Date of Award
1987
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]
Nielsen, Michael
Abstract
In order to implement and maintain quality circle programs as vehicles for achieving increased worker productivity, corporate leaderships may resort to unethical managerial tactics. A critical analysis, drawing upon and interweaving the data garnered from both the Florida Power & Light Quality Improvement Program and various managerial texts, reveals the existence of deceptive and coercive practices by some corporate managers in their attempts to forcibly impose quality circle programs under the guise of managerial/worker power sharing. Managerial deception in quality circle perpetuation seeks to construct an intra-corporate reality which co-opts workers into supporting a self-repressive organizational hegemony.
Extent
136 p.
Recommended Citation
SMITH, CHARLES ORLANDO, "MANAGERIAL DECEPTION IN QUALITY CIRCLE IMPLEMENTATION: A PERSONAL VIEW" (1987). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1980 - 1989. 559.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_3/559
Identifier
FADT14400
Comments
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1987.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters