... 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 excellence—see
the definitions of workplace and
business
operations in the Enterprise
and Economic Development Glossary. Also, see the definition of excellence as
it relates to the process of improving the production of individuals,
groups, and business operations for quality output.
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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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The Business Process Management
Initiative:
... BPMI are the initials for this international, open
membership, not-for-profit organization which promotes the standardization
of common business processes in order to furthering e-business and B2B
enterprise development. BPMI merged their Business Process Management
(BPM) activities with OGM Object Management Group in 2005 as it continued
to develop Business Process Modeling
Language (BPML), an Extensible Markup Language (XML)-based metalanguage
for modeling business processes. The combined group has named itself
the Business Modeling & Integration
(BMI) Domain Task Force (DTF). To learn more, go
to www.bpmi.org. Also, see the definition
of business processes in
the Enterprise
and Economic Development Glossary.
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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
Kapital this
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.
 Search
the Web for ... labor "confrontation
with management"
Search
the Web for ... confrontation "division
of labor and management"
Search
the Web for ... confrontation "division
of management and labor"
Search
the Web for ... avoid confrontation "labor
and management"
Search
the Web for ... avoid confrontation "management
and labor"
Search
the Web for ... labor "confrontation
with management" auto industry
Search
the Web for ... management labor guide
avoid confrontation
Search
the Web for ... resources labor management
cooperation
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business process:
... functions within an organizations that enable
it to deliver products and services to the satisfaction of customers—more 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.
 Quality
Digest Magazine—periodical
of Quality
Circle Institute
Quality
Magazine—periodical
of BNP Media
QP/Quality
Progress—periodical
of ASQ/American
Society for Quality
The
TQM Journal—periodical
of Emerald Group
Publishing
The
TQM Magazine—periodical
of Emerald Group
Publishing
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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.
Search
the Web for ... UN list countries "economic
and social development"
Search
the Web for ... UN area development worldwide
Search
the Web for ... UN location "economic
and social development"
Search
the Web for ... UN location area development
Search
the Web for ... UN location economic development
contact
Search
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)
factors
influencing trends
conflict
between industrial relations and human resource management (theory)
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 circles—see 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 supervision—definition
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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