Application Of Management Tools Research Articles

Herramientas de Gestión para la Optimización del Minado Subterráneo

The objective of this research work was to optimize productivity and reduce costs in mechanized underground mining operations; for which management tools such as TPM (Total Productive Maintenance) were applied, which made it possible to ensure the expected reliability of the equipment and Management Indicators (KPIs), contributing to greater effectiveness in operations and statistical tools to improve quality, Pareto charts and Ishikawa diagrams. A descriptive methodology consisting of the daily collection of data contained in the mine operations records, to analyze it and identify opportunities for improvement in each process, thus determining unproductive delays in drilling, ore cleaning and hauling. Among the results, it was identified that the availability of the H 357 drilling equipment had an increase of 6.80% after implementing management tools. It was also evident that productivity increased considerably in the effective working time of the Scoop measured in tons/hour, thanks to the implementation of TPM, from 79.90 to 85. Ultimately, the application of management tools allowed a philosophical change within the organization, guiding a more effective management of operations of the mining company.

Implementation of foreign experience on effective management of urbanization processes in Kazakhstan

The article is devoted to the study of modern trends in the process of urbanization management in developed countries and the development of recommendations on the application of management tools to the acceptable realities of Kazakhstan. The administrative processes of urbanization of the countries of Poland, India, China, Latin America, etc. were interesting and priority objects of research. The work was written on the basis of studying the development of cities and generalizing all the emerging connections as a single system. The information base of the study was the works of well-known foreign and domestic scientists on the topic of urbanization, as well as statistical materials and ratings of the countries of the world on the level of urbanization of the UN.A distinctive aspect of the study is the analysis of urbanization management in the countries of Poland, India, China, Latin America in relation to specific problems. The article gives the basic characteristics of the urbanization process in Kazakhstan, identifies the distinctive features and factors constraining the effectiveness of urban development management based on the works of Kazakhstani scientists and economists, which identified a number of key problems of the urbanization management process in our country.The results of the study are of a recommendatory nature, determining priority approaches to using foreign experience and adapting it to the realities of the Kazakh model, which can be considered when implementing urban development management programs by authorized bodies.

Discourses and Educational Initiatives for Developing Sustainability Competences of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development

Abstract The adoption of the logic of developing sustainable development (SD) competences in the business environment has grown both in the literature in the area and in business initiative programs. One player that emerges with the aim of assuming leadership in this process is the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). This article aims to answer the following research question: Are the WBCSD’s discourses and initiatives for developing sustainability competences spaces of various translations of corporate sustainability or a place for reaffirming logocentric and definitive discourses on the theme? For this, we analyzed the institutional documents (Vision 2050 and Action 2020) and carried out a series of on-site visits at the Brazilian and Portuguese BCSDs. In addition, we conducted a set of in-depth interviews with the managers and participants in the initiatives for developing sustainability competences (DSC). The data were analyzed according to the categories of Derrida’s deconstruction process. The analysis of the educational initiatives of the Brazilian and Portuguese BCSDs showed that they include the various discourses on corporate sustainability in their formative approach; however, logocentric and definitive thinking about the theme is reaffirmed in that the way the Vision 2050 guidelines are carried out is limited to the application of management tools.

Discourses and Educational Initiatives for Developing Sustainability Competences of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development

Abstract The adoption of the logic of developing sustainable development (SD) competences in the business environment has grown both in the literature in the area and in business initiative programs. One player that emerges with the aim of assuming leadership in this process is the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). This article aims to answer the following research question: Are the WBCSD’s discourses and initiatives for developing sustainability competences spaces of various translations of corporate sustainability or a place for reaffirming logocentric and definitive discourses on the theme? For this, we analyzed the institutional documents (Vision 2050 and Action 2020) and carried out a series of on-site visits at the Brazilian and Portuguese BCSDs. In addition, we conducted a set of in-depth interviews with the managers and participants in the initiatives for developing sustainability competences (DSC). The data were analyzed according to the categories of Derrida’s deconstruction process. The analysis of the educational initiatives of the Brazilian and Portuguese BCSDs showed that they include the various discourses on corporate sustainability in their formative approach; however, logocentric and definitive thinking about the theme is reaffirmed in that the way the Vision 2050 guidelines are carried out is limited to the application of management tools.

