Team “A” Weekly Reflection – Total Quality Management & ISO Organizations must employ methods and strategies that ensure the highest level of quality in the goods it produces the services it renders to its consumers. Also production of such by its employees must be in an efficient and effective manner. This paper will expand how the application of two methods, total quality management and International Organization for Standardization can improve an organization, the benefits and challenges of each, and the role of the Quality Control department in each. Jacobs & Chase state that total quality management (TQM) ‘may be defined as ‘managing the entire organization so that it excels on dimensions of products and services that are important to the customer’”. (Jacobs, 2011. p. 286) TQM incorporates the participation of the entire organization to ensure its products and services are being produced and rendered with the highest level of quality possible.
Larger organizations might consider appointing an audit firm to audit their statements. 2. CPA firms do not have a responsibility to perform the audits at a lower price than normal. However, in charitable organizations, the work that needs to be done by the auditors is not as comprehensive as public companies. The Board in these organizations have already assigned an audit
Needs Assessment for Quality Improvement Paper University of Phoenix April 9, 2009 MGT/449 Needs Assessment for Quality Improvement Paper I am currently employed at Smile Head Start Center. As an organization that has been around for a long time in some areas within the organization are in need of major improvements. The process that was chosen to make improvements on is timekeeping. Timekeeping on a job is very essential to the payroll of an organization. At Smile Head Start the current system of time keeping is outdated and often subjected to human error and manipulation.
The whole process of benchmarking is to identify the best practice in relation to the product or process within the particular industry. This benchmarking technique is a management tool through which a plan for evaluation, measurement, and improvement is implemented. It seems as though with our team these tasks have been completed. Within the actual business and the shift workers we have to make sure that we identify the best practice for each shift in which there are many different tasks listed in the column chart. All managers should benchmark the organization in order to assess all of the performance on each shift by providing all of what they can measure in a consistent manner across the organization.
That is when I realized that he wasn’t necessarily a “bad” student he was just a young child who needed motivation and someone who would just care. That is the meaning that I found within Dr. Michaels statement. How does a classroom teacher garner respect? There are many methods that a teacher can use in order to gain their students respect. For example, the most effective method would be, to respect the students and their feelings before they can respect you.
There are some major problems with using them. Students with high I.Q’s are expected to do better than the rest of their class, and on the flip side students with low I.Q.’s are expected to do worse. That is not always fair because students with low I.Q.’s might not get the attention needed simply because their teachers do not expect much from them. In the end there is no fairness to some. This leads to an ethical question of, is giving an intelligence test ethical?
This does not mean that parents have no rights to what happens to their child while they are at school but this allows school to guide student behaviors though discipline. This idea is called in loco parentis (pg. 378). This concept was once more important in schools than it is now but it has brought forth it idea that no matter the student, disabled or not, there needs to be a certain level of responsibility put on all students for their behaviors when they are at school. This would be a great chapter of the book for parents to read because it would help them to understand why the school is doing what it is doing.
We have age limits and restriction on many things, but why does are education system expect these young kids to make the right choices, ask for help and develop good study habits on their own. Our education system needs a new approach to resolve these issues. Teachers and parents need to be held responsible, for how well these kids do in school. We need come up with a new plan so these students aren’t left lost and helpless. Flunking students can be used as a positive tool by our education system.
Then when I studied and got a good grade I was like “wow, I can do this” and felt a beam of confidence that I could do it for other classes as well. Adapting to the schoolwork is a big part of having confidence in the classroom because you understand what is being taught. Gatto said “schools are establish fixed habits of relation to authority. This of course, precludes critical judgement completely.”(152). Gatto is saying that schooling is made for kids to adapt to; it has adaptive qualities, therefore there is a chance for everyone to succeed if they really want to, but it takes away from any individual thinking.
Society thrives on the philosophy of allowing children to do what they want when they want. When in reality these students are often are acting up or failing grades to get attention from parents and mentors. Neo-Scholasticism allows students to become internally motivated. Students who have internal as well as external motivation to finish school will be less likely to drop out of school. While, factors such as constant absentness, unwanted behaviors, and low grades influence drop-out rates, school that have stricter guidelines and repercussions for the factors might make students think twice about their actions.