Total Quality Handbook - Softcover

Goetsch, David L.; Davis, Stanley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130272620 ISBN 13: 9780130272621

Publisher: Pearson, 2000

An ideal hands-on, authoritative, how-to guide for the manager, supervisor, engineer, or other individual who is, or wants to be, involved with total quality management for continual improvement of their organizations, products and services in the private or public sector. It covers the full scope and range of the subject--from its origin and history through practical day-to-day application of its philosophy and tools. Features easily followed step-by-step plans for even the most complex methodologies. Total Quality and Quality Management. Strategic Planning. Quality Culture. Customer Satisfaction. Empowerment. Leadership and Change. Team Building. Training. Quality Tools. Problem Solving and Decision Making. Statistical Process Control (SPC). Continuous Improvement. Benchmarking. Just-in-Time (JIT). For Presidents and CEOs; General Managers; Vice President/Director/Managers of Operations, Engineering, Manufacturing (or Production); Quality Assurance; Marketing and Business Development; Information Technology or Management Information Systems; Managers; Supervisors; Engineers.

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From the Inside Flap:

Preface BACKGROUND

The total-quality philosophy is an approach to doing business that focuses all of the resources of the organization on the continual improvement of both quality and competitiveness. To this end, a total-quality organization will continually, improve its processes, people, and products. This approach is an effective way and, arguably, the only way to survive and prosper in a globally competitive environment. The global business environment is like the Olympic Games in that at every meeting, the competition is better. Records set at the last Games will be broken at the current Games. Performance that is record-breaking today will be insufficient even to win tomorrow. Consequently, organizations and the people who run them need to understand the total-quality philosophy and how to use it to continually improve everything, every day, forever. WHY AND FOR WHOM THIS BOOK WAS WRITTEN

This book was written to provide a "handbook" option to complement the authors' book Quality Management: An Introduction to Total Quality Management for Production, Processing, and Services. Quality Management is a comprehensive college-level text designed for individuals majoring in quality management or quality engineering at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Total Quality Handbook, on the other hand, was written to be used in the following settings: on-site training programs in business, industry, and government; college classrooms for courses that require a less comprehensive treatment than that provided by Quality Management (e.g. quality-related courses that are electives in other majors such as engineering, business, management, or various technology programs); and on-site by managers, supervisors, engineers, and other personnel who are attempting to apply the total-quality philosophy in continually improving their organizations. ABOUT THE AUTHORS

David L. Goetsch is Provost of the joint campus of the University of West Florida and Okaloosa-Walton Community College in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. He is also president of the Development Institute (TDI), a private company dedicated to the continual improvement of quality, productivity, and competitiveness. Dr. Goetsch is co-founder of The Quality Institute, a partnership of the University of West Florida, Okaloosa-Walton Community College, and the Okaloosa Economic Development Council. He currently serves on the executive board of the Institute.

Stanley B. Davis was a manufacturing executive with Harris Corporation until his retirement in 1991. He was founding managing director of The Quality Institute and is a well-known expert in the areas of implementing total quality, statistical process control, just-in-time manufacturing, benchmarking, ISO 9000, and ISO 14000. He currently serves as professor of quality at the Institute and heads his own firm, Stan Davis Consulting.

From the Back Cover:

Total Quality Handbook provides practical, easy-to-use information for both students and practitioners in the field of quality management. Global competition and the ever-increasing expectations of customers demand that organizations improve their performance continually. This need for continual improvement is unrelenting and ongoing. Performance levels that are competitive today may not be competitive tomorrow. An organization's products, processes, people, and services must get better every day if it is going to survive and prosper in the global marketplace.

Total Quality Handbook can be used both in college classrooms and in business, industry, and government training settings. Readers will find the following features of the book helpful:

All information is presented in a practical, easily applied format with extensive use of checklists and other helpful tools.
Only the core "must-know" information about total quality is included. There is no "fluff" to sort through.
The teaching approach focuses on application. Each chapter contains practical application activities at the end.

Major topics covered are as follows: