Should teachers be treated like professional football players, whose salaries, job security, and other perks are determined almost exclusively based on individual performance metrics, regardless of the quality of their management, stadiums, equipment, coaching, practice facility, the quality and ambition of their fellow players, their level of fan support, age, health, competition, weather, whether they primarily play indoors or outdoors, or sundry other factors that might empirically affect their performance?
Even Joseph Juran, one of the two American post-war germinators of the quality idea (the other was W. Edwards Deming), considered that quality circles were pretty useless if the company's management was not trained in the more general principles of total quality management.
In January 2010 the company earned ISO 9001:2008 certification of its quality management processes.
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But shareholders are more interested in what all of this says about the quality of management further up the bank.
When selecting cloud service providers, enterprises should consider the rigor and application of these fundamentals in their evaluation process. the quality of management applied to any IT environment that drives good security.
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In addition, CSCO has several signs of high-quality management: a top quintile return on invested capital ( ROIC) of 18%, few asset write-downs (less than 10% of net assets), and a compound annual growth rate for NOPAT of 26% over the past 10 years.
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Quality of corporate governance including risk committee and audit committee effectiveness and quality of disclosures by management to those board committees.
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Once they factor in rising shipping and transportation costs, the addition of increased quality control and the management of unreliable fulfillment dates, they may find that they're not actually saving any money.
International donors and lenders continue to be concerned about the quality of fiscal management and Gambia's debt burden.
Quality of management, not business models, is better at explaining the difference in performance between banks.
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When a local firm is acquired by a multinational, the quality of its management tends to rise.
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Facebook, meanwhile, has questions over the quality of its management team, said Mark Mahaney, formerly an analyst at Citi.
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His three professed principles were to deliver promptly on promises, to avoid layoffs and to make certain that his employees trusted the quality of management's leadership.
He couldn't care less about the quality of management inside his companies (how do you quantify that?) or about who will win U.S. presidential elections or whether hemlines are headed up or down.
After using MOSAIC scores and rankings as our initial guide, the Forbes team personally debates the merits and blemishes of individual companies, evaluating the strength of management teams, quality of investors, past growth, product strength and market potential to produce a final list.
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But, since they expanded so fast, the quality of their risk management has not been tested by a market downturn.
No children were deemed at "immediate risk" but the report said failings in case recording, quality of practice and management oversight led to "some children being inadequately protected".
Audit Integrity looks beyond the raw data that companies report in their income statements and balance sheets to more than 100 factors that help it assess the true quality of accounting and management practices.
Yesterday, over 100 leaders from across the country came to the White House to join Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano for a discussion about how to make our schools, institutions of higher education, and houses of worship safer through the creation of high-quality emergency management plans.
Final document of the Forum (Forum Recommendations) that constitutes policy recommendations for further development of legal framework, improving management, funding and quality of adult education in Uzbekistan was drafted and adopted by Forum participants.
They include water supply and sewerage, including abstraction and impounding of water, resources management, water quality, the water industry, water charges, safety of reservoirs and so on.
In industries where public safety must be ensured, engineers and technicians depend on different versions of this widely recognized quality-management system.
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An external report into the trading losses, which was completed this week, contains sharp words about the quality of NatWest's management.
The former boss of Coca-Cola's Mexican operation, whose 58th birthday fell on election day, talks of infusing government with total quality management and tracking it with performance indicators.
It is not just enough to improve the quality of the teaching standards, as was done in the past, it is also important to improve the overall quality of school leadership and management to allow teachers to become more effective in their roles.
Yesterday, the White House Rural Council hosted a Native American Food and Agriculture Roundtable Discussion, bringing together tribal leaders and experts on Native American agricultural economic development with Administration officials from the White House Domestic Policy Council, National Economic Council, Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, Council on Environmental Quality, and federal agency partners including the Departments of Agriculture, Interior, Commerce, Treasury, and the Small Business Administration.
Pupils' achievements, the quality of teaching and leadership and management were also described as inadequate.
As testament to the quality of the firm's management, 64 Indian executives work in Unilever offices worldwide.
In April, Ofsted criticised the quality of teaching, leadership and management.
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