There are two main tasks assigned to quality circles: the identification of problems; and the suggestion of solutions.

质量管理小组有两个主要的任务: 找出问题; 以及提出解决问题的建议.

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training only managers to run quality circles, and not the staff in the retail outlets who were expected to participate in them;

仅仅培训管理层去组成质量管理小组， 而那些原本应该参加的零售商店的一线员工却被排斥在外；

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It was claimed at one time in the 1980s that there were as many as 10m people participating in quality circles in Japanese industry alone.

据说在1980年代的某个时候，仅在日本的企业当中，参与质量管理小组的员工就多达1千万人。

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Quality circles fell from grace as they were thought to be failing to live up to their promise.

ECONOMIST: Idea

Kaoru Ishikawa, a professor at Tokyo University who died in 1989, is attributed with much of the development of the idea of quality circles.

ECONOMIST: Idea

It was claimed at one time in the 1980s that there were as many as 10m people participating in quality circles in Japanese industry alone.

ECONOMIST: Idea