The Multiple Lessons of the Hawthorne Experiments

The experiments conducted at Western Electric's Hawthorne Works between 1924 and 1932 established the importance of human and social factors in productivity. Three quarters of a century later, we're still following lines of inquiry these studies opened up.

How to Conduct Benchmarking in TQM Implementation

Is Benchmarking sounds familiar to you? It has been a common terminology whenever organization seeks opportunity for improvement. Or try to do something new. This TQM article is about how the author dealt with Benchmarking in TQM implementation. It highlights what to as well as how to benchmark.

The Steps in Budget Planning

When it comes to budget planning there are several important steps that you need to follow to ensure you create a budget and follow it. Believe it or not but budget planning really is the easy part.

Documentation and Audit - How to Do It in TQM Implementation Project Part 8a CONTROL Phase

This TQM article is Part 8a issue, it is a continuation of Part 7b published on [May 17, 2007 09:47:30 am]. This issue will deal with Documentation and Audit in the CONTROL Phase of the D.I.A.C. Improvement Methodology. This two tools are essential to sustain the improvement effort and the targeted results.

Blazing a Trail in Infrastructure Management Education in India

National economic development is pivoted on the availability of good infrastructure. As path-breaking concepts, frameworks and methodologies are being evolved, at the national, state and local levels, especially in the critical facets of infrastructure management such as financing, contracting and regulation, an Infrastructure Manager today needs to have a variety of skills. The immediate requirement of the Indian economy is, therefore, a pool of holistically trained domain-ready infrastructure managers. The comprehensive Post-Graduate Diploma in Infrastructure Management (PGDIM) Programme offered by Karnataka's prestigious Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), through the School of Management for Infrastructure and Development Strategies - India (MINDS), at Bangalore, is a timely response to this crying need and the first-ever initiative of its kind. From this academic year, the PGDIM is being offered in an innovative format whereby a student will receive the PGDIM on successfully completing the first year and also an MBA Degree in Infrastructure Management, after the second year.

A Lesson in Frugality - Saving Through Conference Calling

Imagine having to close a 4.5 million-dollar deal without having to travel. In fact, not only is there no need for you to travel, all the transaction would cost you is a measly $200. Sounds too good to be true? It probably would be too good to be true, if not for conference calling.

Document Management Systems and Benefits - An Applied Example

An overhead view of accounting processes and the application of document management technologies to improve those processes.

The Importance of a Customer Focused Vision

It takes commitment and an obsession about customers to win business. Over the years, my experiences have taught me that it is simple to create a customer-focused culture, but it certainly isn't easy. If a company gets it right, however, the customers and profits will be easy to attract and keep.

What Are Priorities And Why Are They Important?

Why are some people not as successful as they want to be or many think that they should be? Why is it that some people are constantly moving but getting nowhere? Most often it is because they do not have clearly defined priorities or are not living in line with them. What is a priority then?

Implementing Total Productive Management (TPM)

Total Quality Management (TQM) and Total Productive Management (TPM) can be effective management tools when applied correctly; however, when implemented haphazardly, they can be counterproductive. This article briefly discusses some areas of concern you should address prior to implementing TPM.

Project Management - Tips on Creating a Project Culture That Ensures a Foundation for Project Succes

Although sometimes it seems that projects take on a life of their own, the simple fact is that projects don't manage themselves. It takes the energy and commitment of a number of people to take a project from the initial idea through inception.

Project Scope Is Like a Box of Cracker Jack

Are your projects consistently missing estimated completion dates? Do project management stakeholders always seem to ask for and get more, more, more, while project sponsors won't change the project completion date?

There Is A Lack Of Human Resource In India As Outsourcing Is On Track

Staff’s salary has been increased in Software Development Industry due to shortage of staff that is taken in the concentration.