Spencer (1820–1903)‚ coined the term "survival of the fittest". Some Post-Modern social theorists like Shepard Humphries‚ draw heavily upon Spencer’s work and argue that many of his observations are timeless (just as relevant in 2008 as 1898). Vilfredo Pareto (1848–1923) and Pitirim A. Sorokin argued that ’history goes in cycles’‚ and presented the social cycle theory to illustrate their point. Ferdinand Tönnies (1855–1936) made community and society (Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft‚ 1887) the special
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Pioneers of Sociology * Karl Marx He said that the working class will defeat the ownership class‚ and result in a utopia where government will wither away to nothing and the principle of economics will be based on "For each according to his needs‚ and from each according to his ability." His contribution to thinking in sociology is mainly in a perspective called "Conflict Theory" in which social organisation and change is based upon conflicts built into society. Many people see this as having
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-Checksheet - Graphs - Flowchart - Cause & - Force Field - Histograms - Run Chart Effect Analysis - Pareto Charts - Control Diagrams - Brain- - Scatter Charts - Pillar storming Diagrams
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Behavioural science theory and Systems theory. According to F.W Taylor‚” Management is an art of knowing what to do‚when to do and see that it is done in the best and cheapest way.’ Behavioural Science Theory. The thought was originated by vilfredo Pareto in 1896‚ and he researched organization & management relationship.Later‚ Hugo Munsterberg applied psychology to increase industrial production in 1912 & around the same
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Review Questions 1.6 1. Explain the meaning of ‘operational’‚ ‘tactical’ and ‘strategic’ decision-making. Operational Decisions refer to the routine and day-to-day decisions‚ such as those handled by junior management‚ e.g. deciding when a worker should go for their break and how to deal with customer enquiries and complaints Tactical Decisions refer to regular and short-term decisions that are normally handled by middle management‚ e.g. decisions about pricing strategies or recruitment and
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CHAPTER 2 : ROLE ENGINEERS IN THE SOCIETY Distinguishing between Engineers and Technicians 1) Difference between engineers and technicians: Technician Engineer Jobs are routine and predictable Skillful in performing certain designated tasks and hands on Jobs not always predictable and require decision making Leaders to various subordinates‚ who are among others are the technicians Work together to complete technical and non technical tasks required in an organizations Expectations and Realities
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Quality Control and Improvement Chapter outline 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6 9.7 9.8 9.9 Design ’Of quality control systems Process quality control Attribute control Variables control Using control charts Continuous improvement Six Sigma Lean and Six Sigma Quality control and improvement in industry Student Internet exercises Solved problems Discussion questions Problems Selected bibliography 9.10 Key points I In the last chapter‚ we reviewed the long history of quality management. In the early
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Modern day Quality Assurance in an organization is focused on Total quality approach which is the result of the evolution of contributions of certain pioneers of Quality and Quality thoughts i.e. the Quality experts /gurus (Smith‚ 2009; Sallis‚ 2002). These include: Edwards Deming‚ Frederick Winslow Taylor‚ Walter Shewart‚ Joseph Juran‚ Genichi Taguchi‚ Admiral Hyman Rickover‚ Philip Crosby‚ Kaoru Ishikawa‚ Armand V. Feigenbaum‚ among others (Sallis‚ 2002; Smith‚ 2009; Suarez‚ 1992). The Total
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NOOF MOHAMED NOOF MOHAMED GUST 1270 22 DEC‚2011 TIME MANAGEMNET REOPRT "The key is in not spending time‚ but in investing it". ~ Stephen R. Covey “You will never “find” time for anything. If you want time‚ you must make it.” ~Charles Bruxton. Time management is a way to help the person to make the most of his time in achieving its objective and create a balance in his life between duties and desires and goals. The use of time are determined by the differences between successful
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knowledge to accumulate the data and analyse them. THESE TOOLS ARE RELATED TO Numerical DATA processing USER HAS TO ARRIVE AT THE SOLUTION & IMPLEMENT Quality control tools: Cause and Effect Diagrams Flow Charts Checksheets Histograms Pareto Charts Control Charts Scatter Diagrams What is cause and effect diagram: A cause and effect diagram is “a fish-bone diagram that presents a systematic representation of the relationship between the effect (result) and affecting factors (causes)
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