Improving Maintenance & Realibility Through Culural Change, (With CD-ROM)

Title: Improving Maintenance & Realibility Through Culural Change, (With CD-ROM)
Author: Stephen J. Thomas
ISBN: 083113190X / 9780831131906
Format: Hard Cover
Pages: 356
Publisher: Industrial Press
Year: 2005
Availability: In Stock

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This unique and innovative book explains how to improve your maintenance and reliability performance at the plant level by changing the organization’s culture. It is specifically intended for middle managers in the manufacturing and process industries. This book demystifies the concept of organizational culture and links it with the eight elements of change: leadership, work process, structure, group learning, technology, communication, interrelationships, and rewards. If you want to break the cycle of failed improvement programs and instead use cultural change to help make significant and lasting improvements in plant performance, this book will show you how.

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Explains in-depth the eight elements of change and how they relate to cultural change.
Discusses cultural change with a reliability focus.
Presents the subject in a way that middle managers will be able to understand and apply.
Includes a PowerPoint presentation with audio on the enclosed CD-ROM, together with a web survey model, the Web of Organizational Change.

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Foreword
Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 : The Beginning
Chapter 2 : Culture Defined
Chapter 3 : Vision and the Goal Achievement Model
Chapter 4 : Organizational Values
Chapter 5 : Role Models
Chapter 6 : Rites and Rituals
Chapter 7 : The Cultural Infrastructure
Chapter 8 : The Elements of Change
Chapter 9 : Leadership Part 1 : The Basics
Chapter 10 : Part 2 : leadership and Change Management
Chapter 11 : Work Process
Chapter 12 : Structure
Chapter 13 : Group Learning
Chapter 14 : Technology
Chapter 15 : Communication
Chapter 16 : Interrelationships
Chapter 17 : Rewards
Chapter 18 : The Web of Cultural Change
Chapter 19 : Assessment and Corrective Action
Chapter 20 : Moving Forward

Appendix A : The Web of Cultural Change Survey
Appendix B : A Blank Web of Cultural Change Diagram
Appendix C : Clarification of Some of the Web Survey Questions
Appendix D : Individual Web Survey Scores from Chapter I8
Bibliography
Figure Index
Index