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Summary
Summary
This volume illustrates how behavioral science theory and research are helpful to practicing managers in diagnosing human situations and in carrying through strategies for change.
Author Notes
Kenneth Hartely Blanchard was born May 6, 1939, in Orange, New Jersey. He married Marjorie McKee, a business consultant, in 1962. He founded Blanchard Training and Development in 1977.
Blanchard has cowritten several books on management, including one of the best-selling management books of all time, The One-Minute Manager (1982) with Spencer Johnson. In the book, the authors describe effective and efficient management skills. The basics to good management are setting goals, praising, and reprimanding. Blanchard says that these skills can easily be translated to work in the home as well as the office.
Blanchard lives in San Diego, California.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Table of Contents
| I The Plant Y Case |
| 1 Setting the Stage |
| 2 Period of Disintegration |
| 3 Period of Change |
| 4 The Change Process in Retrospect - and the Results |
| 5 Epilogue |
| II The Plant Z Case |
| Section 1 Description of Events at Plant Z |
| 6 Introducing Quality of Worklife at Plant Z |
| 7 Getting on Stream |
| Section 2 Conceptual Analysis of Plant Z |
| 8 The Process of Launching QWL |
| 9 The Dynamics of Problem-Solving Groups |
| 10 The Diffusion and Institutionalization of Change |
| 11 The Leadership Role |
| 12 Concluding Remarks - Plant Y and Plant Z |
| Bibliography |
