noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a management committee
▪ The scheme will be overseen by a management committee.
a management consultant (=one who advises a company how to improve its management)
▪ The company employed management consultants to help with their strategy for the future.
a management/research/sales etc team
▪ The design team has come up with a few ideas.
crisis management (=dealing with a crisis)
▪ Most of my job consists of crisis management.
forest management (=controlling the way a forest grows and is used)
▪ The main aim of forest management is timber production.
line management
management buyout
management consultant
management skills
▪ She needs to develop her management skills.
management structure (=the way managers of a business are organized)
▪ Reform of the management structure was needed.
management techniques
▪ He praised their management techniques.
managerial/management expertise (=skill at managing people at work)
▪ Does he have the management expertise required to make the department more productive?
middle management
risk management
senior management
▪ Within the week senior management approved her proposal.
stress management
▪ Some patients may benefit from being taught stress management skills.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bad
▪ Lack of training? Bad management?
▪ But once again, our attempt to prevent bad management made good management impossible.
▪ I think the root cause was bad management ... I would have had the same problem had I been black.
▪ This is simply the result of bad management, past and/or present.
▪ What I and my friends put down to evil witchcraft, my enemies are likely to attribute to incompetence or bad management.
▪ And to come in and turn it upside down would make no sense, that would be bad management.
▪ This is almost always caused by bad wound management.
▪ They are likely always to complain less about bad financial management than about pupil assessments.
effective
▪ It all adds up to a better deal, for your managers, your training budget and for effective corporate management development.
▪ The overall result will be more effective management of medical costs.
▪ The need to incorporate non-teaching staff into all aspects of effective institutional management. 8.
▪ Term Structure of Interest Rates Effective management of financing sources requires an understanding of the relationship between short-term and long-term interest rates.
▪ The following points were made: There was recognition of the need for effective management of campaigns.
▪ More importantly, we can supply patients with their results so that they can see how effective their personal management has been.
▪ Gold salts are highly effective in the management of patients with rheumatoid arthritis, most adverse reactions being mild and reversible.
financial
▪ The financial management of community care funds to be transferred from both social security and health authorities. 3.
▪ In Los Angeles, a doctor was terminated from a health care plan based solely on a business and financial management analysis.
▪ It is also important to note, at the outset, the distinction between financial accounting and management accounting.
▪ Alsop entrusted the financial management of the family assets to a cousin, who disappeared with most of them.
▪ The new financial management software is more powerful and flexible and is capable of providing a wide range of management information.
▪ Effective control of this circulating capital is one of the most important functions of financial management.
▪ Strategic and personnel management, and many aspects of financial management are obvious exceptions.
▪ The firms have taken over many of the financial and information management jobs that companies used to do in-house.
general
▪ Most felt that patient services had, if anything, declined under general management - although not necessarily because of general management.
▪ Second, the profile and responsibilities of management had been raised through the introduction of general management throughout the service.
▪ A glance around the London hotel scene shows examples of plenty of exceptional women who have made it to general management.
▪ There are very different interpretations and models of general management and different approaches to studying the field.
▪ On Tuesdays it is mainly jobs in accountancy and general management.
▪ He is now responsible for the general management of the restaurant with 47 employees.
▪ For that reason it was probably in those districts where consensus management had worked well that general management succeeded most.
good
▪ It goes hand in hand with good management and is essential for any job!
▪ There is an important lesson to be learned here-a lesson in good program management.
▪ However, you do need to select a good fund management house, and to find suitable high-quality funds for your money.
▪ How did a plant in trouble be-come a high-performing plant with good management / employee relations in just three years?
▪ Lessons from the past Since the 1960s the impact of good management at school level has been increasingly clear.
▪ All these results could have been achieved simply with good management.
▪ Conclusions - An increased use of diagnostic imaging for pyloric stenosis did not lead to earlier diagnosis or better management.
▪ Yeah, this makes good management sense.
local
▪ Quality assurance must be integrated into local health care management functions. 3.
▪ It is for the local management of the service to determine the most effective deployment of resources to meet performance targets.
▪ But in central government, Next Steps Agencies and local government, management is increasingly buying-in from the private sector.
▪ The delegation of responsibility for local management is being introduced alongside National Curriculum and testing.
▪ Why is that superior simply to having better efficiency through greater local management?
▪ Nevertheless, even the opposition recognises the qualitative change in local management and planning, and its potential.
middle
▪ Information is now provided for various Government departments and senior and middle management throughout the organisation.
▪ At the other extreme, you might distinguish only among top management, middle management, and the front lines.
