Subject category:
Human Resource Management / Organisational Behaviour
Published by:
Harvard Business Publishing
Version: 29 May 1996
Length: 24 pages
Data source: Field research
Abstract
Describes the 'Leadership Through Quality' effort undertaken by Xerox in the 1980s. Includes the history of Xerox in the 1970s and its need to make major changes in quality by the 1980s. Most of the remainder of the case details the step-by-step process by which Xerox created and designed the strategy called 'Leadership Through Quality' to change its basic culture and its performance on quality from 1983-86.
Location:
Industries:
Size:
Fortune 500
Other setting(s):
1983-1987
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Abstract
Describes the 'Leadership Through Quality' effort undertaken by Xerox in the 1980s. Includes the history of Xerox in the 1970s and its need to make major changes in quality by the 1980s. Most of the remainder of the case details the step-by-step process by which Xerox created and designed the strategy called 'Leadership Through Quality' to change its basic culture and its performance on quality from 1983-86.
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Location:
Industries:
Size:
Fortune 500
Other setting(s):
1983-1987