Home > Courses > Management > MGT510

MGT510 : Total Quality Management (alt. code=MGMT510)

Course Overview

Course Synopsis

The aim of Total Quality Management is to define all aspects of quality, and to explain its importance in organizations. It details the key components of quality management and its relevance to organizations producing goods and services. It focuses on the different views of quality and stands for some of the latest ways in which organization can incorporate quality to its goods and services. It helps the organization regardless of its size and business nature within its domain.

Course Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course, you should be able to:

  • Explain quality from a management point of view.
  • Know how to implement and manage quality programs in your own environment.
  • Appreciate the necessity for a quality focus for the successful performance of modern organizations.
  • Describe that implementing a quality program must include the process of continuous improvement and life long learning.
  • Appreciate how your own specialist areas are able to and are required to contribute to the quality management processes in an organization, may it be manufacturing, services, government, education, healthcare or an NGO.


Course Calendar

1 Why Focus on Quality?
2 Total Quality Management, Total Organization Excellence and Systems Thinking
3 Integrating People and Processes for Performance
4 RATER for Products, Services and Artifacts. Fundamentals of Total Quality
5 Total Quality Management and Global Competitive Advantage
6 Bringing Quality through Discussions and Meetings about Planning for Quality
7 Leaders in Quality Revolution and Defining Quality
8 Taguchi Loss Function and Quality
9 WTO, Shifting Focus of Corporate Culture and Organizational Models
GDB
10 Historical View and Paradigms of Quality. Philosophies of Crosby, Juran, Ishikawa &Taguchi
11 Deming Chain Reaction, Quality and Productivity and SIPOC Model of Quality
12 Evolution of Quality Management and Hierarchy of Q
13 Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge
Quiz 01
14 14 Points of Deming Philosophy
15 Deming Cycle and The Juran Quality Trilogy
16 Juran and Crosby on Quality. Quality is Free
Quiz 02
17 Crosby’s Costs of Quality
18 Costs of Quality and Return on Quality
19 Overview of Total Quality Approaches
Assignment
20 Business Excellence Models. BQA, EFQM(EQA) and International ISO-9000 QMS
21 Designing Organizations for Quality. ISO 9001(2000) and ISO 9004(2000), a Consistent Pair
22 Developing ISO 9001(2000) QMS for Q Certification:ISO-9001 QMS Documentation @ Clause No.4
23 ISO-9001(2000) QMS: Clause #5 Management Responsibility
24 ISO-9001(2000) QMS: Clause #6 Resources Management
25 ISO-9001(2000) QMS: Clause #7 Product Realization and Customer Related Processes
26 ISO-9001(2000) QMS: Clause #7 Control of Production and Services
27 ISO-9001(2000) QMS: Clause # 8 Measurement, Analysis and Improvement
28 Preventive and Corrective Actions. Quality in IT Softwares and CMMI Levels of Maturity
29 Benefits and Barriers in Installing ISO-9001 QMS
30 Creating Business Excellence in Pakistani Organizations
31 Control Mechanisms for Creating Quality at Strategic , Tactical and Operational Levels
Quiz 03
32 Big Q and Small q . Leadership for Quality
33 Strategic Planning for Quality and New Management Advanced Quality Planning Tools.
34 Hoshin Kanri and Policy Deployment. Balance Scorecards
35 QFD and other Improvement Tools. Implementing a TQ Strategy
36 Basic SQC improvement Tools
37 How is TQ being Implemented? A Dialogue with a Multinational Manufacturing Company Quality
38 Cause and Effect Model and Run Charts for Quality Improvement
39 Understanding SPC for Continual Quality Improvement
40 SPC with Examples
41 Statistical Thinking for Process Improvement to bring Quality in Products and Services
42 An Interview of the CEO, Head IT, HR, and Quality Engineering of a CMMI Level 5 Pakistan
43 Importance of Teamwork Culture for TQM
44 Understanding Empowerment for TQM. Focusing on Customer Suppliers Relationships
45 Innovation, Knowledge Management and Learning Organization