(2003) 667–676 www.cleanerproduction.net The use of Environmental Management Accounting (EMA) for identifying environmental costs Christine Jasch ∗ ¨ Institute for Environmental Management and Economics‚ IOW‚ Rechte Wienzeile 1915‚ A-1040 Vienna‚ Austria Received 28 August 2001; accepted 27 June 2002 Abstract The Expert Working Group on “Improving the Role of Government in the Promotion of Environmental Management Accounting (EMA)” was set up by the United Nations Division for Sustainable
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The quality of health care remains an ongoing concern for consumers‚ payers‚ and policy makers. There are a number of national initiatives to measure quality and drive improvements in care. One initiative that has received significant attention is an effort by a group of purchasers known as the Leapfrog Group. (Sultz and Young) Founded in 2000‚ the Leapfrog coalition includes more than 65 employers and agencies that together purchase care for more than 34 million people. The Leapfrog Group has focused
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October 14‚ 2010 | Human services organizations have a mission to help improve the quality of life for those who need their services. If congress passes the bill to regulate the terms and conditions in which certain environment standers that makes human services organization run effectively and efficiently will cause the delivery of service to be complex and bureaucratic and will potentially reduce the quality
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"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it." (Eisenhower as cited in Wiki Quote‚ 2005).Studies has shown through trying to identify or evaluate the difference among great leaders‚ mediocre leaders‚ and poor leaders. Today the eminent truth remains that now more than ever global success depends on skilled leader. (Friedman 2005) is quoted as saying‚ “Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies
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QUALITY CIRCLES IN MANAGEMENT INTRODUCTION: Ensuring quality is a big challenge among companies especially the start-ups. One way to achieve quality standards is to motivate employees to focus more on quality as it improves profit ‚improves quality and saves time‚ Thus companies came up with the concept that Participative methods in the workplace are one way to improve both the work environment for employees and productivity and quality for the company .This has lead to the evolution
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Patient Safety/Quality Care/Improvement Case Study 1. Overview of what are medical errors and possible consequences of such errors? The Institute of Medicine (IOM) defines medical errors as “the failure of a planned action to be completed as intended or the use of a wrong plan to achieve an aim.” Medical errors do not all result in harm or injury. Medical errors that cause injury or harm are sometimes called preventable adverse events – that is the injury is thought to be due to a medical intervention
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1980s‚ a new concept entered managerial discourse: Total Quality Management (TQM). TQM was heralded by governments‚ major corporations and the business media as the most effective and elegant way out of the economic crisis and into the global market. TQM claimed not to be a set of techniques but a philosophy of management (Sashkin and Kiser‚ 1993). Some commentators have argued that TQM is little more than an attempt to enhance management ’s control over labour (Delbridge et al.‚ 1992; Sewell and
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14‚ 15 1. Briefly describe the difference between sequential engineering and quality by design (or concurrent engineering). Sequential engineering‚ as the name suggests‚ was completed in a sequential manner. Each step in the process was completed independent of the other steps and production is passed down the line with the preceding step unaware and unconcerned with problems that may arise. Quality by design or concurrent engineering requires that all major steps in a process are
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A Summary of “Newfoundlandese If You Please‚” Diane Mooney captures the diverse language of the Newfoundlanders in her essay “Newfoundlanse‚ If You Please”. She explains how the language has evolved and the different way of speaking in all the communities of Newfoundland. The Southern part of the Island is mostly predominant by the Catholic-Irish and they have a unique “dialect”. On the other side of the Island‚ live the Anglicans-Irish and their speed of speaking makes even harder to understand
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Total Quality Management – Assignment 1 “It is not necessary to change‚ survival is not mandatory” Evaluate the key developments in Total quality management within the context of changing business requirements. WE Deming was a quality guru of the 20th century. Deming was of the belief that if companies constantly measured and improved their processes‚ they would achieve higher quality and also higher productivity. I believe from this quote Deming is implying that success is not always
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