. The author believes that the current system is too costly in time, money, and manpower despite the perceived and demonstrated inherent value to such a system. The author points out that the advent of the personal computer has reduced the drudgery and alleviated many of the error prone aspects of estimating and lists many recommendations for improving the system by using the computer.
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Executive Summary
Introduction
General Discussion of the Background of Bidding
Problematic Nature of Current (Manual) System
Scope and Limitations of EBS Studies
Methodology
Information Collection - History
Information Collection ? Process Methodology for EBPS
Applied Tools
Advanced Management Analysis Tools and Techniques
Analysis
Objectives
Enterprise Integration
Discussion
Recommendations
Appendices
Take-off Viewers
Dictionary
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"Procedures for handling IFBs (invitations for bids) are also subjective when they must be objective. The information included in the IFB must be complete and uniform for all bidders without display of preferential selection, the procedures for submitting bids must be standardized as much as possible, the requirements for opening and evaluating bids and awarding contracts must be clear and unambiguous, and two-step sealed bidding procedures must be monitored and managed uniformly across all divisions."
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The Six Sigma Quality Management System, 2002.
A description of the quality management system developed by Motorola in the 1980's and now widely used in industry.
2,015 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 63.95
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Six Sigma is an influential quality management system that first appeared in the mid 1990s. Six Sigma aims to increase customer satisfaction and profitability by reducing variability and errors. The paper explains the concept of quality management and describes the different quality management systems currently in use. It then details the development of Six Sigma and describes the methodology that underlies the system.
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"Six Sigma has the key disadvantage of requiring a large initial investment in infrastructure and training. Further, Six Sigma has been seen to stifle the creativity that is necessary for revolutionary improvements in business processes. These disadvantages are more than balanced by the advantages of the method, which include being a mature theory that is rooted in business fundamentals, focusing on profitability, and the ability to act as a stand-alone quality management system. "
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Performance Management, 2004.
A discussion of the theory and practice of performance management motives.
1,771 words (approx. 7.1 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 57.95
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This paper demonstrates how organizations have to put enormous effort to motivate their employees and staff to recognize organizational goals. It examines how performance management can be acquired mainly through trial and error, just where the limits of the controllable accomplishments lie. It looks at how the four most reliable earmarks of strong performance management motives are setting hard but achievable goals, following them persistently, resuming the cycle whenever a goal is attained, and hunting for dependable signs that the path will achieve success.
Outline
Introduction
Beware of Bogus Motivation
Pumping Up Enthusiasm
Making People Happy
Motivational Cookbooks
Motivating with Bribery
The Real World
Communication is a Vital Asset
Conclusion
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"The second fake procedure of the word motivation connects it with paternalism, kindness, and generosity. Employers now and then give people plenty of things that they like in anticipation of getting a quid pro quo. This is the Santa Claus manner to motivate people: if a manager showers his employees with goodies, conceivably they will do a little labor for him in exchange. For instance, if the manager provides posters, picnics, discounts, as well as dinners, finance cafeterias and managers who have been to charisma school. The manager provides company newspapers, as well as magazines, softball teams and bowling leagues, as well as even Christmas parties for the children. The proposal is to make work enjoyable (Bernardin & Beatty, 1994)."
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Self-Care Management, 2008.
This paper examines the theory of self-care management for vulnerable populations, particularly for those afflicted with sickle cell disease.
2,199 words (approx. 8.8 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 68.95
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The paper looks at the self-care management theory that seeks to mitigate the circumstances of the vulnerable population through a positive approach to the symptoms of the disorder. The paper focuses on sickle cell disease and explores the five intra-personal factors that can empower the less privileged of society with the personal tools to combat their afflictions. The paper compares the practical application of the theory to similar theories. The paper contends that the research is as sound as it is extensive, but in the practical application of the theory there may be fatal errors.
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Theory Description
Theory Critique
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"This theory proposes methods and strategies to increase health and quality of life for members of vulnerable populations afflicted with Sickle Cell Disease. The vulnerable population is defined as members of social groups that experience a functionally lower level of health care due to lack of resources. (Dorsey & Murdaugh p. 43) Membership in this disadvantaged social group is typically predicated by being a person of color, living in poverty, those marginalized due to sexual preference, immigrant status or religion. Additionally non-English speaking individuals, people with AIDS, and homeless families are general members of this social group. (Dorsey & Murdaugh p. 43)"
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Aviation and Crew Resource Management, 2005.
A look at how aviation has lead the way for both research and implementation of automation and the effect it has on communication and human error.
3,327 words (approx. 13.3 pages), 16 sources, APA, $ 95.95
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This research paper explains why the aviation industry should serve as a model for the production of similar research and also the implementation of tools, such as Crew Resource Management (CRM), into other areas that demonstrate public representations of life or death potential, such as medicine. The paper suggests that CRM could be an important tool for the international implementation of effective communications among high stress workers in any field, especially considering the level of research that is available for the cultural impact of differences in national identity.
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"One of the greatest, developments within aviation is automation. Automation has been a part of aviation far longer than it has been a part of any other industry or cause, and aviation has been multi-cultural since the first flight across the Atlantic. In light of the recent global changes in aviation, after recent terrorist acts, there is a much greater international need for a culture of safety that alleviates the rational fears of the public. Challenges of international collaboration are now more important than ever. The challenges of automation and especially the cross-cultural issues of it are the ways in which pilots and mangers view automation and how they use it. The challenges to the aviation industry are trendsetting in the field of human and computer interaction, almost before the complex ideas of technological advance and its time and energy saving effects were devised."
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