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The Alignment of Company Operations and Goals

manufacturing facility in 1903, it was with a design that would change all of manufacturing around the world. Henry Ford not only...

Improvement and the Malcolm Baldrige Quality Award Framework

to an American company for recognition of excellence. Companies that receive the award have been Motorola in 1988, Millike...

Quality as Measured by Companies

In seven pages this paper discusses the corporate measurement of quality through the establisment of mission and vision statements...

McDonald's Service and Product Quality

In five pages this paper applies Deming's Fourteen Points to an analysis of McDonald's service quality and product quality in term...

Graduate Level Distance Learning Quality Assessment

In a paper consisting of seven pages the necessity of assessing the quality of graduate programs on the Internet is presented and ...

Long Term Health Care and Quality Management

In fifteen pages this paper discusses the importance of quality management in long term health care in a consideration that includ...

Institutional Neglect and Abuse of Senior Citizens

A paper containing twenty six pages discusses how senior citizens can be neglected and abused in institutional settings and examin...

FedEX Reward Management and Performance Case Study

2001). Another was that employees are the backbone and the core of any company required (FedEx, 2001). These principles have never...

Kentucky Fried Chicken and Quality Management

from the drive-through window (DTW) operation. In the DTW, it seemed as though service was hugely slow. Adding to that, t...

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 ...

Case Study of ISO 9000

studies for a small company, as SMIC is described, where there are already compliant system in place it is projected that costs wi...

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...

Software Engineering and TQM

benefits of bringing manufacturing under statistical control and the mechanisms for achieving that control. He and his prot?g? De...

Quality Improvement at T.A. Stearns' Offsite Programmers

team that works together and is comprised of individuals committed to the success of the team. On the other, the manager ne...

Software Quality and Systems Development

design and improvement of the development process (Ravichandran & Rai, 2000). Developers and project managers actively collaborate...

Plastics Industry and Quality Control

In modern plastics history, one should note that cellulose acetate had been developed about the same time as the urea-based resins...

Ritz Carlton Hotel Company and Quality

employee, from top management to housekeeping, in supporting customer satisfaction and quality service (pp. 16). Partlow also ex...

Juran and Deming on Bergstrom Hotels Quality Management

that had been laid down quality theorists as the foundation for the TQM movement. To undertake this we will first briefly consider...

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...

Adding MRI to the Orthopedic Practice

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

Software Quality and Can It Be Measured?

required manner at the required time in a way that is easy for the users to implement and understand. Other qualities that are req...

Return on Quality

This 4 page paper looks at the way investment in quality can have the potential for a positive return on investment. A range of in...

Los Angeles Air Pollution and Healthy People 2010

2008). Further significant improvement is unlikely in the near future, however. Californias Efforts Governor Arnold Schwar...

How Regulatory Agencies have Improved Outcomes

(Chen et al, 2003). Accreditation has been identified as a measure of quality, but whether this results in measurable difference...

Servant Leadership: Application in Organizations

qualities of the ultimate Christian service leaders (Jesus and Paul) as including "personal sacrifice, humility, risk taking, and ...

Managing Quality in a Logistics Firm

those which deal directly with the customer, such as the way that calls are received and the process of placing an order, as well ...

Organizations and the Importance of Quality

one of the top priorities. The essence of quality, however, can be difficult to define. When analyzing various aspects of a busine...

One Way to Measure Service Quality

testing, experimenting and trials, these were reduced to five dimensions with 22 items. The resulting five dimensions are: tangibl...

A Look at Things That Hinder Quality Initiatives

comes to quality commitment, successful TQM implementation simply cant take place (Sebastianelli and Tamimi, 2003; see also Glover...