... for all of the students. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Decision‐making Employee communications Employees Participation Production management Production scheduling Simulation The success of Japanese production systems has stimulated interest in industry and academia. Practitioners have...

...Patricia L. Rees Suggests that, though user involvement in the design and implementation of expert systems (ES) is generally encouraged in the literature, the incidence of successful user participation continues to be low. Draws on research carried out for a large British company on four expert...

...” their circumstances. © MCB UP Limited 1992 Employees Group working Human resource management Participation Self‐managing teams 22 INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT & DATA SYSTEMS 92,7 I nterest in SDWTs is growing but moving into them is risky, high cost and time-consuming here are the tough questions...

... Participation Quality circles Quality control 20 INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT & DATA SYSTEMS 91,6 Q uality control is declining into the enumeration of defects and the attribution of blame. New developments re-establish the old idea of the worker as a quality craftsman. Enhancing Quality Control: New Developments...