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Title Teamworking and quality improvement : lessons from British and North American organisations / edited by Richard Teare ... [and others]
Published London ; Herndon, Va. : Cassell, 1997

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Description xxv, 244 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents The Companies -- The National Society for Quality Through Teamwork -- The Award Sponsors: Perkins Engines Limited and Michelin Tyre PLC -- Ch. 1. Group sublimation for quality at Albright & Wilson, Oldbury / Vaikalathur S. Mahesh, Kevin Starling and Ian Fryer -- Ch. 2. The Hub Run-Out Team at British Steel Forgings - Garringtons / John Bicheno and Philip Welton-Cook -- Ch. 3. Working for quality at Severn Trent Water Ltd: A practical application / Sally Messenger and John Green -- Ch. 4. Who needs ashtrays? Continuous improvement at Britannia Engineering and Maintenance / Conrad Lashley and Nigel Williams -- Ch. 5. 'Enterprising' solutions at Land Rover / Anthony Ingold and Ray Sprason -- Ch. 6. TQ Dyane: A new technical process and procedure at Perkins Engines, Peterborough / Richard Teare, Andy Anderson and Richard Gray -- Ch. 7. Benefit enquiries, customer advice and quality improvement / Jackie Brander Brown and Shelagh Iwanowicz
Ch. 8. Quality improvement at Topsides Division / Nick Johns, Derek Harwood and Chris Guymer -- Ch. 9. Rolling out a programme of culture change through structured involvement / Andrew Lockwood and Mark Thompson -- Ch. 10. Royal Insurance: Brainwaves + processes = progress / Brenda McDonnell and Dave Rusk -- Ch. 11. Weaving the rope of quality at the Slag Reduction Company / Peter Stannack and James Horsburgh -- Ch. 12. Wellman International: Shaping and sustaining a vision of quality / Hadyn Ingram and Frank Gleeson -- Ch. 13. Living the value of total quality at Corning Incorporated / Carole Congram and Martin R. Mariner -- Ch. 14. Aligning environment and technology with quality at GTE / Roger Hallowell and Nancy Burzon
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Quality circles -- Great Britain -- Case studies.
Quality control -- Great Britain -- Case studies.
Quality control -- North America -- Case studies.
Teams in the workplace -- Case studies.
Teams in the workplace -- Great Britain -- Case studies.
Teams in the workplace -- North America -- Case studies.
Total quality management.
Author Teare, Richard.
LC no. 98118713
ISBN 0304338389