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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Malcolm Baldrige"”.
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Determining how work process influences organizational results using the Malcolm Baldrige Excellence Framework
… in 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 …
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Anchoring Change in Higher Education : Narratives from Senior Executives at Malcolm Baldrige Award-Winning Institutions
… recognition 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 …
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A textual analysis of Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recipients to explore best organizational communication models in American companies
… Technology (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 …
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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 …
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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
… workplace 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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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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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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A study of the critical success factors for sustainable TQM. A proposed assessment model for maturity and excellence.
… winners 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) …
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Lean-excellence business management for small and medium-sized manufacturing companies in Kurdistan region of Iraq
… of lean tools with the criteria of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA) excellence model. The framework assists lean practices through eight variables, namely lean leadership, strategic planning, customer relationship, continuous improvement, process management, human …
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IS-MBNQA: A new framework for the relationship between Information Systems and organizational quality.
… two popular IS quality assessment frameworks - Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA) and Information Systems Assessment (ISA) - and suggests a new framework, IS-MBNQA. This work integrates these two IS quality assessment frameworks into a single comprehensive model that provides a …
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Estudio de implementación de un sistema de gestión de la calidad en una empresa del sector construcción
… para la Gestión de la Calidad (EFQM), Modelo Malcolm Baldrige y la Norma ISO 9001:2015; sin embargo, en el sector construcción los clientes, solicitan a las empresas a implementar un sistema bajo el estándar ISO 9001, razón por la cual la empresa estudiada en este trabajo ha decidido …
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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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Considerations for dealing with significant organizational change
… end, development of a framework based on the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Criteria for Performance Excellence is explored in-depth.</p>
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Estimating the impact of third-party evaluator training and characteristics on the scoring of written organizational self-assessments
… organizational 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 …
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An E-government Readiness Model
… COD project. It is an instrument based on the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA) that measures how effectively a government organization utilizes IT to support its various objectives. The EGOV instrument was adapted from the study of the Action-Audience Model developed by Koh and …
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Impact of Total Quality Management, work teams, and Just-In-Time on the performance of the Mexican manufacturing industry
… or conflicting findings. Based on the model of Malcolm Baldrige Quality Award, and Mexican National Quality Award, a survey questionnaire was developed. It contained variables of the TQM, WT, and JIT practices which were measured on a five-point Likert type scale for all items to ensure higher …
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Total quality management and drinking water quality: The Waikato experience
… Quality Awards like The Deming Prize and the Malcolm Baldrige Award and its New Zealand equivalent the National Business Excellence Award) (Refer to Chapter One, Section 1.6 Definition of Terms Used in Research). The use of QMS is now an established part of management practice in most water …
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Administrators, Faculty, and Staff/Support Staff Perceptions of MBNQA Educational Criteria Implementation at the University of Wisconsin Stout
… Stout's (UW Stout) implementation of the Malcolm Baldridge Award (MBNQA) Criteria for Educational Performance Excellence. The study had two objectives: (1) to determine administrator, faculty, and staff/support staff perceptions and compare those perceptions; and, (2) to identify the …
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An Analysis of the Tennessee Center for Performance Excellence Examiners' Continuous Improvement Process.
<p>The purpose of the study was to evaluate the continuous improvement process of the Tennessee Center for Performance Excellence (TNCP). Results of surveys conducted annually by the TNCPE from postapplicants provided data from the state award applicants. Their responses offered indicators of …