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Books on: quality control circles

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1.

Total Quality Marketing: The Key to Regaining Market Shares

Book by Allan C. Reddy; Quorum Books, 1994

Subjects:

Marketing--United States--Quality Control, Total Quality Management--United States

Collections: Entire Library

Total quality marketing is a dynamic idea that goes beyond the currently popular total quality management approach in solving business problems. It is a market-driven idea that stresses customer satisfaction as crucial to the success of a business in a highly competitive, modern business world. The ...
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Total quality marketing is a dynamic idea that goes beyond the currently popular total quality management approach in solving business problems. It is a market-driven idea that stresses customer satisfaction as crucial to the success of a business in a highly competitive, modern business world. The concept is an enhanced version of the marketing mix--the familiar "4-P paradigm" in marketing. Thus, by incorporating quality into their product, price, promotion, and distribution strategy, firms can regain market shares and can prevent further erosion of market shares to aggressive foreign competitors from Japan, Germany, and the Newly Industrialized Countries (NICs).
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A Systems Approach to Quality Improvement

Book by William F. Roth Jr.; Praeger Publishers, 1992

Subjects:

Production Management--Quality Control, Quality Control

Collections: Entire Library

While many quality improvement programs in business have enjoyed initial success, most have eventually failed--not producing the desired long-term results. And while many companies have quality improvement programs in place, few have developed comprehensive, systemic approaches which take into ...
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While many quality improvement programs in business have enjoyed initial success, most have eventually failed--not producing the desired long-term results. And while many companies have quality improvement programs in place, few have developed comprehensive, systemic approaches which take into account the whole organization's immediate and long-range needs. This work presents a systemic whole, to discuss the results when such a comprehensive quality system in out into place, and to identify the key obstructions to the successful implementation of a quality improvement program.
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Japan Works: Power and Paradox in Postwar Industrial Relations

Book by John Price; Cornell University Press, 1997

Subjects:

Automobile Industry And Trade--Japan, Employee Empowerment--Japan, Industrial Management--Japan, Industrial Relations--Japan, Japan--Foreign Economic Relations--United States, Quality Control--Japan, United States--Foreign Economic Relations--Japan

Collections: Entire Library

...America introduced quality circles into the workplace...had become clear that quality circles alone were not enough...worker participation in quality circles...extensive employer control, however, and the...
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Rath & Strong's Six Sigma Leadership Handbook

Book by Thomas Bertels; John Wiley & Sons, 2003

Subjects:

Leadership--Handbooks, Manuals, Etc, Total Quality Control--Handbooks, Manuals, Etc, Total Quality Management--Handbooks, Manuals, Etc

Collections: Entire Library

Achieve unparalleled customer satisfaction and greater profitability with this essential handbook! Six Sigma is a proven and highly effective business initiative for improving customer satisfaction and increasing the efficiency of processes. Rath & Strong's Six Sigma Leadership Handbook highlights ...
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Achieve unparalleled customer satisfaction and greater profitability with this essential handbook! Six Sigma is a proven and highly effective business initiative for improving customer satisfaction and increasing the efficiency of processes. Rath & Strong's Six Sigma Leadership Handbook highlights the critical factors that make or break implementation, offers key best practices for getting it right the first time, and offers real-life examples and case studies that light the path to success. With Rath & Strong, you'll get an overview of the tools, methods, approaches, benefits, and risks that are associated with each element of the methodology.
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Demystifying Six Sigma: A Company-Wide Approach to Continuous Improvement

Book by Alan Larson; AMACOM, 2003

Subjects:

Customer Services--Quality Control, Six Sigma (Quality Control Standard), Total Quality Management

Collections: Entire Library

...analysis, and process control was initiated in the...the Japanese model of quality circles. These team members...of nonproduction QC Circles now present their cases...people seem to think quality control deals only with quality...

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Journal Articles on: quality control circles

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Continuous Improvement: Quality Control Circles in Japanese Industry

Journal article by Lawrence Barton; Journal of Small Business Management, Vol. 29, 1991

Subjects:

Books--Reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...Continuous Improvement: Quality Control Circles in Japanese Industry...workers who had formed a Quality Control Circle (QCC). A heated...of 260,000 Japanese circles. A 1980 NBC documentary...their approach to quality control immediately following...
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A Comparison of Japanese Total Quality Control and Deming's Theory of Management

Journal article by Howard S. Gitlow; The American Statistician, Vol. 48, 1994

Subjects:

Corporations, Japanese--Quality control, Deming, W. Edwards--Philosophy, Industrial management--Japan, Total quality management--Analysis

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...for the difference between process (actual) performance and targets or to change the direction of a company. Quality-control circles (QCCs) are small groups of people from the same workshop who perform voluntary quality-control functions. The...
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The Quality Process: Little Things Mean a Lot

Journal article by Patrick L. Townsend, Joan E. Gebhardt; Review of Business, Vol. 12, 1990

Subjects:

Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award--Addresses, essays, lectures, Product quality--Evaluation, Quality circles--Analysis, Quality control--Evaluation

Collections: Entire Library

...suggestion that saves no money, even if it would increase customer satisfaction. A Reservoir of Ideas American Quality Circles have a number of hybrid forms, some of which encourage small ideas, some of which do not. A group of employees who...
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Quality Circles: Promise, Problems, and Prospects in Florida

Journal article by James S. Bowman; Public Personnel Management, Vol. 18, 1989

Subjects:

Florida--Politics and government, Government productivity--Technique, Human resource management--Technique, Local government--Economic aspects, Quality circles--Analysis

Collections: Entire Library

...Japanese term "quality control (sic) circles". (2.) While...to delegate quality control and to institute employee circles (Matsuura, 1984...Industrial Quality Control, (January): 3...Joyce (1985). "Quality Circles in Fort Collins...
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Differences between Active and Inactive Quality Circles in Attendance and Performance

Journal article by Thomas Li-Ping Tang, Peggy Smith Tollison, Harold D. Whiteside; Public Personnel Management, Vol. 22, 1993

Subjects:

Performance appraisals--Research, Quality circles--Research

Collections: Entire Library

...Self-esteem and task performance in quality circles. Academy of Management Journal, 29 (3...E. Tachiki, D. S. (1983). Japanese quality circles: Preliminary comparisons. The Quality Circles Journal, 6, 11-16. Dean, J. W. (1985...

