This unique and innovative book explains how to improve your maintenance and reliability performance at the plant level by changing the organizations culture. It is specifically intended for middle managers in the manufacturing and process industries. This book demystifies the concept of organizational culture and links it with the eight elements of change: leadership, work process, structure, group learning, technology, communication, interrelationships, and rewards. If you want to break the cycle of failed improvement programs and instead use cultural change to help make significant and lasting improvements in plant performance, this book will show you how.
- Explains in-depth the eight elements of change and how they relate to cultural change.
- Discusses cultural change with a reliability focus.
قائمة المحتويات
- The Beginning
- Culture Defined
- Vision and the Goal Achievement Model
- Organizational Values
- Role Models
- Rites and Rituals
- The Culture Infrastructure
- The Elements of Change
- Part 1 Leadership The Basics
- Part 2 Leadership and Change Management
- Work Process
- Structure
- Group Learning
- Technology
- Communication
- Interrelationships
- Rewards
- The Web of Cultural Change
- Assessment and Corrective Action
- Moving Forward
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Figure Index
- Index
عن المؤلف
Steve Thomas has more than 30 years of experience working in the petrochemical industry. During this time, through personal involvement at all levels of the work process, he has gained vast experience in all phases of strategic development and implementation of organizational change. Coupled with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University and M.S. degrees in both Systems Engineering and Organizational Dynamics from the University of Pennsylvania, this experience has enabled Thomas to add significant value to the many projects on which he has worked. He is currently engaged in a work effort to successfully transform an organization from a reactive to a reliability-based maintenance environment. In addition, he has served on many industry-related committees including as President of Indusworld – the official user group of Indus International.
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