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Diversity management will begin to develop rapidly, out from under the traditional human resources and talent acquisition roles, to assume more dotted-line responsibilities that will touch corporate strategy, corporate social responsibility, organizational design & effectiveness, corporate marketing and even sales.

Glenn Llopis: How Diversity Will Drive Business Growth Glenn Llopis 2011

Diversity management will begin to develop rapidly, out from under the traditional human resources and talent acquisition roles, to assume more dotted-line responsibilities that will touch corporate strategy, corporate social responsibility, organizational design & effectiveness, corporate marketing and even sales.

Glenn Llopis: How Diversity Will Drive Business Growth Glenn Llopis 2011

That same nondeal placed the CFPB inside the Federal Reserve, and gave it a dotted-line relationship to the Treasury Department.

Richard (RJ) Eskow: Rep. McHenry's Wall Street Goon Squad Targets Prof. Warren -- and America's Consumers RJ 2011

Mr. Castro-Wright, who also oversees global sourcing operations, will remain in charge of e-commerce strategy and acquisitions and maintain a "dotted-line" relationship with e-commerce leaders in the developed countries, the memo said.

Wal-Mart Shakes Up Its Online Business Miguel Bustillo 2011

That same nondeal placed the CFPB inside the Federal Reserve, and gave it a dotted-line relationship to the Treasury Department.

Richard (RJ) Eskow: Rep. McHenry's Wall Street Goon Squad Targets Prof. Warren -- and America's Consumers RJ 2011

But it's refreshing to see that right now LA has a gloriously expansive new magazine whose existence has nothing to do with distant ownership, multinucleated management, dotted-line org-charts, focus groups, sticky eyeballs or five-year budget projections.

Michael Sigman: Can Slake Quench LA's Media Thirst? 2010

Maybe I'm alone in my need for the gray practice paper with the fat dotted-line indicating the upper limit for lower case letters.

Jamie Reidy: Penmanslip 2009

His best friend is Michael "Mac" McGarvey, who served with Sen. Webb in Vietnam, where he lost his right arm in combat; his arm stump has a dotted-line tattoo and the words "Cut on the dotted line."

Arming Obama 2008

In the same way, say “management jargon” to an old-fashioned CEO in Buggywhip Industries, and that executive will slip into an archaic patois of dotted-line responsibility or the oxymoronic structured competition, taking you down a critical path overgrown with zero-based weeds.

No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

Was this not a metaphor for the stairstep dotted-line configuration on the Florence quad that runs northwest—beginning near Silver Bell Mine, then passing Reymert onto Dromedary Peak and ending near Comet Peak?

Shadow of the Sentinel WARREN GETLER 2003