Table 6

Identified categories with categories and subcategories for success factors creating a sustainable quality culture

Identified categories for success factors from the focus groups
Create emotionally commitment
  • A clear mission and purpose – “touching the hearts”

Balancing between structure and culture
Structure
  • Ability to act and make decisions together on facts

  • Clear and common short- and long-term goals

  • Simple structure for processes provides security

Culture
  • Actively working with common values and behaviours

  • Balance between structure and culture – they go hand in hand

  • Building culture takes time, persistency and continuity

  • The TMT is a role model for building the culture in an organisation and long-term thinking is important

  • Working with communication and transparency

Apply a systems view
  • Systems view

Continuously improve
  • Continuous improvements by everybody in the organisation

  • Everybody’s participation and shared responsibility

  • Learning quality in the organisation

  • Working with processes, both operationally and strategically

Customer perspective
  • Ensuring good quality for our customers, both external and internal

Citations relating to success factors from the focus groups
  • − “Have courage to make mistakes, redo and do it right.”

  • − “There must be a purpose to everything we do. We don’t just make things.”

  • − “Structure, culture and systematics.”

Source(s): Table by authors

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