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insights on what management needs to know about the culture‐related values of India’s workforce. The Rajiv Gandhi National …; consider cultural background for human resource management, team building, and employee training; consider Gandhi’s teachings …
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Process redesign is not always successful and is almost always accompanied by pain or at least unpleasant side effects. Many companies have undertaken reengineering efforts only to abandon them with little or no positive results. As important as it is to understand how to reengineer, it is...
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Based on early and recent thoughts of total quality management and the new emerging field of human performance … that focuses on providing solutions to organisational problems and has a lot to share with total quality management …
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This paper investigates the relationship between scanning and planning, planning and TQM practices, and scanning and TQM practices by collecting primary data from 54 small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) through questionnaire in the Republic of Botswana. Being explanatory in nature, the...
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to investigate management concepts. These are the most influential management concepts in Slovenia, a new EU member … into excel and SPSS for a statistical analysis. The management concepts were analysed by the factor and discriminatory … analysis. Both of them enabled the authors to comprehend innovation of management concepts in the Slovenian economy. Findings …
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Purpose – The total quality management (TQM) concept was originally developed to increase the efficiency of occidental …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to try to understand better whether performance appraisal (PA) helps performance evaluators (PEs) to manage more effectively and meet employees' expectations in US‐based corporations. Design/methodology/approach – A 54‐item research instrument was...
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This article applies Total Quality Management (TQM) concepts to the specific case of contracting out. Specifically, it … applies quality expert E. Edwards Deming’s 14 points to the management of contracts by firms employing contractors. His points …
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development needs among today’s middle managers. Recommendations on training courses for middle management development are … proposed. These recommendations provide initial guidance to organizations interested in developing their middle management …
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established research domain; there is very limited work on the efficacy of industry-based total quality management (TQM …
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