Industrial Management articles from January 1993

Industrial Management archives from January 1993

Organizational culture and its relationship to tqm. (total quality management) (Total Quality Management)
January 1, 1993... Organization culture is an often used term, but it is seldom defined. Most people think they know what it is, and a definition is unnecessary. The recent emphasis on TQM and its general acceptance has greatly increased the need for a more precise...

Total quality management and drawbacks of incentive systems: fact or fallacy? (includes related article) (Incentive Systems)
January 1, 1993... Over the past few decades a new management philosophy has evolved. This new concept, normally referred to as total quality management (TQM), emerged in Japan in the 1950s mainly with the help and lectures of W. Edwards Deming when the Japanese...

Examining the U.S. experience to discover successful corporate restructuring. (Organizational Restructuring)
January 1, 1993... As the United States entered the 1990s, restructuring was the modus operandi in the large majority of its corporations. Pressured to compete globally, improve productivity and create value for their shareholder, these American corporations...

Corporate cultures for the 1990s: what is needed? (Corporate Environment)
January 1, 1993... A strong culture -- a set of shared values, norms and beliefs that get everybody heading in the same direction -- is common to all the companies held up as paragons in the best seller In Search of Excellence. But what is corporate culture...

Using creativity to boost profits in recessionary times. (Business Strategies)
January 1, 1993... Imagine a consumer goods business with 5 to 7 percent annual market growth, a high-quality product with near mystique status, growing market share and world class profit margins -- what could go wrong with a business with attributes such as...

Keys to the productivity of technical employees. (Management Strategies)
January 1, 1993... In this era of increasing global competition, limited financial resources, downsizing and shortages of qualified technical personnel, managers should be more concerned than ever about individual and organizational productivity. There is, of...

Greater commercial lending productivity: a strategic marketing tool for bankers.
January 1, 1993... Productivity and quality improvement efforts have existed for several years in the financial services industry. Industrial engineers, analysts and managers of the bank's "back room" operations areas have labored to define, organize and...

Determining optimal employee schedules through use of the first period principle. (Scheduling Methds)
January 1, 1993... Employee scheduling for manufacturing operations is typically concerned with devising effective ways of dealing with seasonal (annual) variations in demand so that a relatively stable workforce will be able to satisfy the expected demands without...

Using flextime to create a competitive workplace. (flexible hours of labor) (Flexible Work Schedules)
January 1, 1993... In today's competitive work place employers must remain attuned to the needs of their work force. Those that do will have a distinct advantage. One of the tools being used by U. S. firms to meet this objective is the use of flextime. The reason...