transparency
Management
(noun)
Figuratively, openness and accessibility.
Finance
(noun)
(figuratively) openness, degree of accessibility to view
Business
Communications
Examples of transparency in the following topics:
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Setting Transparency Norms
- Transparency in organizations is the extent to which its actions are observable by outsiders.
- Transparency in organizations is the extent to which its actions are observable by outsiders.
- Organizations that value honesty, trust, and ethical practices encourage accuracy and thereby increase their transparency.
- Wage disclosure is one particular area in which companies can practice corporate transparency.
- Define transparency and identify how it is determined by organizations' communication strategies and practices
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Open Communication of Decisions
- Transparency consists of operating in such a way that it is easy for others to see what actions are being performed.
- Transparency means operating in such a way that it is easy for others to see what actions are performed.
- Radical transparency is a management method where nearly all decision making is carried out publicly.
- Corporate transparency, a form of radical transparency, is the concept of removing all barriers to—and the facilitation of—free and easy public access to corporate information.
- Explain how a company uses transparency to open communication and why this is crucial to building connections and a sense of community
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Price Transparency
- Since bonds are traded in a decentralized, over-the-counter market dominated by dealers, there can be a lack of price transparency.
- In economics, a market is transparent if much is known–by many– about what products, services, or capital assets are available at what price and where.
- The two types of price transparency have different implications for differential pricing.
- In summary, since bonds are traded in a decentralized, over-the-counter market dominated by dealers, there is a lack of price transparency for bond markets.
- Most bonds are not sold in centralized marketplaces, such as the New York Stock Exchange, leading to a lack of price transparency.
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Chalkboards, Flip Charts, and Transparencies
- Visual aids including chalkboards, flipcharts, and transparencies help presenters weave words and images together into a cohesive message.
- However, transparencies are still used by a variety of organizations.
- A transparency, also known in industrial settings as a "viewfoil" or "foil", is a thin sheet of transparent flexible material, typically cellulose acetate, onto which figures can be drawn.
- In academia, mathematics and history classes traditionally used transparencies to illustrate a point or problem.
- Moreover, transparencies must be shown in dim lighting, which may potentially cause visibility problems for viewers.
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The requirements of a good recording-keeping system
- Transparency involves displaying the results of measurements.
- Accessible, transparent measurement has also been known to create friendly competitions between employees or departments as teams try to outdo one another to reduce waste and resource use.
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Properties of Quartz and Glass
- Glasses are typically brittle and optically transparent.
- Glass is in widespread use largely due to the production of glass compositions that are transparent to visible wavelengths of light.
- The individual crystallites may be transparent, but their facets (grain boundaries) reflect or scatter light, resulting in diffuse reflection.
- Pure quartz, traditionally called rock crystal (sometimes called clear quartz), is colorless and transparent or translucent.
- The cryptocrystalline (crystals barely visible under microscope) varieties are either translucent or mostly opaque, while the transparent varieties tend to be macrocrystalline (large crystals identified by sight).
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Ceramics under the Song Dynasty
- Left item: A Northern Song qingbai-ware vase with a transparent blue-toned ceramic glaze, from Jingdezhen, 11th century.
- Center item: A Northern or Southern Song qingbai-ware bowl with incised lotus decorations, a metal rim, and a transparent blue-toned glaze, from Jingdezhen, 12th or 13th century; Right item: A Southern Song miniature model of a granary with removable top lid and doorway, qingbai porcelain with transparent blue-toned glaze, Jingdezhen, 13th century.
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Tempera
- The medium is traditionally applied in successive thin, semi-transparent layers called glazes.
- Because of the transparency of the paint, paintings in tempera rarely exhibit the deep saturation of color that can be achieved with oil paint.
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Building Community
- All changes to Boundless content are tracked, in keeping with our commitment to transparency.
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How Values Influence Behavior
- People who value transparency will work hard to be transparent.