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MT6316 LESSON 5 Flashcards

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What refers to the systematic process of regulating organizational activities to make them consistent with the expectations?

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Organizational control

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Effectively controlling an organization requires?

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information about performance standards and actual performance

actions taken to correct any deviations from the standards.

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Controlling involves ____,____, and _____ performance to accomplish an objective as it was planned

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measuring, restraining and correcting

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Controlling also involves _____ of certain elements against _______ and the _______ of various personnel in the organization

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measurement of certain elements such as time, quality, quantity and cost against standards or models

evaluation of the work or performance of various personnel in the organization

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A good control system should?

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  • be flexible so managers can respond as needed.
  • provide accurate information about the
    organization.
  • provide information in a timely manner, and
  • encourage each employee to exercise self- control.
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3 stages of control?

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Input
Conversion
Output

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What stage of control: Feedforward

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Input

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What stage of control: Anticipate problems before they occur

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Input

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What stage of control: Concurrent

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Conversion

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What stage of control: Manage problems as they occur

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Conversion

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What stage of control: Feedback control

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Output

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What stage of control: Manage problems after they have arisen

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Output

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Components of the feedback control model?

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Establish standards of performance

Measure actual performance

Compare performance to standards

Take corrective action if inadequate and do nothing/ provide reinforcement to establish strategic goals if adequate

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Involves using feedback to determine whether performance meets established standards.

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feedback control model

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Performance standard must be expressed in quantitative or qualitative terms?

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quantitative

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Address how well the work is performed and/or how accurate or how effective the final product is.

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Quality

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Addresses how quickly, when or by what date the work is produced.

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Timeliness

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Involves monitoring and influencing employee behavior through extensive use of rules, policies, hierarchy of authority,
written documentation, reward systems, and other formal mechanisms.

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Hierarchical control

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Foster compliance with organizational goals through the use of organizational culture, group norms, and a focus on goals rather than rules and procedures.

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Decentralized control

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Hierarchical or Decentralized: Basic assumption of people being incapable of self discipline and cannot be trusted, they need to be monitored and controlled closely

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Hierarchical

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Hierarchical or Decentralized: Uses detailed rules and procedures

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Hierarchical

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Hierarchical or Decentralized: Top-down authority, position power, quality control inspectors

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Hierarchical

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Hierarchical emphasizes on what kind of rewards?

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Extrinsic

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Hierarchical or Decentralized: Features rigid organization culture, distrust of cultural normals and means of control

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Hierarchical

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Hierarchical or Decentralized: Employees following instructions and do just what they are told

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Hierarchical

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Hierarchical or Decentralized: Employees absenteeism and turnover is high

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Hierarchical

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Hierarchical or Decentralized: Basic assumption is that people work best when they are fully committed

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Decentralized

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Hierarchical or Decentralized: Limited use of rules, relies on values, group and self control, selection and socialization

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Decentralized

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Hierarchical or Decentralized: Result-based job descriptions, emphasizes on goals to be achieved

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Decentralized

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Decentralized control emphasizes on what kind of rewards?

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Extrinsic and Instrinsic

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Hierarchical or Decentralized: Adaptive culture recognized as a means for uniting individuals, team, and organizational foals for overall control

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Decentralized

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Hierarchical or Decentralized: Employees take initiative and seek responsibility

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Decentralized

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Hierarchical or Decentralized: Employees actively engage and commit to their work

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Decentralized

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Hierarchical or Decentralized: Turnover is low

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Decentralized

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Hierarchical or Decentralized: Total Quality Management

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Decentralized

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The TQM philosophy focuses on?

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teamwork, increasing customer satisfaction, and lowering costs.

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Organizations implement TQM by?

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encouraging managers and employees to collaborate to identify areas for improvement

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______ becomes part of the day-to-day business of every employee rather than being assigned to specialized departments.

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Quality control

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Include groups of six to 12 volunteer employees who meet regularly to discuss and solve problems affecting the quality of their work.

