Sentences with phrase «weak management of»

This threat has been attributed to lack of internal controls, poor management and failing to understand how weak management of encryption keys, data and security can hurt their organizations.

One clear result has been their weak management of the mounting crises, which seems likely to alienate both users and advertisers in a self - reinforcing fashion.

Too often, she says, businesses instead use charity as a way to divert attention from poor treatment of workers or weak management of environmental resources.

Not exact matches

One professor of management at Beijing Normal University expressed his concerns about exploiting workers» brains for profit and the inability of workers to say no to using the technology because of their relatively weak position.

«The investigations, along with current discussions among shareholders, possible changes in the board of directors and management, will be a distraction,» Moody's said in a statement March 6, also highlighting the company's «weak credit metrics.»

Hannah Anderson of J.P. Morgan Asset Management says the near - term focus is on oil prices ahead of an important meeting in June on OPEC - led oil curbs, but the weak dollar is the longer - term variable for markets.

The market still expects the Bank of England to hike rates even as recent data pointed weaker, says Kathy Lien of BK Asset Management.

This notion was studied extensively by Eliyahu Goldratt, an Israeli physicist turned management guru who defined the Theory of Constraints, which can be summed up by the ancient adage that no chain is stronger than its weakest link.

The initial sign of trouble came during the company's first - quarter earnings call when management issued weak guidance, cautioning investors of difficulties ahead.

«We saw ourselves — the company, the management, the leadership, all the way to the rank and file — as this powerful global media company,» Flanders says, «and, in fact, we were a powerfully recognized brand, but our businesses, each one of them, was weaker than the next.»

As a result of the weak recovery, the economy has lots of spare capacity, interest rates and valuations are well below historical averages, and corporate managements are exercising extreme risk - averse behavior.

The survey, published today (Dec. 2) by Kaplan Test Prep, found that 48 % of some 288 responding admissions staffers said that a weak score on the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) or the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) is the biggest application killer.

R.S. Burt, «Structural Holes: The Social Structure of Competition» (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992); P. Caligiuri and M. Lazarova, «A Model for the Influence of Social Interaction and Social Support on Female Expatriates» Cross-Cultural Adjustment,» International Journal of Human Resource Management 13, no. 5 (August 2002): 761 - 772; M.S. Granovetter, «The Strength of Weak Ties,» American Journal of Sociology 78, no. 6 (May 1973): 1360 - 1380; and M.S. Granovetter, «The Strength of Weak Ties: A Network Theory Revisited,» Sociological Theory 1 (1983): 201 - 233.

Companies ripe for takeovers often have some of the following traits: • a small capitalization; • a market price less than book value; • a «weak» management team; • ownership of undervalued assets or important patents.

GDX has around $ 6 billion in assets under management and a very weak yield of 0.60 %, driven partly by the extremely frail balance sheets of the constituents of its underlying index.

Many organizations that lack this clear approach are struggling with challenges such as losing business to low - cost competitors, a fluctuating pipeline, poor time - management of the team and weak sales output.

Depreciating working capital may be as a result of unnecessary expenditure, too much inventory and weak cash flow management on the part of the entrepreneur.

So weak results in Q2 were helped by the decisionmaking of company management regarding closing down future revenue streams (projects).

Management also seems to be more focused on shareholder value and is considering a share buyback, especially because of the weak share price.

Economist Lacy Hunt of Hoisington Investment Management thinks that big debts and weak demand will hold down interest rates for years.

«Second, the systems of financial oversight and control for the management of the patrimony of the Order were either too weak or were compromised, thus limiting their effectiveness to guarantee responsible, transparent management.

And though apartheid and dictatorships have been placed by electoral politics, the management of public affairs in these countries remains weak, and democratic in name only.

For I perceive that all the life of the work, under God, doth lie in the prudent effectual management of searching men's hearts and setting home the saving truths; and the ablest minister is weak enough for this, and few of inferior place or parts would be found competent.37

If it were up to me, I would take advantage of their relatively weak closing schedule and — rather than keep grinding to get as high a seed as possible — to give Embiid, Simmons and Saric some staggered «load management» games off down the stretch, so that they have enough left in the tank to play a competative playoff series.

Ronald Koeman, now in charge of Southampton, could not get on with Louis van Gaal as his technical director at Ajax, with the United boss seemingly too interfering and critical of Koeman's «weak» management.

