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Regeldruk of afvinkcultuur? Praat dan over integriteit

Integriteit is essentieel voor optimale bedrijfsvoering. Integriteit gaat over het volgen van de juiste normen en waarden. Wat die zijn, kan alleen maar in dialoog worden bepaald. Het doorgaande gesprek over integriteit is daarbij tegelijk het ontwikkelen van deugden

Distributed control system

This report is the final report for the FPGA accelerated PID controller, part of the Distributed Control Systems project. This project runs within the Lectoraat Robotics and High Tech Mechatronics of Fontys Hogeschool Engineering Eindhoven. The Lectoraat has the goal to develop applicable knowledge to support education and industry. This knowledge is acquired with projects run in conjunction with the industry. The report will go into detail for the software designed for this project, not the hardware design. This report is intended for follow up students working on the Distributed Control Systems project. Within this report the assumption is made that the reader is at least familiar with the terms EtherCAT, FPGA, Linux and PID controllers. However for each part a small basic introduction is included. For readers looking for the accomplishments in this project, the results are in chapter six. Following are short descriptions of the chapters in this report. The first chapter will give a short introduction to the project. It talks about why the project was conceived, where the project was done and what the expected end result is. The second chapter, the problem definition, talks about how the project has been defined, what is included and what is not and how the customer expects the final product to function and look like. The third chapter details the methodology used during this project. All the research preformed for this project will be described in the forth chapter. This chapter goes into the research into the Xilinx Zynq 7000 chip, Beckhoff's EtherCAT system, how the Serial Peripheral Interface works and how a PID controller functions. Following in chapter five the design is expanded upon. First the toolchain for building for the Zynq chip is explained. This is followed by and explanation of the different software parts that have been designed. Finally chapters six and seven provide the results and the conclusions and recommendations for this project.

Wie is consequent Angelsaksisch of Rijnlands?

De laatste decennia woedt de discussie over de vraag of ondernemingen zich uitsluitend op aandeelhouders moeten richten of op alle belanghebbenden, of zij vooral aan de korte of aan de lange termijn moeten denken, anders gezegd of zij het Angelsaksische of het Rijnlandse model moeten hanteren. Dit onderzoek probeert na te gaan hoe het onderscheid tussen deze beide modellen gemeten kan worden. Het lijkt erop, dat het verschil vooral voor de bühne bestaat. Dit suggereert, dat de twee modellen wel gebruik kunnen worden als motivatie, als ideaaltype, maar dat in de praktijk weinig mensen consequent het ene of het andere model aanhangen.

Bureaucratic, market or professional control?

Continuousimprovement Illusion of control

It is argued that both continuous improvement and growth in one direction, are (sometimes partly) based on the illusion of control. It is precisely through our actions, by exerting as much control as possible over both natural and artificial processes, that we make things worse, often despite our good intentions. While the illusion of control makes us feel content with our lives, it does not contribute to a sustainable world in the long term. To believe in ones continuous improvement is to drastically overestimate ones own control, without considering the possibility of being wrong. Taking the hypothesis for granted in advance, hoping to arrive at a sustainable synthesis by chance, is like throwing stones at random to create Big Ben by chance. The casino might be more rational.

Involved accounting and control in health care

The purpose of this study is to explore why and how Management Accounting and Control Systems (MACS) enact and are enacted upon in the Dutch branch of nursing homes, homes for the elderly and home care. In search for answers, this study chooses an actor-network theory (ANT) perspective combined with case study research as research frames. Central theme in ANT is the theory of translation. This theory offers opportunities for a close empirical inspection of how and why MACS enact and are enacted upon by other actants in a complex set of sociotechnical relations. The theory of translation is applied in a case study research at The Relief Group (TRG), a healthcare organization which comprises a total of 10 nursing homes and homes for elderly. This case study shows how the application of MACS expands both in numbers of employees involved and in amount of information. Due to an increase in perceived environmental uncertainty and reorganization to a more decentralized model of management all TRG management levels asked, to varying degree, for broad application of MACS information in general and for non-financial information in particular. This initiated a process in which MACS did not diffuse unchanged but was manipulated and aligned with different interests of various stakeholders. At first sight, the TRG case study reveals MACS as a boundary object. In second instance however, this study questions whether this epistemological point of view, denoting the differences between the various TRG stakeholders as differences in interpretation and perception, obscuring an optimal application of MACS, offers sufficient in-depth understanding. Therefore this study draws on post ANT studies and chooses an ontological point of view, delineating MACS as different objects, enacted in different sets of relations and contexts.