BNET Business Dictionary

Business Definition for: Management By Exception

  • a system of management in which only deviations from the plan or the norm are to be reported to the manager, ensuring management attention is only given when necessary

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Management By Crisis
Management by crisis is a phrase used to describe the common problem of allowing unexpected events, interruptions, problems, or emergencies to dictate your priorities and actions. Effective crisis management is an important best practice; it is an essential skill of effective time managers because unexpected things do happen in every...
Tags: Crisis, Rodger Constandse, Crisis Management
White papers 2004-01-01
Why It Pays to Be Hated by Your Team
You probably don't stay up at night crying that people at work don't like you. But you might worry that your team's productivity will suffer if members get caught up in emotional responses -- particularly if one "bad" apple starts contaminating the whole bunch. Rest assured; it's actually a good thing if...
Tags: Lori Deschene, Management, Team Management, Leadership, Manager, Leader, Team
Blog posts 2007-12-06
Don't Manage Your Association To Death
Strategic management focuses on an activity where everyone knows where the association is going and who is responsible for what. Strategic management reduces executive oversight and empowers staff to act. Usually executives get frustrated with the lengthy procedures of meeting and preparing reports. The silver bullet that vanquishes both excessive...
Tags: Exception, Strategic Management, Strategy, Leadership, Management
White papers 2003-01-01
Leadership Behaviors and Subordinate Resilience
Utilizing a sample of 150 part-time MBA students, the study presented in this paper evaluated the relationship between leader behaviors and subordinate resilience. The authors' proposed that the transformational leadership dimensions of Attributed Charisma, Idealized Influence, Inspirational Motivation, Intellectual Stimulation, and Individualized Consideration, as well as the transactional leadership dimension...
Tags: AllBusiness.com, Leadership, Management
White papers
Supply Chain: Planning By Exception
From the executive summary: ‘The traditional paradigm for supply chain management was to develop a plan at intervals of a month or more, and then execute the plan within the month. The underlying assumption was that the plan had enough buffers in it to account for variability. With the structural...
Tags: Supply Chain, Buffer, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software
White papers 2003-01-01
FYI Visual.(New Products)
FYI Visual is an active data visualization program that converts large amounts of complex data into actionable information using a graphical language. It provides real-time operational intelligence, which leverages a true visual language. This technology displays a large amount of data on a single screen and...
Tags: FYI Visual
Research articles 2005-03-01
UAL Corporation Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer Session Operator Thank you very much, sir. First, we will take questions from the analyst community, then we will take questions from the media. The question-and-answer session will be conducted electronically. [Operator Instructions]. Our first question comes from the line of Frank Boroch of Bear Stearns. Please...
Tags: UAL Corp.
Earnings calls 2007-10-24
Sales = Management Scapegoat
According to some of the comments that have surfaced in this blog recently, sales professionals are: Shortsighted. Only interesting in making a sale. Focused on wining and dining. Unconcerned with long-term relationships. Incapable of seeing a larger strategy. Only interested in their...
Tags: Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Geoffrey James, Sales
Blog posts 2008-01-28
MIRUS Exception-Based Reporting Attracts Great American Restaurants
HOUSTON -- The MIRUS Exception-Based Restaurant Management Reporting EBRM solution, which helps multi-unit food-service companies and multi-unit franchise operators stay at the top of their game, was recently chosen by Great American Restaurants as its primary analytical toolset. With many accomplishments to the Great American Restaurants name -- including...
Tags: Great American Restaurants
Research articles 2008-02-12
Railcar management system - Products
The Railcar Management System from Railcar Tracking Co., is a Steelroads Track and Trace-compatible automation tool that brings state-of-the-art rail shipment management and fleet management to shipper transportation departments by enabling automatic storage and access of multi-year trace records. Users can instantly prepare exception reports and shipment or non-movement alerts...
Tags: Railcar Management Inc.
Research articles 2002-09-01
Who's going, who's staying.(Comerica Inc.'s human resources management)(Brief article)
