... that are highly coordinated based on self-compliance to assure consumer protection. Accordingly, many organizations undergo assessment of their food safety system to verify compliance internally as well as externally. The purpose of this paper is to provide insight on the critical factors and benefits...

.../implications The very nature of the process of EFQM assessment does not ensure uniformity in all aspects of management. Limitations that are inherent to case studies: factors that can be chosen by the researcher, such as geographical location, size, sector and ownership, can have an influence...

... the number of components. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Maintenance reliability Safety Space vehicles Space transport Assessment NASA and its contractors are currently in the process of the developing the Orion spacecraft, the space transportation system that will replace...

... important ISO 9001 issues addressed in the open literature. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 ISO 9000 series Assessment Research The implementation of a quality management system, and its subsequent certification, is a voluntary process, supported by the organisation's own...

...‐assessment is a useful tool for fostering the continuous improvement of the whole company, comparing its activities and results with an excellence model. However, little is known about the variables and relationships underlying self‐assessment application. This paper tries to shed light on this topic...

... controversy on whether winning this award does enhance future financial performance and ultimately shareholders' wealth. Examines how Baldrige Award winners perform with respect to several accounting and financial metrics. Specifically, assesses Baldrige Award winners' financial performance relative...

...Georges Habchi This paper reports on the development of a new method for suspended test reliability assessment and modeling. Reliability suspended tests are performed in order to accelerate testing duration and then to obtain information quickly on the life distribution of products. During...

...C.M. Tam; Z.M. Deng; S.X. Zeng; C.S. Ho In an attempt to improve the quality management of public housing construction in Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Housing Authority has implemented the performance assessment scoring system (PASS) as a mechanism for evaluating the effectiveness of a contractor’s...

... of constituent measurement items ranging from one to four, that correspond to the 14 dimensions underlying the SPC implementation/practice construct. Reports the results of assessing three properties of measurement quality for these newly‐created measurement scales, namely: face validity, internal consistency...

... of a TQM‐based quality assessment tool (PQAT) used to evaluate quality of care in family planning programmes in Africa, Asia, and the South Pacific. It shows how family planning service quality models have failed to keep pace with advances in management theory, introduces the process theory model...

... are highlighted and brought to the attention of researchers of this field. Manufacturing conformity assessment through Taguchi's quality loss function Marco Perona Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Economia e Produzione, Milan, Italy Manufacturing conformity assessment 931 1. Introduction As many authors...

... an actual example of how this method can be used in a quality program implementation. This research is important because it shows the need for pre‐implementation assessment within the company and a generalizable tool that readily accomplishes this task. © MCB UP Limited 1998 One concern with using...

... to institutionalize TQM and explores the effectiveness of TQM implementation in the agency by assessing the perceptions of management and employees. Also, offers a conceptual model that identifies TQM elements essential for success in both implementation and post‐implementation phases in all federal, state, and local...

... ] used PCA to provide additional assessment of the instrument used in the study of Saraph et al.[ 5 ], but to a greater extent and based on more broadly based samples of an international environment. In addition, their study aimed at gaining a better understanding of quality management...

... and the Kegworth air disaster. In the vast majority of these accidents, human error has played a critical role in the events precipitating the accident. Such accidents can in theory be predicted and prevented by risk assessment,in particular assessing the human contribution to risk. However, the collection...