Total Quality and Organization Development (Total Quality Management Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.59 (591 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1884015220 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 408 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-24 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A Customer said Great book merging "Quality Management" with ORG development. This is one of the finest books written on Quality managment principles and how those principles should be integrated with traditional Organizational Development. Written in an acedemic fashion it provides great depth, excellent case studies, unique models and outstanding survey's included at the end of each chapter.A must read for those working on their masters in Organizational Development or studying for the ASQ Quality Manager Certification.I have read hundreds of ORG leadership and Quality Management books and this ranks right near the top!I highly recomm
The core philosophies of the parallel movements of OD and TQ are rapidly coming together as quality advocates deal with human factors in quality improvement and the technical and measurement factors that accompany such changes. What happens when you bridge the fields of Total Quality (TQ) and Organization Development (OD) to improve organizational performance? You get Total Quality and Organization Development.Here is a comprehensive and practical treatment of the impact TQ approaches to system performance has on OD. For the first time, views of organization change processes taken by academic researchers and practitioners in the fields of TQ and OD are bridged into a single text. OD was originated by a group of varied professionals, ranging from organizational psychologists to economists and philosophers who had a m