For district nurses, most of the workload was attributed to the management of impaired cognitive ability (primarily for medication management) and diabetic foot disorder (for wound management).
Recent research suggests that the stereotype of underperformance attributed to female management may not be the result so much of poorer management skills as to using unsuitable comparative performance measures, as well as not taking into account structural characteristics that may be detrimental to the financial performance of companies managed by women.
Much of this improvement can be attributed to improved management techniques and system modifications that addressed key performance issues.
For 2011, analysis suggests that an intensive system outperformed a standard system based upon the estimated change in profit attributed to intensive management.
"These money market funds are all fishing from the same investment pond," said Mr. McBride, the financial analyst, "so most of the disparity in returns is attributed to different management expense ratios rather than the investment performance".
The Mars Polar Lander spacecraft probably failed last year because its descent engine shut down prematurely, but the mission's loss can ultimately be attributed to inadequate management, testing and financing, independent experts told NASA today.
The real danger in this story is that, as with the banks, the Cannock Chase failings will be attributed to bad management when the problems stem from the government's own reform agenda.
Mr. Khare said that at Cook County Works, which provides county residents with employment assistance services, the monthly average number of sick hours per employee dropped to 5.3 in May 2011, from 8.2 in December 2010, which he attributed to better management.
