Technical responsibility management— an indispensable element of corporate governance

✍ Scribed by Jürgen Althoff

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 196 KB
• Volume: 13
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1090-8471
• DOI: 10.1002/hfm.10039

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

We define technical responsibility management as the organized fulfillment of all the legal and other responsibilities connected with the use of technical means of production and installations in an enterprise. To act legally responsible even under the condition of permanently changing regulations and to produce cost efficiency at the same time, a responsibility management system (RMS) is being presented, a system that, as it were, automatizes and rationalizes the fulfillment of all liabilities valid at the time. All existing installations in the enterprise, as well as all relevant legal provisions, are represented in adequate form by experts and, resulting from this, software determines optimized schedules that also take into account additional secondary operational conditions. Internet/intranet technology even permits complete outsourcing. RMSs heighten the safety level in the enterprise, provide legal security, and open up hitherto inaccessible savings potentials. The author pleads for the OECD principles for good “Corporate Governance Systems (Management and Controlling)” to demand the future introduction of RMSs. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Hum Factors Man 13: 253–259, 2003.