...Managing Quality Improvement Benedictine University Professor Taniya Henry August 10, 2013 Abstract The main purpose of managing quality improvements is to set up a structure by which to measure how the organization is doing out in the public sector. We need a process in place that will drive our improvement efforts when less than optimal results are identified through undesirable trends and benchmarking. They need to be measurable and be the same for all patients in the survey area. This data will assist us in developing the measures necessary to improve performance standards. A team will be organized that will include the Executive Director of our local hospice as well as the Medical Directors (3), that drive our management force. Defining an action plan to implement proper and effective data collection for our Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement (QAPI) program will entail establishing an overall goal first. This can be monitored regularly through weekly meetings of the team members to determine where they are in the process and what their findings have been so far. Managing Quality Improvement The organization that I work for has an excellent Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement (QAPI) program, not many hospices have a fully functioning program. However, one particular issue needs improved upon, the data collection process now being employed. The company they are using at this time, Deyta, does not seem to be very effective...
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...culture and the effectiveness of the review process. After weighting the cons and pros, we decided that he should be given another year as a principal, to improve his communication and interpersonal skills, and then given another chance at the Managing Director promotion. It is well known that a strong and unified culture is one of the key values of Morgan Stanley, they are not willing to maximize the business at the expense of their culture, teamwork and the integrity of the process. Once Nasr promotes Rob at this time, it will deliver a wrong signal to his fellow colleagues that aggressive and crude attitude, or other problems he has are acceptable and could be compromised if it means getting the job done. Managing Directors are at the top of the pyramid and as such have to be the “standard bearers” for all of the junior staff. In the review process, Rob does show acknowledgement of this weakness, which is the first step towards improvement and demonstrates a work ethic in line with company policies. But this acknowledgement may be not specific; he has to receive detailed, benchmark-driven suggestions to improve his behavior by his direct supervisor. He should be given monthly guidelines and benchmarks to document his improvement in terms of softening aggressive behavior, improving...
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...Morgan Stanley: The 360 Performance Evaluation Process ▪ 1993: Morgan Stanley (MS) implements firmwide 360-degree evaluation process for over 2,000 professional employees at cost of over $1.5M. ▪ MS’s HR department is called Office of Development; Chief Development Officer is Tom DeLong The New System: ▪ Guiding Principle: 360-degree feedback solicited from: o Superiors o Peers o Subordinates o “Internal Clients” ▪ The Process: ▪ Professional Employees identify folks in Firm with whom they regularly interact. ▪ List of Prospective Evaluators (Evaluation Request Form or ERF) is reviewed by evaluatee’s manager. ▪ ERF submitted to Office of Development ▪ Office of Development distributes eval forms to the people on the ERF, collects complete evaluations and processes them into Year-end Packet for each evaluatee. ▪ Concurrently, each professional completes a self-evaluation ▪ Evaluation Criteria: ▪ A big challenge was deciding on criteria. 4 broad categories won out: • Market/Professional Skills (analytical skills, market knowledge) • Management and Leadership ...
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...The proposal was duly considered important as Juices Ltd operated an apple and pear juice producing business and owned ore hands around Australia and the juice container manufacturing business can provide Juice Ltd’s juice containers to the customer who already falls under Juice Ltd’s target market. In order to broaden the domain of its business the proposal was put forward by Chen who is a non executive director of the company though all the board members were suppose to be present in the board meeting else one of the non executive director could non- attend the meeting as on the same day and time she met with an accident and broke her arms and unable to receive treatment from the emergency department of the local hospital. The company managing director Uma was authorized the chairman Jack to acquisition within 10 minutes. Though the company’s chief financial officers Isaacs financial report was presented on the impact of the acquisition but unfortunately he was forbidden to participate in the board meeting and gain or deliver any views in regards to the business proposals. Though it was decided in the meeting to approve the acquisition and signing up of the contract by Uma to look took over the business on behalf of Juice’s lacking was detected in wrong financial analysis of $48 million purchase price which was an improper and over channelization of company’s fund. Moreover it was also revealed that the board of directors was not aware of the fact that most of the shares newly...
