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workplace excellence:

... an expression rooted in methods developed by W. Edwards Deming, proven by the outstanding success of Japan's post WWII industrial policy; an expression use to explain, promote or otherwise comment on ... a culture of workplace excellencedashsee the definitions of workplace and excellence in the Enterprise and Economic Development Glossary.

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workforce / workforce development / laborforce / labor:

... categories of location data. The meaning of workforce is explained in the Enterprise and Economic Development Glossary within the context of laborforce. The latter may be seen as a location data category using just the word labor. Workforce development is a community profile data heading typically used to introduce training programs and services available in a labor market. Other related location data categories that may be seen are education, job training, technical training, technical schools, human resource services and available workforce.

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workforce training / employee training / job training / training incentives

... categories of location data. Training is the operative word indicating an incentive for prospects taking an interest in a location. It informs them that potential employees have opportunities for gaining or improving skills that qualify them for job offerings. Information in a training incentive category is likely to cover either pre-employment training or on the job training, or both.

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occupational work ethic

... narrows the definition of work ethic to the workplace. A resource paper: A New Look at Selected Employability Skills: A Factor Analysis of the Occupational Work Ethic by Roger Hill and Greg Petty is available online at www.coe.uga.edu/workethic/researchsub.html.

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Deming Management Method:

Resource article: W. Edwards Deming, His "14 Recommendations" Changed the History of Japan and The World! by Enrique Mora available at TPMonLine.com. Also see the website of the the The W. Edwards Deming Institute.

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division of labor and management:

An expression often suggesting that those who work for wages make up a group in opposition to employers because the latter are exploitive and untrustworthy. Labor and management at odds in a location may ultimately affect community sustainability. Keeping quotation marks intact, copy and paste the italicized keywords suggested below to the search engine at the top of this page.

The German term, produktionsverhältnisse, referring to relationships formed (between owners of enterprises and those who work in them as employees) during the industrial production processes gave Karl Marx the opportunity to expound on the the concept of a confrontational relationship between labor and management in his Das Kapitaldashthis last link takes you to Wikipedia which also has more information under Relations of production and Historical materialism. If you are a .network user in a free enterprise system reading this take a look also at the definition of voice of the customer in the Enterprise and Economic Development Glossary.

Sustainable enterprise and economic development is hampered where labor is exploited by government leaders and employers driven by inherent selfishness and greed. It is also hampered by shortsighted labor leaders who keep things stirred up because its their livelihood.
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business process:

... functions within an organizations that enable it to deliver products and services to the satisfaction of customersdashmore information from BenchNet (The Benchmarking Exchange). A meaning of benchmarking can be found in the Enterprise and Economic Development Glossary.

Success oriented business processes are ... driven by the voice of the customer. In all free market systems those to whom an enterprise provides products or services speak to issues of quality and costs in one way or another. When heard, customer-speak can lead to opportunities for improvement and expansion. When entrepreneurs pay attention the voices of potential customers in a market can lead of opportunities for the startup of new ventures. When employees of business owners dedicated to new startup. Sometimes when employers hear customer-speak, but employees don't, the result is relocation. When no one pays attention to customers its an indication that the enterprise has strayed from the path to success.

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list of quality magazine publishers:

Kudos to .network participants [1] [2] [3] at PPI (Pinnacle Partners Inc.), experts in the implementation of Six Sigma, change initiatives and improvement strategies, for their help in developing the following list of quality management periodicals. Suggest additions to the list.
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spacerQuality Digest Magazinedashperiodical of Quality Circle Institute
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spacerQuality Magazinedashperiodical of BNP Media
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spacerQP/Quality Progressdashperiodical of ASQ/American Society for Quality
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spacerThe TQM Journaldashperiodical of Emerald Group Publishing
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spacerThe TQM Magazine
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IAMC:

... acronym for Industrial Asset Management Council ... force on the corporate real estate scene ... has staked out unique organizational turf, setting itself apart from the industry's existing associations ... (focus is) on industrial and manufacturing firms (source).

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CED:

... acronym for Center for Economic Development at Carnegie Mellon University ... an applied research center designed to leverage academic resources to better understand key regional economic development issues ... (source); i.e., CED produces economic development data. The region referred to is the Pittsburgh Region (Southwest Pennsylvania).

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UN:

... acronym for United Nations, an global organization involved in economic and social development. Google for information about UN programs and activities by copying and pasting the following suggested italicized keyword combinations in the search box at the top of this page. Substitute the identity of a place of interest, for example the name of a country, for the word location. Type in a location identity string for a place of interest inside a country. For example, say you wanted to search for the largest city, Rangoon, in the country formerly known as Burma. If the were the case, you could type in the identity, Yangon MM or Yangon, Union of Myanmar. For two-letter abbreviations of countries see the .network list in Economic Development.net.
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spacerSearch the Web for ... UN 1999 Global City-Regions Conference

See the definition of global city-region in the .network glossary in conjunction with the last suggestion. For more about the 1999 conference elsewhere in this archive, CLICK HERE.

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labor relations:

The term is defined in the .network glossary as a management function (labor relations management). Part of definition suggests that the division of labor and management is a problem that hampers economic development on a global scale. One resource for learning more about the problem is an online paper titled Human Resource Management, Industrial Relations and Achieving Management Objectives at the International Labor Organization website (http://www.ilo.org). The resource paper is written by S.R. de Silva of the East Asia Multidisciplinary Advisory Team, ILO, Bangkok, TH. The following links are to sections of the paper:

human resource management and management objectives (trends)
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conflict between industrial relations and human resource management (theory)
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conflict and trade union views (overcoming the problem)

De Silva gives credit to those whom he quotes. The following are paraphrase examples of a couple of them. Source links at the end of each paragraph goes directly to de Silva's notes which are at the end of his paper.

Entrepreneurs are pointed out under Trends on Human Resource Management and Management Objectives as being skillful in putting together ... coalitions and building teams of devoted employees who feel a heightened sense of joint involvement and contribution to decisions. The quote goes on to indicate that management with an entrepreneurial bent stay in close contact with worker teams ... ensuring (their) access to information, resources and the support needed for implementation. The quoted source uses the term quality circlesdashsee 2002.3.2 above for glossary definitions related to quality natives within the enterprise.

"Corporate entrepreneurs - single-minded individuals that they are - still get their projects done by crafting coalitions and building teams of devoted employees who feel a heightened sense of joint involvement and contribution to decisions. The integrative, participative vehicles surrounding innovators - open communication, interdependent responsibilities, frequent team efforts- keep them close to the power sources they need to operate, ensuring access to information, resources and the support needed for implementation. Involving grass roots employees on participative teams with control over their own outcomes helps the organization to get and use more ideas to improve performance and increase future skills. Whether called 'task forces', 'quality circles', 'problem-solving groups', or 'shared-responsibility teams', such vehicles for greater participation at all levels are an important part of an innovating company. Masters of change are also masters of the use of participation."

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definition of corporate real estate:

... holdings managed at the corporate level as distinct and separate from non-real estate assets, generally under executive supervisiondashdefinition of corporate real estate executive.

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scams:

For a period of several years The Network was inundated with with emails from cyberthugs attempting to perpetrate the so called Nigerian Scam. We managed to trace down at least one source and turn information over to www.ifccfbi.gov/index.asp, a fraud report center operated by a US Government agency. Apparently the center is no longer in operation, as the URL is a dead end. The scam is question has disappeared for the most part, but occasionally pops up in a different form (unrelated to Nigeria). If you have any questions or comments about this notice, which replaces our more comprehensive discussion of scam problems, CLICK HERE.

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