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When managing a total quality programme every practitioner needs to generate and maintain momentum and progress. When progress is suddenly halted, the true reasons why are not always immediately clear. Excuses can be too easily formulated and the wrong reasons identified for what may well be a...
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Argues that successful implementation of TQM in service organizations requires an understanding of the intrinsic … revolution and, to succeed, service organizations will have to implement and use the tools of TQM in their own way.  …
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The implementation of quality management is not proceeding quickly enough. Proposes that the delay is caused by …
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The traditional nature of conferences could change dramatically as video‐conferencing is more widely practised. This alternative is more economic, can be recorded for a permanent reference, is interactive and has novel impact. It is very versatile and new applications are continually being...
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their success. Such a programme must be easy to administer and should keep concurrent assessment to the minimum. Reasons for …
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Business games are often more costly and require more effort to implement than traditional programmes. However they are rapidly gaining favour as management development tools. Games incorporate a case history of the relevant industry and organisation; a set of realistic rules guiding business...
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Activity and self‐confidence are key elements of management success. High achievers are recognisably more open to … choices and search for more efficient ways of doing things. True winners project their success, they look like winners. This … article examines the psychology of winners and their patterns of success, including theories of self‐expectancy, self …
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degree they could be attributed to their success. The article describes how the particular issue of measuring ‘success’ and … hypotheses were derived relating to the way in which ‘success’ could be measured and the contributory factors leading to the use … of marketing. For small businesses that are classified at one of three levels of success the article reports what …
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‐win relationships are fundamental to successful implementation. However, the danger of implementing CRM in such a way as to lead …
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Organizations seek to innovate in order to improve their effectiveness. There is, however, some confusion about what the concept of innovation actually refers to and what is involved in the process of innovation. Attempts to clarify the meaning and nature of organizational innovation and...
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