Quality management introduction to total quality management for production, processing, and services

This easy-to-use book gives future managers, engineers, technologists and technicians both the tools and know-how to guide an organization to world-class quality and competitiveness. Straightforward in approach, it helps readers understand both the "big picture" behind Total Quality Manage...

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Main Authors: Goetsch, David L. (Author), Davis, Stanley 1931- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Upper Saddle River, NJ Prentice Hall [2000]
Edition:Third edition
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Philosophy and concepts
  • Quality and global competitiveness-- The total quality approach to quality management
  • Strategic management : planning and execution
  • Quality management and ethics
  • Partnering for competitiveness
  • Quality culture
  • Customer satisfaction and retention
  • Employee empowerment
  • Leadership and change
  • Team building and teamwork
  • Communication and interpersonal relations
  • Education and training
  • Overcoming politics, negativity, and conflict in the workplace
  • ISO 9000 and total quality : the relationship
  • Part II: Tools and techniques
  • Overview of total quality tools
  • Problem solving and decision making
  • Quality function deployment (QFD)
  • Optimizing and controlling processes through statistical process control (SPC)
  • Continual improvement
  • Benchmarking
  • Just-in-time manufacturing (JIT)
  • Implementing total quality management.