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Record Nr.

UNINA9910829038603321

Titolo

New wave manufacturing strategies : organizational and human resource management dimensions / / edited by John Storey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Paul Chapman, 1994

ISBN

1-282-26793-0

9786612267932

1-84920-702-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (269 p.)

Collana

Human resource management series

Altri autori (Persone)

StoreyJohn

Disciplina

658.5

670/.68

Soggetti

Production management

Industrial management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- List of figures -- ; 1. ; New Wave Manufacturing Strategies: An Introduction / John Storey -- ; 2. ; The Link Between Manufacturing Strategy, Organization and Technology / Joe Tidd -- ; 3. ; The Problem of Implementing Manufacturing Strategy / Nicholas Kinnie and Roy Staughton -- ; 4. ; The Design-Manufacturing Interface / Arthur Francis -- ; 5. ; Flexible Manufacturing Systems / Harry Boer -- ; 6. ; Total Quality Management / Patrick Dawson -- ; 7. ; Computer-Integrated Manufacturing: Elements and Totality / Malcolm Hill -- ; 8. ; Manufacturing Resource Planning / Alan Spreadbury -- ; 9. ; Just-in-Time Manufacturing / Alan Harrison -- ; 10. ; Cellular Manufacture and the Role of Teams / David Buchanan -- ; 11. ; Worker Responses to New Wave Manufacturing / Paul Adler -- ; 12. ; Future Prospects / John Storey -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Over the past decade, many companies have adopted new strategies for manufacturing, which have taken their competitiveness on to new planes. A whole array of initiatives, such as FMS, JIT, TQM, CIM, and MRP II, have been introduced. This book deals with the far-reaching significance of these new approaches - collectively labelled ""new wave manufacturing"".    Considerable research evidence as well as



practitioners' own experiences make one crucial point time and time again. The organizational as well as the human resource management aspects of these new strategies are critical to th