QCC – Quality Circle Mantras - Success through Teamwork
QCC – Quality Circle Mantras - Success through Teamwork

Author: Somesh Nath

Publisher: Walnut Publication

Published: 2021-04-15

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 9390785383

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Whatever your organisation, its sector, size or heritage, companies face various quality related problems during day to day operations which results in rejections and reworks. QCC is one such methodology, which is not a solution, or a goal, but a way of seeing, thinking and doing. Adapting QCC means departing from the path of the herd and committing to the path that’s right for your business. This book will be helpful for QC members, Team Leaders, Facilitators and companies aspiring to do well on the Quality front as it collates all requirements step by step. The benefits of a quality circle are endless, helping the organization get results it acts as a catalyst to create a competitive advantage. “If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it over again.” ~Unknown “It is better for 100 persons to take one step rather than 1 person to take 100 steps.” – Japanese expression of quality circle. “It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn’t” _ Martin Van Buren

Management Mantras & Corporate Success
Management Mantras & Corporate Success

Author: Somesh Nath

Publisher: Buuks

Published: 2020-03-10

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 9789390025114

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This book is simply a good connect between the past and the present and will impart lessons for future too because the Epic Mahabharata is timeless and lessons learnt stays relevant always. The analysis of the situations from the epic is apt and explains the Desi angle to the corporate culture. Comparisons drawn are little gems studded in this contemporary backdrop. The attempt is holistic and well researched. A double edged sword which cuts both ways be it management principals or freshen up the story line of the epic. It gives relevant information about various aspect of management which has stood the test of times. Case study on Leadership, Target setting, Training, Succession planning, commitments, competence and other examples are present in this epic which reinforce readymade lessons for budding managers or MBA student. Today in a highly turbulent times when it becomes difficult for corporate executives and managers to understand how to succeed in multidimensional and complex business environment, reference from our culture by way of storytelling as a means of communication has been greatly advocated.

Essentials of Quality Circles
Essentials of Quality Circles

Author: Shyam Bhatawdekar

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2012-11-26

Total Pages: 38

ISBN-13: 9781481095631

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"Quality Circles" is one of the most beneficial Japanese management systems. Large number of organizations all over the world adopted this system due to its significant contribution towards overall organizational improvements. The salient feature of "Quality Circles" is its facility to involve a large number of people of an organization in the problem solving process and to keep them highly motivated. Thus both- the organization as well its people- benefit in various ways. Its other aspect is its applicability to every kind of organization. Considering its huge benefits and scope a thorough knowledge of "Quality Circles" becomes imperative. To facilitate gaining the knowledge in this vital subject in the shortest time, authors Shyam Bhatawdekar and Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar included only the "essentials" of "Quality Circles" in the book. The authors are top-notch business executives, highly sought after business and management consultants, eminent management gurus, authentic human behavior experts and prolific authors. And so the book becomes an authentic document on the subject.

Engaging in Narrative Inquiry
Engaging in Narrative Inquiry

Author: D. Jean Clandinin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-06-16

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 1315429594

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Narrative inquiry examines human lives through the lens of a narrative, honoring lived experience as a source of important knowledge and understanding. In this concise volume, D. Jean Clandinin, one of the pioneers in using narrative as research, updates her classic formulation on narrative inquiry (with F. Michael Connelly), clarifying, extending and refining the method based on an additional decade of work. A valuable feature is the inclusion of several exemplary cases with the author’s critique and analysis of the work. The rise of interest in narrative inquiry in recent years makes this is an essential guide for researchers and an excellent text for graduate courses in qualitative inquiry.

Electronic Portfolios 2.0
Electronic Portfolios 2.0

Author: Darren Cambridge

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-07-03

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 1000978877

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Higher education institutions of all kinds—across the United States and around the world—have rapidly expanded the use of electronic portfolios in a broad range of applications including general education, the major, personal planning, freshman learning communities, advising, assessing, and career planning.Widespread use creates an urgent need to evaluate the implementation and impact of eportfolios. Using qualitative and quantitative methods, the contributors to this book—all of whom have been engaged with the Inter/National Coalition for Electronic Portfolio Research—have undertaken research on how eportfolios influence learning and the learning environment for students, faculty members, and institutions.This book features emergent results of studies from 20 institutions that have examined effects on student reflection, integrative learning, establishing identity, organizational learning, and designs for learning supported by technology. It also describes how institutions have responded to multiple challenges in eportfolio development, from engaging faculty to going to scale. These studies exemplify how eportfolios can spark disciplinary identity, increase retention, address accountability, improve writing, and contribute to accreditation. The chapters demonstrate the applications of eportfolios at community colleges, small private colleges, comprehensive universities, research universities, and a state system.

