specifically affecting the quality of Hong Kong public housing, which has long been criticized as having poor quality performance …. This paper aims to identify the factors affecting the quality outcomes of public housing projects. Design … then developed to determine how these identified factors affect the quality scores of public housing projects. Factor …

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 …

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 …