Delayed Response

Examples of Delayed Response in the following topics:

• Using Technology to Communicate

  • Responses from recipients may be delayed, which means the sender must wait for confirmation that the message has been interpreted as intended and resulted in the desired action.

• Hazards of Teamwork

  • Since team members share responsibility for outcomes, some individuals may need to do additional work to make up for those not contributing their share of effort.
  • For instance, conflict can delay progress on tasks or create other inefficiencies in getting work done.
  • Poor team composition can lead to delays, higher costs, and increased risk.

• The Nature of Effective Communication

  • Effective communication takes place when information is shared accurately between two or more people or groups of people and provokes the desired response.
  • Personality conflicts can lead people to delay or refuse to communicate, and dissatisfaction with the style of a message can result in its being ignored or misinterpreted.

• Barriers to Managing Control

  • Because there is necessarily a delay between measuring data, analyzing the data and identifying a problem, and ultimately implementing a solution, solutions may be implemented after the problem is no longer relevant (as shown in the graph—output is already improving before the solution for the prior dip in output is implemented).
  • Timely discovery and reporting of measurements helps minimize this problem of delay in information flow.

• CPM and PERT Charts

  • They can determine which tasks need to be completed first and how much time can be spent on those tasks before they delay other parts of the project.
  • CPM/PERT charts are useful in determining where potential delays may occur in a project and deciding the sequence of tasks.
  • This time component is critical because understanding the prerequisites for each stage of development minimizes delays and ensures ideal resource allocation.

• Social Responsibility Audits

  • Social responsibility audits are a process of evaluating a corporation's social responsibility performance.
  • Social responsibility audits are a process of reviewing and evaluating a corporation's social responsibility (CSR) performance.
  • As with financial audits, social responsibility audits involve accounting processes.
  • One metric that might be tested in a social responsibility audit is worker conditions in the company's plants.
  • Apply the general concept of auditing to the larger framework of social responsibility within organizations

• The Quality Control Cycle

  • Quality control emphasizes product testing to discover defects and report them to management, which decides how to respond (by delaying the product release date, for example).

• Arguments for and against Corporate Social Responsibility

  • Most arguments both for and against CSR are based on how a company's attempts to be socially responsible affect its bottom line.
  • Corporate social responsibility, also referred to as CSR, can be described as embracing responsibility for a company's actions and encouraging a positive impact through its activities on the environment, consumers, employees, communities, and other stakeholders.
  • Proponents of CSR argue that socially responsible practices can have a positive impact on the organization by improving employee recruitment and retention, managing environmental risks by reducing harmful accidents, and differentiating brand to achieve greater consumer loyalty.
  • Milton Friedman and other conservative critics have argued against CSR, stating that a corporation's purpose is to maximize returns to its shareholders (or shareholder value) and that it does not have responsibilities to society as a whole.
  • Rather, CSR opponents believe that corporations benefit society best by distributing profits to owners, who can then make charitable donations or take other socially responsible actions as they see fit.

• Types of Social Responsibility: Philanthropy

  • A company that practices corporate social responsibility (CSR) embraces responsibility for its actions and, through its activities, positively affects the environment, society, consumers, employees, communities, and other stakeholders.
  • In this way, these beneficiaries of philanthropy demonstrate both a responsible use of the funds they have received and evidence of their performance relative to their mission.

• Virtual Teams

  • When these are missing, team members can lose focus and collaboration can suffer, leading to delays, conflict, and other performance issues.