Economics and Quality Multiple Choice help
Customer focus Continuous improvement and learning Tight managerial control Participation and learning |
increase the training and education that workers received separate the planning function from the execution function combine individual work tasks to promote teamwork reduce the reliance on inspectors for quality assurance |
continuous improvement systems thinking the Golden Hammer quality circle programs |
Just-in-time Production scheduling Systems view Six Sigma |
Customer focus Process approach Quality system Continual improvement |
Data driven Trial and error Customer-focused Management-by-fact |
Quality planning, quality control, and quality improvement Quality assurance, quality control, and quality costs Quality improvement, quality management, and quality control Quality control, quality management, and quality costs |
Dealing with resistance to change Identifying process gaps based on data collected Choosing an alternative that optimizes total cost Implementing remedial action |
be very short cover all facets of the market achieve actionable results address more than one issue per question |
the rationale for customer service outcomes of public relations failure opportunities for improvement a symptom of systemic defects |
JUSE alignment Hoshin planning Muri planning Jidoka planning |
suppliers; customrs doers; planners buyers; engineers planners; doers |
union relations, productivity quality, productivity planning, execution productivity, worker creativity |
Replaces trust and cooperation with the adversarial mentality. Increases employee morale and commitment to the organization. Fosters creativity and innovation, the source of competitive advantage. Allows employees to solve problems at the source immediately. |
Supervisory team Natural work team Union Stewards Quality Circles |
Adjourning Norming Storming Rewarding |
Kaizen is different than innovation. Kaizen requires substantial investment to fund cutting-edge innovation. Kaizen concentrates on small, gradual improvements over the long term. Continuous improvement is a part of the kaizen philosophy. |
customer contact market appeal customization labor intensity |
prevention cost appraisal cost internal failure cost external failure cost |
financial customer product service |
control chart fishbone diagram scatter diagram quality chart |
20.4 2.18 7.93 23.9 |
Management is responsible for the system. Day-to-day variation of a willing worker came entirely from the process itself. Special cause variation can be predicted. Numerical goals are often meaningless. |
s = 2.805; R = 7 s = 3.266; R = 9 s = 2.927; R = 8 s = 3.578; R = 9 |
Breakthrough Benchmark Poka-yoke Special cause |
half the tolerance the tolerance twice the tolerance three times the tolerance |
focusing on an early win making arguments as qualitative as possible aligning objectives with those of senior management B and C |