Quality Management in Current Business Management & Issues
Objective
The objective of this study is to examine quality management in business and to apply contemporary theory.
Introduction
The U.S. Small Business Administration reports that effective management "is the key to the establishment and growth of the business" and states as well that the key to successful management is examination of the "marketplace environment and create employment and profit opportunities that provide the potential growth and financial viability of the business." (2009) Management, while being of primary importance is reported as "an area [that] is often misunderstood and poorly implemented, primarily because people focus on the output rather than the process of management." (U.S. Small Business Administration, 2009)
I. Socio-Technical Systems Theory
The work of Zu (2009) entitled "Infrastructure and Core Quality Management Practices: How Do They Affect Quality?" reports a study that sought to find a resolution to the findings in the quality management literature that were conflicting about various quality management practices, and specific to the infrastructure of quality management practices and core quality management practices that impact quality performance. The study used the Socio-Technical Systems theory and research regarding quality management implementation and performance. Zu states in the findings that the structural model contains two integrated factors used in
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For Andrei Octavian PARASCHIVESCU and Florin Mihai CAPRIOARA, organizations that desire to implement a strategic quality management approach should consider both the strategic dimension of quality and the management strategy (2014, p 19). In fact, both writers stipulate ”Quality Management” aims to advance quality to meet patron’s requirements by controlling processes (Paraschivescu & Caprioara, 2014, p 21). Likewise, their ideas confirm that the production approach demands a strict input from workers. In doing so, quality improvement teams can measure and spot
The history of quality management can be traced back to the Japanese during the economy-rebuilding period of the 1950’s. They emphasized on prevention rather than inspection, customer satisfaction, continuous improvement and leadership training. These principles formed the Total Quality Management (TQM) system. Concisely TQM emphasized on “Quality of Management” rather than “Management of Quality” The EFQM model was an improvement
The article highlighted several areas on how quality management affects the performance of an organization. Studies done have come back with mixed results. Some studies have proven that implementing quality implementation can have many benefits to an organization. However some studies have shown that organizations that have implemented total quality managements do not necessarily outperform organizations that do not or have not implemented total quality management programs. Of the results that have been published for organizations that had issues with quality management implementation several
A critical part of the management of quality is the strategic and systematic approach to
In health care, the industry is facing tremendous challenges from rising costs and larger demand for a variety of services. To help address these issues requires establishing a strategy for organizational leadership. This will serve as foundation for developing a quality management program. To achieve these objectives there will be a focus on: understanding the purpose of quality management in health care, examining three key concepts, outlining three of the organization's long / short term goals, identifying five internal / external factors that can influence quality, discussing three quality management policies and highlighting the differences between risk management / quality assurance. Together, these different elements will illustrate how our health care organization can achieve different benchmarks over the long term. ("Why Are Health Care Costs Rising," 2010)
The President Ralph Larsen has realized that Wengart has some major problems with the quality however he is focusing on the profitability instead of the longevity of the company. He needs to have the team focus on improving the quality problem or the company’s profits will continue to decrease. Larsen in the effort to improve the quality has decided to seek out help from an OD practitioner who suggests to Ralph to implement Top Quality Management (TQM). Larsen feels that this should be easy to implement and hands it off to Kent Kelly the Vice President. He feels that the TQM program was a matter of common sense (Brown, 2011, p. 365).
Management is a method of managing available resources through the functions of organizing, directing, and controlling thus can achieve target efficiently and effectively (Yuanita, 2012). Quality means the features and chatractersitics in which products of services possess that is able to satisfy or fulfil the implied need (Heizer & Render, 2011). In a competitive market, organization should offer high quality products or services in order to survive, nevertheless, good quality can only be produced with a good quality management system (Yuanita, 2012). Quality management system is an overall organization management system that incudes provided collective plans, events and activities in order to ensure products,
Total Quality Management (TQM) is a comprehensive and structured approach to organizational management that seeks to improve the quality of products and services through ongoing refinements in response to continuous feedback. TQM requirements may be defined separately for a particular organization or may be in devotion to established standards, such as the International Organization for Standardization's ISO 9000 series. Every organization, both for profit and non-profit, can benefit from Total Quality Management (TQM). One definition for TQM is a management strategy aimed at embedding awareness of quality in all organizational processes. It has been widely used in education, government, manufacturing, and
Quality management is a structured approach to organizational management that seeks to improve the quality of products and services through continual refinements in response to continuous feedback (Gharakhani, 2013). Thus, it necessitates the consistent application of the appropriate human and technical processes, tools and techniques. A strategic quality strategy will be effective only through long-term commitment and dedicated application by executive management and all employees (Gharakhani, 2013). The purpose of this paper is to converse on implementing successful quality improvement practices within organizations to help achieve viable quality management. Further, this paper also highlights the conditions that must be in place such as management commitment, employee involvement, communication, and continuous improvement for successful quality management to be aligned with ISO 9000.
According to a study conducted by National Rural Health Care Resource Centre (2013), the use of surveys highlights the concept that the satisfaction of consumers is directly proportional to organizational performance, which is on the other hand connected to the organization culture. The researchers found out that patient surveys such as HCAHPS have been widely used in the evaluation of various aspects of both clinical and non-clinical care. In essence, defining quality from a patient’s perspective offer better value for their improved safety, accessibility, equity and also comprehensiveness of care. When considered from a health facility’s point of view, quality improvement in hospital is more effective and offers better services a higher
In the quality management case study (Rickling, 2013), Lauren, a new quality engineer straight out of school has been tasked to test new devices at a very prestigious technology company. I’m sure she wants to perform well in her new job however, she has found that the devices were not meeting the high standard of extreme conditions testing per the agreed upon specifications with their new customer. Consequently this customer partnership puts this company ahead in the market and is a huge milestone for them. Upon exposing the failure to meet the specifications, her general manager and immediate boss have instructed her to push this product through anyway as to not risk slowing down a large production and jeopardizing this new deal. Lauren
To identifying and looking to rectify an error, it has to investigate the root source of the predicament. The procedure is alluded to as the root cause scrutiny. The rationale of the investigation is to annihilate or correct the source, thus preventing the inveterate of the predicament. The procedure should be done on an everyday basis. The application of new processes that are well known to produce a methodical and affirmed progress to the identification, indulgent and determination of main causes is what is alluded to as root source analysis.
Many worldwide organizations today are focusing on quality to gain a competitive edge for their businesses. We now understand that an emphasis on quality improves overall productivity and reduces costs. It was not that long ago that business people used to think just the opposite. Organizations put emphasis on productivity at the expense of quality and began to lose many of their customers as competition increased. As a result organizations began to examine the philosophies of two Quality Gurus by the names of Doctor Edward Deming and Joseph M. Juran.
Although hundreds of management methods are developed, most research considers a non-holistic software quality management (SQM) viewpoint and focuses on development-phase-specific quality assurance (QA) methods and activities. To support SQM, we study effective quality management (EQM) to get acceptance of adequate product quality assurance activities by a minimum set of stakeholders, developers, customers, and users.[1]