Documenting Learning with ePortfolios
Documenting Learning with ePortfolios

Author: Tracy Penny Light

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-12-27

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 0470636203

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Documenting Learning with ePortfolios Documenting Learning with ePortfolios provides higher education instructors with a theory-to-practice approach to understanding the pedagogy behind ePortfolios and to helping students use them to record and reflect on their learning in multiple contexts. The authors outline a framework of six critical iterative tasks to undertake when implementing ePortfolios for student success. Filled with real-life models of successful ePortfolio projects, the book also includes guidance for faculty development to support the use of ePortfolios and covers the place of ePortfolios in institutional assessment efforts. Finally, the authors offer considerations for deciding on which technological tools to deploy in implementing a successful ePortfolio initiative. "These authors achieve the very rare accomplishment of combining their years of practical experience, broad conceptual and research underpinnings, and incredibly useful examples and applications into a single, concise volume for enhancing student learning through an ePortfolio approach to our shared educational purpose." TERREL L. RHODES, vice president, Office of Quality, Curriculum, and Assessment, Association of American Colleges and Universities "Educators keep asking for more information about how to use electronic portfolios. This book provides answers, guidelines, examples, and scholarly insights about learning based in the wisdom of the ePortfolio community of practice what a powerful addition to our collective knowledge! I am thankful to the authors for this boost to our field and for providing a blueprint for implementers to follow." TRENT BATSON, executive director, The Association for Authentic, Experiential and Evidence-Based Learning

Mallet Madness
Mallet Madness

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 9780893284442

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Grades K-6 * From master-teacher Artie Almeida comes this exciting collection of over thirty activities for mallet percussion instruments and drums that will energize your classroom. "Mallet Madness" uses songs, poems, music & literature connections, and reproducible flashcards to promote learning in the concept areas of beat, rhythm, melody, harmony, form, and expressive qualities. Thanks to its unique rotation system, your students will play all of the mallet percussion instruments in your classroom, as well as many of the non-pitched instruments. Suggestions for adapting the activities for use in classrooms with few, or even no, mallet instruments are also given. Whether presented as a unit or spread over a semester or school year, your students will love "Mallet Madness" and you will love the skills and musicality they develop during these lessons.

Portals of Promise
Portals of Promise

Author: Debbie Pushor

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-10-30

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 9462093865

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Working with parents is a significant aspect of educators’ roles, yet it is rare to find curriculum in teacher education programs designed to prepare individuals to consider, in philosophical, theoretical, and pedagogical ways, who they will be in relationship with parents and why. Schools, therefore, remain hierarchical structures in which parents are marginalized in relation to decisions affecting teaching and learning. This book begins with Pushor’s conceptualization of a “curriculum of parents,” a curriculum which explores beliefs and assumptions about parents, a vision for education in which educators work alongside parents and family members in the learning and care of children, and a desire for reform. She describes a curriculum of parents, in the form of three graduate teacher education courses, which she lived out in relationship with students. Graduate students then capture their experiences immersed in this curriculum – what they each took up, how it shaped their knowledge, attitudes, and practices, and how they lived it out as they returned to their classrooms, schools, and early learning centres. This book is a storied account of their intense immersion in a curriculum of parents and the resulting impact living that curriculum has had on who they are in relation to parents and families. It is an honest and vulnerable account of their shared and individual journeys. They puzzle over the complexities and the successes of their work and the resulting impact. This is not a book of best practice, but an invitation to other educators to consider, as they did, what they do and how it could be different.

Teachers' Professional Knowledge Landscapes
Teachers' Professional Knowledge Landscapes

Author: D. Jean Clandinin

Publisher:

Published: 1995-01-01

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 9780807734193

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In this groundbreaking work, the authors and their contributors offer a deep, probing look at the multilayered professional lives of teachers, where moral, historical, personal, epistemological worlds merge. Using the language of metaphor, the authors explore the realm of teachers' knowledge, and how it applies to their lives. Each part of the book focuses on a different aspect or "landscape." Personal stories contributed by real teachers, both beginning and experienced, are interwoven with stories of teacher development, growth, and even failure. This book is essential reading for all teachers, teacher educators, principals, superintendents, staff developers, and those who work in teacher research, professional development, and the philosophy of education.