Friday 9 July 2010

Term 6: Quality Management

Quality management can be considered to have three main components: quality control, quality assurance and quality improvement. Quality management focused not only on product/service quality but also the means to achieve it. Quality management therefore uses quality assurance and control of processes as well as products to achieve more consistent quality.

Quality management adopts a number of management principles that can be used by upper management to guide their organisations towards improved performance. The principles cover:

~ Customer focus
~ Leadership
~ Involvement of people
~ Process approach
~ System approach to management
~ Continual improvement
~ Factual approach to decision making
~ Mutually beneficial supplier relationships

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