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M.Ing. (Engineering Management) / Since the beginning of the knowledge era, individuals powered their ideals on the 20th century’s industrial knowledge age, also defined as “the power of knowledge”. The modern day knowledge era will use the collective intelligence of diverse groups to collaborate for specific purposes and objectives. Society and education developed from the “know what” and “know how” age to “what is the best way”. (NZCER, 2010) Leading into the 21st century, organisations are forced to adapt to a new state of mind and use a diverse knowledge spectrum to solve the problems of the future. This mind-set is being challenged by a recent recession and cautious investment future. The recession initiated a negative impact on the global markets and forced most organisations to become innovative and use their collective knowledge. (NZCER, 2010) This investigation is based on an increment of the global corporate environment. The collective thinking principle can be used to achieve success in an organisation based on a first and third world country, i.e. South Africa. The concern, Hall Longmore (Pty) Ltd. opened its doors to a 21st century strategic solution in respect of its maintenance department. Maintenance at the concern is currently a decentralised employee structure, where the current culture of the group impacts negatively on the performance of the department. During the industrial age this would have been solved by implementing autocratic structures and strict discipline on employees. This management style is feasible in the short term, but how do employees stay motivated, creative and innovative over time? World class maintenance programs need a clear vision to become a unified labour force functioning with an innovative and creative approach. The key aspects of the initial state need to be investigated and understood before decisions can begin towards reinstating the desired culture and behaviour. The aim of this dissertation is to change the paradigm of the autocratic 20th century management style relating to the maintenance function, which aims to decrease cost and increase reliability and availability to a more performance driven culture and integrated workforce, which will create a high performance concern through its actions.

Literature in business associations reveals an efficient confluence of business to provide member firms with benefits obtained from cooperation with other firms in the industry. They assist firms through knowledge building, knowledge deployment, and standard setting. They can particularly play an important role in the areas of market integration, source of information, lobbying for regulation, standard setting and policy. Studies have also shown that lack of political influence helps discourage good governance or the ability to manage public affairs and deliver basic services; when acting alone individual firms may not be capable of taking part effectively in the interchange with government. This study involved a qualitative study which consisted of case studies and in-depth face to face interviews with association and member companies’ executives that are actively involved in business association activities in the South African Steel industry. The study concluded that business associations arise for different reasons and in different environments, to assist business with meeting certain challenges; they can sometimes play a positive role by making up for failing development institutions but they can also be detrimental to social welfare because of rent-seeking behaviour. / Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2012. / Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) / unrestricted

The research objectives of this report are to identify key drivers of change, investigate possible barriers to the implementation of change and determine the change readiness of the organisation / Graduate School of Business Leadership / MBA

The research objectives of this report are to identify key drivers of change, investigate possible barriers to the implementation of change and determine the change readiness of the organisation / Graduate School of Business Leadership / MBA

闕文莉. / 論文(碩士) -- 香港中文大學硏究院經濟學系, 1995. / 參考文獻: leaves 68-74. / Que Wenli. / 内容提要 / 鳴謝 / Chapter 第一章 --- 導言 --- p.1 / Chapter 第一節 --- 鋼鐵工業管理體制的改革 --- p.3 / Chapter 第二節 --- 中國鋼鐵工業的基本情況 --- p.7 / Chapter 第三節 --- 本硏究的目的 --- p.13 / Chapter 第二章 --- 關于中國生產率研究的文獻檢索 --- p.14 / Chapter 第一節 --- 對國營工業技術效率的硏究 --- p.15 / Chapter 第二節 --- 對中國工業配置效率的硏究 --- p.19 / Chapter 第三節 --- 有關中國鋼鐵工業硏究的文獻檢索 --- p.21 / Chapter 第三章 --- 估計方法和數據處理 --- p.24 / Chapter 第一節 --- 函數的定式 --- p.24 / Chapter 第二節 --- 效率變量的說明 --- p.29 / Chapter 第三節 --- 數據處理 --- p.33 / Chapter 第四節 --- 估算結果 --- p.39 / Chapter 第四章 --- 實証分析 --- p.43 / Chapter 第一節 --- 技術效率的增長趨勢 --- p.43 / Chapter 一、 --- 技術效率(Technical Efficiency)水平高低的比較 --- p.44 / Chapter 二、 --- 技術效率的增長趨勢 --- p.46 / Chapter 三、 --- 技術效率的收斂趨勢 --- p.48 / Chapter 第二節 --- 技術效率及工業產出的增長 --- p.50 / Chapter 一、 --- 計算工業產出增長的方法 --- p.51 / Chapter 二、 --- 工業產出的增長狀況 --- p.53 / Chapter 三、 --- 工業產出的增長因素分析 --- p.55 / Chapter 第三節 --- 配置效率的改進 --- p.58 / Chapter 第五章 --- 探討與總結 --- p.63 / Chapter 第一節 --- 探討 --- p.63 / Chapter 第二節 --- 總結 --- p.64 / 統計資料 --- p.67 / 參考文獻 --- p.68 / Chapter 一、 --- 中文部分： --- p.68 / Chapter 二、 --- 英文部分： --- p.71 / 附錄符號說明 --- p.75 / 表格目錄 --- p.77 / Chapter 表1 --- 中國鋼鐵工業的基本情況 --- p.77 / Chapter 表2 --- 統計總節 --- p.78 / Chapter 2.1 --- 地區性數據 --- p.78 / Chapter 2.2 --- 企業性數據 --- p.79 / Chapter 表3 --- 簡單OLS回歸結果 --- p.80 / Chapter 表4 --- 從固定效果模型與隨機效果模型估計而得 --- p.81 / Chapter 4.1 --- 地區性數據 --- p.81 / Chapter 4.2 --- 企業性數據 --- p.82 / Chapter 表5 --- 技術效率的組成 --- p.84 / Chapter 表6 --- 絶對效率水平指數 --- p.84 / Chapter 6.1 --- 各省份的絶對效率水平 --- p.84 / Chapter 6.2 --- 各企業的絶對效率水平 --- p.85 / Chapter 表7 --- 相對效率水平指數 --- p.86 / Chapter 7.1 --- 各省份的相對效率水平 --- p.86 / Chapter 7.2 --- 各企業的相對效率水平 --- p.87 / Chapter 表8 --- 相對效率的變異系數 --- p.88 / Chapter 8.1 --- 相對效率水平的變異系數 --- p.88 / Chapter 8.2 --- 相對效率的地區型態 --- p.88 / Chapter 表9 --- 產出增長的來源 --- p.89 / Chapter 表10 --- 規模收益及單要素生產率的增長 --- p.90 / Chapter 表11 --- 生產要素邊際產量的變異系數 --- p.90

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