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ORGANIZATIONAL STUDY OF DEPARTMENT X: ARE OLD DEMING’S DISEASES STILL ALIVE AND WELL IN ORGANIZATIONS TODAY?
ORGANIZATIONAL STUDY OF DEPARTMENT X: ARE OLD DEMING’S DISEASES STILL ALIVE AND WELL IN ORGANIZATIONS TODAY?
Mustafa Kakar
School of Business and Public Administration
University of the District of Columbia
Washington DC, USA
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Paula Avellan
School of Business and Public Administration
University of the District of Columbia
Washington DC, USA
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Sergey Ivanov, Ph.D.
School of Business and Public Administration
University of the District of Columbia
Washington DC, USA
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Alex Maritz, Ph.D.
Department of Management, Sport and Tourism
La Trobe Business School
La Trobe University
Melbourne, Australia
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J. Ndumbe Anyu, Ph.D.
School of Business and Public Administration
University of the District of Columbia
Washington DC, USA
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Abstract
The authors of this paper conducted a brief organizational study of a government department in the United States. The authors mainly applied the organizational theory developed by W. Edwards Deming (1992, 1993, 1994), and ideas on waste (Ivanov, 2011, 2021). Partly, the authors were interested in exploring if the old Deming-identified major management diseases, that Deming found in organizations 30 and 40 years ago, were still present in organizations today.
Key Words: Organizational Study, W. Edwards Deming, Leadership, Management, Waste in Organizations, Organizational Improvement