Leveraging organizational transformation through incremental and radical approaches to change: three case studies

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Corporate restructuring can be efficiently achieved through complementary applications of incremental improvement and radical innovation. The first method includes total quality management, or long-term planning to modify procedures and systems. The second method includes business process re-engineering, or rapidly implemented changes to ensure immediate competitive survival.

Corporations, Business success

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Appreciation for a system: from fragmentation to integration

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The acknowledgement of interdependence is the key to successful implementation of quality management. Contemporary emphasis on competition, rather than cooperation, is preventing the development of effective quality management processes. By integrating the needs of employers, workers and customers, corporations can increase the efficiency and value of their businesses.

Analysis, Competition (Economics), Cooperation (Economics), Cooperation

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Total quality management in Eastern European construction: the paradigm shift

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Eastern European contractors may adopt total quality management procedures despite ideological difficulties. Worker input in decision-making processes may be hindered by the region's history of authoritarianism. However, the concepts of teamwork and partnering popular under socialist regimes can provide the foundation to implement effective quality management policies.

Eastern Europe, Contractors

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