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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...

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...

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...

Narcissistic Persona and Body Aesthetics

personal recognition" (Benis, 2001). For decades, theorists have applied different psychological perspectives to an understa...

Continued Growth for Organizations and TQM

In eighteen pages this paper presents a comprehensive overview of Total Quality Management and includes how it can be successfully...

Manufacturing and Total Quality Management

speed at which they worked (Systma). The first published work dedicated to the continuous improvement of statistical process cont...

Nonprofit Organizational Change Implementation

In five pages this paper examines reengineering and total quality management as they apply to a nonprofit organization seeking to ...

Manufacturing and TQM

First however, its important to find out ways to get management on board. While most...

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...

International Operations and TQM

company is no longer necessarily competing against neighbors or regional firms -- that company could be competing with a similar c...

Software Engineering and TQM

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

Total Quality Management

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

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 ...

The Management of the BP Gulf Of Mexico Oil Spill Crisis

Louisiana, where the water was roughly 5,000 feet deep. At roughly 9.45 pm2 there was an explosion resulting from high pressure me...

Operations Management and Theories of Management

effective and efficient productive environment will rely on knowledge and ability to implement the required aspects from the vario...

Evolution of Management from the 1950s through the 1990s

has heightened both production and attention to human capital and likely, these trends will continue through the twenty-first cent...

Operations Management and IT, TQM, and JIT Effects

* Manufacturing flexibility is essential (Green and Inman, 2000). * Customers define quality (Green and Inman, 2000). * Team effor...

TQM and HRM

Marvin, 2000). Underlying this definition is the implication and philosophy that focuses on employee commitment and motivation, me...

Middle Managers and TQM Implementation Implications

either business type or size. Future research could be limited to a particular SIC code for intra-industry comparisons between fi...

3 Major Airlines and Management

rate of 9.1 percent for the fiscal year ended June, 1997, for total revenues of $13,590,000. Until the fall of 1996, Deltas stock...

Management Styles Investigation

In twenty eight pages this paper compares the differences that exist between the total quality management theoretical foundation s...

Creative Management Styles and Research

any of these, either. The reason is that all, including TQM, require a corporate culture that supports creativity and true change...

Elements and Features of Management Science

In seven pages this research paper discusses contemporary management science in a consideration of such topics as diversity traini...

Frederick Taylor, Walter A. Shewart, W. Edwards Deming, and the Scientific School of Management

In six pages this paper examines the contributions of these men in the development of the scientific management theoretical school...

Management Monitoring

In eleven pages this paper discusses monitoring in the management sector in a consideration of procurement, control, and Total Qua...

Total Quality Management Achievement

Managers of course were able to identify areas in which improvement was needed, but Deming maintained that it was the front-line e...

B2B Process Integration

and beyond that, we will move to the integration of processes" (Lawton, 2001). JIT has been common in industry for very nea...

A Traditional Top Heavy Company Adapted into a Lean Company Focused on Customers

advantage (Burnes, 1997). This would need to be undertaken with a programme of change and restructuring in order to gain the most ...

Organization Strategy Role of HRM and the Influence of TQM

to understand what it is we mean by TQM and consider how HRM may play an important role we first need to define TQM. TQM has its o...