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Info-line : Level 3 Evaluation: Application (Info-line)
Jack J Phillips
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Takes an in-depth examination of how to measure on-the-job application of training or level three evaluation. Includes several questions to illustrate content concerns and to capture behavior change skill transfer to the workplace. Job aid includes a level three action plan. Part of a five-part series on training evaluation.

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Inventory Control is Important!

The Forklifts Have Nothing to Do: Lessons in Supply Chain Leadership
Joseph L. Walden
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The Forklifts Have Nothing To Do! provides practical methods for improving supply chain operations. Colonel Joe Walden has spent more than 25 years leading supply chain operations. Improving your supply chain will improve your bottom line, regardless of your industry.

His recommendations draw on examples in civilian industry and military operations, including his recent experiences in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Supply chain operations in the military are very similar to supply chain operations in commercial industry. Both have the ability to improve operations for the customer.

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Inventory Control is Important!.......2004-11-04

Colonel Walden is right on the money. Busy forklifts do not translate into effective or efficient supply operations. Careful use of economic order quantities, re-order points tuned to demand levels and demand forecasts, and a focus on ensuring the 20% of inventory items that account for 80% of your transactions are always available, is what matters. Also, forward deployment of assets where possible to cut down on ship times to the customer is important. Colonel Walden gives you the facts. And, while I have referred to his rank, please do not infer that this book is for military use only. The supply operations methods in this book are equally applicable to civilian use, and will reduce the cost of material handling, storage, etc.

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This book provides a comprehensive survey of the most recent methodology--both theoretical and applied--on the statistical analysis and detection of defective/"non-conforming" items in various types of inspection for attributes, when the inspection itself is subject to error.

Repetitive tests as an economic alternative procedure to control attributes with diagnosis errors [An article from: European Journal of Operational Research]

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Repetitive tests as an economic alternative procedure to control attributes with diagnosis errors [An article from: European Journal of Operational Research]
R.C. Quinino , and L. Lee Ho
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This digital document is a journal article from European Journal of Operational Research, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Optimal procedure for repeated and independent classifications of products with diagnosis errors are obtained in order to minimize the mean total inspection cost. Due to the complexity of the objective function, upper limits of search for the optimal values are proposed. The procedures are implemented in a program using the software Matlab and illustrated by an example.

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Being relocated overseas can be a real challenge for professional business people and their families, especially after September 11th.

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This comprehensive and updated textbook on the economic history of colonial India presents a lucid account of the factors that shaped economic change in colonial India in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.

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Point. Click. Done! What a world this would be if everything worked as easily and efficiently as your TV set's remote control. Today's managers could definitely use such convenience in their day-to-day dealings. Many of them face far too many responsibilities for one person. Traditional "empowerment," allowing support staff to take on some of the overload, often produced less-than-desirable results. Even so, some form of empowerment has become an absolute necessity for maxed-out managers. If you suffer from nagging, stressful management overload... Managing by Remote Control now brings you relief! Peter R. Garber, a manager of teamwork development, offers new concepts and techniques to make empowerment practical. He tells why and how past methods failed-and replaces those with more effective measures. Eventually, your capable support staff will make decisions, and solve problems as if a manager were always present and calling the shots. By comparing his techniques and philosophies to the functions of a TV set's remote control, Garber takes an entertaining and humorous approach to the subject. Even those who would rather watch TV than read a business book will find Managing by Remote Control entertaining-and informative. Don't wait for rerun season-read it soon!

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Empowering by Remote Control.......2000-09-07

Peter Garber has written an interesting text on structuring an organization to empower its employees. Remote Control Management seems to be a relatively new idea with not much to be found about it outside of telecommuting. Garber suggests that an organization can empower its employees by structuring in a way that takes advantage of distance between employees. In this configuration, a company has little choice but to implement empowering strategies and Garber explains how to do this. Some of the anecdotes are a little too long but they do explain the key points and the exercises and tables are very good references.

Remote Control: A Practitioner's Guide to Managing Virtual Teams

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Practical guide

Remote Control: A Practitioner's Guide to Managing Virtual Teams
Gerald Falkowski & Stephen Troutman
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Remote Control: A Practitioner's Guide to Virtual Teams by Gerald Falkowski and Stephen Troutman takes the best from their IHRIM Journal columns and provides step-by-step guidance in achieving and sustaining opertaional excellence from any company's virtual team(s) based on the authors' 60+ years of combined experience working with virtual teams from IBM and IBM clients. While this book is appropriate for people in global businesses, it is equally applicable to individuals that need to work together virtually with others for any reason -- even if only across town.

