Quality Managemnt Flashcards

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Quality

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Meet or exceed the requirements of customers

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Why is quality management important

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Ethical consequences
Branding
Competitiveness
Costs

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Why is ethicality a part of why quality management is important

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Providing customers with a certain standard of service

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What does costs have to do with importance of quality management

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Quality management effects the costs. When business makes mistakes or makes bad products, the business has essentially wasted the resources and time of employees by making a product that is not fit for purpose of doesn’t mean satisfaction of customers. Poor quality costs the business money. Improve efficiency

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Price

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Quality effects prices a company are able to charge. If quality is bad in organisation, more resources are needed to reach level of output and satisfaction, this will raise price so company will have to command a higher selling price to be able to cover costs. Can damage competitiveness

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Competitiveness

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Helps business remain competitive. Better quality would satisfy customers. Bad quality would cause customers to go to competitors. Thus would damage sales volume and market share

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Techniques to ensure quality

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Quality assurance
Quality control
Total quality ,management

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Quality assurance

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Tries to prevent any defects

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Quality control

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Spot defects and rooting them so bad quality products aren’t sent out for consumers

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Total quality management

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Strives to produce products with zero defects. Make every employee in organisation be involved with the quality process which makes every employee accountable for the quality of the product they produce. More efficient way of controlling quality

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