Bristol and Bath and North East Somerset councils said they had slimmed down management rather than reducing salaries.
For example, most CEOs have little difficulty with a top-down management style and expecting their directives to be executed.
Inherently social organizations use the power of mission and self-organizing over top-down management principles governing large-scale initiatives of the past.
Reckitt puts its success down to management, marketing and the positioning of its brands.
But remember, these days, your plan needs to do more than just align objectives to a budget handed down from management.
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After a revolt by shareholders of Club Med in 1997 Mr Trigano and his son Serge, who had become chief executive, stood down from management.
Our research in goal management, for example, shows that companies which revisit their goals quarterly generate nearly 3X the return of companies that implement top-down goal management annually.
To minimize the excessive risks of the stock market and keep down investment management costs, we can invest the funds from all the individual retirement accounts as a pool, mirroring the way that the assets of a traditional pension fund are invested.
You could argue that many of Railtrack's problems were simply down to bad management.
"I think it's coming down to the management of the situation itself within the stadium, " he said.
The BBC recently announced it would reduce the pay of its top executives and slim down its senior management.
People who are let down by claims management companies (CMCs) will be able to go to the Legal Ombudsman.
Clearly a lot of Cardiff's success is down to good management.
On November 25th he had stepped down from the management board and announced that he was moving to London to run Kleinwort from there.
Back in the 1940s, the public services were top-down in their management - like so much else at the time, and this remained too entrenched thereafter.
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President of the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions, Bobby Carson, said the announcement was a "devastating blow" to workers across the company, from its management down.
"From the beginning, we have been talking with PLDT, from the top management down to the technical people, to make sure we don't run into problems, " says Globe president Jun Berba.
I'm not saying it's the Holy Grail, but Network Magic presents a well-designed tool set for the home area network-it's a scaled down corporate network management program written specifically for the Home-Area Network (HAN).
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The unemployment situation is precarious, as "anything from Washington that might seem negative for business may spook management into slowing down expansion efforts and inventory replenishment, " says Marc Lowlicht, wealth management division head at Further Lane Asset Management .
"The management team down there has made improvements, " said agency spokeswoman Debbie Graves Ratcliffe.
Innovation was being forced to slow down to allow the management hierarchy to catch up, creating a severe culture clash.
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And it feels, to me, like the commissioner is just not coming down as hard on management as he has on the players.
Newmont management broke down the most recent quarter during a mid-morning conference call with analysts following the late-Thursday release of its third-quarter earnings report.
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Perhaps a lot better, since our scheme gets your portfolio management costs down to a small fraction of the 1.5% or so that stock funds charge on average.
Unlike British banks, HSBC and Barclays, Allied Irish did not get a boost from buoyant investment bank earnings, with revenues from asset management, investment banking and wealth management all down.
Tom Steyer announced in a letter to investors Monday that he will be stepping down from Farallon Capital Management, the hedge fund he founded in San Francisco in 1986.
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Vineet Nayar is chief executive officer of HCL Technologies, the India-based global information technology services company, and author of Employees First, Customers Second: Turning Conventional Management Upside Down (Harvard Business Press, June 2010).
In the video below, Nayar, who recently released the book Employees First, Customers Second: Turning Conventional Management Upside Down, outlines four simple steps companies can take to implement this philosophy and reap the revenues in return.
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"Management are bearing down upon workers who are ill, " said CWU branch secretary Stephen Bell.
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