Sentence examples for hostile management from inspiring English sources

Free market pressures exposed the U.S. steel industry's own internal problems, which included a now-outdated manufacturing base that had been over-expanded in the 1950s and 1960s, hostile management and labor relationships, the inflexibility of United Steelworkers regarding wage cuts and work-rule reforms, oligarchic management styles, and poor strategic planning by both unions and management.

Stick-in-the-muds may see it as a way of protecting themselves from hostile takeovers, management buy-outs and other aspects of shareholder capitalism that they abhor.

A person with knowledge of BNP Paribas's merger deliberations said the bank was not interested in any deal that would be perceived as hostile by management at Société Générale.

"We're not hostile to management," Lee insists.

This meant that quality improvement strategies within the ED setting were usually compromised: responsibility for the emergent patient was regularly fragmented, case discussion was fragile, work environment was hostile and management strategies were difficult to implement [2, 3].

This action by the administration opens the door for sport hunting and trapping seasons on wolves in these states, many of which have extremely hostile wolf management plans that call for dramatic reduction in numbers of wolves--undoing the very recovery that occurred under federal protection.

Here's what we do know: If the Yellowstone grizzlies are delisted, then bears that range outside national park boundaries will be at the mercy of hostile state-management policies.

(A takeover is hostile when the management doesn't want it; if shareholders approve the takeover, the managers are usually fired).

The first De Beers offer of 4.25 Canadian dollars a share, on June 26, was dismissed as hostile by Winspear management.

Try it at home, or, even better, at work, next time you receive a hostile pronouncement from management.

In the late 1980s, funds often borrowed to the hilt to pay for buy-outs, many of which were seen as hostile by the management of the intended targets.