Deming's Profound Changes When Will the Sleeping Giant Wake Up?

Name: Deming's Profound Changes When Will the Sleeping Giant Wake Up?
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ISBN: 9780132926904

ISBN-10: 0132926903

ISBN-13: 9780132926904

Edition: 1994

Authors: Kenneth T. Delavigne, J. Daniel Robertson

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Increasingly, the demise of many businesses and organizations is being blamed on current western management practicewhich can be traced directly back to the 19th century and Frederick Taylor's theory of scientific management. Although W. Edwards Deming proposed a new, more modern philosophy of management decades ago, the western world, instead, continued to practice Taylor's philosophyby now adulterated and corrupted many times over into a new form of its own (neo-Taylorism). This volume exploresin depthneo-Taylorism (where it came from and what its beliefs are), Deming's philosophy (his system of profound knowledge and his 14 points), and suggests how Deming's philosophyif adoptedcould be…

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List price: $18.80
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 5/20/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 300
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English




Introduction



Japan's Transformation from Taylor to Deming



Understanding Deming's Profound Changes



Gaining New Knowledge



From Adam Smith to Deming -- An Extension Chain



Understanding the System and Reducing Complexity



Change



Six Axioms for Comparing Taylor and Deming



Deming's Profound Changes to Management



Understanding and Improving Systems



What Must Be Done


Bibliography and References



A Deming Chronology



Deming's 14 Obligations of Top Management


Index