The drive for higher productivity
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A productivity improvement wheel was formulated based on an evaluation of innovations in employee relations processes of leading automobile engine manufacturers in Europe. These companies shared three distinct traits: a desire for enhanced competitiveness in the global market, operational managers and plant supervisors as facilitators of favorable changes in industrial relations, and change as originating at the factory level. Operation of the productivity improvement wheel began as a result of, not one but, all of the productivity factors working simultaneously. Aside from various managerial and technical aspects of industrial process management, human resource issues also play an integral role in the industrial relations structure. The productivity improvement wheel's strength as a vehicle for change in industrial relations lies in its ability to effect change through an integration of the various components of industrial relations.
Publication Name: Personnel Management
Subject: Human resources and labor relations
ISSN: 0031-5761
Year: 1992
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Culture change in the NHS
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The Grampian Health Board of the UK National Health Service set out in 1986 to change its organizational culture from a monolithic bureaucracy to an action-oriented organization to meet new demands. The Board implemented a major information-gathering program that solicited the views and opinions of over 1,000 staff on many issues, including communication, creativity, and motivation. The information gathered indicated that a change program was needed. Elements of the program that have been implemented to bring about a culture change include having each of five subunits develop an annual operational plan, starting up team-building workshops, and reorganizing the board structure. Activities that have been implemented to affect culture change include training, planning, communication, team building, and recognition.
Publication Name: Personnel Management
Subject: Human resources and labor relations
ISSN: 0031-5761
Year: 1991
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