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Total Quality Management

European Journal of Operational Research, 1990
Total Quality Management (TQM) is a revolutionary concept in the management of quality. Foremost, it is a recognition that quality not only depends upon tangible investments in machines, processes or facilities, but also on intangibles such as the integration and management of these resources, the corporate and cultural environment, personnel ...
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Total quality management: Field of dreams?

Health Care Management Review, 1995
Total quality management promises to reconcile cost/quality conflicts, increase customer satisfaction, and improve hospitals' competitiveness as well as operational and financial performance. This article reviews the hospital literature on TQM and concludes that there is little evidence to substantiate these claims.
B, Bigelow, M, Arndt
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Total quality management and education

Total Quality Management & Business Excellence, 1995
In this paper the five cornerstones (key principles) of total quality management (TQM) are introduced by using a new management pyramid called the TQM pyramid. These principles are leadership, focus on the customer and the employee, continuous improvements, everybody's participation and focus on facts.
Dahlgaard, Jens Jørn   +2 more
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The benefits of total quality management

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, 2001
In this article, we will review the implementation of the ISO 9000 quality system in the Department of Nuclear Medicine. We will also discuss the benefits of working with the ISO 9000 standards and explain why we have shifted our focus from ISO 9000 towards the EFQM model. After an introduction concerning Total Quality Management and the EFQM model, we
H P, Geraedts   +2 more
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Introducing total quality management

Nursing Standard, 1992
Total quality management is a system that could pay dividends for National Health Service managers and employees but would require a change of culture, from one of crisis response to problems to one preventing them from happening in the first place. This article introduces the concept and describes the preconditions for its successful application.
K, Evans, G, English
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TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT

Administration in Social Work, 2000
Collis P. Huntington, owner of Newport News Shipbuilding, engraved in 1917 the company’s motto on the side of the building: “We shall build good ships here; at a profit, if we can, at a loss if we must, but always build good ships.” (Dobyns and Crawford-Mason, 1991: 11).
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From total quality management to total quality environmental management

The TQM Magazine, 1995
Total quality management (TQM) was developed at the same time as the interest in environmental issues began to emerge and, as such, it has built in the same concepts as those regarding issues relevant to the environment. Suggests the acronym in use today, TQEM (total quality environmental management), clearly reflects its genesis and the existing ...
Fabio Borri, Giuliano Boccaletti
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Total Quality Management

2011
Das heutige Total Quality Management basiert auf den Grundzugen der Qualitatskontrolle. Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts wurden aufgrund der Arbeitsteilung (Taylorismus) Produkte hergestellt, diese jedoch ohne systematische Uberprufung an den Kunden ausgeliefert. Die Fehlerquote war dementsprechend hoch.
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IEEE total quality management

IEEE Communications Magazine, 1994
The IEEE staff organization has undertaken a major quality initiative that has required a major staff learning and training program followed by pilot quality initiatives in a number of major areas. We begin with the quality principles that provide the foundation for the initiatives and then move to describe the initiatives and their effects on members,
James Cox, Ralph W. Wyndrum Jr.
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