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Showing 1 to 20 of 496 for “"Quality management"”.
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Accounting for total quality management
… two of which had implemented total quality management (TQM), and one in which a TQM implementation was unsuccessful. The effects of this organisational change on accounting systems and accountants were also examined. Ethnographic research was carried out in the three organisations, …
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Quality management in local stonework construction
This study proposes the use of Quality Management as a means of improving the level of quality in local stonework construction. The proposed system integrates provisions to assure quality with those to safeguard the health and safety of the operatives. Several building construction sites have been …
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Quality Management Bibliometric Analysis and Visualization
This study examines the evolution of Quality Management Systems (QMS) into Quality 4.0, which integrates digital technologies like AI, IoT, and big data analytics. Using bibliometric analysis of research from 2020 to 2025, data from Scopus was analyzed with VOSviewer and CiteSpace to identify key …
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Moneyware: Simulating Software Portfolio Quality Management
… guidance on simulating software portfolio quality management. The name “MoneyWare” is inspired by the movie Moneyball. It chronicled a baseball team which used more descriptive statistics to achieve a higher quality ball club with limited resources. MoneyWare is inspired by the observation …
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Total quality management at AT&T
… Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1995.
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Petroleum refining and air quality management
Management of the air quality surrounding Petroleum Refineries deserves attention because the industry contributes almost five percent of the total emissions from all anthropogenic sources. A document containing a complete set of guidelines for use in the refining industry which satisfies the …
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Total Quality Management: Bridging Theory to Practice
… this study was to evaluate the practice of Total Quality Management (TQM) in an organizational culture using Deming's System of Profound Knowledge (1993) as a construct that combines the philosophical and methodological dimensions of TQM. As with TeleServices Resources (TSR), the evaluative case …
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Target Cost and Quality Management in Kreditinstituten
… Kundenorientierung und einem effizienten Kostenmanagement reagieren. Das in der Arbeit dargestellte Konzept des Target Cost and Quality Management (TCQM) beruht auf den Grundüberlegungen des Target Costing, wird jedoch zu einem integrierten Instrument der Planung und Steuerung der Kosten und der …
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Stormwater quality management strategy: Peters Creek watershed
The effect of stormwater runoff on the water quality of Peters Creek was investigated. Creek water was sampled at rural, suburban and urban sites. Background and runoff samples were analyzed for sediment, nutrient and heavy metal concentrations. The area upstream of the suburban site was found to …
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Intricacies of Professional Certifications for Quality Management (QM)
… and issued by multitudes of organizations. Quality management (QM) encompasses an extensive combination ofprofessional abilities. Providers of professional certifications for quality management (QM) related occupations have increased as the demand for specialized employees increased. …
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Quality management in the public building construction process
The poor quality of public buildings in the Botswana construction industry has been surrounded by controversy and strongly held opinions. The work reported here attempts to indicate some salient issues affecting the quality management system, with particular reference to the construction phase. …
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Decision support tools for urban air quality management
… between available data and action for urban air quality management, focusing on strategies to reduce particle concentrations. One of the principal thesis contributions is a Bayesian method to exploit the asymmetry between the rich aerosol dataset and the relatively poor dataset on gas-phase …
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The implementation of total quality management in China
… have found that it is imperative to develop quality management systems that will continuously improve the quality of their products, simply in order to survive. Total quality management (TQM), a term widely accepted as a new management philosophy which was developed based on the management …
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Quality management and rework in the construction industry
… cost, and other intangible costs of poor quality. Therefore, the complete cost of rework is estimated to be much greater than 12.4%. To effectively reduce the cost of rework, it is necessary to not only study the causes of rework, but also to study the effectiveness of activities designed …
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Q-Fabric: System Support for Continuous Online Quality Management
… or reliability requires the provision of Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees along the path of information exchange between two or more communicating systems. Execution environments that are prone to dynamic variability and uncertainty make QoS provision a challenging task, e.g., changes …
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Quality management in Australian higher education : A critical review
Quality management in higher education is a politically contentious issue in Australia. as it is in North America, New Zealand, and many European countries. The Australian government has instituted a quality management system for higher education that it claims will improve university efficiency, …
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Introducing total quality management : a change in management ideology
<p>Total Quality Management (TQM) is a phenomena of the eighties. According to Pascale (1990), it has received more publicity than any other management innovation. Its level of popularity seems only to be rivalled by the variety of ways it manifests itself to managers and academics.</p> <p>This …
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