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Dyspnea, Family Caregiving and Quality of Life

primary symptoms of COPD are "wheezing, cough, dyspnea on exertion and increased phlegm production" (Touhy and Jett, 2012, p. 289)...

The Conflict in Customer Quality Requirements

As already noted, when looking at these not all are likely to be fully compatible, and it is up to the firm to find the...

QUALITY MANAGEMENT, PROCESS THINKING AND CIGNET PLASTICS

test defects that were created on the design level (Dalgleish, 2006). The president now wants the process to be changed so ...

The Heroic Qualities of Odysseus

suitors, who grossly outnumber him. Odysseus himself vows that he will fight "while Ive got arrows to defend me", committed to the...

Measurements of Service Quality

result of "gaps" that exist between different aspects of an organizations performance; by bridging these gaps, service quality wil...

Qualities of Effective Leadership

become outdated by the time the text reached print, but on the basis of principles that, according to the author, are "universal a...

Spiegelman, Remarque, and Wiesel: The Transformative Quality of Violence

device to thematically distill the essence of war and genocide, present its reality in a way that is more humanistic than statisti...

TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT: FAD OR LEGITIMATE TOOL?

many definitions out there, however; such as continuous improvement, customer focus and employee involvement. Most TQM gurus also ...

Liminality - The Qualities and Characteristics

their pre-existing rank or class, but has not yet fully completed the rite, and as such has not yet assimilated into the next rank...

British Airways - Quality of Operations

good definition, but it does not help with a framework, the key is to assess how this may be assessed in a measurable manner....

Leadership Qualities and Practice

on the actions and behaviour of leaders, in this approach leadership was perceived in the context of human behaviour. This was an ...

Service Quality and Process Improvements: A Teaching Case Study

conjunction with the context information provided in the case to draft a solution. In doing so, they often take the part of a "cha...

QUALITY AND DEMAND

The result for SK Shanghai was, of course, a better and stronger face in the marketplace, which, of course, attracted consumers. B...

DEFINING QUALITY: A LITERATURE RESEARCH AND REVIEW

Quality cannot be managed effectively unless organizational leaders can define quality and then get everyone in the company to bot...

ROLE OF QUALITY - ZJZ COSMETICS

Proposed implementation of quality processes among the researchers at ZJZ Cosmetics. There are 5 sources listed in the bibliograph...

Medical Error and Quality Care

of a busy dermatological practice. This dermatologist see as many as 100 patients a day and is known as an "expert in the evaluati...

TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT FOR A FAILING FIRM

all level of an organization, from front-line workers to senior staff. Members brainstorm suggestions and have general oversight o...

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES, AMERICAN AIRLINES AND QUALITY MANAGEMENT

Discusses quality differences between American Airlines (a global competitor) and Southwest Airlines (a local competitor). There a...

Meg Whitman, a Transformational Leader Augmented by Authenticity and Transactional Qualities

augmenting it with aspects of the authentic leadership model that offers better job satisfaction. This is a team building model th...

Continuous Quality of Care

patients with certain injuries and missed diagnoses of certain conditions such as appendicitis or meningitis (Dansby, Kavaler & Sp...

Criteria Determining Quality of Life

and healthcare, needs that are obviously directly related to things such as longevity. What many fail to realize, however, is tha...

Quality of Life with AIDS

system, decreasing the natural defenses that allow the body to fight off infections and diseases (Etiology, 2008). As this suggest...

Patient Satisfaction As An Indication of Clinical Quality

Agency for Healthcare and Quality as "doing the right thing, at the right time, in the right way, for the right person-and having ...

AN UNDERSTANDING OF QUALITY AND PROCESS IMPROVEMENT

of how such a thing works. But what, exactly, is process improvement? In its basic form, the process improvement model (PI...

Quality Improvement/Pressure Ulcers

a "collaborative quality improvement project" that focuses on PUs in nursing homes as its primary focus (Lynn, et al, 2007). QIOs,...

Cyborg or Quality of Life?

consume, the higher ones status is judged to be. Symbolic interactionism is a theory about human behavior, but it is also a...

“The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow”

and vision. The problem that immediately presents itself, as might be expected, is that many of these concepts are less than self...

QUALITY IMPROVEMENT INITIATIVES AND HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATIONS

a supplier to the industry (i.e., a third-party payor) might consider cost containment as important to quality, while the patient ...

Quality of School Leadership (Article Analysis)

provide simple strategies to employ in the real world. Yet, Busch, OBrien & Spangler (2005) have been somewhat successful at evalu...

Total Quality Management - Three Cases

basis for their own self-assessments that are prepared for the Inspector General each year (International Public Management Networ...