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The service sector contributes to the economy by absorbing surplus labor released from the agriculture and manufacturing sectors due to automations. It plays a positive role in maintaining economic stability. This sector covers many organizations such as health-care, education, banking, municipalities,etc. This book is about understanding TQM concepts and applications in the service sector.
It has become clear that managing and maintaining state-of-the-art healthcare facilities is more important than ever before. Healthcare consists of many different institutions and supports personnel ranging from laboratories of universities, public and private hospitals, research centers of health institutions, public health institutes, institutions, and organizations engaged in research and development in the field of medicine. For all these entities to be successful, there needs to be coordination among the bodies and quality must be kept at a very high level. The Handbook of Research on Quality and Competitiveness in the Healthcare Services Sector considers the current state of the healthcare services sector and examines future directions. Covering topics such as quality excellence models, accreditation, and e-health, this major reference work is an essential resource for economists, healthcare specialists, government officials, consultants, business leaders and executives, healthcare professionals, IT managers, students and educators of higher education, researchers, and academicians.
Managing non-profit organisations in the 21st century has become more challenging and sophisticated than ever before. This book is the first place to turn for an introduction to innovative, creative, and effective management techniques developed to totally transform your non-profit organisation, reap the benefits of the quality movement that is revolutionising commercial and non-profit organisations, and make your own organisation more competitive. Learn how you can: respond to uncertainty and organisational turbulence; reduce mistakes and infuse your staff with a quality ethic; rebuild your work processes from the ground up; find and implement 'best practices' of comparable organisations.
Total Quality Management (TQM) is a set of concepts, tools and applications which has been so successful in manufacturing industry that we are now witnessing experimentation in the transference of Total Quality Management to the public sector provision of government, health and education in North America, Europe and elsewhere. TQM is starting to set a new paradigm for management approaches in the public sector and "not for profit" enterprises. All key public service managers should at least need to know the basics of TQM, its possibilities and limitations for the public sector, and particularly the types of applications which could work for them. For all public sector managers this book provides: a clear understanding of the key concepts of TQM; a critical understanding of their relevance to the public sector; empirical evidence of TQM applications in government, health and education; and exploration of the public sector TQM possibilitites yet to be realized. It draws throughout on case examples from Britain, Canada, the USA and continental Europe which illustrate the application of TQM to the public sector.
Although initially utilized in business and industrial environments, quality management systems can be adapted into higher education to assess and improve an institution’s standards. These strategies are now playing a vital role in educational areas such as teaching, learning, and institutional-level practices. However, quality management tools and models must be adapted to fit with the culture of higher education. Quality Management Implementation in Higher Education: Practices, Models, and Case Studies is a pivotal reference source that explores the challenges and solutions of designing quality management models in the current educational culture. Featuring research on topics such as Lean Six Sigma, distance education, and student supervision, this book is ideally designed for school board members, administrators, deans, policymakers, stakeholders, professors, graduate students, education professionals, and researchers seeking current research on the applications and success factors of quality management systems in various facets of higher education.
Total Quality Management (TQM) is shaping the management of the 1990s. This book is the first to present TQM concepts with social service administrators in mind. With examples drawn from public administration, gerontology, public health and non-profit-making organizations, the book provides sound background information on TQM for practitioners.
This book offers a comprehensive overview of quality and quality management. It also explores total quality management, covering its human, technological and analytical imperatives. It also examines quality systems and system standards, highlighting essential features and avoiding a reproduction of the ISO 9000 standard, as well as people-related issues in implementing a quality system. A holistic understanding of quality considerations, which now permeate every aspect of human life, should guide related policies, plans and practices. The book describes the all-pervasive characteristics of quality, putting together diverse definitions of "quality," outlining its different dimensions, and linking it with reliability and innovation. It goes on to assess the quality of measurements in terms of precision, accuracy and uncertainty and discusses managing quality with a focus on business performance. This is followed by a chapter on improving process quality, which is the summum bonum of quality management, and a chapter addressing the crucial problem of measuring customer satisfaction through appropriate models and tools. Further, it covers non-traditional subjects such as quality of life, quality of working life, quality assurance and improvement in education, with special reference to higher education, quality in research and development and characterizes the quality-related policies and practices in Indian industry. The last chapter provides a broad sketch of some recent advances in statistical methods for quality management. Along with the research community, the book’s content is also useful for practitioners and industry watchers.