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...at 3:00 p.m. N I S S A N E L G R A N D I N F I N I T I F X 3 7 R E N A U L T M E G A N E R S CONTENTS 02 03 05 09 10 14 17 25 27 28 31 Corporate Information Business Divisions Report of the Board of Directors 8 Years Financial Highlights Profile of Directors Corporate Social Responsibility Report Corporate Governance Statement Internal Control Statement Other Statements and Disclosures Audit Committee Report Daily Share Price & Volume Traded on Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad 33 Financial Statements 133 Ten Largest Properties of the Group 134 Shareholders’ Statistics 137 Notice of Annual General Meeting Form of Proxy CORPORATE INFORMATION Directors Dato’ Tan Heng Chew Executive Deputy Chairman and Group Managing Director Dato’ Ng Mann Cheong Senior Independent Non-Executive Director Dato’ Haji Kamaruddin @ Abas bin Nordin Independent Non-Executive Director Seow Thiam Fatt Independent Non-Executive Director Siew Kah Toong Independent Non-Executive Director Dato’ Khor Swee Wah @ Koh Bee Leng Executive Director Ling Ou Long @ Ling Wuu Long Executive Director Ho Wai Ming Executive Director Audit Committee Company Secretaries Yap Bee Lee Chang Pie Hoon Registered Address 62-68 Jalan Ipoh 51200 Kuala Lumpur Telephone : (03) 4047 8888 Facsimile : (03) 4047 8636 Website : www.tanchong.com.my E-mail : tcmh@tanchong.com.my Registrars Tricor Investor Services Sdn Bhd Level 17, The Gardens North Tower Mid Valley City Lingkaran Syed Putra 59200 Kuala Lumpur...
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...Rob Parson at Morgan Stanley Rob Parson was a market coverage professional in the Capital Markets division. He had been hired by Paul Nasr and had generated substantial revenues since joining the firm. Unfortunately, Parson's reviews from the 360º feedback said that he was having difficulty adapting to the firm's culture. So Nasr faces the difficult decision to promote Parson to Managing Director. Nasr must complete Parson's performance evaluation summary and conduct Parson's performance review. Question 1 What are the advantages and disadvantages of the 360º feedback system at Morgan Stanley? When John Mack became President of Morgan Stanley in 1993, he brought a new vision to the bank named “One-Firm Firm”. That vision focused on performance which can be translated in creating value for the clients, the employees and the shareholders. Mack thought that could only be achieved through a culture that promoted teamwork and innovation and never sacrificed the firm’s integrity. The 360º performance evaluation process was brought by Mack to Morgan Stanley with the intention to “encourage employees to conform to a new way of doing business that emphasized team-work, cooperation, and cross-selling”. It also intended to “provide comprehensive development feedback so that employees could continue to improve their skills in four areas: Market/Professional skills, Management and Leadership effectiveness; commercial Orientation; and Teamwork/One Firm Contribution”. These...
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...Netherlands, Luxembourg, western Germany, and northern France. In early January 2001, the senior management committee of Euroland Foods S.A was called together to come up with the firm’s capital budget for the new year. There were 11 projects up for consideration that the committee was faced with and had totaled more than (euro) EUR316 million. Unfortunately the board of directors had set in place a spending limit of EUR120 million. Even with this restriction the investment at this rate would cause a major increase in the firm’s current asset base of EUR965 million. The firm’s main challenge was to allocate the funds among a range of projects to satisfy the following: new-product introduction, acquisition, market expansion, efficiency improvements, preventative maintenance, safety, and pollution control. BACKGROUND OF FIRM: Theo Verdin, a Belgium Farmer, as an offshoot of his dairy business, founded Euroland Foods S.A in the year 1924. Theo paid great attention to product development and marketing, and because of his close attention to detail the firm had grown steadily over the years. The company had gone public in 1979, and by 1993, was listed for trading on the London, Frankfurt, and Brussels exchanges. In the year 2000, Euroland Foods S.A had approximately EUR1.6 billion in sales. Ice cream accounted for most of the company’s revenue, at 60%, yogurt was at 20%, and the remaining 20% of sales was divided up equally between bottled water and fruit juices. Euroland...
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... Home Depot Incorporated Home Depot is a retailer, which is one of the fastest Corporations in the United States. In the early 80s, the company went public with NASDAQ and join with the New York Stock Exchange. There was a tremendous growth in the company between the 80s and 90s. Home Depot began putting home improvement centers in Canada in 1994 and Mexico in 2001. The company expanded the business to China forming a 12 store chain called The Home Way in 2006. The company also develops a strategic alliance with manufacturers leading in the industry to give customers exclusive products. Home Depot advertises different national brands to set standards for the merchandise use by professional contractors and customers. Home Depot has offices in China, Canada, U.S., India, and Mexico. The company is enhancing the relationships between the customers and the manufacturers and changing the customer’s confidence in the international suppliers. The two largest companies in the industry, which is Home Depot and Lowes, are the high entry barriers. These companies hold the high cost to maintain the success factors with other companies. The home improvement industry key factors for success are to sell products, meet reasonable pricing, and distribution in the company (Home Depot History, 2013). Home Depot and Web Use The challenge that Home Depot faces is finding for a way to expedite assess of the strategic information between the store managers and district manager. The...
