Integrating resource-based view and performance improvement theory in developing maintenance management continuous improvement model: A conceptual framework

A TQM and JIT Integrated Continuous Improvement Model For Organizational Success: An Innovative Framework

Abstract Manufacturing companies must find competitive methods to produce products cheaper, faster and better to continuously satisfy their customers and acquire organizational success. For continuous improvement to be more successful, hybrid programs such as integrated TQM and JIT approaches give better results. As the existing TQM and JIT integrated approaches in literatures are not analogous...

A conceptual model for manufacturing performance improvement

Purpose: Important performance objectives manufacturers sought can be achieved through adopting the appropriate manufacturing practices. This paper presents a conceptual model proposing relationship between advanced quality practices, perceived manufacturing difficulties and manufacturing performances. Design/methodology/approach: A survey-based approach was adopted to test the hypotheses propo...

Measurable and Continuous Performance Improvement: The Development of a Performance Measurement, Management, and Improvement System

Developing a pain management program through continuous improvement strategies.

Pain affects more than one third of cancer patients in the early stages of their disease, dramatically rising above 70% in the advanced stages. Numerous studies have been conducted in the pursuit of cancer pain relief, yet the prevalence of pain persists. This article focuses on a pain management program, developed by a performance improvement team, which addressed the inadequacies of current p...

Human resource management and Deming's continuous improvement concept

This article presents a loss minimization or continuous improvement model for human resource management (HRM). Minimization of losses arising from the interaction of two critical human resource (HR) quality targets, commitment and equity, requires `profound knowledge' of social processes and the development of HR systems. The history of HR can be interpreted as a social continuous improvement p...