Search results for "quality management"
showing 10 items of 162 documents
Parameter uncertainty analysis of water quality model for small river
2009
TESF Methodology for Statistics Education Improvement
2010
The need for universities to achieve excellence in the services they provide has been the subject of research for several decades. The idea of involving students and recognizing the importance of their opinions has led to the creation of various models and tools. This paper focuses on teaching, a central service from which improvement actions of an academic institution should always begin. The article reviews and updates the previously developed Teaching Experiments and Student Feedback methodology. The methodology, which is primarily addressed to statistics teachers, allows practical aspects to be organized and decisions to be made based on data that has been collected from students and sc…
Implementation of Quality Management System ISO 9001 in the World and Its Strategic Necessity
2012
AbstractOver past 60 years quality management has shown it's importance in increasing competitiveness of companies and economies. The aim of this paper is to review implementation process of the most popular and effective quality management system ISO 9001 in the world and identify it's strategic necessity. This paper is divided into three parts. In the first part author introduces quality management as important part of economies competitiveness thru Global Competitiveness report. In the second part author examines benefits and strategic importance of quality management systems from perspectives of company. And in the third part author views a situation of ISO 9001 quality management syste…
The views of employers on internships as a means of learning from work experience in higher education
2011
This article examines internships as part of the apprenticeship model of learning adopted in higher education. We focus on employers’ views on internships, which have hitherto received only limited...
LATVIAN POPULATION HEALTH QUALITY APPROXIMATION TO THE EU LEVEL- ONE OF THE CHALLENGES FOR PERSISTENT EU ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
2012
With the admission of Latvia in constitution of EU, issues related to the harmonization of Latvian national economy development characterizing indexes with the average EU indexes, thus conducting the economic development of all member countries in compliance with agreed strategic setup, became topical. Since one of the fundamental principles of EU economic development is stimulation of sustainable development of national economy, the improvement of Latvian population health quality indexes approximating those to the average indexes of EU countries, is one of the substantial strategic goals which is defined in several long-term development planning documents. The goal of the research is to e…
TQM and Teamwork Effectiveness: The Intermediate Role of Organizational Design
2008
A quantitative study conducted in an engineering firm developing advanced total quality management practices examines how design variables help improve team effectiveness. Results show that this management philosophy has created a set of values that ha..
2018
This study utilises the quality audit reports of Finnish Universities of Applied Sciences to describe the quality management of their research, development and innovation activities (RDI). The inst...
Separate and combined sewer systems: a long-term modelling approach
2009
Sewer systems convey mostly dry weather flow, coming from domestic and industrial sanitary sewage as well as infiltration flow, and stormwater due to meteoric precipitations. Traditionally, in urban drainage two types of sewer systems are adopted: separate and combined sewers. The former convey dry and wet weather flow separately into two different networks, while the latter convey dry and wet weather flow together. Which is the best solution in terms of cost-benefit analysis still remains a controversial subject. The present study was aimed at comparing the pollution loads discharged to receiving bodies by Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) and Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) for different ki…
Sustainable Manufacturing as Mutual Competence Building
2015
In this chapter, Sustainable Manufacturing as MCB, Halvor Holtskog, Richard Ennals, and Hans Chr Garmann Johnsen argue how sustainable manufacturing can be seen as combining the traditional manufacturing management perspective with organisational development and participatory perspectives. The definition of Sustainable Business Systems is different from other uses of sustainability. The chapter tries to link arguments for business and for education. Arguably Working Life Research has an integrative role. One might ask: how can universities be seen as sustainable work systems, and how can they develop an account of empowerment?