mushroom management
Is a joke term to describe a style of management where employees (like mushrooms) are kept in the dark and periodically given a load of manure.
mushroom management Quick reference
A Dictionary of Human Resource Management (3 ed.)
...mushroom management is a joke term to describe a style of management where employees (like mushrooms) are kept in the dark and regularly get covered in shit from...
mushroom management
Cultivation and Environmental Impact of Mushrooms Reference library
Shu Ting Chang and Solomon P. Wasser
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Agriculture and the Environment
...mushroom grower until the outbreak of World War II in 1939 . From that time on, the United States has assumed the dominant position. The mushroom-growing method in standard house was developed and adopted by the English-speaking countries. Furthermore, in Western countries cultivation of Agaricus mushroom is a professional business, and for large-scale farmers it is an industrial enterprise. The improvements of cultivation techniques, for example, separating heat rooms from growing rooms, depth of beds, compost, spawn and spawning, casing, crop management,...
Marengo Quick reference
The Diner’s Dictionary (2 ed.)
...—usually chicken Marengo or veal Marengo —is sautéed and then cooked in a sauce of white wine, tomatoes, mushrooms, and garlic. The term is said to have come from a chicken dish cooked for Napoleon by his chef Dunand, from the only ingredients to hand, immediately after the battle of Marengo, in north Italy, on 14 June 1800. It soon found its way to Britain: Mrs Beeton gives a recipe for ‘fowl à la Marengo’ in her Book of Household Management ( 1861 ) in which she refers to it as a ‘well-known dish…a favourite with all lovers of good...
tourism Quick reference
A Dictionary of Geography (5 ed.)
...Making a holiday involving an overnight stay away from the normal place of residence. Tourism has grown to become the world’s second largest industry, directly accounting for 3.8% of global GDP (World Travel and Tourism Council, 2005). The mushrooming of international tourism may be explained by high levels of disposable income and longer holidays in more economically developed countries ; the development of package holidays, which reduce risk; cheap, mass air transport; and place myths, which persuade the tourist that the local culture they see...
national parks Reference library
C. James Taylor
The Oxford Companion to Canadian History
...sensitive to local concerns. At the same time, established national parks such as Banff experienced unprecedented pressure from developers, both within and outside the organization, to accommodate burgeoning tourist demands. Highways, resorts, campgrounds, and other facilities mushroomed in the parks during this period. The development ethos was challenged at a number of points but nowhere more fiercely than over the proposed scheme to greatly enlarge the ski resort at Lake Louise. Originally approved by Parks Canada, this scheme was cancelled by the minister...
Supply Chain Management Reference library
Joseph FIKSEL
Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability
...resource footprint —Companies have found a great deal of “low-hanging fruit” (or easily attainable goals) by tightening up energy management practices (heating, cooling, and lighting systems) and materials management practices (maintenance, inventory, and waste management). Newer facilities are being designed with recycled materials and advanced energy-saving features, as interest in “green building” has mushroomed. But the largest gains in resource conservation come from redesigning production processes to reduce throughput requirements and install...
journalism Reference library
Tom Jaine
The Oxford Companion to Food (3 ed.)
...on the standard of British cooking. Around the same time, in the magazine Household Words , edited by Charles Dickens , journalists such as G. A. Sala , Dudley Costello , and W. B. Jerrold were writing well-researched articles on topics like oysters, poultry, carving, mushrooms, vegetable cookery, and food adulteration. Over the long term, the educational function of women’s journalism (even when fatally dependent on advertising and promotion) is probably of more importance than the influence of early ‘lifestyle’ writing, however distinguished. It...
Kroc, Raymond Albert (1902–84) Reference library
The Encyclopedia of the History of American Management
...seen. With the right kind of management, the prospects for this business seemed limitless and ‘visions of McDonalds restaurants dotting cross-roads all over the country paraded through my brain’ (Kroc 1977 : 9). He soon convinced the McDonald brothers to grant him a licensing agreement and, at the age of fifty-two, set off to spread McDonald's restaurants throughout the country. The first of Kroc 's outlets was opened in Des Plaines, Illinois during 1956 and, despite a field crowded with competitors, many more soon mushroomed around the United States and...
Prague Reference library
Milan Lukeš
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance
...flourished. The National Theatre opera company opened up to the world repertoire and its level of production has risen considerably. From 1992 the erstwhile German theatre building housed the competitive and adventurous State Opera. Numerous musical comedy productions have mushroomed, and some of them erected or adapted new playhouses or auditoriums to suit their needs. New venues (for international festivals of alternative theatre, for example) were also created in derelict industrial halls. See also Havel, Václav . Milan Lukeš Burian, J. M. , ...
Disaster Management Reference library
P.C. Kesavan and M.S. Swaminathan
The New Oxford Companion to Economics in India (3 ed.)
...(that is, the result of modern technologies blended with traditional wisdom and ecological prudence) with their pro-nature, pro-poor, and pro-women orientation help in the sustainable management of locally available natural resources and in creating market-driven rural eco-enterprises. Many eco-technologies such as production of bio-fertilizers, bio-pesticides, oyster mushrooms, ornamental fish, fish pickles, and paper and board from agricultural waste involve tools, techniques, and principles of classical biotechnology. It is done with the reason that a...
