How Long to Read Managing Quality Fads

How Long Does it Take to Read Managing Quality Fads?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 8 minutes to read Managing Quality Fads by Robert E. Cole

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Can managers learn from fads? That is the question Robert Cole addresses in this insightful book about the various factors supporting and inhibiting organizational learning. A longtime student of the Japanese and American quality movements, Cole focuses on the response of American industry to the challenge posed in the early 1980s by high quality goods from Japan. While most American managers view this challenge as slowly but successfully met, many academics see the quality movement that emerged from it as just another fad. In seeking to reconcile these two views, Cole explores the reasons behind American industry's slow response to Japanese quality, arguing that a variety of institutional factors inhibited management action in the early 1980s. He then describes the reshaping of institutions that allowed American companies to close the quality gap and to achieve sustained quality improvements in the 1990s. Hewlett-Packard serves as an example of a company that made this institutional transition more effectively than most. Cole describes Hewlett-Packard's successful strategies while also pointing out the serious problems that it and other companies face as they attempt to adapt, improve, and go beyond Japanese practices. He also uses Hewlett-Packard, an exemplar of the highly decentralized company, to explore effective strategies for the creation, dissemination, and implementation of knowledge. Unprecedented as a scholarly treatment of the quality movement,Managing Quality Fads provides several important lessons for those interested in management decision making under conditions of uncertainty and organizational transformation in a rapidly changing business environment.

How long is Managing Quality Fads?

Managing Quality Fads by Robert E. Cole is 304 pages long, and a total of 77,216 words.

This makes it 103% the length of the average book. It also has 94% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Managing Quality Fads Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 1 minute to read Managing Quality Fads aloud.

What Reading Level is Managing Quality Fads?

Managing Quality Fads is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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