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Eight Principles of Quality

Management
September 2024
PRINCIPLE 1
Customer Focus
Organizations depend on their customer and therefore should
understand the current and future customer needs, should
meet requirements and strive exceed customer expectations.

You: It’s all about her


• Researching and understanding customer needs and expectations.
• Ensuring the objectives of the organization are linked to customer
needs and expectations
• Communicating customer needs and expectations throughout the
organization.
• Measuring customer satisfaction and acting on the results.
• Systematically managing customer relationships
• Ensuring a balanced approach between satisfying customers and
other interested parties (such as owners, employees, supplier,
financiers, local communities and society as a whole).
PRINCIPLE 2
Leadership
Leaders establish unity of purpose and direction of the
organization. They should create and maintain the internal
environment in which people can overcome fully involved in
achieving the organization’s objective.

You: LEAD! (understand the meaning of quality


• Considering the needs of all interested parties including customers,
owners, employees, suppliers, financiers, local communities and
society as a whole.
• Establishing the clear vision of he organization’s future.
• Setting challenging goals and targets
• Creating and sustaining shared values, fairness and ethical role
models at all levels of the organization.
• Establishing trust and eliminating fear
• Providing people with the required resources, training and freedom
to act with responsibility
• Inspiring, encouraging and recognizing people’s contribution.
PRINCIPLE 3
Involvement of People
People at all levels are the essence of an
organization and their full involvement enables
their abilities to be used for the organization’s
benefit.

You: Ask your parents, in-laws, her friends


Her children for help
People:
• Understanding the importance of their contribution and role in
organization.
• Identifying constraints to their performance.
• Accepting ownership of problems and their responsibility for
solving them.
• Evaluating their performance against their personal goals and
objectives.
• Actively seeking opportunities to enhance their competence,
knowledge and experience.
• Freely sharing knowledge and experience People openly discussing
problems and issues.
PRINCIPLE 4
Process Approach
A desired result is achieved more efficiently when activities and
related resources are done.
Process:
• Systematically defining the activities necessary to obtain a desired
result
• Establishing clear responsibility and accountability for managing
key activities.
• Analyzing and measuring of the capability of key activities
• Identifying the interfaces of key activities within and between the
functions of the organization
• Focusing on the factors- such as resources, methods and material
that will improve key activities of the organization
• Evaluating risks, consequences and impacts of activities, suppliers
and other interested parties.
PRINCIPLE 5
System Approach to management
Identifying, understanding and managing interrelated processes
as a system contributes to the organization’s effectiveness and
efficiency in an organization.
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You: Measure her satisfaction.


Understand the interactions..
Process:
• Structuring a system to achieve the organization’s objectives in the most
effective and efficient way
• Understanding the interdependences between the process of the system
• Structured approaches that harmonize and integrate processes
• Providing a better understanding of the roles and responsibilities
necessary for achieving common objectives and thereby reducing cross-
functional barriers
• Understanding organizational capabilities and establishing resource
constraints prior to action
• Targeting and defining specific activities within a system should operate
• Continually improving the system through measurement and evaluation
PRINCIPLE 6
Continual Improvement
Continual improvement of the organization’s overall
performance should be a permanent objective of the
organization. Why?
Be better
next time!
• Employing a consistent organization-wide approach to continual
improvement of the organization’s performance.
• Providing people with training in the methods and tools of continual
improvement
• Making continual improvement of products, processes and systems an
objective for every individual in the organization
• Establishing goals to guide, and measures to track, continual
improvement
• Recognizing and acknowledging improvements.
PRINCIPLE 7
Factual approach to decision making
Effective decisions are based on the analysis of data and
information.

Truthful;
don’t lie
• Ensuring that data and information are sufficiently accurate and reliable

• Making data accessible to those who need it.

• Analyzing data and information using valid methods

• Making decisions and taking action based on factual analysis, balanced


with experience and intuition.
PRINCIPLE 8
Mutual beneficial supplier relationships
An organization and its suppliers are interdependent
What do
and mutually beneficial relationship enhances the they want?

ability of both to create value.

You: Think about the in-laws and


their relatives
• Establishing relationships that balance short term gains with long
term considerations
• Pooling of expertise and resources with partners
• Identifying and selecting key suppliers
• Clear and open communication
• Sharing information and future plans
• Establishing joint development and improvement activities
• Inspiring, encouraging and recognizing improvements and
achievements by supplier.

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