Out of the box thinking for successful managers. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: William F. Roth.
• Authors: Roth, William F
• Contents: Six Sigma: Or, Here We Go Again; Birth of the Mechanist and Human Relations Schools of Thought: The Battle Begins; Deming and the Systems Approach: Why, Indeed, Is Nobody Listening?; Hammer and Reengineering, or, Once Again with Feeling; Six Sigma, the Latest Kid on the Block; Not Much Has Really Changed; The Alternative and Why We Refuse to Take It Seriously; ; Downsizing: The Cure That Can Kill; The Many Dark Sides of Downsizing; Alternative Strategies for Cutting Costs; Nugget Market; Dorner Manufacturing Corporation; It Seems That Downsizing Is the Result More of a Mind-Set than of Necessity; Lincoln Electric; International Paper’s Louisiana Mill Goes All the Way; Maybe as a Last Resort; ; The Myth That Competition in the Workplace Is the Best Way to Increase Productivity; Getting the Necessary Definitions in Place; Now, a Really Simple Proof That Will Make Tough Guys’ Blood Boil; Sad but True; Where Does It Come From?; The Cult of the Coney Island Hot Dog; Rationalizations Pile On; What Do the Psychologists Say Concerning the Roots of This Behavior?; It’s Going to Take Radical Therapy; New World Thinking; ; Is It Possibly Time for Management by Objective to Bite the Dust?; MBO as a Starting Point; Challenges of a Rapidly Changing Workplace; Why MBO No Longer Belongs at the Table; Once Again, What Is the Alternative?; W. L. Gore; Bidding Farewell to a Player whose Time Has Passed; ; Get Rid of Performance Appraisals; Largely a Waste of Time?; Real Criteria; To Make Matters Far Worse; Why It Doesn’t Work; The Way It Should Be Done; Coming Up with Something New; A World without Performance Evaluations; If There Is a Better Way, Why, Then; ; Doing It Wrong: Or, How Can Quality Improvement Efforts Possibly Get So Screwed Up?; Off to a Bad Start; Going the Individualized Route; The Rock and the Hard Place; Planning as a Threat; A Little Dab of Intrigue to Spice Things Up; ; Doing It Right: Or, Moving Beyond the Baldrige; The Ideal: What We Need to Aim For; Partial Empowerment Just Doesn’t Cut It; Putting All the Things Together into a Model That Works; Ground Rules as the Catalyst; Now That We’ve Talked about What Should Happen, Let’s Talk about What Really Happens; Crosby Gives Them What They Want; Should We Call This Success?; The Baldrige: A Good Starting Point, but Still Not Biting the Bullet; How It’s Done: Or, Stars in Their Eyes; Why the Baldrige Will Never Produce the Desired Long-Term Results; Organizations Tend to Crumble without True Integration; ; Who Makes the Most Productive Executive?; Making Sure That Employees Earn Their Salary; Another Alternative; Personality or Training?; From Bully to Technology Expert; From Technology Expert to People Expert; Can Left-Brain Thinkers Demonstrate Right-Brain Talents?; Where the Real Problem Lies; ; How to Design More Profitable Businesses; Turning Support Functions into Profit Centers; The Three-Tiered Reward System Finds a Home The Circular Organization Management Systems Design; Modified Task Force Rules; Planning from a Systems Perspective; ; The Matter of Ethics; Sounds Good, But; And the Really Hard Part Is; Employees Would Be a Lot Easier to Deal with if They Weren’t So Damn Human; So, How Do We Figure This Thing Out?; The Tie-In between Systems Theory and Ethics; The Missing Piece; ; Replacing the Protestant Work Ethic with the Development Ethic; What Exactly Is Work?; Back to the Work Ethic; Martin Luther to the Rescue; The Paycheck Takes Center Stage; Still Not Good Enough; Development Ethic as an Alternative; Development Ethic Generates Commitment to Improved Productivity; It Is Time for a Change; ; Training for the Modern Age; Getting Down to It with Empowerment; But, Hey, It Still Works Pretty Well; But How Do We Change This Scenario?; It Really Does Make Sense, and Saves Money to Boot; All Sorts of Benefits, Big and Small; ; Is a Better Approach to Improving Safety Possible?; Here’s How It’s Done and What’s Wrong with the Approach; Getting beyond the Hustle; Another Way to Deal with Safety Issues; Worth a Try?; ; Unions: From Leadership to Playing Catch-Up; Birth and Rebirth of the Union Movement in the United States; Why Unions Began to Lose Their Clout; Where the Real Battle Lies; Too Much Focus on Local Issues?; Need for Universal Healthcare as a Starting Point; Out-of-Control Executive Compensation as a Second Focus; Technology: Friend or Foe?; Back into the Lead; ; Reinterpreting the Concept of Laissez-Faire Economics; With the Help of Adam Smith the British Get the Ball Rolling; Putting the Emphasis in the Wrong Place; Laissez Faire Adapted to the Modern-Day Workplace; A New Start?; ; Bibliography; Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: New York : Productivity Press
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 658.4063; Management; Success in business; Corporate culture; Creative ability in business
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781482247084
• Related ISBNs: 9781482247060
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; item not viewed.
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