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Magazine Articles on: quality control circles

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Copy Desk Blues

Magazine article by Sharyn Wizda; American Journalism Review, Vol. 19, September 1997

Subjects:

Copy-reading--Quality control, Editors--Practice, Newspaper publishing--Quality control, Newspapers--Editing

Collections: Entire Library

...to "topic teams" or "circles" that also include reporters...the newsroom that the quality of our newsroom is not...channeled through a quality control center. Even now, some...do you get quality and quality control and let people do better...
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Making School Reform Work

Magazine article by Chester E. Finn Jr.; Public Interest, Summer 2002

Subjects:

Education--Quality control, Responsibility--Political aspects, School management and organization--Planning

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...furnish whatever oversight and quality-control were needed. One seldom hears talk...accountability in government and business circles. It was the inspiration behind...Standards-based reform is only as good as the quality of a states standards and tests...
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Teaching Doesn't Count

Magazine article by Emily Sachar; Washington Monthly, Vol. 22, September 1990

Subjects:

School management and organization--Evaluation, Teachers--Licenses, Teaching--Quality control

Collections: Entire Library

...details. Teachers are rated once a year, on their punctuality, control of their classes, their preparation, and housekeeping. Only...the eighth graders--teachers must blacken thousands of little circles on dozens of answer sheets. Those who cant learn, graduate...
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GOP Circles and Democrats Spin

Magazine article by Jennifer G. Hickey; Insight on the News, Vol. 16, May 8, 2000

Subjects:

United States. Congress--Political activity, United States--Politics and government

Collections: Entire Library

GOP Circles and Democrats Spin...gun grabbers of Hand Gun Control Inc. Sarah Brady, the groups...percent) thought a decline in quality time spent with children...passed by the very Republican-controlled Congress that he and the...
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The Best Care Anywhere: Ten Years Ago, Veterans Hospitals Were Dangerous, Dirty, and Scandal-Ridden. Today, They're Producing the Highest Quality Care in the Country. Their Turnaround Points the Way toward Solving America's Health-Care Crisis

Magazine article by Phillip Longman; Washington Monthly, Vol. 37, January 2005

Subjects:

Health care reform--Forecasts and trends, Hospitals, Veterans'--Forecasts and trends, Hospitals, Veterans'--Reorganization and restructuring, Hospitals, Veterans'--Services, Veterans' hospitals--Forecasts and trends, Veterans' hospitals--Reorganization and restructuring, Veterans' hospitals--Services

Collections: Entire Library

...make your parents or other loved ones eligible for care in an expanded VHA system? The system rims circles around Medicare in both cost and quality. Unlike Medicare, its allowed by law to negotiate for deep drug discounts, and does. Unlike Medicare...

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Newspaper Articles on: quality control circles

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The UP SOLAIR Experience

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, January 27, 2008

Subjects:

Quality control

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...national line agencies, government-owned and controlled corporations (GOCCs) and local government...voluntary basis. Employee participation and quality management here Employee participation...Switzerland which was founded in the academic circles of the United States of America. The...
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Vital Lives: IN HIGH DEMAND; with Many TV Channels Now Switching to High Definition Quality Pictures, Make-Up Artists Such as Deborah Paulmann Have Their Work Cut Out

Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), August 27, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Switching to High Definition Quality Pictures, Make-Up Artists...free on screen. Dark circles, spots and age lines...environment. "Lighting, video control and make-up combined...powder on her face to control the shine of her skin...colours and textures under control while at the same time...
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FAMILY: WHEN MANLINESS IS NEXT TO GODLINESS; Arch-Feminist Moira Martingale Gives Three Cheers for a Much Sought-After Manly Quality - Heroism

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), May 6, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...herself, wildly running round in frenzied circles, screaming into her mobile. "My dads dead...inextinguishable trait related to the Greek quality thumos, which translates as "animal spiritedness...it with the virtues of reason and self-control. Mansfield defines manliness as "displaying...
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FOOTBALL: RICH LIST: CONTROL FREAK; Ronaldo Was His Destiny He Pounds 3m to Join So Determined to Decide Gave Up Whopping Mighty Real Madrid

Newspaper article; Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland), August 29, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

FOOTBALL: RICH LIST: CONTROL FREAK; Ronaldo Was His Destiny He Pounds...keeper who explained the number 8 had two circles - or balls. So 88 simply meant he had...has returned to action and is still a quality operator. 12 VINCENZO MONTELLA ROMApounds...
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Brian Schottenheimer Seeks to Earn His Keep

Newspaper article by Jody Foldesy; The Washington Times, May 4, 2001

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...has been heard in some football circles. Marty Schottenheimer even acknowledged...Syracuse; before that, he was an NFL quality control assistant for the Kansas City...have returned to the NFL as a quality control coach or remained in the college...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: quality control circles

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Burkina Faso

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...and the soil is of poor quality. Rainfall is heaviest...spoken in commercial circles. Muslims account for...powers, France gained control over the region. In 1895...Blaise Compaore seized control. Compaore, unlike his...Progress (CDP) retained control of the national assembly...

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