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activities. Thus, to fulfill the objective, the present study has performed validity and reliability analysis on the existing LPD … familiar constructs in the selected frameworks sorted on the basis of validity and reliability analysis. Findings – The present … conducted on the collected empirical data to find the unidimensionality of the each framework. Reliability of each individual …
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Statistical process control (SPC) is a powerful technique for improving process quality by systematically eliminating …
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This deliberately provocative paper challenges the replacement of quality and total quality management by the term … fundamentals of quality management.  …
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Deming (1986) was quite adamant that any attempt to reward the individual for supposed personal contribution in the workplace was wrong. This flies in the face of the belief that it is right and proper to reward a person for work well done. It is totally counter‐intuitive to a boss who is...
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This paper explores the impact of the Internet on the business transactions of organisations. Three main impacts – globalisation, customisation, and customer demands solutions are examined. It is argued that the medium and large old economy companies will be most affected by transactions...
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suggestions that quality has been marginalised. It has also been suggested that quality is making a comeback as a result of … quality complement each other and should co‐exist. It also provides a view on why business excellence might be partly … responsible for recent increased interest in quality while maintaining that quality never really “died” in the first place.  …
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This paper examines the criterion weights of the EFQM excellence model. More and more research indicates that the official criterion weights from EFQM do not correspond with the way companies are working. This, of course, raises the question whether or not it makes any sense to compare companies...
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smoothed while the organisation transforms one quality era to the next. Proposes an empirically‐based framework of TQM … transformation, following a synthesis of literature on quality management practices in winners of the MBNQA and EFQA. The framework … incorporates critical factors of each phase of quality evolution, and hence implied sustainability of TQM implementation. The …
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achieving gender equality. The strategic management initiative (SMI) seeks highest quality of service delivery to customers in a … now faced with a combined need to address a new equality agenda in order to deliver its strategic vision of quality in … serving the public, thereby underpinning the need to pursue quality, equality and diversity as core values in a fast …
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The question of whether an adoption of total quality management (TQM) improves the financial performance has been … there is still disagreement concerning the effectiveness of TQM. This paper presents a study of Swedish quality award …
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