Download or read book The Management of Change in Four Manufacturing Organizations written by Malcolm Leslie MacIntosh and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis is concerned with the process of change and adaptation in four Australian manufacturing companies in the period 1989 to 1996. The thesis seeks to explain the reaction of these companies to the pressures for change, and particularly for the adoption of 'best practice' management prescriptions in the organization of work and human resource management. The operating hypothesis adopted is that the pattern of changes undertaken by manufacturing organizations are shaped by a variety of factors both external to and within the company, but that management beliefs and orientations are a key element in understanding the pace and extent of change. The research is pursued through detailed case studies designed to explore at length pressures for change and continuity in corporate decision-making.
Download or read book Leading Change written by John P. Kotter and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the ill-fated dot-com bubble to unprecedented merger and acquisition activity to scandal, greed, and, ultimately, recession -- we've learned that widespread and difficult change is no longer the exception. By outlining the process organizations have used to achieve transformational goals and by identifying where and how even top performers derail during the change process, Kotter provides a practical resource for leaders and managers charged with making change initiatives work.
Download or read book Four Practical Revolutions in Management written by Alan Graham and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2001-04-24 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Four Practical Revolutions in Management: Systems for Creating Unique Organizational Capability, authors Shoji Shiba and David Walden significantly revise their classic text on leading management systems -- A New American TQM. This book is a comprehensive approach to business management that goes beyond business operations improvement. The authors demonstrate a program for establishing a sophisticated, state-of-the-art management system that creates unique organizational capabilities. Containing new methodologies and case studies, the book is one of the most extensive in the management field and provides a step-by-step program for implementing leading management techniques. To create a successful management system, the authors argue that companies must be organized around four major areas of practice called the "four revolutions." They are customer focus, continuous improvement, total participation, and societal networking. For each of the areas, the book presents proven methods that enable dynamic implementation strategies. Customer Focus Any effective management system begins with the customer. Companies must learn to integrate a customer's concerns into their own. The book presents how to embrace the "market-in" concept and integrate the other skills in the book into a management strategy that focuses on the customer. Continuous Improvement For a company to be successful in the 21st century, it must continually improve its processes to meet the ever-changing needs of the customer. This book introduces important tools for process discovery, management, and improvement. In the process, it moves beyond "reactive improvement" methods to "proactive improvement" efforts. Total Participation The key to creating a dynamic management system is employee participation. Employees are the ones who work on the issues of quality and customer satisfaction on a daily basis. This book presents skills such as hoshin management, team-building, creating structures for mobilization, and leading change and breakthrough. Societal Networking Besides a company's internal audience, another source of business improvement ideas is societal networking. This is the set of companies, customers, and suppliers associated with any organization, that can learn from the experiences of these groups. To develop these valuable resources into a comprehensive management strategy, the book covers "mutual learning" methods, as well as keys for integrating various management methodologies. This book includes: Hoshin management PDCA (plan, do, check, act) cycle 7-step method of reactive improvement Proactive improvement to develop new products Engaging people in a changing environment Focused strategies for phase-in Leading process improvement The practice of breakthrough Over thirty thorough case studies
Download or read book Change is the Rule written by Winford E. Holland and published by Dearborn Trade. This book was released on 2000 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is a company or non-profit organisation similar to a theatre company? Theatre companies must perform to an audience every night, even as they develop the next production simultaneously. Similarly, a company must keep itself running while proceeding through the process of change. For over three decades author Dutch Holland has been directing global firms to recognise change as constant within their organisations, and learn to effect and direct change. He has produced stunning results for companies, and now summarises the critical action plans companies need to address as they face change at a velocity previously unimagined. Holland helps managers, leaders, executives, trainers and consultants take practice actions to: understand change as theatre; identify where change is working - or not working appropriately; communicate vision, processes, procedures and performance tools, and run the business even as it's changing.
Download or read book Organizational Change and Change Management written by Dag Ingvar Jacobsen and published by Vigmostad & Bjørke. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains how change encompasses many different phenomena, occurs in a variety of ways, and can have widely divergent causes and driving forces. It also helps to develop a constructive theory dealing with planned organizational change. The book is divided into two main sections. Part 1 discusses how organizations can tackle change actively in order to meet the new challenges they are facing. The author provides an analysis model based on four elements: driving forces, the content and scope of change, the process of change and the context of change. Part 2 addresses how an organization can implement a planned change. Emphasis is placed on how those who are responsible for implementing the change – the change agents – can apply various change strategies, and how planned change processes can be managed. The author shows how various change strategies and different ways of managing change can be equally effective, but in different situations. The book uses an interdisciplinary outlook, and it is based on research in the fields of psychology and sociology as well as political science and economics. The extensive references to source materials also mean that it is useful for anyone who would like to study organizational change in more depth. Dag Ingvar Jacobsen is the author of several books in the fields of organization and management, political science and methodology. He is co-author of the book Hvordan organisasjoner fungerer (How Organizations Function), which is one of the most frequently read books in Scandinavia about organization theory. Jacobsen is a professor at the University of Agder, and is a very popular speaker.
