Toyota kata : managing people for improvement, adaptiveness, and superior results / Mike Rother.

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Rother, Mike, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Total quality management.

Personnel management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 sound file (7 hr., 17 min.))

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

Saybrook : McGraw Hill-Ascent Audio, 2009.

[Place of publication not identified] : McGraw Hill-Ascent Audio, 2009.

System Details:

audio file

Summary:

This game-changing book puts you behind the curtain at Toyota, providing new insight into the legendary automaker's management practices and offering practical guidance for leading and developing people in a way that makes the best use of their brainpower. Drawing on six years of research into Toyota's employee-management routines, "Toyota Kata" examines and elucidates, for the first time, the company's organizational routines--called "kata"--That power its success with continuous improvement and adaptation. The book also reaches beyond Toyota to explain issues of human behavior in organizations and provide specific answers to questions such as: a- how can we make improvement and adaptation part of everyday work throughout the organization? b- how can we develop and utilize the capability of everyone in the organization to repeatedly work toward and achieve new levels of performance? c- how can we give an organization the power to handle dynamic, unpredictable situations and keep satisfying customers? Mike Rother explains how to improve our prevailing management approach through the use of two kata: Improvement Kata--a repeating routine of establishing challenging target conditions, working step-by-step through obstacles, and always learning from the problems we encounter; and Coaching Kata: a pattern of teaching the improvement kata to employees at every level to ensure it motivates their ways of thinking and acting.

Notes:

Unabridged.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9781639296125

1639296123

OCLC:

1313530331