quality management
amir mohammad khani; Abolfazl Kazzazi; Soraya birami
Abstract
The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between comprehensive productive maintenance, TQM, supply chain management, learning organization characteristics and operational performance. In order to conduct research operations, the conceptual framework of the research was first presented ...
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The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between comprehensive productive maintenance, TQM, supply chain management, learning organization characteristics and operational performance. In order to conduct research operations, the conceptual framework of the research was first presented by studying the theoretical foundations. In the next stage, by compiling and distributing a questionnaire among 180 people from the statistical population of the research consisting of senior, middle and operational managers aware of the subject under study, export companies of Golestan province were distributed randomly, the information needed to test research hypotheses was collected. Finally, 146 completed return questionnaires were covered by the structural equation modeling technique based on the partial least squares method. The results obtained based on this technique showed that the maintenance and repair of comprehensive productivity has a positive effect on total quality management, while the maintenance and repair of comprehensive productivity alone could not achieve an acceptable result to achieve operational performance and requires comprehensive quality management. . Another result obtained indicates the positive effect of total quality management and supply chain management and the mediating role of supply chain management in achieving operational performance between the two variables of total quality management and operational performance. In addition to these results, it was found that total quality management has a positive effect on the learning organization and the learning organization has an important role between total quality management and operational performance of export companies in Golestan province.
Reza Vaezi; Zeynab Abbasi
Volume 5, Issue 14 , December 2006, , Pages 131-152
Abstract
This article explains the relationship between business process reengineering and learning organizations. As business process reengineering and learning organizations both are techniques to support changing in organizations, this research offers a model which develops an optimized combination of the ...
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This article explains the relationship between business process reengineering and learning organizations. As business process reengineering and learning organizations both are techniques to support changing in organizations, this research offers a model which develops an optimized combination of the two methods and also concentrates to both their original purpose.
In following, the main aim of doing this research is described and also claimed the main hypothesis of the research that business process reengineering and learning organizations can have a synergic relationship.
In the research descriptive methodology has been used and its statistical society is generally software industry in Iran and specifically four software company which work on developing , supporting and training of software in Tehran. The designed questionnaire was distributed between top executives, vice presidents, project managers, middle managers, process experts and trainers of the companies and totally gathered 135 of them.
The results of this research suggest that the Organization's movement regarding to business processing engineering or learning organization, helps the organization to accept changes from the other path and affects the success of the other approach.
This research stops dedicated view point of users, who are looking for major changes' in their organization, towards the current approach.
Behrouz Rezaee Manesh; Mehdi Nourbakhsh
Volume 4, Issue 13 , June 2006, , Pages 123-146
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This study analyzes the factors affecting on creating a leaming organization based on Peter Senge's model. He introduces these factors in his book named fifth discipline: leadership, thinking space, localization, balance between family and work, time management ...
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This study analyzes the factors affecting on creating a leaming organization based on Peter Senge's model. He introduces these factors in his book named fifth discipline: leadership, thinking space, localization, balance between family and work, time management and experiencing. There are commonly two basic patterns for creating a learning organization in academic studies: American pattern introduced by Peter Senge and European pattern written by several famous authors and theorists. Other scientists and theorists follow these two patterns. A study with this subject has not been carried in our country. By identifying the factors effecting on learning organization we can prepare to create this kind of organization as a new approach for organization's and human resource's development. Results showed that mentioned factors affect on creating a learning organization. So we can prepare for creating a learning organization by using designer, teacher and steward leaders, create thinking space, learning from case experiences, personal and organizational effort to create balance between family and work, creating learning and thinking opportunity and delegating decision making to employees and supervisors.
