Sentence examples for management shocks from inspiring English sources

And the local monthly murder rate has dropped from double to single digits.Lula's party is allergic to the idea of management shocks but their spirit is spreading, for example, to education, where it may be needed most.

In Minas Gerais Governor Aécio Neves has managed to make a "management shock" in the public services into his main political selling point.

He will also deliver a "management shock" to the administration.

They boosted tax revenues, streamlined procurement and cut costs in what they called a "management shock".

A genuine management shock would allow school directors to choose their teachers and would hold them accountable for the results.

The PSDB's Minas branch sums up the management shock as "spending less on government and more on citizens".

Facing a deficit of $780m and a wage bill that consumed three-quarters of revenues, the government that took office last year administered a "management shock".

That is certainly true in Minas Gerais, where Governor Neves claims to have eliminated the budget deficit and applied a "management shock" to the bureaucracy.

Last year Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Ms Rousseff's predecessor, said that a "management shock" meant lay-offs, pay cuts and neglecting the poor.

His "management shock", carried out by a team of able technocrats, involved cutting costs, boosting tax revenues, setting performance targets, capping public-sector pay and leaving 3,000 jobs unfilled rather than handing them over to political placemen.

But the 54-year-old economist's fondness for such terms as "management shock" and "efficiencies" may not go down well with Brazilians who have benefitted from the current government's income-redistribution policies.