Ebook: Improving Maintenance and Reliability through Cultural Change

This unique and innovative book explains how to improve your maintenance and reliability performance at the plant level by changing the organization's 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. The book explains in-depth the eight elements of change and how they relate to cultural change. It discusses cultural change with a reliability focus.
Content:
Front Matter
• Table of Contents
1. The Beginning
2. Culture Defined
3. Vision and the Goal Achievement Model
4. Organizational Values
5. Role Models
6. Rites and Rituals
7. The Cultural Infrastructure
8. The Elements of Change
9. Leadership
10. Work Process
11. Structure
12. Group Learning
13. Technology
14. Communication
15. Interrelationship
16. Rewards
17. The Web of Cultural Change
18. Assessment and Corrective Action
19. Moving Forward
Appendices
• Bibliography
• Figure Index
Index
• Contents of CD-ROM: Improving Maintenance and Reliability through Cultural Change ZIP File