...Selim Ahmed; Dewan Mehrab Ashrafi; Mohammad Faisal Ahammad; Muhammad Khalilur Rahman; Md. Nazmus Sakib Purpose This study examines the role of governance in teamwork, continuous improvement, and patient safety in private hospitals. The current study examines the indirect influence of governance...

...Zahir Irani; Jyoti Choudrie; Peter E.D. Love; Angappa Gunasekaran Teamwork is increasingly seen as a prerequisite for many job functions within those organisations seeking to sustain total quality management (TQM). However, the daunting task of creating a teamwork environment within many companies...

... will be classified as SMED‐ZERO. In order to lay the foundations upon which SMED can be built within the textile processing operation, this research suggests that the following pre‐requisites are required. These prerequisites have been classified within four important areas, those of: 1. (1) teamwork...

... measures, since teamwork and continuous improvement groups are very much a people‐focused part of Japanese culture[ 19 ]. As to whether targets should be used, or whether it is more effective if only trends are monitored, opinions differ. Levesque[ 20 ] reports greater success when clear objectives...

... was introduced with four quality strategies to: 1 emphasize teamwork, involving all employees at every level, based on a flattened management hierarchy; 2 challenge all current thoughts and beliefs relating to all aspects of the business operation; 3 develop not only a vision for the future...

... and on the part of the supplier, utilizes concurrent engineering and devotes considerable resources to education and training. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Cost reduction Customer satisfaction Cycle time reduction Empowerment Organization and methods Simultaneous engineering Teamwork TQM Training...