Quality and performance excellence : management, organization, and strategy /
James R. Evans
- Seventh edition
- Australia : Cengage Learning Asia Pte Ltd, c2014
- xv, 479 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foundations of quality and performance excellence -- Performance excellence, strategy, and organization theory -- Performance excellence and organizational behavior -- Leadership and organizational change
Although the sixth edition of this book represented a major revision and reorganization of the chapters to provide a more logical approach to the subject, the revisions in this edition are relatively minor, focusing on maintaining currency in content and the student-friendly style of past editions. They include new performance excellence profiles at the beginning of several chapters, additional of several new and contemporary topics, boxed examples and cases.