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The article discusses strategies which can be adopted by the management to increase productivity. Persuation is the name of the big game in organizations. Safety professionals' effectiveness can ultimately depend on their ability to persuade others. This can encompass influencing senior management to actively fund and support new initiatives, inducing mid-managers and supervisors to visibly lead safety, motivating line staff to look ahead to protect themselves and others, encouraging everyone to actively use safety methods, showing other departments how they might align with the safety message, eliciting approval from unions, helping resistant people to change-all with minimal pushback.

PEOPLE William Pfeiffer has been named senior vice president of the Sprint Data Group, US Sprint Communications Co. Pfeiffer was formerly vice president and chief operating executive of the Data […]

Measured Should Pick the Measurement A question that has plagued data processing managers over the past three decades has been how to measure programmer productivity. One ill-fated attempt to do […]

Initial OA Requirements Studies Can Trap Managers Managers who allow themselves to be trapped into initial office automation requirements studies may spend years on studies before delivering any useful systems. […]