Work Study: Volume 45 Issue 2

New developments in organizing around core competences

Mark Unland, Brian H. Kleiner

The business environment is continually changing and evolving. This evolution necessitates that business concepts must either change or lose their effectiveness. The core…

Erratum

This article has been withdrawn as it was published elsewhere and accidentally duplicated. The original article can be seen here: 10.1108/eb057446. When citing the article, please…

A model for evaluating TQM effectiveness in health‐care systems

R.P. Mohanty, K. Santhi, C. Haripriya

Health‐care systems (HCS) are different from other industrial/commercial systems in that they can be influenced by moral and ethical considerations. In recent times, total quality…

Marketing management consultancy

Edwin Wilde

Opportunities for management consultancy exist when a potential client is faced with problems or uncertainties which cannot be overcome by his own resources, but, unless he is…

Supervisor skill formation in Taiwan’s automated factories

Hong Jon‐Chao, Wu Jinn‐Cherng, Wu Ming‐Hsiung

Automation is one of the ways in which enterprises can lower production costs and improve their quality. Since automation has a major impact on the nature of work and jobs, it…