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...performance; however monitoring of performance is necessary to ensure individual and organizational goals are met. The process of assessing an employee’s performance, managing employee opportunities and identifying areas of weakness is evaluated and handled in the performance improvement plan (PIP). The PIP spells out the areas of need, determines goals to improve these areas, and develops training and educational needs associated with successful performance enhancement development. The PIP addresses both the areas of behavioral and performance. In the reflection, Team “D” will address training and development and the PIP process in more detail to gain a better understand of the process. Assessing, implementing, and re-evaluating behaviors and goals will be addressed. Training and development of an employee are closely related but also very different. The goal is to achieve the tasks the organization requires and improve upon productivity and efficiency. The training process of a new employee is a requirement of his or her orientation. The employee will need to understand the roles and responsibilities of his or her job (Difference Between, 2011). According to Difference Between (2011), “Training makes an employee more productive for the organization and is thus concerned with his immediate improvement” (para. 1). The development of an employee is...
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...Management and Internal Control 41 Board Committees 51 Corporate Social Responsibility Financial Statements 56 114 116 120 122 123 126 127 • Financial Statements Additional Information Particulars of Group’s Properties Plantation Statistics Share Buy-Backs Summary Analysis of Shareholdings Directors’ Shareholdings Notice of Annual General Meeting Proxy Form Hap Seng Plantations Holdings Berhad | Annual Report 2014 Corporate Information BOARD OF DIRECTORS Tan Sri Ahmad Bin Mohd Don Independent Non-Executive Chairman Datuk Simon Shim Kong Yip, JP Non-Independent Non-Executive Deputy Chairman Tan Sri Abdul Hamid Egoh Non-Independent Non-Executive Director Datuk Edward Lee Ming Foo, Managing Director Wong Yuen Kuai, Lucien Independent Non-Executive Director JP Lee Wee Yong Executive Director Au Yong Siew Fah Executive Director 2 Company Secretaries Cheah Yee Leng (LS 0009398) Lim Guan Nee (MAICSA 7009321) Registered Office 21st Floor, Menara Hap Seng Jalan P Ramlee . 50250 Kuala Lumpur Tel : 603-2172 5228 Fax : 603-2172 5286 Website : www.hapsengplantations.com.my E-mail : inquiry@hapsengplantations.com.my Plantation Headquarters Off 40KM, Jalan Jeroco Lahad Datu, Sabah Place of Incorporation Malaysia Dato’ Jorgen Bornhoft Independent Non-Executive Director Tuan Haji...
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...eportDutch Lady Milk Industries Berhad Laporan Tahunan 2011 Annual Report Dutch Lady Milk Industries Berhad is a subsidiary of Royal FrieslandCampina NV. www.frieslandcampina.com This Annual Report is printed on 100% recycled paper BLUE VALUES Believe in Growth Look Forward Unite as One Team Excel in Execution contents Notice of Annual General Meeting Corporate Information Chairman’s Statement Corporate Governance Statement Directors’ Profile Audit Committee Report Corporate Social Responsibility Statement of Internal Control Directors’ Report Statement of Financial Position Statement of Comprehensive Income Statement of Changes in Equity Statement of Cash Flows Notes to the Financial Statements Statement by Directors Statutory Declaration Independent Auditors’ Report Financial Highlights Additional Compliance Information Other Information Proxy Form • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1 3 6 8 14 16 20 24 28 30 31 32 33 34 59 59 60 61 62 63 65 notice of annual general meeting 1 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Forty-Ninth Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at Hotel Armada, Lorong Utara C, Section 52, 46200 Petaling Jaya, Selangor Darul Ehsan, on Wednesday, 13 June 2012 at 10.00 a.m. for the purpose of transacting the following business: AGENDA AS ORDINARY BUSINESS Ordinary Resolution 1 1 To receive the Audited Financial Statements for the financial year ended 31 December 2011, together with the Reports of the Directors...
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...Annual Report CONTENTS 02 05 07 08 10 11 14 19 21 26 71 74 76 Notice of Annual General Meeting Chairman’s Statement Corporate Structure Group Financial Highlights Corporate Information Profile of The Board of Directors Statement of Corporate Governance Statement on Internal Control Audit Committee Report Financial Statements Analysis of Shareholdings List of Properties Other Information Proxy Form 2 NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the 14th Annual General Meeting of Oriental Food Industries Holdings Berhad will be convened and held at Tiara Banquet Hall, Tiara Melaka Golf and Country Club, Jalan Gapam, Bukit Katil, 75760 Melaka on Wednesday, 18 August 2010 at 2.00 p.m. to transact the following businesses :AGENDA ORDINARY BUSINESS 1. To receive and adopt the statutory financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2010 together with the Directors’ and Auditors’ Reports thereon. To declare the following final dividends for the year ended 31 March 2010 : (a) Tax exempt dividend of RM0.02 per share amounting to RM1,200,000 on 60,000,000 ordinary shares of RM1.00 each ; and Franked dividend of RM0.02 per share less 25% tax at a total net amount of RM900,000 on 60,000,000 ordinary shares of RM1.00 each. (Resolution 1) (Resolution 2) 2. (b) 3. To approve the payment of directors’ fees of RM200,000/- for the year ended 31 March 2010. To re-elect Mr Son Chen Chuan who retires in accordance with Article 75 of the Company’s Articles...
