They concern management practices that at some point emerge and become popular, such as the old Total Quality Management, ISO9000 system or SixSigma.
Total Quality Management (TQM, ) Continuous Improvement (CI, ) and Six Sigma programs all have been glorified by companies hoping to improve product or service quality.
The journey might begin to look a lot like Hoshin-Kanri planning, which is a planning approach originating from the Total Quality Management movement.
The former boss of Coca-Cola's Mexican operation, whose 58th birthday fell on election day, talks of infusing government with total quality management and tracking it with performance indicators.
Even Joseph Juran, one of the two American post-war germinators of the quality idea (the other was W. Edwards Deming), considered that quality circles were pretty useless if the company's management was not trained in the more general principles of total quality management.
In Bali, we faced a real challenge with instilling an attitude of employee empowerment, essential in our total-quality approach to business.
Yet the real reason for fading fads is not that executives have built into their everyday activities such now-familiar ideas as core competences and total-quality management.
This study, published in Personnel Psychology, compares two groups of activities that aim to increase company productivity: those related to human resources, such as training and teamwork, and those related to operational management, such as just-in-time production and total-quality management.
Just take a look at what happened to the SPDR Barclays High Yield bond ETF ( JNK) compared to the high-quality Vanguard Total Bond ETF ( BND) during the heart of the last recession.
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The opportunity was prompted by what I had noted in this sector- a total lack of professionalism, quality and services that customers really yearned for.
Because that time is spent in total stress, the amount and the quality they actually do contribute once arriving at the work site, suffers tremendously because most employees feel that they have already put in a full work day just by commuting to work.
Overall, the company placed three winners of segment quality awards, out of a total of 22 segments, tying a few other OEMs for the most awards.
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On the other side of the fund quality spectrum, IFPUX has attractive total annual costs of only 0.97% and allocates over 52% of its assets to attractive-or-better rated stocks.
In regards to leverage, Basel III introduced a minimum 3% leverage ratio and two required liquidity ratios: (1) the Liquidity Coverage Ratio, which requires a bank to hold high-quality liquid assets to cover its total net cash outflows over 30 days, and (2) the Net Stable Funding Ratio, which requires the available amount of stable funding to exceed the required amount of stable funding over a one-year period of extended stress.
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Wednesday's first women's quarter-final saw a total of 110 unforced errors and was a low quality match for the most part, with Li in particular struggling for the best part of two sets.
As FORBES has pointed out, this depressed the total salary expense line in the income statement, further diminishing the quality of reported earnings.
We have compared the total landed cost to Chicago of labor, transportation, taxes, quality and inventory carrying costs for outsourced manufacturing in 4 countries: U.S., China, Cambodia and Brazil.
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As FORBES GLOBAL has pointed out (see "Stock options are not a free lunch, " May 18), this depressed the total salary expense line in the income statement, further diminishing the quality of reported earnings.
Like Treasury securities, issues without the pristine credit quality of Uncle Sam have also notched stock market-beating total returns.
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The Olympus PEN E-PL5 and PEN E-PM2 deliver amazing image quality by packing superior image technology, blazing fast processing speed and total creative control in classic bodies that combine the portability and ease of use of a point-and-shoot without the complexity of a DSLR.
The PIMCO Total Return Exchange-Traded Fund (BOND) is a diversified portfolio of high quality bonds that is actively managed in an effort to maximize return in a risk-controlled framework.
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In addition, Panasonic's commitment to quality-at both the component and finished goods level-results in a total of more than 500 checks and tests during and after production.
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