List of national quality awards
This article is a list of national quality awards.
Background
A national quality award is typically part of a larger effort by a government to make its country's businesses more competitive in the world economy.[1] The awarding institutions are generally either government departments or ministries[lower-alpha 1] or not-for-profit organizations with government ties.[lower-alpha 2] In many countries, however, the awarding institutions are consortia of businesses.[lower-alpha 3] Candidate companies compete in award-specific assessments of business quality and excellence criteria.[2] The assessments are annual and firms who wish to be considered for the awards file applications with the organization that conducts the competition in their home country. Competitors are evaluated by teams of examiners who are volunteers in Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States, and possibly elsewhere. Several examiners separately evaluate company submissions against award criteria after which they meet to discuss their findings and to agree on a consensus score. The highest scoring firms advance to the next phase where examiners perform site visits to compare actual practices against those reported in the company submission and finally, awards are given to companies whose practices best fulfill the criteria of the award models.[3]
While each nation's awards programs only consider businesses within its national borders, there are two notable exceptions: The EFQM Excellence Award is a transnational award open to businesses operating in one or more European countries and the Deming Prize, which began as the Japan Quality Medal, became the first (and as of 2014 the only) global quality award in 1984.[4]
The most widely-recognized quality awards are the Deming Prize (the first of its kind) and the EFQM Excellence and Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Awards (due to their size).[5][6] The national quality award phenomenon grew out of the Total Quality Management movement of the 1980s.[7]
Awards
See also
- Category:Business and industry awards
- Global Competitiveness Report
- List of prizes, medals and awards#Business and management
- Total quality management
Notes
- ↑ For example, the Bureau of Indian Standards is part of the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution in India.
- ↑ For example, the Association France Qualité Performance is affiliated with the Minister of the Economy, Finances and Industry in France.
- ↑ For example, the pt:Fundação Nacional da Qualidade was founded by 39 different private and public organizations.
- ↑ This award was administered by the not-for-profit organization Standards Australia until 2003, when parts of Standards Australia were spun off as a for-profit company.[12]
- ↑ While the Canada Awards for Excellence were established in 1984, quality was not awarded as a separate category until 1989.<ref>Beecroft, G. Dennis; Duffy, Grace L. (2003), The Executive Guide to Improvement and Change, Moran, John W., Milwaukee, Wisconsin: American Society for Quality, p. 60, ISBN 9780873895798, OCLC 51553408
References
- ↑ The Quest for Global Competitiveness Through National Quality and Business Excellence Awards, Tokyo: Asian Productivity Organization, 2002, p. 93, ISBN 9789283323327, OCLC 51512238, retrieved 2014-05-05
- ↑ Evans, James R; Lindsay, William M (1999), "4: Managing for Quality and High Performance", The Management and Control of Quality (4 ed.), Cincinnati, Ohio: South-Western College Publishing, pp. 143–145, ISBN 9780538882422, OCLC 38475486
- ↑ Vokurka, Robert J; Stading, Gary L; Brazeal, Jason (August 2000). "A Comparative Analysis of National and Regional Quality Awards" (PDF). Quality Progress. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: American Society for Quality. 33 (8): 44. ISSN 0033-524X. Archived from the original on unknown. Retrieved 2014-05-05. Check date values in:
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(help) - ↑ "Quality awards". http://www.thecqi.org. London: Chartered Quality Institute. Retrieved 2014-05-05.
The Deming Prize, established 1951 (International from 1984) and offered by the Japanese Union of Scientists and Engineers.
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(help) - ↑ Mouradian, George (2002), "8: Awards and Standards", The Quality Revolution: A History of the Quality Movement, Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, pp. 135–148, ISBN 9780761821908, OCLC 49724330
- ↑ Barker, Brendan, ed. (1994). Quality Promotion in Europe. Aldershot, United Kingdom: Gower Publishing. pp. 16–17. ISBN 9780566075124. OCLC 31090384.
- ↑ Vokurka, Robert J; Stading, Gary L; Brazeal, Jason (August 2000). "A Comparative Analysis of National and Regional Quality Awards" (PDF). Quality Progress. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: American Society for Quality. 33 (8): 41. ISSN 0033-524X. Archived from the original on unknown. Retrieved 2014-05-05. Check date values in:
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(help) - ↑ Beecroft, G Dennis; Duffy, Grace L; Moran, John W (2003), "Appendix B: ASQ Quality Awards Listing 2002", The Executive Guide to Improvement and Change, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: American Society for Quality, pp. 229–242, ISBN 9780873895798, OCLC 51553408
- ↑ Siebels, Don (2004), "Appendix G: Quality Awards", The Quality Improvement Glossary, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: American Society for Quality, pp. 332–339, ISBN 9780873896191, OCLC 54805960
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(help) - ↑ "Iran National Quality Award". http://www.events.ir. Fariborz Bahi. Retrieved 2014-05-05. External link in
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(help) - ↑ "King Abdulaziz Quality Award". http://www.saso.gov.sa. Saudi Standards, Metrology and Quality Organization. Retrieved 2014-05-05. External link in
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(help) - ↑ "Promotions/Assessment". https://www.ksa.or.kr. Korean Standards Association. Retrieved 2014-05-05. External link in
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(help) - ↑ "Premio Qualità PP.AA.". http://www.apqi.it. Associazione Premio Qualità Italia. Retrieved 2014-05-05. External link in
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(help) - ↑ "Quality Awards". http://mygov.malaysia.gov.my. Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit. Retrieved 2014-05-05. External link in
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(help) - ↑ "Prix France Qualité Performance". http://www.qualiteperformance.org. Association France Qualité Performance. Retrieved 2014-05-05. External link in
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(help) - ↑ "Russian Government Quality Award". http://vniis.org. Russian Research Institute for Certification JSC. Retrieved 2014-05-05. External link in
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(help) - ↑ "Singapore Quality Award Winners". http://www.spring.gov.sg. SPRING Singapore. Retrieved 2014-05-05. External link in
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(help) - ↑ "Thailand Quality Award". http://www.tqa.or.th. Foundation of Thailand Productivity Institute. Retrieved 2014-05-05. External link in
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(help) - ↑ "TÜSİAD-KalDer National Quality Awards". http://www.tusiad.org. Turkish Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association. Retrieved 2014-05-05. External link in
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(help) - ↑ "The UK Excellence Award". http://www.bqf.org.uk. British Quality Foundation. Retrieved 2014-05-05. External link in
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(help) - ↑ "Utmärkelsen Svensk Kvalitet 2014". http://www.siq.se/. Institutet för Kvalitetsutveckling. Retrieved 2014-05-05. External link in
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