How it began?

Article Abstract:

The US has the distinction of initiating modern quality control although some people think that the Japanese originated it. In the 1920s, a statistician named Walter A. Shewhart evaluated the repetitive manufacturing process at AT and T's unit, Western Electric, and developed a technique known as statistical quality control (SQC). W. Edwards Deming, a friend of Shewhart, was sent to Japan by Gen Douglas MacArthur to teach the country's engineers and bureaucrats about SQC. Since then, Japan has implemented the technique and has benefited from it immensely.

Management, History, Quality control, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Mass production, Shewhart, Walter A.

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Teaching teachers how to teach

Article Abstract:

Colleges and universities need total quality management (TQM) to handle declining enrolments and budget problems. Quality, embodied in TQM, has become the yardstick of a goal's accomplishment and should be recognized in educational institutions. Businessmen have realized the importance of TQM and are pushing colleges and universities to incorporate the course in curriculum requirements for business and engineering courses.

Colleges & Universities, Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools, Colleges and universities, Standards, Evaluation, Universities and colleges, Curricula, Total quality management, Business schools, Engineering schools

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