So the obvious goal for managers should be, how can we make our employees happier?
By setting clear financial goals for his managers and by linking their pay to the quality of care, he has already improved the company's profitability and says it is providing better care.
Seven goals for resource managers are highlighted in the plan, which was developed in response to a request from Congress.
The ability to distinguish stream- and shore-spawning kokanee is an important goal for fisheries managers, as ecotypes may be differentially impacted by alternative conservation and management regimes with regard to water use, the protection of spawning habitat, and recreational harvest regulations.
EARLY last year, John F. Welch, the chief executive and chairman of General Electric, set an ambitious goal for the managers of the huge company's businesses -- establish a strategy for using the Internet and put it into effect before the end of 1999.
Instead, they set goals for the fund managers to meet and let them invest the capital.
Mr. Daft also chose a black woman to head the company's human resources division, promoted another black executive to lead the newly formed office of diversity, and declared that compensation would be tied to diversity goals for all senior managers at Coke.
"I've got no doubt that if we give him the right service he will score a lot of goals for us," QPR manager Harry Redknapp told the club website. .
That's not an easy goal for Lindsay, manager of Fiduciary Trust Company International's European Smaller Companies fund.
Finally, the way we manage the marine environment is changing moving from single-species management to whole-ecosystem management, and ecosystem models which have the capacity to link physics, biology and societal goals can provide unique insight for managers [ 15].
