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TIME for performance improvement: Targeting innovation in manufacturing engineering
conference contribution
posted on 2010-04-23, 16:16 authored by Sue Morton, R. Michaelides, Neil D. Burns, Chris BackhousePerformance improvement capability is
related to an organization’s ability to utilize a
fundamental asset, the knowledge that resides with its
employees, together with learning from past projects
and having good links to external knowledge sources.
Firms that develop mechanisms to encourage
conversation between individuals and teams to take
place, particularly in today’s post job security
economic climate, can witness performance
improvement at the individual and team level, and
thence to the overall performance of the organization.
This paper reports on performance improvement work
that is taking place with the case study company, a
post-lean organization, in order to develop its capacity
for team and organizational learning and
History
School
- Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Citation
MORTON, S.C....et al., 2009. TIME for performance improvement: Targeting innovation in manufacturing engineering. IN: IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, (IEEM 2009), Hong Kong, 8th-11th Dec., pp. 497-502Publisher
© IEEEVersion
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2009Notes
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9781424448708Language
- en