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become outdated by the time the text reached print, but on the basis of principles that, according to the author, are "universal a...

Recommendations for Improving Quality of Care Through OBRA 87

ensure a complete implementation of improved infection control standards at all facilities. In order to overcome this deficiency, ...

Urban Schools and Lack of Quality Educators

have emergency teaching certificates (NASBE, 2002). Consider these data: * Urban schools are twice as likely to hire unlicensed or...

Overview of the Evaluation and Quality Improvement Program by the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards

of standards with sets of criteria that must achieved. Standards related to information management span the operations of the orga...

Long Term Total Quality Management Creation

the improvement of performance, alone it is not a transformation device that will automatically result in improvements (Reed et al...

Fictitious Total Quality Management Case Study

to check that quality is the right level for all aspects of the business. In a report sponsored by Proctor and Gamble...

Construction Industry and Total Quality Management

emphasis on problem solving using teams as just mentioned, and Shewharts wheel - plan, do, check, act; recognition of the need for...

A Consideration of Total Quality Management

One can see that quality means different things to different companies and within industries. It can also be applied to different ...

Case Study on Statutes and the Delayed Shipping of Poor Quality Goods

time, with arrival at the port before the end of September and the bill of lading supporting this. however, it is not actually loa...

Total Quality Management in Nonprofits, Retail, and Manufacturing

customization" into practice - and its quality always was superlative. The end result was that customers overwhelmingly approved ...

Urban Sprawl: Impact On Air Quality And Waterway Pollution

area beaches - not the least of which include Pacific Palisades - have been left to fight for their health for far too long to be ...

Improving Quality at Pal's Sudden Service

percent annually; Pals closest competitor topped 300 percent in 2001. Pals was able to reduce its turnover rate to 127 percent, s...

Prostate Cancer and Quality of Life

& McCorkle (2002) did not explicitly state any research problem or research question, but they do identify two objectives for thei...

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 ...

Prostate Cancer and Quality of Life

cancer affects both the man and his life partner. In most cases, study designs addressing quality of life issues for prostate canc...

Management by Objective and Total Quality Management

safety goal needs to have a measurable number, like an accident rate of less than one per 250,000 miles (Johnson, 2000). Once the ...

Continuous Quality of Care

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

Overview of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award

U.S. government (The Malcolm, 2002). Originally a national award for manufacturing industries, the award was expanded to include h...

Total Quality Management Implementation Preparation

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

Implementing and Maintaining a Quality Investment Program

may occur, and what may lead to the lack or real, or lost transformation. The key to success is ingraining the quality changes int...

Leadership Qualities of Mahatma Gandhi

This paper discusses India's fight for independence along with Mohandas K. Gandhi's leadership attributes and what influenced him ...

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...

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...

Necessary Qualities of a Prince in Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince

Once on the throne a Prince will have enormous power. But how does he keep this power? Machiavelli addresses this topic by stating...

Total Quality Management's Primary Elements

cultural appeal; how employees are expected to interact; what the organization symbolizes and how focused is everyone upon those v...

Total Quality Management and Edward Demming

In five pages TQM's inventor Edward Demming is examined in a consideration of his theory and how this style of management is also ...

Speech on Total Quality Management Departmental Introduction

In seven pages this paper examines how TQM can initiate change to a department as emphasized in this speech on change for company ...

Small Hotel Case Study on Total Quality Management Implementation

In five pages and 2 parts this paper discusses the small hotel applicability of TQM and how its standards might be improved as a r...