Quality Circles for Management Decisions: What's in It for Libraries?.

Mourey, Deborah A.; Manfields, Jerry W.

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Publication Date: 1984

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Quality Circles for Management Decisions: What's in It for Libraries?

Mourey, Deborah A.; Manfields, Jerry W.

Special Libraries, v75 n2 p87-94 Apr 1984

Describes use of quality circles (QC)--small groups of employees who meet regularly and voluntarily to identify, solve, and implement solutions to work-related problems--as a form of participative decision making, highlighting QC concept, establishing a QC, introduction process, management support, benefits, evaluation, and shortcomings. Thirteen sources are given. (EJS)

Descriptors: Employee Attitudes, Employee Responsibility, Employees, Library Administration, Management Teams, Organizational Climate, Participative Decision Making, Problem Solving, Program Implementation, Teamwork

Publication Type: Guides - Non-Classroom; Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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