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Managing Performance Improvement

Managing Performance Improvement

By Lynne F Baxter and Alasdair M MacLeod

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This key book takes a critical view of the techniques and approaches available for implementing successful performance improvement initiatives, drawing on extensive real-world case studies and the authors' experiences of researching in this area.

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Publisher: Routledge
Publish Date: 11/16/2007
Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780415366816
ISBN-10: 041536681X
Language: English

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From TQM to Six Sigma and the Balanced Scorecard, there appears to be no end to the 'revolutionary' approaches proposed to improve business performance. However, on closer inspection, most new performance improvement approaches offer few differences from their predecessors.

This thought-provoking book provides a critical perspective on the management of performance improvement initiatives by relating major theories to practical examples from a wide range of organizations. Baxter and MacLeod analyze ideas on performance improvement and discuss how these concepts might not make any impact on organizations, using cases as diverse as telecommunications, cement manufacturing, a major airport, and an economic development organization. In their critique of popular performance improvement 'innovations', the authors highlight the possible damage to organizations they can cause. In response to prevailing performance improvement practices, the authors put forth the concept of repair as a way to rescue these efforts. Working from the authors' extensive research, they present alternative perspectives on improvement that shifts forward the stagnant debates on these processes.

Offering a needed alternative perspective and real insights into the process of implementing performance improvements, this book will prove invaluable to advanced students and MBAs studying quality, performance improvement, operations management, and HRM.

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