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Exploring Baldrige Leadership and Engagement Criteria: A Phenomenological Qualitative Study
… dissertation in practice examined the impact of Baldrige-based leadership on workforce engagement from a phenomenological qualitative study conducted at a small specialty-manufacturing firm in Texas. This study included interviews conducted with leaders and followers of the research organization, …
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Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence in Illinois Public Schools: Understanding and Implementation
… within Illinois implemented the Lincoln/Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence. Through this study, the conditions and circumstances under which the Lincoln/Baldrige Criteria promoted organizational effectiveness and improved student performance were identified using common …
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The Strategic Plan of a Medium-Size Enterprise Compared to the Baldrige Criteria
… documented practices compared to the Baldrige Program’s Criteria for Performance Excellence (Criteria). This study evaluated the degree to which the case example organization practiced the philosophies and principles of the Criteria without direct knowledge of the Criteria. The …
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Determining how work process influences organizational results using the Malcolm Baldrige Excellence Framework
… Practice explored what elements of the Malcolm Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence aid in successful organizational effectiveness. Additionally, this research was aimed at determining if good organizational processes always produce positive results. The literature presented the many …
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Quality in Education: Perspectives Regarding Baldrige-based Practices and Instructional Leadership in Middle Schools
… principals, and middle school teachers regarding Baldrige-based practices in the four Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award-winning school districts in the United States. This study's data illuminated how a non-prescriptive framework such as the Baldrige National Quality Program (BNQP) combined …
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Leadership and public responsibility as encompassed by the 1991 Malcom Baldrige National Quality Award
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1991.
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Anchoring Change in Higher Education : Narratives from Senior Executives at Malcolm Baldrige Award-Winning Institutions
… for progressive excellence—the Malcolm Baldrige Award. A narrative design is used to conduct in-depth exploration of leading planned change, specifically anchoring this planned change into the culture of academic institutions of higher learning. Purposeful sampling was used to identify a …
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Implementation of the Baldrige Education Framework for Performance Excellence: A Case Study of One Midwestern School District Leadership Team's Continuous Improvement Efforts
Three themes emerged: (a) The Baldrige Criteria raises the ceiling of continuous improvement for high-performing school districts, (b) external feedback is critical to guide continuous improvement efforts, and (c) effective leadership is an indispensable organizational ingredient to establish a …
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A textual analysis of Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recipients to explore best organizational communication models in American companies
… (NIST) manages a program called the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA).</p> <p>Using the award summary profiles of the 68 MBNQA recipients, the best practices are studied to reveal the tactics and strategies that influence the best American companies to achieve the highest …
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An investigation into the effects of winning the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award on the performance of hospitals/healthcare systems
… explores longitudinal outcome data for Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recipients in healthcare in the dimensions of patient outcomes (mortality, complications and patient safety), as well as hospital financial and efficiency measures (average length of stay, expense per discharge and …
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Quality in Education in the Calcasieu Parish School System: Experiences of Administrators
The Malcolm Baldrige Education Criteria for Performance Excellence outline effective practices and core values that have assisted businesses, health agencies, government institutions, and several school systems in the United States to improve performance within their organizations. Recent studies …
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A Study of the Impact of the Workplace Learning Function on Organizational Excellence by Examining the Workplace Learning Practices of Six Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Recipients
… learning practices. A total of six Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Recipients, one from each Baldrige sector participated in this study. Data was collected through in depth, semi-structured, face-to-face interviews with the person responsible for workplace learning or their …
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Illinois Learning Standards Implementation and a Systems Perspective on Four High-Implementation Elementary Schools: A Multiple-Case Study
… systems perspective at each school based on the Baldrige criteria was examined; the Baldrige criteria were used in judging the quality improvement award. This study provided a rich description of ILS implementation at four schools, including district influences. Six cross-case themes were …
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A National Study Comparing Baldrige Core Values and Concepts with AACN Indicators of Quality: Facilitating CCNE-Baccalaureate Colleges of Nursing Move toward More Effective Continuous Performance Improvement Practices
… of Nursing (AACN) indicators of quality and the Baldrige core values and concepts of performance improvement within Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education accredited baccalaureate colleges of nursing.The purpose of this study was to determine whether the behaviors associated with specific …
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Total Quality Management and corporate financial performance: An analysis of the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award criteria
<p>"The impact of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA) Performance Excellence Criteria on corporate financial performance is examined. Three independent studies were performed to assess this relationship. The first included Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA) winners. The …
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An Empirical Investigation of Tools and Joint Practices Used in Managing Customer-Supplier Relationships
… effectively were ISO 9000 and/or QS 9000 and/or Baldrige criteria, quality audit, JIT production/delivery, joint planning, and joint problem-solving teams, • Five tools/joint practices that have been most internalized were ISO 9000 and/or QS 9000 and/or Baldrige criteria, quality audit, JIT …
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Estimating the impact of third-party evaluator training and characteristics on the scoring of written organizational self-assessments
… self-assessment used was the 1995 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Colony Fasteners Case Study. The subjects were 81 graduate students enrolled in two televised graduate engineering courses with considerable quality management content. Subjects were randomly assigned to groups and …
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ICCB Program Review: Assisting Illinois Community Colleges to Improve Quality
… analysis which was done through the lens of the Baldrige A-D-L-I (Approach, Deployment, Learning, Integration) Process Evaluation rubric. Although the steps taken through the work of the Task Force seemed to align well with the A-D-L-I rubric, due to decreased staffing and limited resources at …
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A study of the critical success factors for sustainable TQM. A proposed assessment model for maturity and excellence.
… of prestigious awards such as the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA), is important. The longitudinal analysis in this research will enable verification that there are generic critical factors (CFs) for TQM implementation and generic critical areas of measurement (CAM) that if …
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