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...RETAIL FOOD GROUP is a leading Australian retail food brand manager, franchisor and wholesale coffee roaster. It designs, develops and manages franchise systems and is the intellectual property owner and manager of the following retail and coffee brands: Donut King, Michel’s Patisserie, Brumby’s Bakery, Esquires Coffee Houses, bb’s cafe, Evil Child, Roasted Addiqtion and Barista’s Choice. For the 6th consecutive year since Listing (in June 2006), Retail Food Group continued to deliver enhanced performance and record outcomes for stakeholders. NPAT and EPS 6 year cumulative annual growth rates (cagr) of 35.8% and 24.2% respectively, reinforces Retail Food Group as an enterprise with franchise systems, business model and revenue streams capable of significant growth. NPAT Core NPAT EPS (Basic) 30 30 25 25 20 20 15 15 10 DPS 10 5 0 5 FY07 FY08 FY09 FY10 FY11 ($m) Revenue 140 FY10 FY11 0 ($m) FY07 FY08 FY09 FY10 FY11 FY08 FY09 FY10 FY11 (cents) Net Operating Cashflows Adj. Revenue 120 25 80 20 60 15 40 Net Debt Reduction 30 100 (cents) 10 20 0 5 FY07 FY08 FY09 FY10 FY11 ($m) FY10 FY11 0 ($m) FY07 FY08 FY09 FY10 FY11 ($m) Outlets Network Sales 700 600 1200 500 1000 400 800 300 600 200 400 100 200 0 FY07 FY08 FY09 FY10 FY11 ($m) 0 FY07 FY08 FY09 FY10 FY11 FY10 FY11 ($m) ...
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...Home Depot A. Executive Summary * Introduction * The Home Depot Story - First Stage (1979-2000) * The Home Depot Story – Second Stage (2000 – 2006) * Problem Identification * Case Questions Introduction * Home Depot was founded in 1978 in Atlanta, Georgia by Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank. * Both of them worked at Home Improvement Company in California and were fire by this company. * So instead of looking for a new job they decide to start up their own business based on a vision they had. * This vision was about creating home improvement stores similar to warehouses where customers would be able to find different types of tools and products with the help of experts in home improvement and customer service. * Home Depot created the concept “Do it yourself” (DIY) where homeowners were encouraged to buy products and tools and to use them to build, repair and improve their own homes. * This concept of “Do it yourself” was Home Depot’s main strategy to become successful in the Home Improvement industry. The “Do it yourself concept consisted on: * Prioritizing customer service (special attention to their customers problems) * Providing customers with training workshops and clinics to teach them how to repair their own homes. * Vendors and sale associates went through a rigorous training in product use before servicing customers. * Sales associates develop relationships with customers rather than just merely seeing...
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...ANNUAL REPORT 2008-2009 Directors Bankers Auditors Solicitors Registered Office Works Registrar & Share Transfer Agent : : : : : : : Trilochan Singh Sahney, Chairman & Managing Director Dr. P . D.Ojha Dr. (Ms.) Kala S Pant Harshbeena S Zaveri K M Elavia Devesh S Sahney BNP Paribas Citibank N.A. Canara Bank Axis Bank Ltd. A. F. Ferguson & Co. Wadia Ghandy & Co. Dhannur, 5 Sir. P M Road, Fort, Mumbai 400 00. Tel. : 2266 460 / 2266 4998 Fax : 2266 042 Pokhran Road No.2, Majiwade, Thane-400 606. E-40, M.I.D.C. Industrial Area, Chikalthana, Aurangabad-43 00. C-6, Additional M.I.D.C. Industrial Area, Jalna-43 203 E-72, (I) & (II) M.I.D.C., Waluj, Aurangabad-43 33 A-5, Uppal Industrial Estate, Hyderabad-500 039 Plot No.33, Sector – II, SIDCUL IIE Pantnagar, Udhamsingh Nagar, Uttarakhand-263 53. Mondkar Computers Pvt. Ltd. 25, Shakil Niwas, Mahakali Caves Road, Andheri (East), Mumbai 400 093. Tel: 2836 6620, 2820 7203-05 Fax: 2836 9704, 2820 7207 CONTENTS Particulars Page No. Notice ...................................................................................................................... 3 Directors’ Report ................................................................................................... Annexure to Directors’ Report ...................
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