MALCOLM BALDRIDGE NATIONAL QUALITY AWARDS

Quinsay, Jamie Anne F.

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Definition of Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Awards

MBNQA is an award established by the U.S. Congress in 1987 to raise awareness of quality management
and recognize U.S. companies that have implemented successful quality management systems. The
award is the nation's highest presidential honor for performance excellence.

Three MBNQA awards can be given annually in six categories:

 Manufacturing
 Service Company
 Small Business
 Education
 Healthcare
 Non-profit

The education and healthcare categories were added in 1999, while the government and non-profit
categories were added in 2007.

The MBNQA award is named after the late Secretary of Commerce Malcolm Baldrige, a proponent of
quality management. The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology
manages the award, and ASQ administers it.

History of Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Awards

In the mid-1980s, U.S. leaders realized that American companies needed to focus on quality in order to
compete in an ever-expanding, demanding global market.

Then-Secretary of Commerce Malcolm Baldrige was an advocate of quality management as a key to U.S.
prosperity and sustainability. After he died in a rodeo accident in July 1987, Congress named the Award
in recognition of his contributions.

The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Improvement Act of 1987, signed into law on August 20, 1987,
was developed through the actions of the National Productivity Advisory Committee, chaired by Jack
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Grayson. The nonprofit research organization APQC, founded by Grayson, organized the first White
House Conference on Productivity, spearheading the creation of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality
Award in 1987. The Baldrige Award was envisioned as a standard of excellence that would help U.S.
organizations achieve competitive quality.

In the late summer and fall of 1987, Dr. Curt Reimann, the first director of the Malcolm Baldrige National
Quality Program, and his staff at the National Institute of Standards and Technology developed an award
implementation framework, including an evaluation scheme, and advanced proposals for what is now
the Baldrige Award. In its first three years, the Baldrige Award was jointly administered by APQC and the
American Society for Quality, which continues to assist in administering the award program under
contract to NIST.

The goal of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Improvement Act of 1987 was to enhance the
competitiveness of U.S. businesses. Its scope has since been expanded to health care and education
organizations (in 1999) and to nonprofit/government organizations (in 2007).

Baldridge Award Recipient

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Quinsay, Jamie Anne F.
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MALCOLM BALDRIDGE NATIONAL QUALITY AWARDS
Quinsay, Jamie Anne F.
2018-12002-MN-0, TQM Cycle 2, SY 19-20
MALCOLM BALDRIDGE NATIONAL QUALITY AWARDS
Quinsay, Jamie Anne F.
2018-12002-MN-0, TQM Cycle 2, SY 19-20
MALCOLM BALDRIDGE NATIONAL QUALITY AWARDS
Quinsay, Jamie Anne F.
2018-12002-MN-0, TQM Cycle 2, SY 19-20

Source: Wikipedia

References:

What is the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award (MBNQA), retrieved from:
https://asq.org/quality-resources/malcolm-baldrige-national-quality-award

History, National Institute of Standards and Technology, retrieved from:

https://www.nist.gov/baldrige/how-baldrige-works/about-baldrige/history

History of Baldridge Program, retrieved from:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Baldrige_National_Quality_Award