Improving maintenance & reliability through cultural change / Stephen J. Thomas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thomas, Stephen J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reliability (Engineering).

Maintainability (Engineering).

Organizational change--Management.

Organizational change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Industrial Press, Inc., 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This unique and innovative book explains how to improve your maintenance and reliability performance at the plant level by changing the organizations 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. Explains in-depth the eight elements of change and how they relate to cultural change. Discusses cultural change with a reliability focus.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8311-9013-2

1-62198-555-5