▪ Again, it was the middle management ranks that suffered the severest cuts.
▪ Gordon is in customer support for a large computer company so heavy in middle management that he hardly ever works.
▪ This aggression may be projected on to others, e.g., middle management, or turned back upon himself.
▪ The post-independence generation is already in middle management positions.
▪ Perhaps the greatest deficiencies in the relationship between education and industry occurred in the training and recruitment of middle management.
▪ Basic middle management functions still have to be done.
new
▪ Glenn Hoddle. New to management, but wise to the footballing game.
▪ I have structured the book to give you a similar experience, particularly with respect to the ten new management principles.
▪ Under new management, and with widespread team changes, they have certainly improved.
▪ The reality of reengineering has begun to gnaw away at those who had earnestly embraced this newest form of management self-improvement.
▪ Such lands would certainly have been subject to reorganization under new management.
▪ The new management group was scared.
▪ The new financial management software is more powerful and flexible and is capable of providing a wide range of management information.
▪ Success requires you to adopt the ten new management principles.
senior
▪ Two-thirds had attended a school visit which would have required organisation by senior school management.
▪ By this time we had grown weary of heart-to-heart chats with senior management.
▪ For example, in one senior management group the chairman could not abide conflict.
▪ As chapter 11 is so bad for senior creditors, management and shareholders have a big advantage.
▪ For instance, we could press for an integration of social work values in senior management and social work teaching.
▪ The final step is to submit the proposal to senior management for a decision on its acceptability.
▪ The various possible structures have been discussed with senior management in the Exchequer Division.
▪ The emergence of curriculum teams in primary schools and senior management teams in secondary schools indicates the potency of the concept.
top
▪ During this time you will have developed the personal credibility to communicate persuasively at top management level.
▪ To replace this expertise, top managements have turned to outside management consultants.
▪ This includes the top management of the organisation as well as departmental staff.
▪ How do you see top management here-do they work fairly well together as a group?
▪ Large companies still seem to be finding it increasingly difficult to retain top management.
▪ People saw themselves as being totally dependent on top management.
▪ Difficulties may arise if your company has recently undergone a change in top management, perhaps following a take-over of the business.
▪ This presented Sir Adrian and his top management team with a dilemma.
waste
▪ Chairman Nicholas Hood described the regulated business as performing well, with its waste management company boosting profits to £3.2m.
▪ Once upon a time waste management was purely a matter of public health.
▪ It is clear that Third World countries share many needs and problems of hazardous waste management with developed countries.
▪ But waste management, I predict, will become an important issue in the next general election.
▪ They must be able to plan adequately for sufficient waste management capacity to serve their industrial base.
▪ Local communities are often unwilling to reflect rising costs of waste management in higher local taxation.
▪ If this aspect of space flight was not the most convenient then the solid waste management was even worse.
■ NOUN
buyout
▪ Read in studio Workers at a piano factory threatened with closure have been demonstrating in support of a management buyout.
▪ During the 1980s, the phrases leveraged buyout and management buyout echoed all over Wall Street.
▪ Mr Ethrington had no association with the management buyout team when he was advising the Government.
▪ Funds are used for start-ups, for expansion and second stage growth, and often for management buyouts of an existing company.
▪ Caradon was floated in July 1987 with a market value of £134m following a £61m management buyout from Reed in 1985.
▪ Read in studio One of the oldest parts of Robert Maxwell's collapsed empire has been revived by a management buyout.
▪ Evans was a product of another classic 1980s business - the management buyout.
▪ In 1987, he organised a £57 million management buyout of Pontins, then owned by Bass.
care
▪ Care management Legal problems have also dogged some innovative experiments within the care management pilots the city is running.
▪ This overview sets out the origins of case management, its transformation into care management, and the principles guiding its practice.
▪ This potentially invaluable component of case management has become translated or obscured in the care management reforms.
▪ This will probably be one of the flash points as the new joint arrangements for assessment and care management become established.
▪ Representatives from out-patient teams played a more active part in stressful daily decisions about child care management.
▪ Like her boss, Boyle doesn't see why assessment and care management should be separated.
▪ It also examines the relation between care management and care programming and raises some questions about future developments in the light of community care reforms.
▪ Will local authority employees on community mental health teams operate care management while their colleagues operate care programming?
case
▪ There had to be very clear indications of joint working. Case management was one of the requirements.
▪ For work that is referred there is ongoing case management control, demanding a three- or six-monthly update on progress.
▪ This overview sets out the origins of case management, its transformation into care management, and the principles guiding its practice.
