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Productivity, Corporate Survival, and Total Quality Management

In seven pages this paper applies the fourteen TQM points of W. Edwards Deming to Firestone Tires in light of the Ford Explorer fi...

Total Quality Management and Characterizing Commitments

In a paper consisting of fourteen pages TQM is considered in terms of implementatoin and commitment to employees, customers, proce...

History and Uses of Total Quality Management

In forty two pages this paper examines the history of TQM, the models of Juran, Baldrige, and Deming, and implementation experienc...

The Relevance of Business Quality Practices

How many cars can be built in a week? Service industries, on the other hand, are qualitatively different. Quality there has to d...

Total Quality Management - Three Cases

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

Will Existing and Developing Technologies in Chemistry Protect Air Quality?

something known as the greenhouse effect, is something that can be controlled, at least to an extent. Many of the problems as it ...

Product, Service, and Process Quality Management

could be corrected. Although it is hard to believe these days, such ideas were once considered wrong and were not used. Al...

Real Estate and IRS Customer Quality Control Survey

by vote, but few if any could be expected to say that they like dealing with the IRS. Stories of abuse of power and of taxpayers ...

Dental Practice Quality Management

Although quality approaches to management have been around since the mid-20th century, its been since the 1980s that TQM has foun...

Total Quality Management Implementation Preparation

organisation or the improvement of performance, alone it is not a transformation device that will automatically result in improvem...

Automotive Industry and the Effects of Total Quality Management

crisis. In some sense, this view has helped to define exactly what a leader means, and whether or not the masses place far too mu...

Adding MRI to the Orthopedic Practice

for its lack of market-changing competition (Porter and Teisberg, 2004), but competition exists nonetheless, if only indirectly. ...

Project Managers

perspective to others on the project team as well. One of the first considerations in any decision-making process should be, "How...

Heroism in the Epic of Gilgamesh

boasts of his strength and courage, believing those alone are the lone criteria by which a hero is judged. The gods intervene to ...

Staffing the VA Outpatient Clinic

and a domiciliary residence for homeless veterans (Mountain Home VA Medical Center, n.d.); the Knoxville CBOC frequently sends its...

Lord of the Flies by William Golding and Inner Human Qualities' Representations

weak compared to the others and his struggle to retain orderliness proves difficult. Similarly, order and democracy within the hum...

Primary and Secondary Qualities According to Berkeley and Locke

the ways that we experience these objects. A table is solid; stars in the night sky are innumerable. Secondary qualities o...

American Red Cross and Total Quality Management Implementation

after US industry had discovered the "secret" of Japanese manufacturing. As increasing numbers of manufacturers, engineers and ma...

A Total Quality Management Overview

US manufacturing was benefiting from the attention to quality, whether specific organizations chose to implement TQM or not. Thos...

Nurse Leadership, Clinical Pathways, Discharge Planning, and Quality Management

synopsis will be provided for each of these articles and one article will selected for a more detailed discussion of how its findi...

The Relationship Between Risk Management And Project Management

has been different levels of risk. For example, the was the introduction of the use of French Oak barrels to age the wine in stari...

Total Quality Management, Mission Statement, and Organizational Culture

necessary, as well, for the original vision and mission statement. "When change is needed in an organization it is likely the cul...

Total Quality, Purchasing, and Supply Management

When it comes to supply management, a great deal has been said about TQM as it pertains to the supply chain. Basically, without so...

Leadership and Management in Nursing

management, in recent years, has been quite extensive. This body of empirical evidence and commentary largely supports the concept...

Flame Electrical; Inventory Management Case Study

be more important than others. The company operates a system where speed is inherent in the entire process; from the taking of the...

Airbus Case Study

has been the dominant supplier of aircraft. It was only in 1970 when Airbus was formed that a potential long-term competitor becam...

How And Why Companies Benefit From Customers Breaking Rules

a fair value service. There are a large number of examples that demonstrate the way that companies can benefit from custome...

How Companies Treat Employees

In 1867, Karl Marx wrote that all capitalists exploit their employees, that employees were just another commodity to them. Sadly, ...

Diversity Action Plan for Delta

to offer a range of services to meet the needs of customers from a diverse target market. Delta may be able to learn from SBC Comm...

Church & Dwight; Arm and Hammer Grow Up - A Case Study

by Church & Dwight are similar those faced by many other companies; how the company should proceed and develop strategy in a chang...