Total Quality Management Paper

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Total Quality Management Paper
Producing a quality product, whether a tangible item or a service, is the goal of all organizations, how this goal is achieved will be the challenge. Quality of the end product has been an obstacle in America for decades. In the post World War II era as production of products in America rose, the quality of those products diminished. At the same time other countries such as Japan were not experiencing the same quality issues.
The secret to successful quality control was in the method of product management the Japanese were using. The Japanese organizations used an approach, which motivated all employees and organizational functions to provide a consistently high quality product. America took some time in
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Quality Focused Management is the development of a process involving the entire organization toward the production of a high quality product. The focus upon producing a quality product begins at the top level of management and extends through out the organization to the delivery person. In Quality Focused Management each employee and all processes are focused upon producing a quality product.
FedEx uses many different systems to maintain, monitor, or improve quality. The main quality control system is called (TQM) Total Quality management. This TQM system incorporates programs such as a formal Quality Improvement Process (QIP). The philosophy of the QIP program is that quality must be a way that FedEx does business not part of the time, but all the time. As a result sayings such as "Do it right the first time," "Make the first time you do it the only time anyone has to," and "Q=P" (quality = productivity) are important parts of the FedEx culture.
To maintain these mottos the company teaches all its employees the 1-10-100 rule. According to the rule, if a problem is caught and fixed as soon as it occurs, it costs a certain amount of time and money to correct. If a mistake is caught later in a different location, it may cost 10 times that much to repair. And if a mistake is caught by a customer such as receiving a wrong package that perhaps got
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