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Hospitals and TQM

instruments not trustworthy? This is just another meaningless slogan, a cousin of zero defects" (Deming, 1986; p. 66). The...

Sony's PlayStation 2 Release Problems

the primary reason for the rush was to reach the market with the PS2 before Microsofts scheduled release of its X-box. Sony did n...

Total Quality Management

talking about a systemic approach to total transformation leading to continually improving quality. While we cannot outline the 1...

Comparing and Contrasting TQM and BPR

result in improvements (Mintzberg et al, 2008; Reed et al, 1996). Defining TQM is difficult, there is no standard definiti...

TQM AND STATUS TODAY

and regulations in place. This has especially been the case for China -- the media has been loaded with toy recalls due to danger...

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...

Service Organizations in the Implementation of TQM

from its introduction. The meaning may be different to the various people or organizations that implement or study it as there is ...

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 ...

Total Quality In The Prison Setting

goals. This fit, as Austin notes, "becomes the critical task for culminating the connection...Finding the right fit is a process ...

Adding MRI to the Orthopedic Practice

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

Quality as Measured by Companies

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

Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker

of these characters. Particularly insightful, Demirturk sums up the novel by stating that Tashi sacrificed her gender identity to ...

The 3M Company and Quality Management

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at quality management. Issues of quality management and strategy are examined through t...

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...

A University Strives for Quality

There are seven categories in the criteria for this Award. These are: leadership, strategic planning, focus on customers and the m...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

Total Quality Management Implementation

they needed. In practical terms TQM is a business stratagem, and as such, in line with any other type of strategy, TQM is...

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...

The Utilization of Total Quality Management

Problems sometimes crop up in the implementation of TQM and this paper focuses on those issues. The barriers that confront the pro...

Xerox, Corning, and Total Quality Management

Xerox and Corning are examined from a TQM perspective in a paper consisting of ten pages. Twelve sources are cited in the bibliog...

Business Process Reengineering and Total Quality Management Compared

In five pages BPR and TQM are compared in terms of their differences and similarities. Seven sources are cited in the bibliograph...

Surveys, Education, and Techniques of Total Quality Management

In twenty pages this literature review discusses how academic institutions can be effectively managed through TQM with various sur...

Total Quality Management and Implementation Barriers

no matter what management says. Often, the companys managers are honest in their statements regarding their commitment to quality,...

Business Uses for Total Quality Management Intervention Strategies

Improving quality of production and corporate performance are discussed in this consideration of how intervention strategies may b...

Enhancing Total Quality Management at the U.S. Naval Hospital, Guam

quite a leap to effectively apply its principles to service industries, but TQM is as much at home in health care as it is in manu...

Total Quality Management and Six Sigma

improvement in quality management as well as in the companys profit margin (Kotelnikov, 2005). While TQM and other quality improve...

Total Quality Management

will fail but it is the full change in management style that will bring about the transformation of the company (Castellano, Roehm...