TY - GEN AU - Klubnik,Joan P. AU - Roschelle,Marlene TI - Battling the barriers to success: 50 ways to keep your workplace improvement initiative on target SN - 0786307943 U1 - 658.4063 PY - 1996/// CY - [S.l.] PB - Irwin Professional Pub N1 - Hardcover N2 - Today, most organizations are involved in some kind of workplace initiative. Whether it is reengineering, system automation, rightsizing, total quality, or mass customization, all face a similar problem-loss of momentum after the initial implementation of the endeavor. It has been suggested that the failure rate of improvement initiatives is as high as 75%. Battling the Barriers to Success offers readers more than 50 ways to ensure the success of their improvement enedeavors. This guide includes action to address obstacles that readers need to overcome in order to improve the success rate of their initiatives. Each action item, categorized for easy reference and application, includes: What-The action item. Why-The importance of this action item to the success of any improvement initiative. How-a recipe for taking action UR - http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0786307943/chopaconline-20 UR - http://www.chopac.org/cgi-bin/tools/azrev.pl?q=0786307943 ER -