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Human Resources in the Post Deming Era

Deming Institute

When I had a leadership position with a team I had us have the whole team sit in the interviews with potential candidates (the team members were all early in their careers and in this and other ways I tried to help them learn and develop their skills). Guest post by John Hunter , founder of curiouscat.com (in 1996).

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Human Resources in the Post Deming Era

Deming Institute

When I had a leadership position with a team I had us have the whole team sit in the interviews with potential candidates (the team members were all early in their careers and in this and other ways I tried to help them learn and develop their skills). Guest post by John Hunter , founder of curiouscat.com (in 1996).

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The value of dignity in work – give or take 6 minutes

Deming Institute

The company’s human resources department described “excessive use of the bathroom as…60 minutes or more over the last 10 working days…do the math and it works out to 6 minutes a day,” the article stated. I suspect this stroke of timesaving brilliance was born out of a not-so-unusual concern about productivity or output.

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Eliminate Slogans, Exhortations and Targets

Deming Institute

Edwards Deming’s list of 14 points for western management : Eliminate slogans, exhortations, and targets for the work force asking for zero defects and new levels of productivity. But Dr. Deming understood the damage targets cause. Edwards Deming, quotes in Profits Beyond Measure by H. Point 10 on W.

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Applying Deming Principles at Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

Deming Institute

SMED your SME journey applying Deming principles – guest post by Luciana Paulise. Edwards Deming Institute [The Institute makes 5 travel grants available each year to study the Deming Collection at the Library of Congress. I was also invited to attend to the Deming Institute Annual Fall conference in Los Angeles.

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Where are you on the management scale of newbie to expert hacker?

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They ran productive meetings. The benefit of this is: costs decrease because of less rework, fewer mistakes, fewer delays, and better use of time and materials; productivity improves; market share increases with better quality and prices. Processes, products, and services should be improved constantly; reducing waste.