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Practical guide.......2007-07-05

I've more than gotten my money's worth from this guide. I found the many checklists in the book to be useful with direct application to virtual teaming challenges associated with global headquarters program management.

Remote control: sounds like it's as easy as pushing a button, but managing workers remotely takes a lot of learning, communication and trust, as these ... technology): An article from: Entrepreneur

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Remote control: sounds like it's as easy as pushing a button, but managing workers remotely takes a lot of learning, communication and trust, as these ... technology): An article from: Entrepreneur
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Remote control: successors test managing long distance: the electronic generation has experience with telecommuting. Can it work for the farm?: An article from: Top Producer

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Remote control: successors test managing long distance: the electronic generation has experience with telecommuting. Can it work for the farm?: An article from: Top Producer
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Managing by Remote Control: How to More Effectively Manage People and Resources When You Can't Always Be There

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Managing by Remote Control: How to More Effectively Manage People and Resources When You Can't Always Be There

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Analyzing the Gross National Product (GNP) and other national economic statistics is one way to look at the financial well being of a country. Another more revealing and more interesting way is to analyze the variety and amount of goods and services consumed by citizens, businesses, and the various levels of government. The Handbook presents a systematic and statistical portrait of consumption and wealth, allowing readers to better understand America's economic, political, and cultural landscape. This handbook focuses on the latest statistical information available on U.S. spending habits by exploring a wide range of economic, demographic, and geographic variables.

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Not As Good As It Could Have Been.......2001-12-08

The "Statistical Handbook on Consumption and Wealth in the United States" is a collection of tables and charts of different measures of American financial health, varying between a macroeconomic perspective to that of a typical household.

Despite the glowing editorial reviews, there were little touches that could have made this a more satisfying volume. For instance, when ranking states by average annual pay (Table B9-1), there is no mention as to whether the data is by household, by employee, or per capita. Sometimes this information is provided on other tables, sometimes not. Also on Table B9-1 (and similar ones using rank), the states are displayed in alphabetical order rather than by their designated rank. Displaying them by their rank would have allowed for far easier comparison by geographical area. Instead the reader is obligated to copy everything over to derive any additional conclusions.

Another example where a little effort would have gone a long way is Table A5-1, identifying states' Gross State Product (as obtained from the Survey of Current Business). The editors knew that resident population was key to putting Gross State Product in perspective, because they added that data (obtained from the Statistical Abstract of the United States) to the same table. Unfortunately, they didn't take the time to do the math that would have broken down the numbers down by capita. As before, the reader is obligated to do work out the figures for themselves, and then take them out of alphabetical order and rank them by the resultant figures for geographical comparison. Cleaning up little things like these throughout the book would have been a noticeable improvement.

My last point involves the title of this volume. This book is intended to be a "Statistical Handbook on Consumption and Wealth in the United States." Wealth is commonly defined as the value of assets that are owned minus any liabilities that need to be repaid. It provides a very different measure of economic health than the flow of income and expenditures. While I believe that this volume has done an excellent job at gathering (if not presenting) the available data to satisfy the "Consumption" part of the title, the information provided to satisfy the "Wealth" aspect of the title, in my opinion, was far too sparse. Unfortunately, that was my primary motivation in buying this volume. I recommend that readers seeking information on wealth look elsewhere.

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In this volume Mayo discusses the Hawthorne experiments, relating the findings about human relations within the Hawthorne plant to the social environment in the surrounding Chicago area.

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A classic in its own right.......2007-02-28

The Human Problems of Industrial Civilization by Mayo, Elton (1933) Revisited.

Book Review by Punit Arora

Human problems of Industrial Civilizations is a unique management book that starts with fatigue and monotony and ends with theories of government, international politics and effectiveness of League of Nations! Even though the breadth of the topics covered in the book is breathtaking, at the heart of the book lie Hawthorne experiments at Western Electric Corporation in the inter-war period (1924-32) in Chicago, IL. Therefore, I propose to spend as much time on the context of the experiment and the book as on the actual Hawthorne experiments, their implications and shortcomings.

