The TQM Journal: Volume 24 Issue 4

Subject:

Table of contents - Special Issue: Selected Papers from the Third Canadian Quality Congress

Guest Editors: Dr. Madhav Sinha

Quality assurance in Canadian police services

Wendy Cukier, Erin Barkel, Tania Vaughan, George Gekas

The purpose of this study is to investigate the presence of quality assurance, risk management, and audit practices at the municipal, provincial and federal levels of law…

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Continual improvement within South African abattoir Hygiene Management Systems

Reuben Govender

The Hygiene Management System (HMS) is a regulated basic food safety system applicable to registered South African abattoirs. There is however, no specific requirement within the…

Management responsibility for human errors

Jan M. Myszewski

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the adverse impact of management systems on the occurrence of human errors.

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Integration of quality cost and accounting practices

Leonardo A. Sedevich Fons

The purpose of this paper is to suggest a quality cost measurement model which is managed in coordination and conjunction with the accounting reports, thereby creating a…

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Applying TQM to the construction industry

H. James Harrington, Frank Voehl, Hal Wiggin

The purpose of this paper is to define the quality and productivity problems, and improvement opportunities that face the construction industry today.

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Establishing a small company's medical device quality system

January Luczak

The purpose of this paper is to chronicle a small company's path towards establishing a functioning, effective quality system for a medical device technology and to provide some…

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Building sustainable internal capacity for quality within a healthcare environment

Dale Schattenkirk

The purpose of this paper is to discuss how using an experiential Lean Six Sigma training model will dramatically decrease the amount of time it takes to become competent and…

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Cover of The TQM Journal

ISSN:

1754-2731

e-ISSN:

1754-274X

ISSN-L:

1754-2731

Renamed from:

The TQM Magazine

Online date, start – end:

2008

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Professor Maria Vincenza Ciasullo