Download or read book Change Management Excellence written by Steve Macaulay and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the "compass of the intelligences", a unique device developed by the authors, Change Management Excellence shows the reader how to lead and navigate change by employing business, political, spiritual and emotional intelligence.
Download or read book Four Practical Revolutions in Management written by 0 Center For Qual and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2007-07-24 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shiba and Walden have significantly revised their classic, A New American TQM. With new methodologies and case studies, this work is one of the most comprehensive studies of management theory and business success. The authors identify a comprehensive approach to management that goes beyond operations improvement to help executives and manage
Download or read book Choosing Strategies for Change written by John P. Kotter and published by . This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book ADKAR written by Jeff Hiatt and published by Prosci. This book was released on 2006 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his first complete text on the ADKAR model, Jeff Hiatt explains the origin of the model and explores what drives each building block of ADKAR. Learn how to build awareness, create desire, develop knowledge, foster ability and reinforce changes in your organization. The ADKAR Model is changing how we think about managing the people side of change, and provides a powerful foundation to help you succeed at change.
Download or read book Practical E Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management written by Gerhard Greeff and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2004-08-11 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New technologies are revolutionising the way manufacturing and supply chain management are implemented. These changes are delivering manufacturing firms the competitive advantage of a highly flexible and responsive supply chain and manufacturing system to ensure that they meet the high expectations of their customers, who, in today's economy, demand absolutely the best service, price, delivery time and product quality.To make e-manufacturing and supply chain technologies effective, integration is needed between various, often disparate systems. To understand why this is such an issue, one needs to understand what the different systems or system components do, their objectives, their specific focus areas and how they interact with other systems. It is also required to understand how these systems evolved to their current state, as the concepts used during the early development of systems and technology tend to remain in place throughout the life-cycle of the systems/technology. This book explores various standards, concepts and techniques used over the years to model systems and hierarchies in order to understand where they fit into the organization and supply chain. It looks at the specific system components and the ways in which they can be designed and graphically depicted for easy understanding by both information technology (IT) and non-IT personnel.Without a good implementation philosophy, very few systems add any real benefit to an organization, and for this reason the ways in which systems are implemented and installation projects managed are also explored and recommendations are made as to possible methods that have proven successful in the past. The human factor and how that impacts on system success are also addressed, as is the motivation for system investment and subsequent benefit measurement processes.Finally, the vendor/user supply/demand within the e-manufacturing domain is explored and a method is put forward that enables the reduction of vendor bias during the vendor selection process.The objective of this book is to provide the reader with a good understanding regarding the four critical factors (business/physical processes, systems supporting the processes, company personnel and company/personal performance measures) that influence the success of any e-manufacturing implementation, and the synchronization required between these factors.· Discover how to implement the flexible and responsive supply chain and manufacturing execution systems required for competitive and customer-focused manufacturing· Build a working knowledge of the latest plant automation, manufacturing execution systems (MES) and supply chain management (SCM) design techniques· Gain a fuller understanding of the four critical factors (business and physical processes, systems supporting the processes, company personnel, performance measurement) that influence the success of any e-manufacturing implementation, and how to evaluate and optimize all four factors
Download or read book Principles of Management written by David S. Bright and published by . This book was released on 2023-05-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black & white print. Principles of Management is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the introductory course on management. This is a traditional approach to management using the leading, planning, organizing, and controlling approach. Management is a broad business discipline, and the Principles of Management course covers many management areas such as human resource management and strategic management, as well as behavioral areas such as motivation. No one individual can be an expert in all areas of management, so an additional benefit of this text is that specialists in a variety of areas have authored individual chapters.