Кросс-функциональное взаимодействие и некоторые принципы сплочения команды сотрудников

The article aims to analyze cross-functional interaction and suggests several principles of the cohesion of a team of staff. The issues of cross-functional principles of interaction are currently quite a new phenomenon in company management and business environment, which involves co-working, mutually-connected activity of the staff from various departments, which has a potential to ensure fast and integral cooperation to achieve common goals. The author highlights different sides and multidimensional nature of cross-functional interaction. By relying on the academic work by national and international researchers the author arrives at the conclusion that the given interaction can be achieved by means of employees’ awareness of the significance of co-working and employers’ efficient application of management tools. The article provides examples of the managers applying principles conducive to ensuring cross-functional cooperation and team-building. The author comes to the conclusion that to create cross-functional interaction a special role is given to effective communication between departments, employees’ recognition of the reality that cooperation in a company is multifaceted and multi-track work.

Tools for managing childcare in the postoperative period of cardiac surgery: an integrative review.

To analyze the scientific literature on the application of management tools in the postoperative period of pediatric cardiac surgery. integrative review including studies published between 2004 and 2018 in the following databases: LILACS, BDENF, coleciona SUS, MEDLINE/PUBMED, CINAHL and SCOPUS, via Portal de Periódicos da Capes, Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) and Academic Google research. Twelve articles that met the inclusion criteria were analyzed. The studies demonstrated that strategies such as extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, renal replacement therapy and the risk scores for Risk Adjustment for Congenital Heart Surgery 1 and Aristotle Basic Score favored the stratification the demand for care and predicted the risk for mortality. The applicability of risk scores and emerging strategies for the management of childcare in the postoperative period of cardiac surgery was described by the evaluation of possibilities of performance and/or efficiency of the treatments developed.

Benthic habitat modelling and mapping as a conservation tool for marine protected areas: A seamount in the western Mediterranean

Abstract An ecologically representative, well‐connected, and effectively managed system of marine protected areas (MPAs) has positive ecological and environmental effects as well as social and economic benefits. Although progress in expanding the coverage of MPAs has been made, the application of management tools has not yet been implemented in most of these areas. In this work, distribution models were applied to nine benthic habitats on a Mediterranean seamount within an MPA for conservation purposes. Benthic habitat occurrences were identified from 55 remotely operated vehicle (ROV) transects, at depths from 76 to 700 m, and data derived from multibeam bathymetry. Generalized additive models (GAMs) were applied to link the presence of each benthic habitat to local environmental proxies (depth, slope, backscatter, aspect, and bathymetric position index, BPI). The main environmental drivers of habitat distribution were depth, slope, and BPI. Based on this result, five different geomorphological areas were distinguished. A full coverage map indicating the potential benthic habitat distribution on the seamount was obtained to inform spatial management. The distribution of those habitats identified as vulnerable marine ecosystems (VMEs) was used to make recommendations on zonation for developing the management plan of the MPA. This process reveals itself as an appropriate methodological approach that can be developed in other areas of the Natura 2000 marine network.

Elementos determinantes e impactos da adoção de instrumentos de administração da performance no setor público: Estudo comparado entre os municípios de São Paulo e Osasco

The article in question discusses the adoption of performance management tools in the public sector, discussing the contexts in which they arise and the impacts generated by them. It will be used two cases of study, the municipalities of Sao Paulo and Osasco, both in the state of Sao Paulo/Brasil, which rely on the performance management mechanisms. Each case comes in a given context, which influence the implementation and monitoring mechanisms adopted. It was observed that, in the case of Osasco, the adoption of management contracts appears as a manifestation of a mimetic and normative isomorphism, while in Sao Paulo the isomorphism happens at a coercive order. Such analysis is relevant to collaborate on understanding the influence of contexts in the application of management tools, making possible to build future scenarios for such tools.

Developing a conceptual framework to analyse professionalization in sport federations

Existing research on sport organizations is imprecise in the use of the concept of 'professionalization’. Furthermore, we do not know if analytical concepts of professionalization correspond with the understanding in practice. This study explores the perceptions of practitioners and proposes a framework to analyse professionalization in national sport federations. Expert interviews were conducted with six key people from Swiss national sport federations and then analysed these for characteristics of professionalization using a hermeneutic approach. The characteristics were divided into three areas: (1) changed management philosophy, (2) functional differentiation and specialization, and (3) application of management tools. However, professionalization is primarily perceived to be a matter of 'professional' attitude that transforms into federation culture. The practitioners disclose an ambivalent view of professionalization, e.g. business-like culture vs. voluntarism, for-profit vs. non-profit orientation, autonomy vs. control. A framework is developed that synthesizes analytical concepts and practitioners’ perceptions to support future comprehensive research into causes, forms and consequences of professionalization in national sport federations.

