But this must be complemented by organizational improvements such as a change of management, revision of standard practices and even downsizing, a necessary but painful measure for many companies.
The Elysian hotel in Chicago, which opened in December, has adopted a no-tipping policy, a move that breaks with standard practices across the high-end- and luxury-hotel market, says the head of a trade association.
Overrewarding employees ranges from protecting employees from natural consequences, excusing them from standard practices, making exceptions to prop up their performance, to outright promoting them in spite of outlandish past behavior or history with the company.
If employers continue to rush to buy workplace wellness programs, they will soon find themselves doing what the health care system itself has done for so long, to its great detriment: consecrating standard practices without clear evidence drawn from sound analytics.
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An investigation by Bayreuth University found the 39-year-old had "grossly violated standard research practices and in so doing deliberately deceived".
Daly coaxed plant managers to develop standard printing practices so that U.S. directory publishers wouldn't know the difference between a job done in Dwight, Illinois, and one in Greeley, Colorado.
Therefore, fuel buyers that rely on manual processes, spreadsheets, and sub-standard industry practices risk buying a load of fuel on the high end of a price swing every other day.
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Currently, Chrome follows standard industry practices to resolve Web addresses: Chrome sends a request to the underlying operating system which reaches out to another computer on the Internet known as a DNS server.
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Rolland was among the first to help popularize practices now standard in the industry, including sterilization of equipment and the pruning of vines to reduce yields (thus improving quality).
Similarly, the proposition that Eximbank has obtained genuinely dedicated income streams to amortize the loans through escrow account arrangements does not measure up to standard commercial banking standards and practices.
The FDA is very demanding and has a standard set of Good Manufacturing Practices to which all ingredient manufacturers as well vitamin or supplement manufacturers using these ingredients must comply to.
In addition, a gold standard provides a transparent set of practices to keep the promise.
Daly had coaxed plant managers to develop standard colors, paper weights and printing practices so that U.S. directory publishers wouldn't know the difference between a job done in Dwight, Ill. and one in Greeley, Colo.
Since there is no agreed-upon legal definition of best execution and probably never will be due to the rapidity with which securities trading is evolving, it is obviously impossible to evaluate trading practices for compliance with the standard.
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The Fed pointed to Standard Chartered's "unsafe and unsound practices".
And then there is the new generation of salaried staff physicians who want no part of the 80 hour work weeks that used to be standard fare when doctors ran their own private practices.
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Like most settlements related to Wall Street's questionable business practices, this one comes with the standard refrain that the companies neither admit nor deny the findings.
Practices, which has become the industry standard for sustainability.
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The system of homogenised best practices stimulated efficiency but it also blocked deviations from the standard, consequently limiting the discovery of new innovations.
But the family rejected standard treatment, opting instead for a holistic medical treatment based on Native American healing practices called Nemenhah.
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In fact, apologizing has become such a standard operating practice among Silicon Valley's chief executives that public relations gurus have developed some "best practices" for all that begging and scraping.
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