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Scanlon Related Materials

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• "Corporate Values the Hot New Thing", An article about National Manufacturing, Spring Engineering and Landscape Forms and how they use Scanlon to overcome adversity.

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  • Mitch Rabkin, MD and CEO Emeritus Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Laura Avakian VPHR, MIT, "Enhancing Patient Care Through Employee Voice, Reflections on the Scanlon Plan at Boston's Beth Israel Medical Center." a 24 page working paper of the MIT Work Place Center. This is an excellent paper on Scanlon in a hospital.
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  • Jeffrey Arthur and Lynda Aiman-Smith, "Gainsharing and Organizational Learning: An Analysis of Employee Suggestions Over Time." a 48 page academic journal article that explains what happens to suggestions in a gainsharing system.
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  • Jonathan Kubik, "Scanlon Spirituality"a 15 page paper on the spiritual element of Scanlon.
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  • Gilbert Krulee, "Remembering Joe Scanlon," a 4 page letter about Joe Scanlon from Joe's graduate assistant while at MIT.
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  • Susann Busley, "An Interview with Dr. Carl Frost,"an Organizational Development Paper completed in 1995. A good overview of Dr. Frost's philosophy.
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    Carl F. Frost, "The Scanlon Plan: Anyone for Free Enterprise?"
    Written in 1978 this 9 page article outlines 25 years of experience with Scanlon from one of its greatest practitioners.
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    Carl F. Frost, "Participative Ownership: A Competitive Necessity"
    a 6 page article that originally appeared in "New Management". Tells how Scanlon Plans improve productivity.
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  • Peter Hovde, "Leadership in the Scanlon Tradition,"a 45 page 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.

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• Peter Hovde, "The Frost-Scanlon Process as a Model of Applied Systems Thinking," a 46 page masters level paper that explains how the Frost-Scanlon Model and Systems Thinking relate.
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• Peter Hovde, "An Interview with James Nicholas, CEO of Nicholas Plastics," a paper for an organizational development class that focuses on a dynamic Scanlon Business Leader.
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  Neal Herrick, "Cooperative Self-Interest: Learning from Joe Scanlon,"
  a 16 page article that appeared in Public Policy Review March/June of 1982 that explains how Scanlon Principles can be used in the Public Sector.
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  Paul Davis, "Leadership: From Theory to Action," a 4 page article that originally appeared in "Leading Edge Magazine" about Scanlon Leadership. Explains how the Scanlon Principles builds leaders.
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  Paul Davis, "Gainsharing and the Scanlon Plan," a 28 page 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.
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• Paul Davis and Majel Maes, "The ABC's of Gainsharing,"
• the above article updated and revised for a chapter in "Physician's Compensation."
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  Rob Ptacek, "Competitive Advantage through Frost/Scanlon Principles/Processes: Becoming Lean,"a 2 page paper on how the Scanlon Principles help a company become Lean.
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  Paul Carey, "Gainsharing -How We Stuffed it Up," a very creative 9 page 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.
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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. 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

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Dr. Carl Frost, Change is Our Only Hope given at the 30th. Annual Scanlon Conference, 6/1/94

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Dr. Carl Frost, Three Ideas in Organizational Development given at the Executive Retreat, 11/20/96

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Dr. Carl Frost, Address to the Society of Psychologist in Management, given New Orleans, 2/28/97

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Robert Doyle, The Legacy of John F. Donnelly, given at University of Notre Dame, 10/04/96

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Dr. Dwane Baumgarner, The Scanlon Principles, given at the Annual Scanlon Conference, 5/27/92

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Dr. William Greenwood III, Stewardship Acceptance Speech, given in Grand Rapids, 5/22/01

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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

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Judson Goodings, Associate Editor Fortune, Revolutions Don't Wait for Committee Meetings given at the 7th. Annual Midwest Scanlon Associates Conference November 9, 1970.

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Max DePree, Speech to the 1974 Scanlon Plan Conference

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