Durante el 2011 y 2012, en el consorcio de las empresas StraconGyM y Mota-Engil Perú, en el proyecto CC-02 “Construcción de Presa de Relave y Facilidades”, se implementó la gestión de control de costos, bajo el enfoque del PMI-PMBOK (Projetc Management Institute-Projetc Management Body of Knowledge). La investigación tuvo el objetivo de determinar en qué medida la implementación del modelo de gestión de control de costos bajo el enfoque del PMI-PMBOK, permite mejorar la eficiencia del costo del proyecto CC-02. La demostración de la mejora de la eficiencia del proyecto se sustentó en; la mejora de la satisfacción de la gestión de control de costos, la mejora del desempeño del costo, y en la mejora del desempeño del trabajo por completar. Para el cual se utilizó el un diseño cuasi-experimental de serie de tiempos. Como resultado de la investigación se obtuvo un incremento de 47.82% en la satisfacción de la gestión de costos, quiere decir que pasó de 33.34% a un 81.16%, un incremento del índice desempeño del costos (eficiencia) de 111 % a 145%, y un incremento del índice desempeño del trabajo por completar de 111% a 114%. La investigación concluye, que la implementación del modelo de gestión de control de costos bajo el enfoque del PMI-PMBOK, en el proyecto CC-02, ha contribuido en la mejora de la eficiencia del costos del proyecto CC-02. During 2011 and 2012, the consortium of companies StraconGyM and Mota-Engil Peru in the CC-02 "Construction of Tailings Dam and Facilities" project management cost control was implemented under the focus of PMI- PMBOK (Project directed Management Institute-Project directed Management Body of Knowledge). The research aimed to determine to what extent the implementation of the management model of cost control under the PMI-PMBOK approach, improves the efficiency of the cost of the CC-02 project. The demonstration of the improved efficiency of the project was based on; improving the satisfaction of the management cost control, improved cost performance, and improving the performance of work to complete. Which it was used for the quasi-experimental time series design. As a result of the investigation, a 47.82% increase in satisfying cost management was obtained, means that went from 33.34% to 81.16%, an increase of cost performance (efficiency) ratio of 111% to 145% and increased job performance complete index of 111% to 114%. The research concludes that the implementation of the management model of cost control under the PMI-PMBOK approach in the CC-02 project has contributed to improving the cost efficiency of the CC-02 project.

Baigiamajame magistro darbe nagrinėjama automatinio priklausomo stebėjimo (ADS-B) sistema pakeisianti įprastinę oro erdvės stebėjimo radarų sistemą. Darbe išnagrinėti pagrindiniai sistemos veikimo principai, jos pritaikymas ir sudėtinės dalys, kartu su signalų formavimo ypatybėmis. Atliktas tyrimas sudarytas iš 9 atskirų bandymų apimančių sistemos kokybės patikros, signalo sudėties ir patikimumo įvertinimą. Tyrimas atliktas naudojant atsakiklių tyrimų stendą, kuris atitinka antžeminį ADS-B sistemos segmentą ir orlaivyje įmontuotą atsakiklį, kuris atitinką vartotojo segmentą. Tyrimo metu išnagrinėjamos ADS-B sistemos komunikacijos segmento savybės juos lyginant su naujausia literatūra ir techniniais sistemos įgyvendinimo sprendimais. Išnagrinėjus gautus rezultatus ir literatūrą pateikiamos sistemos tobulinimo rekomendacijos ir tolesnio tyrimo metodikos patobulinimai ir siūlymai. Darbą sudaro 10 dalių: įvadas, literatūros apžvalga, analitinė dalis, bandymų metodika, tyrimo aprašymas, darbo apžvalga, išvestiniai duomenys, išvados, literatūros sąrašas. Darbo apimtis – 71 p. teksto be priedų, 47 pav., 7 lent., 30 bibliografinių šaltinių. Atskirai pridedami darbo priedai. / This master‘s thesis explores automatic dependant surveillance – broadcast system (ADS-B) which will replace conventional radar based surveillance system in aviation air control management. Thesis consists of general overview of the system operation, its applicability, integration and structure with signal formatting possibilities. Field analysis was made which consists of 9 tests including system quality parameters, signal structure and reliability tests. Analysis was made by transponder interrogation device, referring to ground segment of ADS-B system, and transponder device mounted in aircraft, referring to ADS-B system users. Analysis includes ADS-B system communication segment features, literature analysis together with system implementation decisions. There is listed the conclusions of tests data together with suggestions for further system analysis and recommendations for system implementation possibilities. Thesis consist of: 71 p. text without appendixes, 47 pictures, 7 tables, 30 bibliographical entries. Appendixes included.

