Analyzing the priorities of JIT activities.
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Title
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Analyzing the priorities of JIT activities.
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Identifier
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AAI8820853
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identifier
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8820853
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Creator
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Cosenza, Teresa.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Michael N. Chanin
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Date
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1988
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Business Administration, Management
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Abstract
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The priorities of organizational practices that minimize inventories and improve quality and productivity are investigated using Thomas Saaty's Analytic Hierarchy Process. Just-in-Time production is viewed here as a hierarchy with productivity improvement leading to quality improvement which leads to inventory minimization.;Four industries are analyzed: electronic computing equipment, calculating and accounting machines, except electronic computing equipment, industrial controls, and motor vehicles. The sample was composed of a total of 59 companies, distributed as follows: fourteen within the electronic computing equipment industry, six within the calculating and accounting machines industry, fifteen within the industrial controls industry, and twenty-four within the motor vehicle industry. Priorities of the practices were calculated for each company which supplied data by using "Expert Choice". "Expert Choice" is a software package designed by Professor Thomas Saaty that is based upon his Analytic Hierarchy Process.;Analysis of Variance tests were performed on the priorities for each industry to detect the presence of any statistical differences between the priorities set within each industry. Tukey's procedure was followed whenever any differences were found, yielding an order of importance for the practices within each of the four industries.;Many significant findings were found among the analyzed industries. However, two significant conclusions were found which were common to all industries chosen for study. They are: (1) company-wide employee involvement in continuous quailty improvement predominates in importance as a criterion for improving quality in the workplace; and, (2) top management involvement in employee concerns as well as a fostering of open communication between management and labor seem to be the least important measures of productivity improvement.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
