Books by Dr. Robert Gillespie of Blackhall
Journal of the T.S. Eliot Society (U.K.) ISBN 978-0-9935757-4-7, 2020
An analysis of the impact of Baudelaire's French 'Symbolisme' as described by Moréas in 1886 on T... more An analysis of the impact of Baudelaire's French 'Symbolisme' as described by Moréas in 1886 on T.S. Eliot's 1922 'The Waste Land' and a discussion of its poetic 'difficulty'.
Papers by Dr. Robert Gillespie of Blackhall
Prevention through organisational change would completely leave individual cognitive problems to ... more Prevention through organisational change would completely leave individual cognitive problems to psychiatry and would need to concentrate on identifying the drivers of work-related stress
Academia Letters, 2022
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For decades, manufacturing has successfully applied Lean and Six Sigma methodologies to... more Abstract
For decades, manufacturing has successfully applied Lean and Six Sigma methodologies to resolve process problems.
Lean (Manufacturing) in the west derives from the Japanese Toyota Production System (TPS) (J. K. Liker, 2004; Womack & Jones, 2003) influenced post-war by W.E. Deming and developed during the 1950s; and Six Sigma (Breyfogle, 2003) was introduced during the 1980s by Motorola in the USA. These techniques are perfectly tested, function well to improve process efficiency and effectiveness, and fill a crucial role among current process-improvement methodologies. Lean and Six Sigma are thus widely applied, from industry to services, from healthcare to banking; however, those who have not learned and practised the approach sometimes struggle to find an ‘umbrella’ concept to properly understand what they are.
This short paper attempts to provide such an explanation by proposing Lean Six Sigma as a complementary efficiency and effectiveness waste model (George, 2002).
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It's possibly not people who stress hospital clinicians, but numbers. A list of numeric Key Perfo... more It's possibly not people who stress hospital clinicians, but numbers. A list of numeric Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), established by a consulting firm 1 to install Balanced Scorecard reporting in healthcare, places a heavy load of worry on clinicians about mistakes and satisfying others. Many of these numbers focus on dysfunction: number of patient complaints filed; percentage of electronic health records completed; discharge time; number of mistake events; patient wait times; patient satisfaction; emergency-code response time; medication errors; post-procedural death rate: the list goes on and on. Among 109 indicators in the long list, 42 survey clinician activity and 30 report purely on clinician dysfunction. Among the 70-or-so common complaints which foreground the distress clinicians report, are: I suffer from time pressure; I have scarce resources; different groups at work demand different things from me that are hard to combine; I have little support from my colleagues; I have a feeling of wrongdoing; I'm exhausted; I have to work too fast; I am not recognised for the job I really do, etc.
Centuries of feudal monarchy and of republican revolution; of Catholic theology and of Reformatio... more Centuries of feudal monarchy and of republican revolution; of Catholic theology and of Reformation have left the Europeans bewildered with each other; this book explains why and shows how they might better understand, not only themselves, but their American cousins also.
Cold War thriller situated in 1985: a race between U.S. and Soviet agents to catch a Presidential... more Cold War thriller situated in 1985: a race between U.S. and Soviet agents to catch a Presidential assassin, shortly before the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall.
This booklet, in A6 pocket format, is a guide on how to care for disabled pilgrims at Lourdes. Wi... more This booklet, in A6 pocket format, is a guide on how to care for disabled pilgrims at Lourdes. Without getting into jargon, it answers questions about helping the disabled: communication; hygiene; lifting; housekeeping; intimate care; coping with emergencies, and others, all within the context of care at Lourdes.
Between 1985 and 1990, I wrote a thriller about terrorism and its Islamic roots. Bin Laden would ... more Between 1985 and 1990, I wrote a thriller about terrorism and its Islamic roots. Bin Laden would have still been in his formative twenties. Its theme preceded the fall of the Berlin wall; its principal villain came from the Balkans before Serbian hegemony exploded; it drew a link between drug dealing and Islamic terrorism before the Taliban existed. All those years ago, this thriller foresaw the Islamic threat to our western world, weaving a fictional web of mystery around an attempt on the life of a then fictional President of the United States. I never presented it for publication because the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, and the end of Perestroika consigned its content to historical curiosity rather than to contemporary interest. Today I believe it has never been more timely to reread how the world was just a short time ago.
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Books by Dr. Robert Gillespie of Blackhall
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For decades, manufacturing has successfully applied Lean and Six Sigma methodologies to resolve process problems.
Lean (Manufacturing) in the west derives from the Japanese Toyota Production System (TPS) (J. K. Liker, 2004; Womack & Jones, 2003) influenced post-war by W.E. Deming and developed during the 1950s; and Six Sigma (Breyfogle, 2003) was introduced during the 1980s by Motorola in the USA. These techniques are perfectly tested, function well to improve process efficiency and effectiveness, and fill a crucial role among current process-improvement methodologies. Lean and Six Sigma are thus widely applied, from industry to services, from healthcare to banking; however, those who have not learned and practised the approach sometimes struggle to find an ‘umbrella’ concept to properly understand what they are.
This short paper attempts to provide such an explanation by proposing Lean Six Sigma as a complementary efficiency and effectiveness waste model (George, 2002).
For decades, manufacturing has successfully applied Lean and Six Sigma methodologies to resolve process problems.
Lean (Manufacturing) in the west derives from the Japanese Toyota Production System (TPS) (J. K. Liker, 2004; Womack & Jones, 2003) influenced post-war by W.E. Deming and developed during the 1950s; and Six Sigma (Breyfogle, 2003) was introduced during the 1980s by Motorola in the USA. These techniques are perfectly tested, function well to improve process efficiency and effectiveness, and fill a crucial role among current process-improvement methodologies. Lean and Six Sigma are thus widely applied, from industry to services, from healthcare to banking; however, those who have not learned and practised the approach sometimes struggle to find an ‘umbrella’ concept to properly understand what they are.
This short paper attempts to provide such an explanation by proposing Lean Six Sigma as a complementary efficiency and effectiveness waste model (George, 2002).