Date of Award
1995
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science
Department
Business
First Advisor
Michael Castro
Second Advisor
Michael Kramer
Third Advisor
William Gibson
Abstract
The quality movement in American businesses is becoming increasingly popular. American businesses are now competing internationally for market and the Japanese are winning. American businesses have adopted various quality systems to help them become customer driven, assisting in the regaining of lost market share. Some companies have been successful in implementing a quality system, but most have fallen short of achieving the desired a quality operation.
Most of the successful quality programs have come in manufacturing plants, but quality in the support services of the administrative levels have fallen short. Many manufacturing organizations approach quality implementation for the plant and products, and ignore support service departments. In some cases, they try to apply the same techniques for both plants and service. As a result, quality problems that exist at the administrative level are not addressed and resolved.
A business does not become successful in today's increasingly competitive environment by limiting continuous improvement to its manufacturing components. Techniques exist that can be used in service industries. They can apply to internal services to work towards continuous improvement . To help move quality practices through a company's administrative services, a business should separate the needs of support services from those of the plant operations, by addressing those needs in a separate quality plan . It is this customization that will help businesses tackle the barriers that exist for implementing administrative quality.
This project develops the idea stated above and provides a model of such a plan.
Recommended Citation
Costello Baker, Carolyn Joan, "Administrative Quality Planning" (1995). Theses. 342.
https://digitalcommons.lindenwood.edu/theses/342
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