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INSTITUTE OF LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT
SUPERSERIES
Understanding
Quality
FOURTH EDITION
The views expressed in this work are those of the authors and do
not necessarily reflect those of the Institute of Leadership &
Management or of the publisher
Workbook introduction v
1 ILM Super Series study links v
2 Links to ILM qualifications v
3 Links to S/NVQs in Management vi
4 Workbook objectives vi
5 Activity planner viii
iii
Contents
3 Working as a team 58
4 Getting your team to work for quality 62
5 Zero defects programmes 72
6 Summary 75
Performance checks 77
1 Quick quiz 77
2 Workbook assessment 79
3 Work-based assignment 80
iv
Workbook
introduction
This workbook addresses the issues of Understanding Quality. Should you wish
to extend your study to other Super Series workbooks covering related or
different subject areas, you will find a comprehensive list at the back of this
book.
v
Workbook introduction
䊏 building teams;
䊏 communicating;
䊏 focusing on results;
䊏 thinking and taking decisions.
4 Workbook objectives
‘In general use, we tend to speak of high quality as being superior
to low quality. In so doing, we imply that some attribute, such as
designed life, has a higher value to us. A pair of shoes is, in these
terms, of high quality if it gives five years’ wear instead of two. Yet,
what of the people who do not want shoes to last five years? To
these customers, fitting the fashion may rank more highly than
fitting the foot! In short, they prefer a different combination of
attributes. Clearly, in any product, there are many. Customers
search for those that most closely fit what they want.’
John Naylor (1995), Operations Management, Pitman.
vi
Workbook introduction
The customer comes first, second and third, so far as quality is concerned;
this is one of the themes of this workbook.
There are three sessions. Session A deals with definitions, and looks at various
aspects of the subject: design quality and process quality; quality systems; the
benefits and the beneficiaries; costs; reliability; and accreditation against
standards.
Session B is all about total quality management: what it is, and its main
components, which are total commitment, a focus on the customer,
continuous improvement and teamwork.
4.1 Objectives
When you have completed this workbook you will be better able to:
vii
Workbook introduction
5 Activity planner
You may want to look at the following Activities now so that you can make
prior arrangements.
Activity 22. Here you are being asked to give an example of a particular
quality goal and how you set about achieving it.
Activity 23. Invites you to consider communication with your team.
Activity 24. Here you are being asked to give an example of a
recommendation you have made, or intend to make, regarding improve-
ments to quality.
Some or all of these Activities may provide the basis of evidence for your
S/NVQ portfolio. All Portfolio Activities and the Work-based assignment are
signposted with this icon.
The icon states the elements to which the Portfolio Activities and Work-
based assignment relate.
viii
Session A
Quality and customers
1 Introduction
What is quality?
Is quality the same as excellence, and if so, how do we know when something
is excellent? What makes one thing of higher quality than another? Why is
quality important: what benefits does it bring? Should you expect to pay more
for quality goods and services? What is ISO 9000?
By the time you have finished reading this session, the answers to these and
other related questions should become clearer. We start by establishing
definitions, because quality is one of those words that is much used and little
understood.
‘Rule number 1: the
customer is always
right. Rule number 2: Assuming we know what quality is, how can we ensure that we deliver it? To
if the customer is achieve this, any supplier organization has to find out, firstly, what the
wrong, see rule
customer wants, so that goods or services can be designed to meet those
number 1.’ – Dennis F.
Kehoe, The wants. The organization’s customer is the one who ultimately makes all the
Fundamentals of Quality decisions about quality, and sets all the standards. That’s an important lesson
Management, Chapman to learn: whenever we consider quality, our main focus has to be on the
and Hall.
customer.
The second step for the supplier is to ensure that the product or service
conforms with the agreed design. In addition, so as to ensure that the
required level of quality is delivered to the customer, the organization has to
set up a system of quality management, which includes quality assurance and
quality control.
1
Session A
2 Defining quality
You may well already have your own views about quality: what it is and how
to achieve it. Let’s start by seeing how far we agree.
3 mins
Activity 1
Define the word ‘quality’ in your own words. Think about your own job and
organization as you answer this. What do you mean when you talk about
‘quality’ at work?
2
Session A
Perhaps you worded your definition something along these lines, or said that
quality means ‘doing things right first time’ or ‘delivering goods or services of
the highest standard’. You may even have quoted the words in the workbook
introduction, and said that quality is whatever the customer wants it to
mean.
We will be discussing the ISO 9000 family of standards in more detail later in
this book.
3 mins
Activity 2
Read the ISO 9000:2000 definition again. An ‘obligatory’ need is most usually
one required by law, but whose ‘stated’ or ‘generally implied’ needs do you
think are to be fulfilled?
3
Session A
The customer is not The simplest and best answer to this question is ‘the customers’ needs’.
always the same as the Customers are the people who buy or use the goods or services provided by
‘user’ or ‘consumer’.
an organization.
For example, if you
buy your dog a tin of
pet food, you are the Every organization has customers. Where products or services are bought
customer, and the dog and sold, the customer makes the purchase, and is easily identified. In other
is the consumer.
kinds of organization, different words such as ‘client’, ‘patient’, ‘tenant’ or
‘pupil’ may be used instead of ‘customer’, but the result is the same. In general,
the customer pays the bill, either directly or indirectly; and customers are the
only reason that an organization exists.
This implies that organizations have mechanisms that can establish what the
customer wants or expects, and whether or not the customer is getting it.
(We mustn’t forget that there are customers inside the organization, too.
That’s a topic we’ll look at in the next session.)
But what does the customer want or expect? What do you, as a customer,
want or expect when you buy something?
4
Session A
4 mins
Activity 3
If you go into a shop to buy something, say a new coat, which of the following
would you think of as being to do with the quality of the article?
Relevant to quality?
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