Roles of Non-Government Organizations in Disaster Risk Reduction Reference library
Jonatan A. Lassa
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Natural Hazards Governance
...regions of aid recipient countries. In general, in times of large crises and disasters, there could be mushrooming of NGOs due to the lack of governing capability from government or state institutions to deal with existing risks. Recent large-scale disasters, such as Indian Ocean tsunamis in 2004 , Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar in 2008 , and devastating earthquakes in Haiti in 2010 , have been examples of sites where NGOs were formed, mushroomed, and came to an end ( Zanotti, 2010 ). This suggests that more “NGOing” ( Hilhorst, 2007 ) is necessary at...
Forest Products—Non-Timber Reference library
Mirjam ROS-TONEN
Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability
...available. Exceptions to this are some specialized and culturally important activities such as hunting, handicraft making, and the extraction of products for stable external markets such as those for specialty food like edible birds’ nests, certain ginseng roots, and exclusive mushrooms. This results in a diversified picture of the importance in NTFPs for people’s livelihoods, with access to markets being the main determining factor, which can be grouped as follows ( Belcher, Ruiz Pérez, and Achdiawan 2005 ): 1. Subsistence. Households extract low-value products...
poisoning Reference library
Roy Goulding
The Oxford Companion to Medicine (3 ed.)
...act of vengeance, or in the furtherance of some other crime. Despite all the precautions ostensibly taken to prevent it, poisoning continues to occur globally in some form or another. Extensive areas still exist in which venomous creatures roam at large to inflict their bites. Mushroom poisoning remains common, ironically, among amateur enthusiasts collecting wild fungi for cooking. In addition, mycotoxins, formed on damp grain and other foodstuffs, take their toll, notably in Asia, and the aflatoxins on groundnuts are carcinogenic. More perplexing are those...
Agriculture and Biodiversity Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Global Change
...past decades, international agreements now recognize their value, numerous projects have been launched in various countries, and institutional collaboration is expanding ( Meilleur and Hodgkin , 2004 ). Rural people everywhere rely on harvesting wild species. Wild greens, mushrooms, spices and flavorings enhance local diets, and in low-income regions many tree fruits and root crops serve to assuage “pre-harvest hunger” or provide “famine foods” when crops or the economy fails. Frogs, rodents, snails, edible insects and other small creatures have long been...
Higher Education Reference library
The New Oxford Companion to Economics in India (3 ed.)
...commitments of the key actors—the state, the judiciary, or India’s propertied classes—but instead resulted from a breakdown of the state system and an exit of Indian elites from public institutions, to both private-sector institutions within the country as well as abroad. The mushrooming of private higher education institutions (with the largest number in the southern states and in Maharashtra) has been driven by four factors: fiscal exhaustion, diffusing the reservation conundrum by expanding supply, and, with earlier sources of patronage exhausted, the search...
Restaurant Unions Reference library
Cathy K. Kaufman
Savoring Gotham: A Food Lover’s Companion to New York City
...virtually empty. The success of the Belmont strike, and of a threatened strike on May 9 at the Waldorf Astoria, launched a tumultuous six weeks, when membership in the International Hotel Workers Union mushroomed from several hundred to nearly sixteen thousand. Waiters and cooks at leading hotels and restaurants staged (or ominously threatened) strikes. Management promised higher wages, a weekly day off, and other improvements, except, significantly, recognition of the union and the right of workers to collectively bargain. While various negotiations were taking...
bloomy-rind cheeses Reference library
Jim Wallace
The Oxford Companion to Cheese
...a slightly acidic taste, and a firm, chalky body. The cheese then begins evolving, over a period of several weeks, to one covered fully with a complex of white molds. It eventually develops a very different character throughout, with more aromatics (cream/earth), more flavor (mushroom-like), and a much softer and unctuous, flowing body. The body of the cheese gradually changes from chalky white to translucent, beginning near the surface and then progressing to the center of the cheese as it ages. Depending on the degree of ripening, the paste can range from...
Delhi, India (2010) Reference library
Awadhendra BHUSHAN SHARAN
Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability
...proposed in the master plan. Contemporary Delhi The master plan failed through the 1970s and 1980s. Small-scale and household industries in traditional craft sectors and modern electronic ones, operating through a range of legal, semi-legal, and illegal arrangements, mushroomed all over the city. The master plan’s optimal population estimate for 1981 was 4.5 million, but in fact the city grew to 6.2 million. Since then, the numbers have increased even further, reaching 13.8 million by 2001 ( Planning Commission 2009 , Annex A-1.1, 72). Much of...
AN OVERVIEW
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Political and Legal History
...jettisoned the Newlands Act’s acreage limitations and embraced massive congressional appropriations, irrigated farms grew larger and more corporate. The other major beneficiaries of subsidized water and hydropower were western and Sunbelt cities, whose industry and populations mushroomed during and after World War II. Postwar environmentalism grew out of a burgeoning suburban middle class that knew nature more through consumption and leisure than work—first as industrial efficiency veiled nature’s role in mass production and later when urban deindustrialization...
