Tom Peters' alternative to MBOs was management by wandering around (
MBWA).
For Better or Worse: How Management Styles Impact Companies
The Greenisis platform was developed by Kleos, a leading global solutions provider specialised in designing, building and operating the world's most revolutionary
MBWA systems.
Bahrain launches ME's first green broadband
H1: There is significant effect of
MBWA style over employee performance through the culture of an organization.
Management Styles and Employee Performance: A Study of a Public Sector Company (SSGC)
Bill Leighty had just been named deputy commissioner of the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles and had begun doing what had worked for him in previous jobs:
MBWA, or manage by wandering around.
Creating a 'line of sight'
It's what he calls management by walking around, or
MBWA.
The ice cream guru: and what your business could learn from him: Sheldon Harris, the man responsible for building Cold Stone Creamery into an international powerhouse, offers some words of wisdom to aspiring Wenatchee business leaders
In Management by Walking Around (
MBWA) executives talk directly With employees and learn what is going on.
Organizational Behaviour
After an overview of the enhanced mobile communications ecosystem model and a review of OFDMA, four chapters look at four different radio access techniques: 3G-LTE, WiMAX, 3GPP EV-DO, and IEEE
MBWA. Later chapters cover bottlenecks in transmission networks, Gigabit Ethernet and Carrier Ethernet, and the IP Multimedia Subsystem.
Next generation mobile communications ecosystem; technology management for mobile communications
Another approach for breaking down barriers to voice is management by walking around, or
MBWA:
Employee voice: are you hearing employee ideas and concerns?
Garcia, "Macro-and Micro-mobility Handoffs in Mobile IP Based
MBWA Network", Global Telecommunications Conference, 2004.
Guard channel based call admission control schemes in hierarchical mobile IPv6 networks
In the '80s, a practice known as "Management by Walking Around" (
MBWA) advocated a hands-on approach to managing a business.
Why Work as a Clerk?
What's important to Astles is maintaining a "flat line management style" involving
MBWA (Management By Walking Around) principles.
Cameco: meshing flex time, employee feedback with a strong community presence
ACCORDING to Tom Peters, a renowned management guru, the key in pursuit of organisational excellence is management by walkabout,
MBWA. He introduced the concept in his book In Search of Excellence.
Management by walkabout can show results: management by walkabout, or sometimes called visible management, is one of the essential tools a manager needs to have to get things done right and to do the right things at the workplace. This technique allows you to coach and mentor your staff in their job
That old management theory of management by walking around (
MBWA), is an important tool in understanding the openness, compliance, and ethics of a company.
The sloppiness of business ethics
Vince Morris, director of risk management at Wheaton College (Ill.) and president of the University Risk Management and Insurance Association (URMIA), is somewhat skeptical about putting his resources into a formalized ERM format, instead calling it risk management "on steroids." He believes he's been practicing ERM all along, but more along the lines of former New York City Mayor Ed Koch's well-known habit of walking around the city and asking people, "How am I doing?" Morris explains, "Our goal is to go to every department, every year--the physical plant, environmental and safety, fire safety, chemical storage, operations, business continuity plans, internal audits--and ask proactive questions." Essentially it's the management-by-walking-around method, or
MBWA, as he calls it.
Manageable risk: some colleges and universities have been reluctant to attempt an ERM program, but it's clearly becoming the holistic risk management tool of the future