In two-location inventory systems, unidirectional transshipment policies are considered when an item is not routinely stocked at a location in the system. Unlike the past research in this area which has concentrated on the simple transshipment policies of complete pooling or no pooling, the research presented in this thesis endeavors to develop an understanding of a more general class of transshipment policy. The research considers two major approaches: a decomposition approach, in which the two-location system is decomposed into a system with independent locations, and Markov decision process approach. For the decomposition approach, the transshipment policy is restricted to the class of holdout transshipment policy. The first attempt to develop a decomposition approach assumes that transshipment between the locations occurs at a constant rate in order to decompose the system into two independent locations with constant demand rates. The second attempt modifies the assumption of constant rate of transshipment to take account of local inventory levels to decompose the system into two independent locations with non-constant demand rates. In the final attempt, the assumption of constant rate of transshipment is further modified to model more closely the location providing transshipments. Again the system is decomposed into two independent locations with non-constant demand rates. For each attempt, standard techniques are applied to derive explicit expressions for the average cost rate, and an iterative solution method is developed to find an optimal holdout transshipment policy. Computational results show that these approaches can provide some insights into the performance of the original system. A semi-Markov decision model of the system is developed under the assumption of exponential lead time rather than fixed lead time. This model is later extended to the case of phase-type distribution for lead time. The semi-Markov decision process allows more general transshipment policies, but is computationally more demanding. Implicit expressions for the average cost rate are derived from the optimality equation for dynamic programming models. Computational results illustrate insights into the management of the two-location system that can be gained from this approach.

Sales management control and sales force performance has received substantial attention by researchers in the past decades. Researchers have been investigating the construct of sales control, its antecedents and its consequences on both the individual sales person and on sales force performance. This research project analyses how and why the sales control systems are implemented the way they are. The basis for this approach is drawn from the organisational or management control literature which treats behaviour and outcome approaches as dimensions rather than categories. Organisational control also treats the control system as a process which consists of a set of stages or sub processes being objective setting, planning, monitoring, feedback and correcting. With the growing importance of relationship selling and key account management it can no longer be assumed that all the sales people will operate at the same hierarchical level within an organisation nor that they will be subject to one and the same control system. Therefore an in depth analysis of how sales force control processes are implemented for different types of sales functions, ranging from customer acquisition, small to medium account management to strategic and global account management, is needed. The research project included 17 preliminary interviews across different organisations, from which one organisation was selected on the basis that it contains a large international sales force of about 2.500 people consisting of a very wide range of sales functions. The analysis of this organisation included 100 plus interviews of 66 sales managers and sales people across all types of sales functions over a two year period. The findings show that the inability to measure certain inputs and outputs does not deter a sales organisation to adopt their sales control strategy within a functional sales team. When some measures are not available or are unreliable, sales managers find other ways to measure them being it through some locally developed tools or through more qualitative approaches. The method used to obtain certain measures does impact the level of the sophistication of the actual control process or strategy. When there is a need to control sales people who operate as a team of employees from different departments the sales managers can no longer individually develop some local tools to measure inputs and outputs. The findings show that team based selling requires accurate data but also globally agreed rules and procedures in order to operate successfully. This enables us to conclude that the inability to measure certain inputs and outputs is a determining variable for the implementation of client sales teams. With regard to sales force control strategies the research uncovered that within the category of the hybrid sales control approach there are four types of sales control sub approaches. The choice of which control to use is dependent on the size of the customers or opportunities the sales people work with and the selling approach which is either hunting or farming. This shows that while farming can be relabelled as key account management, hunting remains a major sales activity requiring not only different selling approaches it also requires different types of sales control processes than for farming. All of these findings indicate that several types of sales control systems can operate across one single organisation and that the main determining variables are the sales approach and the type of accounts the sales person is managing. This challenges current beliefs or assumptions that all sales people operate at the same hierarchical level within an organisation and that they all operate under one single sales control approach. Future research on sales force control will need to take these findings into account when designing their approach to study control systems within organisations.

A mail survey of randomly selected stratified U.S. households assessed general attitudes toward wildlife and specific concerns about wildlife damage management and the federal Animal Damage Control program. Respondents strongly supported federal government's role in ensuring public safety , engaging in public education, and continuing research into nonlethal control methods. Weaker support was found for lethal control of predators and crop depredators, and financial compensation for losses due to wildlife activities was generally opposed. Lethal methods of control were generally considered to be inhumane and nonlethal methods humane. When asked to rank the importance of factors to be considered when selecting management methods, II human safety ranked highest followed by animal suffering, effectiveness, environmental impacts, severity of problem, and ability to target the specific problem animal. The lowest ranked factor was public opinion. Considered as a whole, results suggest that U.S. citizens want a role in wildlife damage policy formation but respect wildlife professionals ' judgment in specific management situations. This study also assessed attitudes and beliefs about wildlife damage management (WDM) activities and federal government agencies ' roles in carrying out those activities. Multiple regression analysis was used to determine if variables such as environmental attitude, wildlife experience, and sociodemographic characteristics explained levels of support for WDM activities and the importance of the federal government's role . Respondents generally support WDM operations. Differences in respondents' general environmental attitudes and enjoyment of hunting accounted for most of the variation in their attitudes toward WDM practices. Independent variables that most influenced perceived importance of federal involvement in WDM were sex , age, education, and general environmental attitudes.

