Conference Speaker Profile - Gipsie Ranney  
 
Gipsie Ranney


Biography: Gipsie is an international consultant to organizations on management, quality improvement and statistical methodology. She was a member of the faculty of the Department of Statistics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville for fifteen years. She was a co-founder of the University of Tennessee’s Institute for Productivity through Quality, and she developed and conducted numerous seminars on quality improvement. She served as Director of Statistical Methodology for General Motors Powertrain Group from 1988 to 1992. She co-authored Beyond Total Quality Management: Toward the Emerging Paradigm, published by McGraw-Hill, and contributed to Competing Globally Through Customer Value, published by Quorum. She has published papers on quality improvement and statistical methods. Gipsie is a member of the Advisory Board of Fordham University's Deming Scholars Program and a member of the Board of Trustees of the W. Edwards Deming Institute. The American Society for Quality awarded her the Deming Medal for 1996, “for outstanding contribution in advancing the theory and practice of statistical thinking to the management of enterprises worldwide.” Gipsie holds a B. S. in Mathematics from Duke University and a Ph.D. in Statistics from North Carolina State University.

Presentation Title: Controls, Fairness, and Commitment in Organizations

Abstract: The quality of employment relationships is central to employees’ commitment to an organization. Organizational control mechanisms and management practices and behaviors affect experiences of quality. Employee perceptions of fairness formed through their own experiences and those of others affect employees’ attitudes and behaviors. We will explore how the organization’s interactions with employees and with its environment affect employee perceptions and how the quality of employment relationships might be improved by attending to these aspects of organizational life.

 

 

   
       
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