Product Description: This volume examines the experiences of well-managed firms that attempt to improve quality, productivity, innovation, technology, and human resources. The editors have brought together papers by the best known authorities on effective policies and practical guidelines for enhancing productivity and quality, combining them with those by leaders of America's high performance companies that describe their actual experiences with productivity and quality...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Can America compete? Competing Through Productivity and Quality answers with a resounding "Yes!" The real question the book poses is: How do we ensure productivity and quality improvements?

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Product Description: Quality, Productivity, and Innovation: Strategies for Gaining Competitive Advantage [Apr 01, 1987] Shetty, Y. K. and Buehler, Vernon M.

Product Description: This book contains specific recommendations by world renowned experts for boosting productivity through quality and employee management techniques. It provides new understanding, backed by the experiences of close to two dozen major firms, of the day-to-day policies and practices that contribute to business success...read more