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Assignment - A
Question 1. Effective leadership and organization culture are foundations of Total
Quality Management. Discuss.
Question 2. Discuss the approaches of Deming, Juran and Crosby in managing quality.
Compare the similarities and differences in their approach in a tabular form.
Question 3. What are the quality system requirements of ISO9001: 2000? Explain the
quality principles based on which the quality system is developed.
Question 4. What are quality costs? Explain the different models for understanding
quality costs.
Assignment - B
Question 1. What is Statistical quality control? Explain control charts for variables and
attributes taking suitable examples.
Case Study
Quality Management -Health Care
Founded in 1980 the New Central Hospital (NCH) is a privately owned 580 patient bed
facility in south Delhi. The hospital has 753 employees and provides a broad range of health
care services including emergency rooms; X-ray and laboratory facilities, maternity wards,
intensive and cardiac care units and outpatient facilities. In 1997 the hospital began a series of
advertisements in newspapers highlighting its capabilities including its doctors, friendliness
of its support staff and its overall philosophy that its employees care about their work and
their patients.
Quality health care is a goal that NCH had long professed. But it had never developed
comprehensive and scientific means of asking customers to judge quality of care they receive.
Past efforts to measure quality at NCH had largely ignored the perceptions of the customers-
the patients, physicians and payers. Instead of formally considering customer judgments of
quality the hospital had focused almost entirely on internal quality assessments made by the
health professionals who operate the system.
The Board of NCH believed that the hospital needed to make the transformation from the
current practice of attempting to ensure quality to measuring and improving the quality of
care from both external customer perspective and internal provider perspective. Fueled by
concerns in recent years cost and medical practice variation and by the demand of grater
social responsibility, the hospital found an emerging demand by patients and payers that
quality health care be provided at best value.
The Board of NCH believed that as the prices people pay in the future for given levels of
service became more similar hospitals will be distinguished largely on the basis of their
quality and value assessed by customers. The Board wanted accurate information about how
its customers, not health care professionals judge the quality of care in the institution.
In February 1997 the hospital administrator Mr. Ravi called a meeting of the department
heads to discuss the issue of quality. He began by asking, “Can we really deliver on our
promises? Or are we in danger of failing to live up to the level of health care our patients
expect, and are we loosing them? Some patients who leave NCH happy may have actually
received poor treatment here. If we are serious about improving the quality of care we need
more valid and reliable data on which to act. We need answers to specific quality related
questions about activities that affect patients like admission, nursing, medical staff, daily
cases and ancillary staff.
Question 1. Why is it important to get patient's assessment about health care quality?
Does a patient have the expertise to judge the health care he or she receives?
Question 3. How can the value of a human life be included in the cost of quality control?
Question 4. Select one department in the hospital and elaborate how quality standards
could be developed?
Assignment - C
1. Quality as understood in TQM context means
a) Fitness for use
b) Adherence to specification
c) Zero defect manufacturing
d) Meeting or exceeding customer needs and expectations
4. Waste means
a) Non essential
b) Non value adding
c) Not earning profit
d) Difficult to implement
5. TQM is
a) A statistical approach to quality
b) Methods of capturing customer requirements
c) Integrated approach to customer satisfaction
d) Ensuring robust design
10. Which of the following is not a part of the four absolutes of quality as proposed by
Crosby
a) System of quality is prevention of defects
b) Performance standard is zero defects
c) Measurement of quality is cost of nonconformance
d) Observe zero defects day to improve quality
20. To facilitate the identification, exploration and graphical display of possible causes of an
effect we use
a) Fishbone diagram
b) Pareto chart
c) Flow chart
d) Check sheet
21. The quality tool used to identify the most relevant problem area is
a) Cause & effect diagram
b) Pareto analysis
c) Histogram
d) Run chart
24. Which of the following activities must be carried out by someone who has no direct
responsibility for the work being carried out
a) Contract review
b) Inspection of a product
c) Audit
d) Training
25. Information, which can be proved true, based on facts obtained through observation,
measurement or test is called
a) Objective evidence
b) Deficiency
c) Non conformity report
d) Validation report
34. SPC is a tool kit that can answer which of the following questions
a) Are we capable of doing the job correctly?
b) Do we continue to do the job correctly?
c) Have we done the job correctly?
d) All of the above
36. The purpose of quality manual is to state particularly for the benefit of assessor's that how
the requirements of ISO9000 are met in the company's quality system
a) True
b) False
37. Total quality management is far more than shifting the responsibility of detection of
problems from the customer to producer
a) True
b) False
40. Design for six sigma (DFSS) is used for an existing product
a) True b) False