Byline: Tom Henderson Wayne Mielke, Comerica Inc.'s vice president of corporate communications, said most of the bank-holding company's Detroit-based management policy council members will move to Dallas by Sept. 30. One known exception: Thomas Og Byline: Tom Henderson Wayne Mielke,...
Tags: bank, Comerica Inc., HRM, Human Resources
Research articles 2007-03-12
Hands off: Saks' owner. Investcorp's Kirdar says Saks' execs will run show. (Nemir A. Kirdar, management of Saks Fifth Avenue department store)
HANDS OFF: SAKS' OWNER NEW YORK FNS - Management has had an ownership stake in every deal Investcorp has done and Saks Fifth Avenue will not be an exception. This was made clear by Nemir A. Kirdar, president and founder of Investcorp,...
Tags: FINANCE, Investment, Retail, Saks Fifth Avenue
Research articles 1990-05-04
New supply chain visibility tools.(Management Dynamics)(Brief article)
By Staff Two new supply chain visibility tools were released recently. At its annual user conference, Sterling Commerce introduced its new Supply Chain Visibility application that combines real-time visibility of supplier information with proactive exception management. The tool gives users...
Tags: Management Dynamics Inc.
Research articles 2006-10-05
Conducting Effective Performance Appraisals
People frequently appraise others and their performance. When chatting over coffee, it's natural to talk about what other people have accomplished, and how effectively they've done it. But these informal conversations are generally based upon perception . They're subjective and unreliable. Performance appraisals seek to redress this imbalance by making...
Tags: Performance management, Team management, BNET Editorial, Performance Appraisal, performance, Management By Objective, motivation, salary, virtual team, KPI, 360-degree, standards, team, worker, tool
Articles 2007-10-31
Top 5 AU Management Books for April 2009
Each month I'll post the top-selling management books in Australia, based on sales data kindly provided by Dymocks Australia. The Top 5 below come from the month of April and, surprise!, seem to be fairly heavily centred around the topic of the current economic downturn (or recession or depression, depending...
Tags: Economic Downturn, Financial, Kochie, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Financial Accounting, Sales, Finance, Brian Haverty
Blog posts 2009-05-18
Management : Risk Standards 1-9
The article gives the idea of risk standards 1 to 9. The risk standard 1 states that Fiduciary responsibilities should be defined in writing and acknowledged in writing by the parties responsible. The standard 2 says that the Primary and Manager Fiduciaries should approve formal written policies, which reflect their...
Tags: Capital Market, Risk, Policy, Standards, Capital Market Risk Advisors, Quality, Strategy, Financial Services, Financial Planning, Investment, Security, Business Operations, Management, Finance
White papers 2003-01-01
Strategic Overview Of FYI Visual
Nowadays sophisticated business technologies such as Enterprise Resource Planning ERP, Business Intelligence BI, Enterprise Content Management ECM, and Supply Chain Management SCM systems make it easy for organizations to amass the abundance of information that helps them run their businesses. This paper explains FYI Visual that picks up where other...
Tags: Supply Chain, Analytics, ERP, Doculabs Inc., SCM, Enterprise Content Management, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Pricing, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Tools & Techniques, Financial Planning, Software, Marketing, Data Management, Management, Finance
White papers 2004-12-30
Management Education Helps Minnesota Farmers Cope with Declining Yields.
By Janet Kubat Willette, Post-Bulletin, Rochester, Minn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 2--Higher corn and soybean prices boosted farmers' incomes last year. As a result, government payments declined to most farmers. Dairy farmers were likely the lone exception, with...
Tags: Farmers
Research articles 2003-06-02
Education in Business Management Helps Minnesota Farmers Work Wisely.
By Janet Kubat Willette, Post-Bulletin, Rochester, Minn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 2--Higher corn and soybean prices boosted farmers' incomes last year. As a result, government payments declined to most farmers. Dairy farmers were likely the lone exception, with...
Tags: Farmers
Research articles 2003-06-02
Top 5 AU Management Books for September 2009
It's a clean sweep for September: readers are looking for "how to succeed" books that focus on showing specific examples of the "how". With the exception of Stephen Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, all of these books are new to the Top 5, and all...
Tags: Guide, Trusted Advisor, Gender And Diversity, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Finance, Brian Haverty
Blog posts 2009-10-11