BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Mismanagement
- functional or ethical dereliction of duty due to ignorance, negligence, incompetence, avoidance, or criminality
Additional Resources
- Sensenbrenner: GAO Report Outlines Continued Mismanagement at the U.S. Civil Rights Commission; These Issues Deserve Further Inquiry
- WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The General Accounting Office GAO has released a report finding continued mismanagement at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights USCCR. The GAO finds the USCCR project management procedures "lack certain key eWASHINGTON, Nov. 6 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The General Accounting Office GAO has...
- Research articles 2003-11-06
- Stu Evans family member files suit, claims mismanagement.(News)
- Byline: Brent Snavely A lawsuit filed against Stu Evans Automotive Group Inc. by a family member alleges President and CEO John Evans has mismanaged the company and concealed evidence of that mismanagement. The lawsuit, filed Sept. 30 in U.S. Di Byline:...
- Research articles 2004-10-11
- Lloyd's American Names sue Citibank.(alleged mismanagement of Lloyd's American Trust Fund deposits)
- Citibank, the trustee for Lloyd's American Trust Fund, is being sued by a group of U.S. Names who allege mismanagement of their deposits. The Names charge that the New York banking firm breached its fiduciary responsibilities by intermingling members'Citibank, the trustee for Lloyd's American Trust Fund,...
- Research articles 1996-02-05
- John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance to Settle Claims of Fund Mismanagement.(Originated from The Boston Globe)
- Dec. 18--John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company said yesterday it has agreed to settle federal claims of pension fund mismanagement by depositing $650,000 into its employees' pension plan and paying an additional $130,000 in civil fines for de Dec. 18--John Hancock Mutual Life...
- Research articles 1996-12-18
- Missouri Blue sues former top exec. (Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Missouri files lawsuit against former president Roy Heimburger for mismanagement of company funds)
- Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Missouri has filed lawsuit against its former president Roy Heimburger following accusations of mismanagement of company funds. Missouri Blue accuses Heimburger of helping a friend, a St. Louis, MO-area real estate developer,Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Missouri has filed lawsuit against its former...
- Research articles 1997-08-18
- Reengineering and Dumbsizing: Mismanagement of the Knowledge Resource
- This article mainly emphasis upon the Mismanagement of the Knowledge Resource. Reengineering is the radical redesign of a company's processes, organization, and culture to achieve breakthrough increased performance Although "reengineering" is not the same semantically as "downsizing," in practice, the two terms have become relatively synonymous.To understand the reasons for...
- White papers 1997-01-01
- Put An End To Project Mismanagement
- From the executive summary: ‘Projects turn corporate strategy into reality, and in a sense, everything an IT manager does, takes the form of a project. Yet, the concept of managing projects is poorly understood and executed. There is no doubt that many companies do a lousy job of prioritizing and...
- White papers 2002-10-01
- Talent Mismanagement
- "The Mismanagement of Talent" Oxford University Press, is provocative book by British HR researchers Anthony Hesketh, Phillip Brown and Sara Williams. The main focus of their research was on how university graduates managed their employability in the competition for 'fast track' managerial positions, specifically, large multi-national companies or leading public...
- White papers 2004-06-16
- Democrat Wants Iraqi Oil Revenue Mismanagement Investigate
- WASHINGTON -- Releasing details of an audit that shows faulty practices in managing Iraqi oil revenues, a key Democrat on Friday is asking a congressional committee to subpoena the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and investigate potential mismanagement by the US Coalition Provisional Authority CPA, which controlled the revenues...
- Research articles 2004-07-12
- Stotler's chilling impact. (alleged mismanagement of commodity pool funds by Stotler Funds Inc.)
- Stotler's chilling impact The alleged mismanagement of commodity pool funds by Stotler Funds Inc. has had a chilling effect on the managed money industry. During the annual Managed Account Reports/National Association of Futures Trading Advisors meeting in Chicago in late...
- Research articles 1990-09-01
- Global Fund against AIDS freezes Uganda financing amid mismanagement
- GENEVA AFP — The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria said that it had frozen financing for Uganda after uncovering "serious mismanagement" in the organisation overseeing its programmes there. The Global Fund said the halt on its grants -- which total 201 million dollars -- was temporary,...
- Research articles 2005-08-24
- Ugandan president vows inquiry into alleged AIDS fund mismanagement
- KAMPALA AFP — Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said he would investigate alleged mismanagement that led the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to freeze 201 million dollars (164 million euros) in funding for his country. At the same time, Museveni said the freeze would not affect Uganda's...
- Research articles 2005-08-25
- Official mismanagement exacerbates Katrina's fury
- WASHINGTON AFP — The destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina was the product not just of Nature's fury, but the result of a long catalogue of mismanagement, neglect and ineptitude -- much of it foreseeable and preventable, critics said. From the failure of officials in New Orleans to devise a...
- Research articles 2005-09-07
- Howard faculty demand new president: faculty Senate Council says fiscal mismanagement is hurting the academic quality of the university
- Howard University President H. Patrick Swygert's attempt late last month to assuage faculty members who have called for his ouster seems to have failed, as they continue to call for a new president to lead the private, historically Black university. Despite a cordial, long-awaited meeting with Swygert, the Faculty...
- Research articles 2007-04-19
- Mismanagement threatens Asian water crises: ADB study
- SINGAPORE AFP — The mismanagement of resources, not scarcity, will lead to water crises in developing Asian nations, said a study commissioned by the Asian Development Bank and released on Thursday. Urbanisation, industrialisation, population growth and climate change were likely to put a strain on the region's water resources,...
- Research articles 2007-11-28
- U.S. Labor Department Sues Former President of Leasing Firm over Mismanagement of Health Plan
- MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 19 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The U.S. Department of Labor has sued the former president of Memphis-based International Staff Management Inc. for mismanagement of the Section 125 cafeteria health plan. ISM was a staff-leasing firm that operated a multiple employer welfare arrangement that left participants with as...
- Research articles 2004-04-19
- U.S. Labor Department Sues Former Minneapolis Executives for Health Plan Mismanagement
- CHICAGO, Nov. 22 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The U.S. Department of Labor has sued former executives of Riscomp Industries Inc., Minneapolis, for mismanagement of the firm's health plan that left plan participants and their families with more than $2.1 million in unpaid health claims. "Workers have been betrayed and saddled with...
- Research articles 2005-11-22
- Thai Electricity Authority Chief Cleared of Mismanagement in Banpu Deal.
- Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 2--Sitthiporn Ratanopas, the governor of the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand Egat, has been cleared of any mismanagement related to a failed share swap deal with Banpu Plc. The results of the...
- Research articles 2004-04-02
- New Audit Identifies Mismanagement at Boston's Roxbury Community College.
- By Jenna Russell, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 18--Almost two years after Grace Brown resigned as president of Roxbury Community College, leaving the school in turmoil, a state audit has disclosed new details about the financial mismanagement that ...
- Research articles 2003-07-18
- Pelosi: More Must Be Done to Begin to Reverse the Economic Mismanagement of the Past Seven Years
- To: POLITICAL EDITORS Contact: Brendan Daly or Nadeam Elshami, +1-202-226-7616, both of the Office of the Speaker of the House WASHINGTON, March 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today on the economy: While there is no quick fix to repair our struggling economy, more must...
- Research articles 2008-03-17
