Gittell, J.H., The Southwest Airlines Way, McGraw Hill, New York, 2003
Gittell, J.H., High Performance Healthcare, McGraw Hill, New York, 2009
McGregor, D., The Human Side of Enterprise, Updated with commentary by Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, McGraw Hill,
New York 2006
Senge, P., The Fifth Discipline, Doubleday, New York, 1990
Whyte,D., The Heart Aroused – Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America, Doubleday, 1994
3. A3 Thinking
Jimmerson, Cindy. A3 Problem Solving for Healthcare: A Practical Method for Eliminating Waste. Productivity Press,
Boca Raton, FL. 2007
Shook, John, Managing to Learn: Using the A3 management process to solve problems, gain agreement, mentor, and
lead, Lean Enterprise Institute, Cambridge, MA 2008
Sobek, D. K., Smalley, A. Understanding A3 Thinking: A Critical Component of Toyota’s PDCA Management System,
Productivity Press,. Boca Raton, FL. 2008
4. Quality Tool and Topics
Deming, E., Out of Crisis, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2000
Hopp, W.J. and Spearman, M.L., Factory Physics, 3 rd Edition, McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2007
Juran, J.M., Juran on Quality by Design, The Free Press, New York, 1992
Nelson, E.C., Batalden, P.B., Godfrey, M. M., Quality By Design: A Clinical Micosystems Approach, John Wiley and
Sons, New York, 2007
Ritzman, L.P. and Krajewski, L.J., Foundations of Operations Management, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle Brook NJ, 2003
Tague, N.R., The Quality Tool Box, Second Edition, ASQ Quality Press, 2004
5.Six Sigma Basics
Bertels, T. Ed, Rath & Strong’s Six Sigma Leadership Handbook, John Wiley & Sons, 2003.
Bothe, D.R., Measuring Process Capability, 1997
Gitlow, H.S. and Levine, D.M., Six Sigma for Green Belts and Champions, Foundations, DMAIC, Tools, Cases, and
Certification, Prentice Hall (Pearson Education, Inc.) 2005
Harry, M. and Schroeder, R., Six Sigma, Currency Doubleday, New York, 2000
Henderson, G.R., Six Sigma Quality Improvement with Minitab, John Wiley & Sons, 2006.
Ledolter, J. and Burrill, C.W., Statistical Quality Control, Strategies and Tools for Continual Improvement, John Wiley &
Sons, Inc., 1999