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Learning to Change: Opportunities to Improve the Performance of Smaller Manufacturers



Manufacturing firms—large and small—face massive change and adjustments as they move from a stable, fault-tolerant environment of long production runs to a volatile world in which production runs are short, product characteristics are constantly changing, and defect-free on-time production at decreasing prices is a condition for survival. The necessary changes in the organization of production include everything from the layout of the shop floor to the distribution of authority between managers and workers. The magnitude of these transformations threatens to overwhelm the managerial capacities of firms regardless of their size.
0-309-58606-2
NONE
Management
English
1993
1-153
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