Total Quality Management (TQM) is the process that required the dedication of everyone in the organization to commit to achieving quality standards.
Posts published in April 2024
Benchmarking requires business comparing its products, operations and processes with others in the same industry, especially market leaders.
Quality Circles (QC) include small groups of people who meet regularly to examine issues relating to the quality of output and make recommendations for improvement.
The importance of management is vast and can be applied to a wide range of contexts, from businesses and organizations to personal projects and individual goals.
According to Kim Cameron and Robert Quinn, every business organization has its own mix of the following dimensions of corporate culture.
Geert Hofstede proposed a model of corporate culture that links national cultures and corporate cultures. He studies six dimensions of culture.
Rob Goffee and Gareth proposed a theoretical model of corporate culture that is based on The Double-S Model of organizational culture.
John Kotter and James Heskett proposed a model of corporate culture that includes two types of culture such as adaptive cultures and inert cultures.
Terrence Deal and Allan Kennedy proposed a model of corporate culture that is the way how things get done within a business organization.
Six Sigma is a data-driven philosophy and set of techniques focused on minimizing defects and variations in any production process.
Quality Assurance (QA) means guaranteeing that everything is done ‘right first time’. It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.
Quality Control (QC) means inspecting, testing and sampling the quality of work. Products must be made to the required specification.
Charles Handy proposed a model of corporate culture based on the assumption that different cultures are needed for different business activities.
Edgar Henry Schein proposed a model of corporate culture that outlines three distinct levels: shared basic assumptions, espoused values and artefacts.
In ‘Gods of Management - The Changing Work of Organizations’, Charles Handy linked different types of organizational culture with personality types.
In today's competitive business landscape, quality is no longer a luxury. It is a fundamental requirement for success for any business.