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Quality circles

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Continuous process of measuring products, services, and practices against major competitors or industry leaders

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Benchmarking

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Quality control approach that emphasizes a relentless pursuit of higher quality and lower costs.

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Six Sigma

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Involves assigning dedicated personnel within a particular functional area of the business to identify opportunities for improvement throughout the work process.

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Quality partnering

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Implementation of a large number of small, incremental improvements in all areas of the organization on an ongoing basis.

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Continuous improvement, or kaizen

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What are the different TQM Techniques?

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Quality circles
Benchmarking
Six Sigma
Quality partnering
Continuous improvement

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Steps of THE SIX SIGMA CONCEPT?

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  1. Define
  2. Measure
  3. Analyze
  4. Improve
  5. Control
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What step of six sigma: Quality variables valued by the customer are measured, and goals are set for improvement.

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Measure

47
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What step of six sigma: The root causes of the current defect levels are identified, and alternatives are considered for process changes.

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Analyze

48
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What step of six sigma: The process is changed and checked for improvement.

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Improve

49
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What step of six sigma: This step uses a control chart or measurements to ensure that the process improvement is not lost over time.

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Control

50
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What step of six sigma: The process is selected for improvement, and the project charter is specified.

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Define

51
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Once a process is selected for improvement, what is formed and why?

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a cross-functional team

since most processes cut across functional lines.

52
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Who is chosen to lead the improvement team?

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A full-time trained process improvement specialist, usually called a “black-belt”

53
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Lean or Six Sigma: Understand process flow and eliminate waste

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Lean

54
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Lean or Six Sigma: Primarily high volume processes

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Lean

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Lean or Six Sigma: Basic principles and “cookbook” style implementation based on accepted practices

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Lean

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Lean or Six Sigma: Driven by local supervisor

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Lean

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Lean or Six Sigma: Usually about 1 week - 2 months

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Lean

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Lean or Six Sigma: Mostly ad-hoc, minimal formal training

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Lean

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Lean or Six Sigma: Learning by doing

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Lean

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Lean or Six Sigma: Improve process capability and eliminate/minimize variation

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Six sigma

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Lean or Six Sigma: Any business processes

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Six sigma

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Lean or Six Sigma: Well understood problem-solving approach relying on statistics

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Six sigma

63
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Lean or Six Sigma: BPM and gap analysis

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Six sigma

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Lean or Six Sigma: Usually about 2-6 months

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Six sigma

65
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Lean or Six Sigma: Dedicated resources, broad-based training

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Six sigma

66
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Lean or Six Sigma: Learning by classroom and doing

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Six sigma

67
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7 Quality Control Tools for Continuous Improvement?

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Flow chart
Fishbone diagram
Check sheet
Histogram
Pareto Chart
Scatter diagram
Control chart

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What QC tool: Describe the flow of work and the relationships among steps in the process, and reveal any unnecessary steps and waste that can be eliminated

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Flowcharts

69
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What QC tool: Identify possible problems that need to be investigated via further data collection and analysis

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Flowcharts

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What QC tool: Shows the relationship of factors and variables that might have led to the occurrence of issues

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Cause-and-effect (CE) diagram

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What QC tool: Identifies the problem itself, the effect, which is placed on the right side of the diagram

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Cause-and-effect (CE) diagram

72
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What QC tool: Fleshes out the various potential causes of the problem that are shown along the spine of the diagram and categorized

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Cause-and-effect (CE) diagram

73
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What QC tool: Shows an appearance of a diagram that suggests a fishbone analogy

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Cause-and-effect (CE) diagram

74
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What QC tool: Data collection done, which are put in a tabular list representing collected data about the process

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Check sheets

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What QC tool: Contain critical process measurements taken at periodic intervals during the day and tabulated by the time taken

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Check sheets

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What QC tool: Used to tabulate the frequency of certain defects or other quality-related events

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Check sheets

77
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What QC Tool: Show the relationship between two variables

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Scatter diagrams

78
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In a scatter diagram, if a particular cause and effect are suspected to be related, the relationship
will be apparent as?

