Managing for Quality and Performance Excellence
Managing for Quality and Performance Excellence

Managing for Quality and Performance Excellence


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Evans' MANAGING FOR QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE EXCELLENCE, 12th EDITION, presents the latest developments in the field as students examine fundamental principles, historical underpinnings of total quality, and quantitative methods and applications, all with a strong focus on Six Sigma and the Malcolm Baldrige framework for performance excellence. Using numerous examples and illustrations of quality management approaches in real organizations, review and discussion questions, cases and experiential projects, it provides a comprehensive foundation for understanding quality management.

Table of Contents:
Part I: PRINCIPLES OF QUALITY MANAGEMENT. 1. Introduction to Quality. 2. Foundations of Quality Management. 3. Customer Focus. 4. Workforce Focus. 5. Process Focus. Part II: TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES FOR QUALITY. 6. Statistical Methods in Quality Management. 7. Design for Quality and Product Excellence. 8. Measuring and Controlling Quality. 9. Problem Solving and Quality Improvement. 10. Six Sigma: Concepts and Implementation. Part III: BEYOND QUALITY MANAGEMENT: MANAGING FOR PERFORMANCE EXCELLENCE. 11. The Baldrige Framework for Performance Excellence. 12. Strategy and Performance Excellence. 13. Measurement and Knowledge Management for Performance Excellence. 14. Leadership for Performance Excellence. 15. Building and Sustaining Quality and Performance Excellence. Appendices.

About the Author :
James R. Evans is professor emeritus of operations, business analytics and information systems in the Lindner College of Business at the University of Cincinnati, having retired after over 43 years on the faculty. He holds BSIE and MSIE degrees from Purdue University and a doctoral degree in industrial and systems engineering from Georgia Tech. He has been involved in numerous professional societies throughout his career and he served as president of the Decision Sciences Institute from 1997-1998. He also served 11 years on the Board of Examiners and Panel of Judges for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, and was active in the Partnership for Excellence, the Ohio-based Baldrige initiative. He has been the editor of the Quality Management Journal, published by the American Society for Quality, and served on editorial boards of numerous other journals. Dr. Evans has published 100 refereed papers in major academic journals and more than 50 editions of 20 textbooks in diverse areas of business including quality management, Six Sigma, simulation and risk analysis and business analytics. During the annual Quality Congress in May 2004, the American Society for Quality presented Dr. Evans and coauthor Dr. William Lindsay with the Philip B. Crosby Medal for writing The Management and Control of Quality, 5th Edition. The Crosby medal was presented “for authoring a distinguished book contributing significantly to the extension of the philosophy and application of the principles, methods, and techniques of quality management.” He also received the 2018 Lindner Research Excellence Award from the College of Business at the University of Cincinnati and the 2019 Baldrige Foundation Leadership Award for Excellence in Education.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780357984789
  • Publisher: Cengage Learning, Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: South-Western College Publishing
  • Height: 30 mm
  • No of Pages: 800
  • Spine Width: 254 mm
  • Width: 203 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0357984781
  • Publisher Date: 01 Mar 2024
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 1428 gr


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