▪ This potentially invaluable component of case management has become translated or obscured in the care management reforms.
▪ The roots of case management lie in social case work.
▪ There are remarkable similarities between the strengths model of case management, and early casework models.
▪ The fee which is payable in all defended cases for case management directions is fixed at £80.
▪ The paper examines different models of case management in terms of organizational structure, content, and outcome assessment.
committee
▪ If they make a loss, management committees could be held liable personally under insolvency regulations for any such losses.
▪ We started by examining each pair of envelopes I had prepared for the various members of the management committee.
▪ However, that view is not shared by the House or, I believe, by the hon. Lady's management committee.
▪ Katherine having lunch with him after the management committee meeting last Wednesday.
▪ They covered six areas: advice giving, social policy, management committees, volunteers, fundraising and new technology.
▪ The League management committee also debated possible changes in league structure yesterday.
▪ The conference wished to clarify the role of management committees and review the suitability of the name of the committee.
company
▪ The day-to-day administration, however, is often left to professional management companies.
▪ No social security taxes are imposed on payments to a management company for management services.
▪ Chairman Nicholas Hood described the regulated business as performing well, with its waste management company boosting profits to £3.2m.
▪ He described 3D / I as one of the premier architectural and construction management companies.
▪ Now the theatre trust is seeking an management company to run it for them.
▪ The management company may be dedicated to the purpose or this activity may be just one of a number of related activities.
▪ Unit trusts are run by two separate companies, a trustee company, and a management company.
▪ A maintenance agreement with the owners of the site or a management company will be necessary.
consultant
▪ Bains quoted with approval the critical comments of the management consultants, McKinsey and Co.
▪ Dubroff, a management consultant who lived in San Mateo, subsequently married another woman.
▪ Even management consultants have found a role in environmental consulting.
▪ Even students in art history and philosophy are getting hired by management consultants, Sanborn said.
▪ That was the warning to the conference from Peter West, health economist with Touche Ross management consultants.
▪ Furthermore, there is no management consultant to call if things go awry.
▪ The delivery of these services varies country by country, and involves the accounting practice, management consultants and sometimes third parties.
▪ Hale hired a management consultant who had experience in state government, Babak Armajani, as her deputy.
crisis
▪ It must be borne in mind that there is a crucial distinction between crisis management and crisis resolution.
▪ Its defenders claim that to create the impression of progress is in itself a vital part of crisis management.
▪ They find themselves indulging in crisis management and employing stopgap solutions and holding operations.
▪ These concepts emphasise class, crisis management and bureaucracy.
database
▪ If and when the agreement is finalised with Tetra, for example, it will probably include a database management system.
▪ Massive database management may be one area that could be dominated by optical technology.
▪ Sybase Inc., a maker of database management software products, fell 2 3 / 4 to 28 3 / 4.
▪ It is proposed that the oracle database management system will be used for such purpose.
▪ Integrating technologies resulted in a successful field test. Database management systems are currently host-resident on conventional computers.
▪ The Claris software can be used for word processing, graphics, database management and spreadsheet analysis.
▪ In liaison with the Operations Manager, to review database management and data preparation activities, and examine operational issues and procedures.
information
▪ Improved management information and decision-making processes are required as well as less uncertainty and change.
▪ The areas discussed in these five sections have provided a framework which helps to understand the basic dimensions of management information.
▪ The authors now propose a checklist against which readers might evaluate the introduction of a management information system in their own institutions.
▪ What were the key sources of management information?
▪ Improvements in management information systems should parallel improvements in scientific computing.
▪ So the service offers a payment system and a management information system rolled into one.
▪ Wellcome therefore adopted a different approach to meet this problem and developed a separate management information system using extracts from the address.
▪ The new financial management software is more powerful and flexible and is capable of providing a wide range of management information.
level
▪ During this time you will have developed the personal credibility to communicate persuasively at top management level.
▪ Lomb plans to cut about 35 management level jobs and sell one of its two corporate airplanes.
▪ At least ten years experience at senior management level.
▪ Lomb plans to cut about 35 management level jobs.
▪ It impressed no-one at corporate management level.
▪ An outside problem can sometimes be helped by, say, more flexible working hours and so be resolved at management level.
▪ Most of the part-time farmers in that area worked in Teesside, many at management level.
▪ Decisions at the Operations management level can frequently be made automatically.
line
▪ These were often displaced nurse managers who no longer had line management responsibilities at district level.
▪ The rest were added to the hard-working ranks of our third organizational constituency: staff / line management.
