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Free Articles on Scanlon Plans and Scanlon Organizations (Download as pdf or Word Documents)
Associates Participate in Making SGS Tool Company Globally Competitive: Outperforming the competition through people power.
This article appeared in the Association for Manufacturing Excellence's Volume 26, Number 6 Issue, 2007 of Target Magazine. It is one of the best articles on how participation, lean, hoshin, and Scanlon create cultures of excellence. 9 pages.
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Scanlon Principles Lay the Groundwork for Lean: Discovering the Greatest Motivator for Human Performance
This article appeared in the Association for Manufacturing Excellence's Volume 26, Number 6 Issue, 2007 of Target Magazine. It explains the history of the Scanlon Plan, the Scanlon Leadership Network and our work with lean and Hoshin Kanri. 7 pages.
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Corporate Values the Hot New Thing
This article documents the Scanlon Plan at National Manufacturing, Spring Engineering, and Landscape Forms. 5 pages.
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Enhancing Patient Care Through Employee Voice, Reflections on the Scanlon Plan at Boston's Beth Israel Medical Center.
Mitch Rabkin, MD and CEO Emeritus Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Laura Avakian VPHR, MIT, created this working paper for the MIT Work Place Center. This is an excellent paper on Scanlon in a hospital. 24 pages.
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Accountants as Change Agents
Joe Scanlon and Carl Frost were both trained as Accountants. Written for Lean Accounting News by Paul Davis this article explains the steps Accountants can take to become change agents. 6 pages.
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Gainsharing and Organizational Learning: An Analysis of Employee Suggestions Over Time.
Jeffrey Arthur and Lynda Aiman-Smith, An academic journal article that explains what happens to suggestions in a gainsharing system. 48 pages.
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Scanlon Spirituality
Jonathan Kubik, a paper on the spiritual element of Scanlon. 15 pages
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Remembering Joe Scanlon
Gilbert Krulee was Joe's graduate assistant while at MIT. He then went on to become a professor. In this paper he recalls his time with Joe Scanlon. 4 pages.
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An Interview with Dr. Carl Frost,an Organizational Development Paper
Susann Busley served the Scanlon Network for many years on the staff. Completed in 1995 this paper is a good overview of Dr. Frost's philosophy.
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The Scanlon Plan: Anyone for Free Enterprise?
Carl F. Frost, wrote this paper in 1978, outlining 25 years of experience with Scanlon from one of its greatest practitioners. 9 pages.
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Participative Ownership: A Competitive Necessity
Carl F. Frost, Originally appearing in "New Management"this article tells how Scanlon Plans improve productivity. 6 pages.
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Leadership in the Scanlon Tradition
Peter Hovde, wrote this paper that examines Scanlon Leadership based on interviews with many practitioners including former Secretary of State-George Schultz, Dr. Carl Frost, and Dr. Dwane Baumgardner, etc. 45 pages.
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The Frost-Scanlon Process as a Model of Applied Systems Thinking
Peter Hovde wrote this masters level paper that explains how the Frost-Scanlon Model and Systems Thinking relate.46 pages.
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An Interview with James Nicholas, CEO of Nicholas Plastics
Peter Hovde, wrote this paper for an organizational development class that focuses on a dynamic Scanlon Business Leader who survived being a prisoner of war in a Nazi death camp to become an entrepreneur.
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Cooperative Self-Interest: Learning from Joe Scanlon
Neal Herrick wrote this article which appeared in Public Policy Review March/June of 1982 that explains how Scanlon Principles can be used in the Public Sector. 16 pages.
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Leadership: From Theory to Action
Paul Davis wrote this article which originally appeared in "Leading Edge Magazine" about Scanlon Leadership. Explains how the Scanlon Principles builds leaders using the examples of two scout leaders. 4 pages.
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Gainsharing and the Scanlon Plan
Paul Davis, This article that has appeared as a chapter in several books on Gainsharing. Covers the history philosophy and implementation of Scanlon Plans. Contains questions designed to help sort out what gainsharing plan is best for you. 28 pages.
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The ABC's of Gainsharing
Paul Davis and Majel Maes, The above article updated and revised for a chapter in "Physician's Compensation."
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Competitive Advantage through Frost/Scanlon Principles/Processes: Becoming Lean
Rob Ptacek, a paper on how the Scanlon Principles help a company become Lean. 2 pages.
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Gainsharing -How We Stuffed it Up
Paul Carey, " a very creative paper from a presentation on 10/06/98 at the "Incentive Systems for Effective Organizations Conference." The paper in memo form outlines the typical problems people make in creating gainsharing programs. Paul is Australian and is author of "Productivity Gain Sharing" by Pitman Publishing. 9 pages.
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Historical Research
Sponsored by the Midwest Scanlon Plan Associates (now the Scanlon Leadership Network) and Michigan State Univeristy. This is a book-marked pdf file of all the research from our files from the early days of Scanlon. A must for students and researcher interested in Scanlon.
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Speeches by Scanlon Leaders
Dr. Carl Frost, Speech to Work in America Institute and National Center for Productivity and Quality of Work Life, 10/20/76
Dr. Carl Frost, Change is Our Only Hope given at the 30th. Annual Scanlon Conference, 6/1/94
Dr. Carl Frost, Three Ideas in Organizational Development given at the Executive Retreat, 11/20/96
Dr. Carl Frost, Address to the Society of Psychologist in Management, given New Orleans, 2/28/97
Robert Doyle, The Legacy of John F. Donnelly, given at University of Notre Dame, 10/04/96
Dr. Dwane Baumgarner, The Scanlon Principles, given at the Annual Scanlon Conference, 5/27/92
Dr. William Greenwood III, Stewardship Acceptance Speech, given in Grand Rapids, 5/22/01
Paul Doyle and Carol Kaplan, The Greatest Reward for a Person's Work: Manufacturing fit for Human Habitation,given at the Work in America Institute, September 12, 1997
Judson Goodings, Associate Editor Fortune, Revolutions Don't Wait for Committee Meetings given at the 7th. Annual Midwest Scanlon Associates Conference November 9, 1970.
Max DePree, Speech to the 1974 Scanlon Plan Conference
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