A Leader's Journey to Quality

This book deals with the "hard skills" involved in achieving leadership quality. It provides a vehicle to foster interaction of the elements of the modern approach to quality, including statistical applications, quality and reliability engineering, management, and motivational aspects.

List of contents

Introduction Part I: Leadership and the Organization 1. The Paradigm Paradox 2. The Culture Trap 3. The Work of the Leader Part II: Implementing the Vision 4. Vision—Or Just Seeing Things? 5. The Improvement-Driven Organization 6. The Continuous Improvement Model Part III: Economics of Quality 7. Inspection Efficiency—An Oxymoron? 8. Structuring Quality Costs 9. Reporting Quality Costs 10. Analyzing Quality Costs Part IV: Statistics and Other Laws of Nature 11. Statistical Thinking 12. Statistical Process Control

About the author

Dana M. Cound (Author)

Product details

• Authors: Cound, Dana M Cound, Cound Dana M.
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.11.1991
• EAN: 9780824785741
• ISBN: 978-0-8247-8574-1
• No. of pages: 208
• Weight: 453 g
• Series: Quality and Reliability
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Production & Operations Management, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Quality Control, Production & quality control management, Production and quality control management