Developing Superior Work Teams
| Author | : Dennis C. Kinlaw |
| Publisher | : Jossey-Bass |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 1991 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : |
Developing Superior Work Teams
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The Practice of Empowerment
| Author | : Dennis C. Kinlaw |
| Publisher | : Gower Publishing, Ltd. |
| Total Pages | : 200 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780566075704 |
Dr Kinlaw, one of America's leading authorities on management development, sees empowerment as a way of improving organizational performance by making the most competent people the most influential most of the time, and his book provides a comprehensive and detailed model for achieving this objective. Drawing on examples and case studies from successful companies, Dr Kinlaw describes a practical, step-by-step process for introducing or extending empowerment in an organization or any part of an organization, and shows how to use feedback, team development and learning to good effect.
TSP--leading a Development Team
| Author | : Watts S. Humphrey |
| Publisher | : Pearson Education |
| Total Pages | : 330 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 0321349628 |
Watts Humphrey, inventor of CMM, PSP, & TSP provides team leaders with a whole new way of leading an effective development team.
Best Practices for Environmental Project Teams
| Author | : Stephen Massey |
| Publisher | : Elsevier |
| Total Pages | : 317 |
| Release | : 2011-08-16 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 044453721X |
"Best Practices for Environmental Project Teams" provides project managers and their teams, government managers, and regulatory agencies with practical guidelines for continuously improving performance. Project managers and team members can pick from a variety of chapter topics, stated as Actions, to address existing skill gaps with practical tools and guidelines.
TSP(SM) Coaching Development Teams
| Author | : Watts S. Humphrey |
| Publisher | : Pearson Education |
| Total Pages | : 534 |
| Release | : 2006-04-10 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 0768684978 |
Most modern software development projects require teams, and good teamwork largely determines a project’s success. The Team Software Process (TSP), created by Watts S. Humphrey, is a set of engineering practices and team concepts that produce effective teams, thereby helping developers deliver high-quality products on time and within budget. TSP bridges Humphrey’s seminal work on the Capability Maturity Model (CMM), an improvement framework for the entire software organization, and his Personal Software Process (PSP), practices designed to improve the work of individual developers. Typical first-time TSP teams increase productivity by more than 50 percent while greatly increasing the quality of their delivered products. However, TSP teams only continue to improve under the guidance of a capable coach. One industrial-strength team, for example, increased its productivity by an additional 94 percent and reduced test defects by 85 percent through three consecutive TSP quarterly product release cycles. Without competent coaching, teams often do not progress much beyond the initial one-time improvement seen after the introduction of the TSP. Humphrey distinguishes between TSP coaching and TSP leadership, explaining why the skillful performance of both functions is critical. In this practical guide, he shares coaching methods that have repeatedly inspired TSP teams and steered them toward success. With the help of a coach, TSP teams undergo a brief but intense project launch in which they define their own processes, make their own plans, and negotiate their commitments with management, resulting in dramatically enhanced performance. Whether you are considering the TSP or are actively implementing it, TSPSM–Coaching Development Teams provides the invaluable examples, guidelines, and suggestions you need to get started and keep developing as a team coach. It’s meant to complement Humphrey’s other books, TSPSM–Leading a Development Team and PSPSM: A Self-Improvement Process for Software Engineers. Together, the three works offer a rich resource for improving your software development capabilities.
Building the Integrated Company
| Author | : Malcolm A. Birkin |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 223 |
| Release | : 2017-11-01 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1351769596 |
This title was first published in 2000: Global competition is increasingly impacting on even the most isolated of companies; the only way for any company to sustain competitive advantage is by tapping into the single remaining area of great potential - the management of people. If we want to be an above-average company, we will need an above-average ratio of above-average people who perform at above-average levels. None of which will happen without above-average levels of management. Malcolm Birkin’s Building the Integrated Company offers a model for exploiting the human potential within organizations. This potential is one which, in previous decades, through an absence of focus on business basics and an adherence to mistaken ideas about sustainable competitive advantage, we have contrived to turn into all-too-limited performance. The first stage in any new learning process is to unlearn the misplaced concepts and bad habits we have developed. Section One of the book describes and contrasts the similarities and differences of American, European and Japanese management and then describes the characteristics of the Integrated Company, which has absorbed and perfected the best systems and philosophies from around the world. Anyone seeking to follow this lead needs to be able to distinguish the realities of these management systems from the myths. Section Two is built around a series of 13 detailed and scored questionnaires, containing over 240 individual questions, enabling the reader to assess every aspect of their business, from management focus to the behaviours of the workforce, against the Integrated Company model. Section Three, the largest and most important section, deals with integration, addressing the practical implementation of the systems and philosophies in a clear, logical and hands-on manner. As the name suggests, the Integrated Company is a holistic model, involving every aspect of the business. Nevertheless, managing people - the unlimited potential - remains the most complex
Business and Professional Communication
| Author | : Kelly M. Quintanilla |
| Publisher | : SAGE Publications |
| Total Pages | : 634 |
| Release | : 2019-01-02 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 150636957X |
Recipient of the 2020 Textbook Excellence Award from the Textbook & Academic Authors Association (TAA) Business and Professional Communication provides students with the knowledge and skills they need to move from interview candidate, to team member, to leader. Accessible coverage of new communication technology and social media prepares students to communicate effectively in real world settings. With an emphasis on building skills for business writing and professional presentations, this text empowers students to successfully handle important work-related activities, including job interviewing, working in team, strategically utilizing visual aids, and providing feedback to supervisors.
Handbook of Industrial Engineering
| Author | : Gavriel Salvendy |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 2846 |
| Release | : 2001-05-25 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780471330578 |
Unrivaled coverage of a broad spectrum of industrial engineering concepts and applications The Handbook of Industrial Engineering, Third Edition contains a vast array of timely and useful methodologies for achieving increased productivity, quality, and competitiveness and improving the quality of working life in manufacturing and service industries. This astoundingly comprehensive resource also provides a cohesive structure to the discipline of industrial engineering with four major classifications: technology; performance improvement management; management, planning, and design control; and decision-making methods. Completely updated and expanded to reflect nearly a decade of important developments in the field, this Third Edition features a wealth of new information on project management, supply-chain management and logistics, and systems related to service industries. Other important features of this essential reference include: * More than 1,000 helpful tables, graphs, figures, and formulas * Step-by-step descriptions of hundreds of problem-solving methodologies * Hundreds of clear, easy-to-follow application examples * Contributions from 176 accomplished international professionals with diverse training and affiliations * More than 4,000 citations for further reading The Handbook of Industrial Engineering, Third Edition is an immensely useful one-stop resource for industrial engineers and technical support personnel in corporations of any size; continuous process and discrete part manufacturing industries; and all types of service industries, from healthcare to hospitality, from retailing to finance. Of related interest . . . HANDBOOK OF HUMAN FACTORS AND ERGONOMICS, Second Edition Edited by Gavriel Salvendy (0-471-11690-4) 2,165 pages 60 chapters "A comprehensive guide that contains practical knowledge and technical background on virtually all aspects of physical, cognitive, and social ergonomics. As such, it can be a valuable source of information for any individual or organization committed to providing competitive, high-quality products and safe, productive work environments."-John F. Smith Jr., Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President, General Motors Corporation (From the Foreword)
