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1. Importance of Quality/TQM - Correct Answer: Helps firms increases sales and reduce
costs
Supports differentiation low cost and response strategies
Building a quality organization is a demanding task
2. 2 ways quality improves profitability - Correct Answer: 1. Sales Gains: Improved
response, Flexible Pricing, Improved reputation
2. Reduced Cost: Increased productivity, lower rework costs, lower warranty costs
3. The flow of activities to achieve TQM - Correct Answer: Organizational Practices
Quality Principles
Employee Fulfillment
Customer Satisfaction
4. organizational pracitices - Correct Answer: leadership, mission statement, effective
operating procedures, staff support, and training
Yields; what is important and what to be accomplished
,5. quality principles - Correct Answer: -Customer focus, Continuous improvement,
Benchmarking, Just-in-time, Tools of TQM
-Yields: How to do what is important and to be accomplished.
6. employee fufillment - Correct Answer: empowerment, organization commitment
yield: employee attitude that can accomplish whats important
7. customer satisfaction - Correct Answer: winning orders, repeat customer
Yields: effective organization with competitive advantage
8. operation managers objective - Correct Answer: build a total quality management system
that identifies and satisfies customer needs
9. 3 Views of Quality - Correct Answer: user-based, manufacturing-based, and product-
based
10. User-based - Correct Answer: better performance, more features
11. product based - Correct Answer: specific and measurable attributes of the product
12. manufacturing based - Correct Answer: conformance to standards, making it right the
first time
13. Implications of Quality - Correct Answer: 1. Company reputation: perception of new
products
2. Product liability: reduce risk
3. Global implications: improved ability to compete
, 14. 4 costs of quality - Correct Answer: 1. prevention costs
2. appraisal costs
3. internal failure costs
4. external failure costs
15. Prevention Costs - Correct Answer: reducing the potential for defects and traning
quality improvement programs
16. appraisal costs - Correct Answer: evaluating products, parts, and services
17. internal failure costs - Correct Answer: producing defective parts or service before
delivery
18. external failure costs - Correct Answer: defects discovered after delivery
19. takumi - Correct Answer: A Japanese character that symbolizes a broader dimension
than quality, a deeper process than education, and a more perfect method than persistence
20. ethics and quality management - Correct Answer: OM must deliver healthy safe quality
products
ethical conduct must dictate response to problems
21. ISO 9000 series - Correct Answer: international standards on quality management
developed to help companies effectively document quality system elements needed to maintain
efficient quality system