A longitudinal analysis of the knowledge and application of sustainability management tools in large German companies

The operationalisation of sustainability on the corporate level is recognised to be a management task and implies the choice and application of management tools. Although researchers have proposed a large number of sustainability management tools in the literature, little is known about their acceptance and implementation. This paper extends the existing literature on the dissemination of tools. It discusses which sustainability management tools are known and applied in practice, and conducts a longitudinal analysis based on three empirical surveys among large German companies carried out in 2002, 2006 and 2010. One important result is that the knowledge and the application of sustainability management tools are positively related. Furthermore, the application of sustainability management tools has increased throughout the period of the surveys. A main conclusion drawn from the empirical results is that increased knowledge, for example through the promotion of approaches and professional education, may be a driver of more frequent application and the dissemination of sustainability management tools, and may foster sustainable development.

Ecological Principles Underpinning Invasive Plant Management Tools and Strategies

The broad focus of ecologically based invasive plant management (EBIPM) is to identify and repair the major ecological processes facilitating plant invasion. To be useful, however, EBIPM requires that our application of management tools and strategies be based on ecological principles that determine the rate and direction of plant community change.1 As a working de ni- tion, we can view ecological principles as factors that in uence the relative abundance of desired and invasive plants. For example, one widely identi ed principle may be that more- frequent and intense res favor the spread of invasive, annual grasses over native, perennial grasses. The formulation of this principle is based on detailed knowledge of the differences in seed production, growth rate, and life history of these spe- cies groups. However, we can also think of certain weeds and native plants where this principle may not hold. What this means is that ecological principles are not xed rules but, in- stead, are rules that hold under certain sets of conditions. In the above example of invasive annual grasses and re cycles, these conditions are set by the physiological, developmental, and morphological differences commonly observed between invasive, annual and native, perennial grasses. DOI: 10.2458/azu_rangelands_v34i6_james

Culture, management accounting and managerial performance: Focus Iran

Abstract Modern management and control systems may not be equally effective in every country. Budget participation is one of the effective tools in western nations. However, management control tools, in general, and budget participation, in particular, could be ineffective or even dysfunctional in other environments. Hofstede (1980) had suggested that cultural differences among countries are influencing factors. In this study, we investigate the impact of culture, budgetary participation, and management accounting systems on managerial performance in Iran. Three-way analyses of variance are used separately for each of the four cultural Hofstede dimensions. We find convincing evidence that the application of management tools and techniques developed in western countries for effective management performance is not as useful in the Iranian context.

The ethical and theoretical context of corporate governance

The paper investigates the foundations of corporate governance. It traces the current practical problems of corporate governance to the epistemological and ethical problems of the current mainstream management theory. Management theory has gradually been subverted by economism, an ideological and extreme version of mainstream economics. The paper isolates and discusses the three axioms of economism which are deemed to be especially problematic for management/corporate governance theory. The three axioms are: the assumptions that humans always follow the rational principle, that value-free research and application of management tools is possible, and that theory takes primacy over reality. These axioms plus what has been called the “gloomy vision” create a theory of management which is amoral and which in turns leads to immoral and dysfunctional corporate governance.

Benchmarking operations to promote learning: an internal supply chain perspective

Despite the widespread discussion of organisational learning, there is little scholarly contribution on promoting learning through the practical application of management tools. This is especially true in a complex internal supply chain context of an organisation. This paper seeks to address this gap by exploring and analysing the capability of the benchmarking tool to promote learning in the internal supply chain context of a large organisation. A longitudinal in-depth case study of a project that benchmarked the filling and packing internal supply chain with its internal and external interfaces was conducted within the German chemical company BASF. Four key management areas were identified to facilitate learning during a benchmarking project: knowledge management, change management, project management, and leadership. This research proposes a set of propositions combining benchmarking and learning within the context of internal supply chains that are grounded in the empirical data and the extant learning theory.