▪ Some say they were unaware of the full impact of the new line management structure when they met to discuss it.
▪ Staff in these Departments considering additional computers are at liberty to submit suggestions through line management in the usual way. 3.
▪ It also recognises that day-to-day business and executive authority is vested in line management.
▪ Meetings were held with the nursing officer and health visitor line management.
▪ It is a process that forces line management to consider their operational priorities and also allows for decentralized decision-making.
▪ If you feel your workplace is causing you to suffer ill-health effects, then notify your line management.
network
▪ We will conclude with tactical considerations of network design, performance evaluation, and network management and security techniques.
▪ This effectively creates a limited number of entry points into the backbone and simplifies network management.
▪ This database could be networked using proprietary network management software or other systems.
▪ As a result, enterprise networks, distributed network management, and unusual software applications were implemented in parallel worldwide.
▪ It is an extension of the company's OS/2 network management products.
▪ Version 3.0 also helps with network management by relocating and balancing files.
▪ The new network management protocol will now become a Request for Comment.
▪ The two companies have also announced an agreement to co-operate on local network management technologies.
project
▪ Essentially the company is a project management operation.
▪ Using project management to help yourself is actually pretty simple.
▪ There is also a diploma programme which specialises in project management.
▪ As I was doing the project management part of my presentation today it hit me like a ton of bricks.
▪ The broadest practical division is into functional management and project management and this book is about the latter.
▪ The first step in project management is to set a measurable objective.
▪ The three functions just described also have responsibilities in the field of project management.
▪ Just like the first step in project management.
quality
▪ They considered the traditional areas of training and those incorporating strategic business change, corporate learning and total quality management.
▪ Third, some challenges require many existing people to learn to work very differently Consider total quality management.
▪ Most companies insist on demonstrable quality management procedures before they will contract work at all.
▪ As a result of its total quality management program, a manufacturing firm we worked with experienced a significant increase in business.
▪ This presents either a threat or an opportunity to law firms, depending on their attitude to quality management.
▪ And the group specifically emphasized the pitfalls to be avoided by any firm adopting quality management techniques.
▪ On local training evenings, several topics are covered including project management, quality management, creative thinking and body language.
▪ What other dimensions must it have to make it a key to a successful quality management system?
resource
▪ Control may also be achieved through resource management, such as social insurance schemes or payment of retainers or fees for service.
▪ This is particularly important in the resource management context. 8.
▪ Human resource management emerged in the 1980s to compensate for these shortcomings.
▪ They waxed lyrical on the virtues of introducing business-like methods and improving resource management.
▪ Don't expect Schedule Express to go into the fine details of resource management.
▪ This does not mean that it is simply an exercise in resource management.
risk
▪ Several have human resources consultancies, while Eversheds recently set up a risk management consultancy.
▪ Mr Wilson, 41 years old, had been general manager of risk management.
▪ Computer system users can not control risk management decisions, but suffer big losses when inadequate protection fails to avert catastrophe.
▪ He became the risk management director and its labor relations chief.
▪ Finally, beyond a certain degree of complexity, a means for formally auditing the complete risk management process will be required.
▪ Our International Trading business is a leader in applying risk management techniques to the buying and selling of crude oil and products.
▪ Mr Dickie is one of a growing band of marketing consultants, advising farming companies on risk management.
▪ Table 2 lists managements practices which have been found to correlate with effective risk management.
skill
▪ These management skills had been learnt through observation of other sisters rather than from formal management courses.
▪ Homemakers improve their food and nutrition knowledge, food shopping and budget management skills, and dietary practices.
▪ If it comes with the appropriate management skills it's a lot easier to raise the capital.
▪ Changing consumer shopping patterns and lack of food management skills at the company subsequently led to below-expected results.
▪ However sources at Next claim Tribble lacked management skills and suffered a vote of no confidence prior to his departure.
▪ Career advancement and annual bonuses depended more on developing and deploying strategy skills than change management skills.
▪ Another strand of my job was to teach management skills to local health workers.
▪ You may be a newly appointed manager who needs to acquire management skills quickly.
software
▪ The new financial management software is more powerful and flexible and is capable of providing a wide range of management information.
▪ FileNet plans to buy Saros, another document management software company, for 2. 22 million shares.
▪ A niche, for the purposes of practice management software, is any combination of a client and a location.
▪ Software Systems: Software for telephone companies; computer data management software for scientific community and others using large amounts of data.
▪ This database could be networked using proprietary network management software or other systems.