Wengers squad management is horrendous!!!! Hardly any defenders loads of midfielders who like to attack and most of our players are brittle and weak minded.

the obvious fact is that the club began to stagnate in football terms a decade ago after the CL semi against man utd and has been in outright retreat over the last 3 years... some fans were calling for wenger to leave in 2011 - 12 as it was clear he could not cope with a more competitive environment others have been more tolerant, hanging on to fa cup glory and hoping that he would somehow self correct his weak and erratic management style but most now realise that is not possible and that the club will deteriorate further under his management so also want him gone, that has left a hard core of wenger loyalists who are either fixated with the past (selecting episodic good and bad times to justify wengers decade long failure) or too frightened of the future to contemplate a change (with selective reference to failed managerial changes by way of justification) or both, to conclude, through a mixture of panglossian fatalism and corporate philosophising, how lucky we are to have such an honourable and educated man in charge... along with their confused references to club loyalty and addiction to computer games these are troubled souls who need our sympathy and concerned medical advice... SO JUST F OFF STOCK UP ON CANNED SOUP AND GO SUPPORT ASTON VILLA ON FIFA!

I am sorry but only weak management has left us with 2 WC players out of contract and some # 100 million out of Pocket....

Wenger and management must be smoking same things which we can't understand.The position from every goober is 1 - wenger and kroenke out 2 - New manager and Usmanov in.3 - New players in and whoever wants to go let go and Asernal will be strong like the invincible.After all this is the weakest team of the season

Couple that with Wenger's own under - management of players and tactical laziness / disrespect to opposition, and you have yesterday at Anfield, the 6 - 0 at Chelsea, the 5 - 1 at Anfield a few years ago, the 6 - 3 at Man City, the destruction TWICE by Bayern (who claimed we were easy to play against), the weak - willed defeats against anyone well organised like Watford or West Brom, etc..

For this Wenger must take a large share of the blame, for his increasingly autocratic management style has bred a group of mentally weak clones, supremely talented but insecure.

• Key quotes from the NAO report: o «The source of many problems has been the absence of a detailed view of how Universal Credit is meant to work» [page 33] o «The Department is unable to explain to us why it originally decided to aim for national roll - out from October 2013» [Para 3.7] o «In early 2013, it (DWP) did not have a convincing strategic plan in place» [3.35] o «It is unlikely that UC will be as simple or cheap to administer as originally intended» [15, summary] o «the Department has not achieved value for money... wider concerns about the Department's ability to deal with weak programme management, over-optimistic timescales and a lack of openness about progress.»

; it is weak in science and technology education often mass producing ill - educated or barely literate graduates in arts and humanities; ignores the critical role of economics, management and entrepreneurship education in the context of developing nations; destroys innovation and creativity through outdated teaching methods instead of focusing on fostering the student's own independent learning and creative thinking; and is insufficiently focused on adult, vocational and technical education.

Last April, Standard and Poors downgraded the town's credit to junk status, citing a decade of deficits and weak financial management while Moody's Investor Services in January assigned the town its lowest investor grade ranking.

The watchdog concluded that the department had not been realistic enough when setting out its timetable for roll - out of the scheme, and said it had also been hampered by weak management.

Another called him «weak» and blamed his lack of «man - management» for the lack of loyalty among Conservative backbenchers.

The committee accused the Government of «alarmingly weak» management.

«The management of the programme has been alarmingly weak.

«Next to customs duties, the management of direct taxes (profit and income taxes) is one of the weakest arms of the domestic tax system and it remains a major source of revenue leaks,» the economist noted.

Amyas Morse, the head of the National Audit Office, said the «relatively high risk trajectory» was met by «weak management, ineffective control and poor governance».

His department has been accused of having weak management, ineffective control and poor governance; a fortress mentality, a «good news» reporting culture, a lack of transparency, inadequate financial control, and ineffective oversight.

1 D. Z. Levin, R. Cross, L. C. Abrams, «The strength of weak ties you can trust: The mediating role of trust in effective knowledge transfer,» Academy of Management Proceedings, MOC: D1 (2002).

«In Syria ineffective management practices, crop failure, and weak government response combined to exacerbate the societal effects of the drought,» said Joel Creswell, AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow and one of the organizers of the symposium.

According to The Sunday Times, which acquired a copy of the report, it says that British industry is «fundamentally weak, beset by inferior management and products, and suffering from inadequate investment in new technology».

However, the populations of snubfin and humpback dolphins are so small and fragmented that any anthropogenic mortality is likely to lead to population declines, even though the power to detect such declines in a management timeframe is weak.

Improve your long - term success of weight management without feeling deprived and weak.

Hence, this feature greatly reduces admin overheads and helps businesses remain on top of their information management game by recognizing and concentrating on their weak points.

Objectives: With the goal of moving to digital, the leadership at Cityville needed to make sure that all 5000 of their team members have essential ICT security knowledge including basic password security behaviors, knowing about the difference between strong and weak passwords, how to use two factor authentication, and how to use password management tools.

Under the proposal, schools that receive an F for three consecutive years, or a combination of Ds and Fs with weak growth scores for five consecutive years, would be closed or turned over to a private charter management organization.

The middle management of the firms in question knew what the answer was, but senior management was either fighting with itself, or weak - minded.