High-performance work practices shown to impact business outcomes

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Businesses employing superior corporate strategies such as data sharing, employee training and creative compensation programs, enjoy the benefits that commonly go with them such as improved customer service and product quality. Programs most popularly implemented by these businesses include work group formation and electronic data processing. The level of implementation vary by industry sector, with the manufacturing and utilities sector as most likely to use such types of programs.

Industrial management

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Department of Agriculture uses ISO 9000 to monitor quality of meat products

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The implementation of ISO 9000 practices greatly improved the efficiency of the Department of Agriculture's Meat Grading and Certification Branch. The branch reduced the cost of monitoring the quality of meat supplied to school lunch programs by trimming the quality control process. A similar method was effectively used to ensure the quality of ground beef provided to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

Meat, Quality management, United States. Department of Agriculture, Beef

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Tire failures, SUV rollovers put quality on trial

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Quality experts offer their opinions on the causes and effects of failures in Bridgestone/Firestone tires fitted to Ford Explorer sports utility vehicles.

Product defects and recalls, Product quality, Equipment and supplies, Automotive parts, Automobile industry, Ford Motor Co., Automobiles, F, Tires, Tire industry

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