
Quality Management Essentials
David Hoyle(Author)
Butterworth-Heinemann (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 11. December 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
222 pages
978-0-7506-6786-9 (ISBN)
Description
From the best-selling quality management author, David Hoyle, Quality Management Essentials is the perfect brief, yet authoritative, introduction to the fundamentals of quality management.
Quality in organizations, large or small, is achieved with intelligent use of various concepts, principles, tools and techniques. For those coming to the subject for the first time, these philosophies associated with quality management can be quite overwhelming. This very readable book provides a fast track introduction and executive level appraisal of the field from a respected and experienced author.
Quality in organizations, large or small, is achieved with intelligent use of various concepts, principles, tools and techniques. For those coming to the subject for the first time, these philosophies associated with quality management can be quite overwhelming. This very readable book provides a fast track introduction and executive level appraisal of the field from a respected and experienced author.
Reviews / Votes
"Written in a simple, easy to read style, this book will appeal to those who are serious about the value-add of a quality management system. The book consists of seven sections presented in a logical and progressive order, with informative chapter summaries."Paul Harding Managing Director SAQI, e-Quality Edge South Africa
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Professional Practice & Development
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
348 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7506-6786-9 (9780750667869)
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Person
David Hoyle is an international management consultant with over 30 years' experience in quality management. He has held senior positions in quality management with British Aerospace and Ferranti International and worked with such companies as General Motors, the UK Civil Aviation Authority and Bell Atlantic on their quality improvement programmes. As well as delivering quality management and auditor training courses throughout the world, he has participated in various industry councils and committees, including the Institute of Quality Assurance.
Content
Preface; Basic concepts of Quality, Quality Management and the ISO regulatory frameworks; How we think about quality and how to achieve quality; Managing quality using ISO 9000; Managing quality in practice using the process approach; Appendices: Planning, documenting and measuring quality: QMS forms and processes; Making the Case for Quality