▪ Landscape management software - report on seminar 23 April.
structure
▪ Some say they were unaware of the full impact of the new line management structure when they met to discuss it.
▪ They interviewed all department employees to find out their concerns, then incorporated them into the management structure of the new district.
▪ As the trend toward a flatter management structure and worker empowerment continues, production managers will increasingly perform the role of facilitators.
▪ The Review Meeting discussed areas of staffing, management structure, holidays and many other issues.
▪ New staff roles dictate new management structures.
▪ There were efforts to democratize school management structures, encouraged by the establishment of communal villages and co-operatives.
▪ We hear so much talk about cost effectiveness yet every time the management structure changes, resources are wasted on needless things.
style
▪ There is no substitute for a planned management style.
▪ At the same time, it is important for you to do a quick management style check.
▪ Comments expressed in the survey revealed that a return to traditional manufacturing techniques and management styles would not be welcomed.
▪ My review of the Honda management style started with the Accord plant in Marysville.
▪ However, we need to be aware that. individuals respond differently to different types of management style.
▪ Therefore, this book contributes to the dialogue on the interaction between our national competitiveness and our traditional management style.
▪ Norms are influenced by organizational factors such as policies, management style of superiors, and rules and procedures.
▪ You look at how your bosses ran things and see a lot of different management styles.
system
▪ The future for the student management system is clear.
▪ And building it leads directly to the issue of management systems.
▪ Log files are kept for every log-in session for every student management system user.
▪ Our big problem is our management system and old practices.
▪ However, there is a class of data management systems where all operations are initiated by simple commands.
▪ Bosses need to take a critical look at their entire management system.
▪ An information management system to manage the distribution of information.
▪ To remedy these defects a new student management system was designed and introduced in stages from 1980-81.
team
▪ Its secret is quite simple - it has a clear strategy, effectively implemented by a quality management team.
▪ The Kings management team did the worst thing possible by making no move.
▪ To insist on this would cancel out the mature, trustful, open and continually self-reviewing benefit of a good management team.
▪ Viacom has named seven executives to the management team.
▪ The joint venture will be equally owned by the two partners and will be managed by an autonomous management team.
▪ Even the management team behaved in exactly the same manner.
▪ It was, he said, essential that the new owners keep the 80-strong management team in place.
▪ A management team takes time to build up.
technique
▪ They find, for example, that management techniques and problem-solving procedures are readily transferable to the school situation.
▪ The model will be examined in detail in the next chapter, which deals with working capital management techniques.
▪ This may be due to parental management techniques but may also be due to the temperamental state of the child.
▪ Management reform Chapter 4 briefly reviewed various management techniques that have been tried and then abandoned by government.
▪ And the group specifically emphasized the pitfalls to be avoided by any firm adopting quality management techniques.
▪ They needed, therefore, a greater awareness of financial management techniques.
▪ Teamwork and unselfish dedication owe more to oriental culture than to any particular management technique.
■ VERB
provide
▪ Furthermore, authority-wide training units are likely to provide management training and are well suited to do so.
▪ Core provides medical-care management and evaluation services.
▪ Your management company provides management services to your operating companies and charges them for those services.
▪ First, by removing entrenched collective bargaining arrangements embodied in nationalisation legislation it has provided management an opportunity to restructure employee relations.
▪ Of course, we also provide practical project management training from the shop floor up.
▪ Record cards should be provided by management and salespeople encouraged to use them as part of the sales plan before each visit.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a management decision
▪ a course aimed at improving management skills
▪ Franklin runs a management consulting firm.
▪ Senior management seem to be completely out of touch with their staff's needs.
▪ Talks between the workers and the management broke down today.
▪ The management felt this was the right decision.
▪ The failure of many small businesses is caused by bad management.
▪ The Forest Service is preparing a new forest management plan.
▪ There has been a recent change in management at the restaurant.
▪ Ueberroth won praise for his management of the Los Angeles Olympics.
▪ Val has finished college and is looking for a job in management.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ By this time we had grown weary of heart-to-heart chats with senior management.
▪ Case management benefits both the ill employee and the employer.
▪ Encouraging the profession to adopt practice management standards invites the same question about the Society itself.
▪ It examines the relationship between fertility histories and household labour availability, and the consequences for labour intensive techniques of environmental management.
▪ Like Cockburn, Hoggett stresses the links between changes in the organization of local government and those of capitalist management.
▪ Recruitment of top management appears to be through two circuits, but with a predominantly one-way flow.
▪ Some companies have dispensed with the middle management function altogether.
▪ You would certainly need convincing that they were going to change their management practices.