Today, the competition between companies are very strong and fighted. In particular, small-medium size companies (SMEs) need to upgrade continuously in order to be in line with new technologies and new strategies that tends to develop companies in terms of productivity and quality. SMEs need, indeed, to be always competitive in a changeable market and to achieve competitive advantage through implementation of new technologies and theoretical methods or techniques. The implementation of those methods leads the company to increase its level of productivity and quality in order to achieve a competitive place within the market. The Gunasekaran framework is a tool which is useful in order to achieve a higher level of productivity and quality within a SME. This framework was studied and analyzed in order to be applied in a real life situation. This research focuses on the application of the same framework in a Mexican small company with the aim to develop and increase the level of productivity and quality of one department. Within the application of this framework, were applied the main concepts explained by the same Gunasekaran and they were analyzed in order to understand if a possible application could be useful to achieve success within the department.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--McMaster University, 2003. / Advisor: W. Poehlman. Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-290). Also available via World Wide Web.

nÃo hà / A GovernanÃa Aplicada ao Setor PÃblico surgiu da necessidade dos ÃrgÃos governamentais passarem de instituiÃÃes puramente burocrÃticas para institutos com gestÃo voltada aos resultados. Buscando esta transformaÃÃo, o setor pÃblico adotou os princÃpios de GovernanÃa Corporativa adaptando-os Ãs particularidades da GestÃo PÃblica. As universidades federais inseridas na esfera pÃblica possuem como finalidade, ligadas ao tripà ensino, pesquisa e extensÃo, formar cidadÃos conscientes e com alta qualificaÃÃo profissional. O objetivo desta pesquisa Ã, nesse contexto, investigar o nÃvel de aderÃncia das universidades federaisbrasileiras Ãs prÃticas de governanÃa pÃblica recomendadas pela IFAC para as dimensÃes âEstrutura e Processos Organizacionaisâ e âControleâ. Esta pesquisa pode ser definida como descritiva e exploratÃria, tendo como procedimentos metodolÃgicos a pesquisa bibliogrÃfica e documental. Para a coleta de dados, foi realizada anÃlise documental seguida de anÃlise de conteÃdo, utilizando-se como fonte documentos institucionais das 59 universidades federais brasileiras, universo da pesquisa de abordagem censitÃria. Para o alcance dos objetivos, foi elaborado roteiro de anÃlise com base nas recomendaÃÃes de boas prÃticas da IFAC para as dimensÃes ÂEstrutura e Processos Organizacionaisâ e âControleâ, sendo adaptadas Ãs universidades federais. Foram analisados estatuto, regimento geral, relatÃrio de gestÃo e orÃamento de 48 universidades federais. Os resultados permitiram concluir que o nÃvel de aderÃncia das universidades federais brasileiras Ãs prÃticas de governanÃa recomendas pela IFAC à de cerca de 49% do total de 77 recomendaÃÃes analisadas. / The Governance Applied to the Public Sector started from the need of government agencies move from purely bureaucratic institutions to institutions with management focused on results. Searching this transformation the public sector has adopted the principles of Corporate Governance adapting the particularities of public management. The Federal Universities inserted in the public sphere, have as purpose, connected to the tripod teaching, research and extension, forming conscious and highly qualified professional people. The purpose of this research is to investigate the level of adherence from the Brazilian Federal Universities to the practices of Brazilian public governance recommended by IFAC for the Dimensions "Organizational Structure and Processes" and "Control". This research can be defined as descriptive and exploratory with a bibliographic and documentary research as methodological approach. To collect data, a documentary analysis was performed followed by content analysis using as source, institutional documents from 59 Brazilian federal universities which was the research universe of census approach. In order to achieve the main purpose, an analysis script was prepared based on the best practice recommendations from IFAC for Dimensions "Organizational Structure and Processes" and "Control", being adapted to the Federal Universities in Brazil. Laws, bylaws, management and budget report from the 48 Federal Universities were analyzed. The results allowed concluding that the level of adherence from Brazilian Federal Universities to the Brazilian governance practices ecommend by IFAC is about 49% of the total of 77 recommendations analyzed

This thesis deals with the methodology of system approach to access control and the application of this methodology into information security of companies. The main focus is a methodological guide for access control that is consistent with implementation of ISMS in the selected company.