Download or read book Change Without Pain written by Eric Abrahamson and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A refreshingly non-revolutionary approach to change based on ten years of research that shows how transitions can be effective, cost-efficient, and painless In this powerful and refreshing book, he outlines a positive new approach to change called “creative recombination.” Rather than obliterating and then reinventing anew—the change approach advocated by most gurus and “experts” over the last twenty years—creative recombination seeks sustainable, repeatable transformation by using the firm’s existing resources more wisely. Abrahamson identifies five key elements that every company has—people, structures, culture, processes, and networks—and offers a broad toolkit of techniques for recombining, reusing, and redeploying these resources to achieve smoother, more cost-efficient, less painful organizational change.
Download or read book Longitudinal Field Research Methods written by George P. Huber and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1995-08-02 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven papers, some of which have appeared previously as contributions to the journal Organizational Science , emphasize a range of methodological issues involved in longitudinal field research, including ethnographic methods, longitudinal and comparative case studies, event history analysis, and real-time tracking of events, as well as procedural.
Download or read book The Relationship of Change Readiness and Work Engagement in Manufacturing Organizations in South Central Pennsylvania written by Mary Park and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Successful change efforts are critical to an organization's strategy and growth and, therefore, an understanding of how to best manage these change efforts is of interest to innovative and forward-looking organizations. The goal of this study was to determine if the employees' level of work engagement was related to the organization's level of readiness for the change effort. As no empirical studies were found which examined this relationship, this research adds to the existing literature on both topics.To explore the multiple variables and inter-relationships posed in the four research questions, a cross-sectional survey was conducted with a sample of manufacturing employees in south-central Pennsylvania. Work engagement was measured via the three subscales of vigor, dedication, and absorption of the nine item Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES-9). Organizational readiness for change was measured with the reflexivity, and innovation and flexibility subscales of the Organizational Climate Measure (OCM). Methods to analyze the data included descriptive statistics, bivariate analyses, and hierarchical multiple regression, factorial ANOVA, and coding of qualitative data. The results of bivariate analyses demonstrate the moderate positive strength of the relationship for the seven study variables. Therefore, this study provides the first empirical evidence of the importance of employee work engagement to an organization's readiness for change and adds to the existing literature on both constructs.Results of the hierarchical multiple regression analysis demonstrates (a) dedication was the only work engagement variable with a significant influence in explaining differences in the change readiness scores of innovation and flexibility, and (b) dedication and absorption had very similar influences in explaining score differences in reflexivity. The importance of the employee's dedication on an organization's readiness for change strengthened the significance of the moderate to strong correlation measured between dedication and overall RFC.Finally, three methods were used, including factorial ANOVA, to investigate the influence of position and years in the organization on overall EWE, overall RFC, and the subscales of each construct. Results demonstrate only an employee's position is significantly related to their overall level of engagement and the vigor, dedication, and absorption with their work. However, no influence was found for position or years in the organization on overall RFC, innovation and flexibility, or reflexivity.
Download or read book Balancing Acts written by James Conklin and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2021-07-30 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Balancing Acts offers consultants and managers a simple, powerful way to think about change, and ascribes a four-phase iterative process for implementing change. Reviewing change initiatives from different types of organizations, Balancing Acts confronts the problems and pitfalls head-on that often arise during workplace transitions. Conklin explains why organizational change can be so difficult, and shows that by balancing a set of competing psychological and systemic challenges, interveners will increase their chance of success. Conklin shows that human groups function as complex systems, and that a change initiative is not a linear progression toward a predefined result. Instead, change is an iterative process that involves a search for feasible and useful solutions. The book’s central argument is that while leading or supporting this search, consultants and leaders must balance four critical concerns: confrontation and compassion, participation and observation, assertion and inquiry, and planfulness and emergence.
Download or read book Learning to Change written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1993-02-01 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manufacturing firmsâ€"large and smallâ€"face massive change and adjustment as they move from a stable, fault-tolerant environment of long production runs to a volatile world in which production runs are short; product characteristics are changing constantly; and defect-free, on-time production at decreasing prices is a condition for survival. The necessary changes in the production organization include everything from the layout of the shop floor to the distribution of authority between managers and workers. The magnitude of these changes threatens to overwhelm the managerial capacities of firms, regardless of their size. This study examines the particularly vulnerable situation of small and mid-size manufacturers and considers ways in which to help them undertake the many changes and adjustments necessary. These include assimilating the new tools, disciplines, and philosophy of lean manufacturing; embracing new ways of delegating responsibilities; and developing new kinds of partnerships among customers, suppliers, and employees.
Download or read book Leading Change Overcoming Chaos written by Michael L. Heifetz and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells how to manage change, offers practical advice on planning, problem solving, and overcoming opposition, and looks at specific cases.
