Overview

In October of 1990, McClellan Air Force Base received the President's yearly Quality Improvement Prototype Award, owing largely to the base's participation in Project Pacer Share, a new paradigm for organizational design. The project was specifically cited in the President's Quality Award, won by the Air Force Logistics Command in 1991. In this work, two individuals actively involved in creating and implementing the program examine its development and use at McClellan, and describe how such a program can be applied to the management of organizations to lead workers to a total quality approach based on customer-focused and process-centered behavior. Aware of their particular biases toward the project, the authors offer their own separate perspectives, and also include observations written by other labor, management and non-management participants in the program. In the first section, G. Ronald Gilbert, the primary outside consultant to Project Pacer Share, discusses where large organizations in America have been and where they need to go to make a transformation to a quality approach to work. Section two, written by the project's chief developer/designer, Ardel Nelson, offers recollections and critical thoughts about the development of the program within the Civil Service system. Two other members of the design team also add their perspective. The authors and other project participants describe the various processes, tools, and techniques used in the project in section three, and the book concludes with a discussion of the results of the program from the viewpoint of the authors, members of the design team, and the current project director. This book will be an important study for students and professionals in the fields of general management, total quality management (TQM), and international business, as well as for those in human resource management and labor relations.

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Author:   G Ronald Gilbert ,  Ardel Nelson
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Praeger Publishers Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.533kg
ISBN:  

9780899306124

ISBN 10:   0899306128
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   10 December 1991
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Introduction The Quality Imperative A Call for Quality Worldwide: The War of the Peacekeepers Past Failures in Doing Business: The Efficiency and the Quality Paradigms Quality in Government: Failure, Promise, and Project Pacer Sharet The Problems with the Existing Civil Service System Creating an Alternative System: A Shaky Beginning The Design of Project Pacer Share for TQM Mobilizing Support for the New Way of Doing Business: A Peek Behing the Scenes Major Intervention Tools and Techniques for TQM Managing Change: General Approach, Philosophy, and Tools Employed Tactical Planning and Team Building The Team-Building Follow-On Effort Customer-Oriented Leadership: A Model of Supervision Self-Initiated Followership: The Essence of Quality and Customer Service Essential Process Management Results, Revisions, and Recommendations Discussion and Final Assessment: The Overall Project at a Glance Glossary of Acronyms Appendixes Bibliography Index

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G. RONALD GILBERT, team builder consultant for Project Pacer Share, is Associate Professor of Management at Florida International University at North Miami, and President of Management, Education, and Development, Inc. of Boca Raton. ARDEL E. NELSON was formerly Project Manager of Project Pacer Share at McClellan Air Force Base in Sacramento, California. He is currently Chair of the Management Department at American River College at Sacramento and Principal at Nelson and Nelson Management Consultants.

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