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Study Overview Dissertation title: Managing Safety from the Top: The Influence of Senior Managers’ Characteristics Purpose: Thesis presented for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen The description of senior managers by literature manager is that they are crucially influencing the safety of organization. Yet it has not been completely understood, their influence is contributed by. Thus, the thought was to investigating characteristics of senior managers with respect to their impact toward safety in management organizations in the air traffic. A safety literature review indicated that research in the area would gain from introduction of ...

A fundamental problem facing new democracies is the hijacking of the political process by elites. Economic performance is affected by elite politics leading to underdevelopment and sometimes morphing into political violence. The transition from colonial regimes to democracy has been subverted by the harm that was done by the colonial subversion of traditional institutions in favor of artificial Western ones. This provided an opening for the rise of elites and the rule of ‘the big men’ (Owusu, 1992). What role do elites play in transition to democracy or its opposite? This paper seeks to provide an analysis on how ...

Chapter One: Introduction

1.1. Background The arrival of new technologies as helped improve many aspects of life. For example, License Plate Recognition is a modern technology that has helped improve mobility and safety in transportation (Rashid, Aibinu, Rahman, Suhaimi and Yunis, 2012). Many car parks have resulted to the use of technology to help in the logistics of operating a car park. Rashid et al., (2012) argue that automatic parking systems are progressive because in addition to improving logistics, they also increase the convenience of public parking, eliminate the hassles of fee collection and also enhance the security, especially when the car ...

Over the years, budgeting has been considered as the one of the most important functions of accounting and management system. However with the passage of time, the focus of management has changed from traditional budgeting to beyond budgeting. One of the reasons for this change is that organizations have realized that investing resources and time in preparing budgets is not fruitful. The research will therefore be analyzing the reasons why organizations have started to change their focus from the traditional budgeting to beyond budgeting. This report will define what traditional budgeting is and its uses in organizations and ...

Budgeting has been considered as one of the most important tools used by managers for decision making purposes. Budgeting is also believed to be as the foundation stone of the management accounting system. Organizations have identified several benefits of using budgeting and this is the reason why many organizations have been using this technique for years. It is used by managers for different purposes and some of the most important purposes of using budgeting are; forecasting financials of the company, controlling costs, managing cash flows, evaluating the performances, resource planning, setting up objectives of what the organization should achieve ...