A manager's ethical stance about quality management may have little or no impact on the actual relationship between social and technical quality management practices of lower level employees and firm innovation.
Re "Billions in Taxes Avoided by Apple, U.S. Inquiry Finds" (front page, May 21): Lawmakers are shocked, shocked to hear that Apple's management may have arranged the company's affairs so as to minimize its tax bill.
Management may have worried that a stock offering would depress the stock further.
"I sometimes think top management may have underestimated us," Mr. Olson said.
In recent weeks, Kremlin officials have unofficially acknowledged that Gazprom's management may have taken assets from the company.
Such minutiae helps explain in part why United's management may have preferred to focus on winning approval for loan guarantees rather than on a bankruptcy filing.
The firm's management may have a separate logistics department that is equal in status with other major departments such as finance, production, marketing, and so on.
"The investigator must recognize that in some situations management may have failed to comply with a duty or responsibility, which may result in clear liability on the part of the company," the manual states.
"The willingness to do the deal gave the impression that this was opportunistic; however, it since turned out that BAE Systems management may have already approached Rolls-Royce and an unnamed US peer," said Salvesen.
Some members of Al Jazeera's newsroom staff say they believe that the station would not ignore or play down major news developments in Saudi Arabia, whatever promises the management may have made.
Whoever runs it, the tunnel will continue to allow the movement of freight and passengers between Britain and France, although the strategy pursued by the new management may have an effect on the amount of business done.
