This course has played a critical role in my professional development in organizational management. One of the most important lessons I have obtained from the course relates to management of change in an organization. This is an important lesson since organizations in today’s business environment are faced with the need for managing organizational change because of the changes in the business environment. As I reflect on the insights obtained from the course, I have learned about change management and found some readings, resources, and assignments helpful in this process as well as some that did not fully engage me. However, I also… Continue Reading...
imperative that the USFA follow suit. Improvement on cloud-based technology that will enhance organizational management and provides efficiencies with automated communications and use of drones and Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) that will aid quick response to distress calls during fire incidents need to be embraced. Avsec (2017). However, the technologies will not be fully effective without the consideration for human factors that will aid the efficiency on the parts of the USFA and the masses. To this end, the 2020 vision fire strategies as suggested by Carter (2014), are worthy of consideration. They include fire prevention advocacy, fire prevention marketing, fire prevention codes… Continue Reading...
book commemorating the Ishikawa. Ishikawa’s primary contributions to quality control include integration quality control methods into organizational management and systems, particularly with regards to the concept of Total Quality Control (TQC). The TQC concept distributes personal responsibility for quality control to each team within the organization, even within the most hierarchical and bureaucratic companies. Ishikawa also showed how TQC could provide industrial and manufacturing firms with competitive advantage.
Ishikawa’s concept of TQC is explicated in his 1988 book What is Total Quality Control? The Japanese Way. In this book, Ishikawa discusses first the importance of quality control as an ethical principle. Quality control is about respecting… Continue Reading...
