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  1. Total Quality Management (TQM): What is TQM? | ASQ

    While many of the concepts of TQM are present in modern quality management systems, the successor to TQM, the 8 principles of TQM are so essential to its definition that, in some …

  2. Deming's 14 Points: Total Quality Management Principles | ASQ

    Deming’s 14 Points on Management, or the Deming Model of Quality Management, a core concept on implementing total quality management (TQM), is a set of management practices …

  3. ISO 9000 Series of Standards - What is ISO 9000? | ASQ

    The ISO 9000 standards series is a set of international standards on quality management and quality assurance developed to help organizations document and implement the quality …

  4. History of Quality - Quality Management History | ASQ

    The U.S. response, emphasizing not only statistics but approaches that embraced the entire organization, became known as Total Quality Management (TQM). Several other quality …

  5. What is a Quality Management System (QMS)? | ASQ

    The standard is structured around seven quality management principles. Quality management principles are the guiding beliefs that, when used for organizational decision-making, ensure …

  6. 7 Basic Quality Tools: Quality Management Tools | ASQ

    Start your quality journey by mastering the 7 Basic Tools of Quality at the world’s largest society for quality, ASQ.org.

  7. Quality Management Journal - ASQ

    New research that scientifically explores the principles of quality management is actively sought for publication by QMJ. While foremost a research journal, its articles - while grounded in …

  8. Empowerment in Total Quality: Designing and Implementing

    This new responsibility necessitates a clear understanding of what employee empowerment actually is and how it can be effectively managed. This paper provides a conceptual definition …

  9. What is Employee Empowerment? Job Involvement & Culture | ASQ

    A key principle of employee empowerment is providing employees with the means to make important decisions, spur strategic change, and then helping ensure those decisions and …

  10. Six Sigma Definition - What is Lean Six Sigma? | ASQ

    Understanding the relationship between the inputs and outputs is a key concept in Six Sigma. By controlling the inputs, you can control the outputs. For the history of where Six Sigma …