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1.
Tackling Bullying in Your School: A Practical Handbook for Teachers
Contributors:
Publisher:
Routledge 1994
Subjects:
School Psychology
Bullying
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...Quality circlesWhat are Quality Circles?A Quality Circle (QC) is a group of between...where and when it happens. Quality Circles provide a structure for all...of bullying. Through the quality circle process, pupils devise their...
2.
Inspecting and Advising: A Handbook for Inspectors, Advisers, and Advisory Teachers
Contributors:
Publisher:
Routledge 1992
Subjects:
School Management And Organization
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...used for practising other interviews, such as that for appraisal (Poster and Poster 1991). Quality circles A quality circle (Robson 1984) is a group convened to look at work problems. It should contain about four...
3.
Logistics and the Extended Enterprise: Benchmarks and Best Practices for the Manufacturing Professional
Contributors:
Publisher:
Wiley 1999
Subjects:
Business Logistics--Cost Effectiveness
Delivery Of Goods--Management
Industrial Procurement
Contracting Out
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with many suppliers in implementing quality circles, lbestablish a quality circle program at a supplier's plant,Honda associates...strategy facilitates the implementationof a quality circle program best suited to the needs and culU...
4.
Improving Training Effectiveness in Work Organizations
Contributors:
Publisher:
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 1997
Subjects:
Cognitive Learning
Employees--Training Of
Training Needs
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...236). New York: Holt, Rhinehart & Winston.Dewar D. L. (1984). Quality circles. Red Bluff, CA: Quality Circle Institute.Dixon N. M. (1993). Developing managers for the learning organization...
5.
Restructuring the Employment Relationship
Contributors:
Publisher:
Clarendon Press 1998
Subjects:
Industrial Sociology--Great Britain
Labor--Great Britain
Industrial Surveys--Great Britain
Management--Employee Participation--Great Britain
Employees--Effect Of Technological Innovations On--Great Britain
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...sometimes called quality circles. Are you involved ina quality circle or similar group...belongedto a quality circle, whereas this...belonged to a quality circle 77 per cent thought...Table 4.3, quality circles made a bigger...
6.
Corporate Communications: A Comparison of Japanese and American Practices
Contributors:
Publisher:
Quorum Books 1984
Subjects:
Business Communication--Japan
Business Communication--United States
Corporations--Japan
Corporations--United States
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...attentionworldwide is the quality circle. As we saw in Chapter...briefly the background of quality circles in America andthen review...corporationsin using quality circles.BACKGROUNDThe adoption of the quality circle in America has been...
7.
Morality, Rationality, and Efficiency: New Perspectives on Socio-Economics
Contributors:
Publisher:
M. E. Sharpe 1991
Subjects:
Economic Man
Economics--Moral And Ethical Aspects
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...be right. Rousseau allows much more democ­racy. He would endorse something like quality circles. But suppose one memberof the quality circle disagrees with the others on whether a particular actionreally was in the firm's best interest...
8.
Total Quality Management in Education
Contributors:
Publisher:
Kogan Page 2002 (3rd edition)
Subjects:
School Management And Organization--Great Britain
Total Quality Management In Education--Great Britain
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...teamwork.■ Multi-function teams-quality circles, cross-functional teams or corrective...1989. He is most famous for his work on quality circles and was a pioneer of the Quality Circle movement in Japan in the early 1960s...
9.
Organizational Politics, Justice, and Support: Managing the Social Climate of the Workplace
Contributors:
Publisher:
Quorum Books 1995
Subjects:
Corporate Culture
Organizational Behavior--Social Aspects
Organizational Justice
Fairness
Employee Motivation
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...fornonparticipants in quality circles dropped significantly...Significantly, the quality circle functionedas...members.Although quality circles seem to have...effect" in quality circle participation. Initially, quality circles pro­duced...
10.
The Quest for Competitiveness: Lessons from America's Productivity and Quality Leaders
Contributors:
Publisher:
Quorum Books 1991
Subjects:
Competition, International
Industrial Productivity--United States
Quality Of Products--United States
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...economic performance of those products.Quality circles began for the most part primarily inmanufacturing...they were alsoearly in implementing quality circles at Boeing.Before I describe how the quality circle process grewat Boeing, I'd like...
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