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a linear or curved pattern on the scatter diagram

79
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Once improvements have been made, the new process should be _________ by using a _________.

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stabilized to hold the gains

new control chart.

80
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T or F: The original control chart from before process improvement, will still be appropriate following the improvements.

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F, no longer appropriate

81
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What QC tool: Frequency count using data from the check sheet to show the form and shape of the distribution of the data

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Histogram

82
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What do histograms indicate?

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indicates that some data points are outliers, odd shapes to the distribution that indicate skewness or more than one mode or peak in the distribution

83
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What QC tool: Constructed to show the most important problems

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Pareto diagram

84
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Who created Pareto diagram?

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Vilfredo Pareto

85
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What did Vilfredo Pareto observe?

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few items in any population constitute a significant percentage of the entire group

86
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What is in Pareto’s law?

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a few of the failure modes account for most of the observed
defects.

87
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What is included in the cost of quality?

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prevention, appraisal, internal failure, and external failure categories.

88
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T or F: Prevention, appraisal, internal failure, and external failure categories are all costs of not doing things right the first time.

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F, everything except prevention

89
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T or F: When a cost is assigned to poor quality, it can be managed and controlled like any other cost.

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T

90
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One of the most commonly used forms of managerial control

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Budgetary control

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Budgetary control is a process of?

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setting targets for an organization’s expenditures, monitoring results and comparing them to the budget, and making changes

92
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Reports that list planned and actual expenditures for cash, assets, raw materials, salaries, and other resources

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budgets

93
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T or F: There is only one budget for the whole organization

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F, it is created for every division or department within an organization,

94
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Budget reports usually list the variance between?

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the budgeted and actual amounts for each item.

95
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Defined as any organizational department or unit under
the supervision of a single person who is responsible for its activity.

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A responsibility center

96
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Outlines the anticipated and actual expenses for a responsibility center.

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expense budget

97
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Lists forecasted and actual revenues of the organization

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revenue budget

98
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Estimates receipts and expenditures of money on a daily or weekly basis to ensure that an organization has sufficient cash to meet its obligations

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cash budget

99
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A budget that plans and reports investments in major assets to be depreciated over several years

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capital budget

100
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Has been expanded to refer to the framework of systems, rules, and practices by which an organization ensures accountability, fairness, and transparency in its relationships with all stakeholders

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Corporate governance

101
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Comprehensive management control system that balances traditional financial measures with measures of customer service, internal business processes, and the organization’s capacity for learning and growth.

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A balanced scorecard

102
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What THE FOUR PERSPECTIVES IN A BALANCED SCORE CARD?

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Financial performance
Customer service
Internal business processes
Potential for learning and growth

103
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Reflects a concern that the organization’s activities contribute to improving short- and long-term financial performance

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Financial performance

104
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Includes traditional measures such as net income and return on investment.

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Financial performance

105
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How customers view the organization and customer retention and satisfaction

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Customer service

106
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Data may be collected in many forms, including testimonials from customers describing superlative service or from customer surveys.

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Customer service

107
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What does Internal business processes focus on?

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production and operating statistics

108
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For clinical laboratories, business process indicators may include?

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fast turn-around-time in releasing results, use of fully-automated systems to accommodate high-volume samples, and adherence to safety guidelines.

109
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Focusing on how well resources and human capital are being managed for the company’s future

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Potential for learning and growth

110
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In Potential for learning and growth, metrics may include?

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employee retention and the introduction of new products.

111
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Who records, analyzes, and discusses these various metrics to determine how well the organization is achieving its strategic goals?

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Managers

112
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The balanced scorecard is an effective tool for?

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managing and improving performance only if it is clearly linked to a well-defined organizational strategy and goals.

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