Indifference Quality Level and the Maximum Allowable Percent Defective are the criteria used for fixing the ChSP‐(0,1) plan …

Quality management (QM) has been the purview of operations management for repetitive processes, where project … and QM has been focused on using PM to implement a total quality management culture or on assuring the quality of the …, project‐based organizations are fulfilling the principles of quality.  …

Argues, with evidence from a number of related studies, that in order to effectively manage quality in the construction … project environment, firms need two things. First, externally orientated, flexible, quality improvement systems are required …

Describes the organizational learning practices in a project management environment to ensure project quality. The … project management and organizational learning processes are described using the plan‐do‐study‐act (PDSA) cycle from quality … that occurs both within and across projects. Managers can use this research to develop specific strategies to increase …

Reports the findings of a research study, which was undertaken to examine the underlying factors affecting the quality … of a building project. Aims to identify factors that showed a strong correlation to good quality performance. The … more efficient with their limited resources and, as a result, achieve better quality outcomes. A total of 110 recently …

A methodology was developed to measure cost of quality failures in two major road projects, largely based upon a work …

quality improvement in particular. This study examined management culture and quality performance in a sample of New Zealand … manufacturing organizations. The culture was measured using the Organizational Culture Inventory, and quality performance was … management cultures were found to have correlations with quality indicators such as: warranty claims, percent defectives, ratio …

This paper assesses the current knowledge and perceived needs of the key actors in quality management in Russia and … cultural traditions. Three quality management approaches already tested in Russia, namely, third party certification, self … educational and institutional infrastructure for quality management. The conclusions in this paper are also relevant to the other …

The attainment of superior quality and reliability in a manufactured product depends upon the existence of a framework … is explained, highlighting a strategy for the effective deployment of statistical quality engineering.  …

organisations, are applied in the SME context. Using a grounded inductive approach, a study is made of 20 SME cases, where a quality … the principles of TQM, when quality models are applied in an SME context. The findings indicate TQM, when a quality model …