If a worker's immediate supervisor dismisses a claim, he said, other alternatives include going to higher levels of management within the company and an "800" number to make complaints anonymously.
In addition, we find that higher levels of management support for information security and having the chief information security officer (CISO) report independently of the IT function have a positive effect on the quality of the relationship between the internal audit and information security functions.
The percentage drop is positively correlated to higher levels of management.
However, these positive investment returns are in a high-level-of-management, ranch situation, and not enough work has yet been done to see if, for example, such positive benefits could be achieved in the traditional sector and, if so, under which circumstances.
"No one apparently felt they needed to inform higher level of management in either the F.B.I. or C.I.A. about the case," one commission report said.
He said many client companies were treating their real estate holdings as strategic assets and that the sector was drawing the attention of a higher level of management.
Responding to questions about the slower-than-expected growth in applications, Mr. Ellison said the sales cycle of the applications suite was longer than for the database software and required approval from a higher level of management.
Janice Saxton, an associate broker at the Paramus office of CB Richard Ellis, another commercial brokerage, added that some landlords also believe small spaces require a higher level of management and accounting and produce "more wear and tear on a building".
The results have already gone to the highest levels of management and Brown said some of the results were surprising.
report, which needs to be corrected," Dr. Postol told Dr. Crawley in August, according to a meeting transcript, "or Lincoln Laboratory could be involved at the highest levels of management in covering up fraud".
And she has repeatedly rejected calls, including from the European Union, to require companies to admit more women to the highest levels of management.
