While the need for, and the value of, Continuous Improvement (CI) Management in practice is well established; their successful implementation has proven problematic. Employee resistance, due to business cultural incompatibility, is considered a major cause. Unfortunately, current budgeting systems...

Mit der Einfuehrung von Ganzheitlichen Produktionssystemen wird in der deutschen Industrie eine neue Entwicklungsstufe betrieblicher Rationalisierung verbunden: Es sollen bislang wenig verbundene Rationalisierungsmassnahmen ‚ganzheitlich‘ zusammengefuehrt werden. Der reale Stellenwert...

This paper presents a decision support tool used in testing and trial laboratories. It gives an optimum quality control in these types of laboratories.

L'objet de cet article est de montrer en quoi une méthode mixte permet d’analyser et de comprendre les effets de pratiques organisationnelles caractéristiques de la lean production, sur la satisfaction et la santé au travail et ce, dans le contexte français. Les résultats montrent que...

This paper investigates the determination and consequences of organizational changes (OC) in a panel of British and French establishments. Organizational changes include the decentralization of authority, delayering of managerial functions, and increased multitasking. We argue that OC and skills...

Innovationen werden als wichtige Erfolgsstrategie fuer Unternehmen gesehen. Dabei stellt sich die Frage, ob es auch Aufgabe fuer Betriebsraete sein kann, langfristig die Innovationsstrategie der Unternehmen zu beeinflussen und die Innovationsbereitschaft der Beschaeftigten anzuregen. In diesem...

This article examines the impact of deployment of Total Quality Management (TQM) systems on the performance of a sample of 108 firms which began serious efforts to implement TQM between 1981 and 1991. The impact of the adoption of TQM is measured by comparing each firm's performance to that of a...

The implementation of new forms of organization of the work (NFWO) has been recurrently applied in the medium and large corporations, especially those whose activity is centered in traditional industrial sectors. With virtues and inconvenients the NFWO seems to be apparently to be kept out of...