Hawthorne experiments were conducted in an era when scientific management reigned supreme. It is interesting to note that though the results from the experiment led to the foundation of human relations school in management, it never was the intent of the researchers when the experiment began. Mayo and his team were essentially looking for the effect of illumination on the productivity of the workers. As the design of study itself reveals, it was very much in the nature of scientific management inquiries: impact of changes in physical environment on the workers' productivity. However, the researchers accidentally stumbled upon something entirely different. They claimed to have come across certain human processes at work that were impacting the workers' productivity. Though, in 15 years that I have known about Hawthorne experiment, this claim never has fully convinced me. I firmly believe that perhaps the scientific management had already peaked by this time and its shortcomings were becoming apparent. However, challenging an established line of inquiry was still fraught with risk and the researchers still had to position their work in a certain way so they could be taken seriously. Therefore, when I opened this book and confronted fatigue on page one of the book, I was slightly taken aback; that despite knowledge of what was in store for me.

It was also instructive to note that Mayo spent more time reviewing work done in England than in United States. Outside of Hawthorne experiments, there are very few studies from United States that he cites. There are some odd references to France, Germany and Russia too, the references to which grow towards the later half of the book; a theme to which I will return later. Suffice it would be to say that it was a period in which European powers still ruled the roost and United States wasn't yet a world power, politically or industrially; and I used word industrially, instead of economically, deliberately because it was a world in which state of manufacturing determined the nature of economy.

The application of principles of scientific management resulted in systematization of the work and increased productivity up to a point. However, obsessive concern on "the best way of doing things" neglected the human dimensions of the capitalist economy. Not unsurprisingly, therefore, when Marx and his friends crafted their seminal treatises, they confronted and reported a world that had rapidly rising discontent among the workers. This is the neglect that also confronted Mayo and his colleagues when they conducted Hawthorne experiments.

Their research which was to come under severe criticism later on showed that the illumination levels in factories had no bearing on the productivity. When they increased illumination, the productivity increased and when they subsequently decreased it the productivity still increased up until it became humanly impossible to work. They were "astonished" at this result. They concluded that the manner in which workers were treated played a significant role in determining their performance. The nature of supervision and friendliness in particular were found to be a crucial factor. "We concluded that the best way to improve morale was ------ through improved supervision -------- A relationship of confidence and the friendliness with these girls has been established to such an extent that no supervision is required."

Based on this study, Mayo, Roethlisberger and Dickson founded the Human Relations School. Their basic premise was that "the industrial worker doesn't want to develop a blackboard logic which shall guide his method of life and work. What he wants is --- a method of living in social relationship with other people and value to the group."

Remember, however, it is distinct from Human Resources School which emerged later and had much loftier ideals and broader goals and agenda. The Human Relations School was basically limited to softening the edges of capitalistic economy by humanizing the work processes. It was limited to advocating for changes such as reduction in fatigue and monotony and improving the morale of the work. Self-realization, knowledge workers, human resources development and such other extensive changed were to take another 30 years to come into dictionary of organizational researchers.

Though Mayo and his colleagues are criticized for limitations of their methodology and conclusions drawn, their work has to be seen in the light of the prevailing environment. Rise of Russia and threat of communism, end of one world war and threat of another on horizon, looming great depression, near inhuman treatment of workers at the factories and such other great historical processes were all in play when they were conducting their experiments. One may ask what all of this has to do with research on management- a lot; if the range of topics covered and the constituencies that the book seems to be addressing is kept in mind. On the one hand, the researchers are reporting results from an experiment and on the other they seem to be talking to policy-makers to address the genuine grievances of workers to stem the tide on rising communism. Mayo (and his colleagues) seems to be addressing several stakeholders and constituencies simultaneously. Under the constraints of the environment in which the book was writer, I think it's an excellent work and a must read. Whether the methodology was strong or weak is a secondary question to what the book achieved in the results: getting human issues on the center-stage of the capitalist economies' agenda. Perhaps, that's the reason the book is still a seminal work despite all that critics have to say about it. And I believe it's going to become relevant once more under the impact of roll back of several welfare measures that had found acceptance over last 50 years. Shorter employment terms and absence of meaningful relationship in particular is likely to create the disconnect between employers and employees. While the wheels of time can't be rolled back, it would be useful not to forget the lessons hard learnt.

Overall, a very good book to read.

The Human Problems of an Industrial Civilization

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Elton Mayo
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Elton Mayo
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